KingArthur on 18 October 2009
| greenmedic88 said: Hockey and tackle football players are almost the reverse when it comes to weight. When the trend in the NFL was to have bigger and bigger linemen, NFL players had to literally eat their way into making the cut and keep eating to stay there. Of course it takes a lot of calories to maintain high muscle mass. Bodybuilders are notorious for this. Check the chart out though; none are listed as being over 20% (not including women who have a different scale for body fat %). http://www.sport-fitness-advisor.com/bodyfatpercentage.html Feeling fatter yet?! lol |
Feeling fatter? Absolutely not. :)
I can only comment about the hockey part of that table. We have roughly 60 players on our team/reservers. 2 of us have body fat percentage 9 or less. 9 of us have bf% higher than 15%. Those are measured when we start our training after summer so those results are a bit high. So that table looks ok for hockey players.
Anyhow, the table shows that ideal body fat percentage for non-athletes is 9-15%. Do you really think that 20% would be unhealthy?
