 All right, you guys what is going on welcome back to another video welcome back to another informational informational Instructional no no no Informative I'm gonna say informative video that I am bringing to my channel Discussing certain things I noticed during my bodybuilding prep of 2020. I competed in 2015. I never thought I'd do it again but With with the way that this year has been going in March I'm sorry in April. I decided to clean my clean my shit up You know clean my body up clean my diet up get in better shape feel better about myself and see what happened in July I decided to hook up with my first bodybuilding coach From there I went from 11 11% body fat down to 5% body fat by the end of August Competed held that condition that 5% body fat from August to October Competed again, and here we are on November the 12th So that was my year in this video. I'm gonna discuss The the physical Indications and mental that my body went through For me to know that I'm getting down to that, you know Definitely single digit body fat percentage level, but not only single digits, you know down to seven six Five even four and a half percent body fat I got down to four and a half percent body fat at one point and I was shredded I was absolutely shredded, you know what I mean? You see lines come in that you never knew you had so this video I'm just gonna talk about my body and You know what I went through and what I noticed coming down to five percent body fat because the reality is is that I wasn't tracking my calories and If you want to know how I got down to five percent body fat without tracking a single calorie go back and watch that video My approach is unique. I feel but it's a it's an approach that worked for me And I used the mirror more than anything as far as tracking how I was going and with that being said Let's get into some of the things that I noticed Now mentally I've talked about how how it feels mentally I've talked about how it you know how You know being five percent body fat you're gonna feel fatigued all of that stuff all of that information is in a previous video too So if you want to go check that out, please do But in this video, I'm gonna talk about the physical indications and there's a few and I've written them down Just so I don't miss any So when you're getting down to five percent body fat, you will think you're lean Okay, you'll think you're lean at 9% you'll think you're lean at 8% 7% But your body weight still continues to come down and you still seem to you know lose body fat from places that you never even thought you had it so Okay When I got to five percent body fat, okay, my my my lowest ever reading Through body fat calipers was four percent like I said I did a show at the end of August and did another show at the end of October So during that time my body fat percentage I got I got read every single week And it didn't go above six percent. So I literally stayed at five percent body fat for eight weeks and these are the certain physical indicators that I Developed and had on my body every single day and this is the reality of being shredded Okay, so the first part that I'm gonna mention is the tricep and rear delt tie-in That is something that is soft on most people Okay, even if you're 12% body fat, even if you're nine 8% body fat that line That line splitting, you know the bottom of your rear delt and and the top of your tricep is one of the final places for me anyway to get lean and There is two factors to that. There's one that says okay Well, you're gonna need a decent amount of muscle mass in your rear delt to actually have enough You know size to push it out to actually make that line, you know I mean if you don't have a rear if you don't have a developed rear delt, it's not gonna protrude So I suppose that's part of it But certainly the fat around the back of the shoulder and at the back of the at the top of the tricep Is some of the last fat to go on my body But when it does and you turn to the side or you turn to the back or even from the front, you know That tricep will really start to protrude out because that cut that's coming around the delt is coming in You know more more defined and that look I absolutely love that is one of my favorite things To have a tricep that is literally split from the rear delt nicely is great I fucking loved it that line also when you turn around to do a back double bicep. It's going to Really improve the level of detail on your back double bicep pose So train your rear delts. It's all I can say another thing that I noticed was my sternum So you can have body if you can have like quite a lot of body fat on around your arm your abdominals, but The first place that gets really lean really quickly and like rock hard like there's no fat there is your sternum So that's just just underneath or just between and just underneath You know the the the two corners the two inner corners of your pec the two bottom inner corners of your pec It's just underneath that. It's a hard a hard bony area and Until I got probably below, you know, nine eight percent body fat. There was a layer of fat there if it felt soft I didn't really know exactly what was going on under there But I'll tell you what when you get to four or five percent body fat You know exactly what's going on under there and there ain't much. It's bone. It is bone So my sternum once that starts getting lean once I can really really feel it and I can still feel it That was a certain indicator and so basically that you know the level of leanness just starts You know spreading down and down and down and down and down because at the end of the day your lower your lower abs Not only the back ear tricep and rear delt, but the lower abs and the love handles Mate, they're always going to be the final place to go always and I'm happy to say That when you do get to five percent body fat and you do get rid of your love handles and it is nice and tight around there You start seeing veins coming up your abs. Okay, I Have a fair few photos that I took. I just could not believe it man Some nights I went to bed after eating a decent amount of carbs. I'd wake up in the morning. I would be Fucking shredded with veins going all up my stomach from those carbs the night before and Water, you know, I mean and sodium I'm lean enough that a big cheat meal all it's gonna do is Fill you out a little bit and put veins all over your fucking body including going up your stomach So for me to see, you know, literally veins going up my stomach was Pretty incredible and it's certainly one of the changes that I'm gonna mention in this video about you know Your body when you get to five percent body fat, you're gonna see veins up your stomach It's fucking sick. In fact, you're not only gonna see veins up your stomach You're gonna see veins in places that you never thought you had One of the noticeable places that I saw a new vein at this time was actually on the inside of my bicep So I had effectively never gotten the inside of my arm lean enough for me to see those that that real fine detail And I'm happy to say that this time I did that main vein that sort of comes up It's gonna come underneath the bicep and it's gonna go, you know, I guess into your armpit. I guess into your armpit I'd never seen that before so I you know I'd seen a level of leanness around my bicep and around that area that I'd never seen before so that that moving forward if I get down to this level of body fat again That's definitely gonna be an indicator that I'm looking for although what I will say is that the more you train The more you spend that you know that the the more you train the more years that you spend in the gym The more veins you're gonna develop So you can develop veins, but with certain veins, you know really like quite deep underneath the skin like that You're only gonna be able to see them when you're at 5% body fat, and that's what I found I am very very weak along the chest. I started getting veins along my chest Okay, so if you're if you're a guy out there thinking fuck yeah I can get a vein in my bicep, but I've never seen one across my chest Get to 5% body fat man. You're gonna start seeing you know you're gonna start seeing some veins in places You never thought possible. I had veins. Oh my god. Fuck man my calves Carves are ridiculous like they've always been pretty vascular. They've always been pretty split But at 5% body fat, I wouldn't even know what I was looking at like there was literally veins covering my entire fucking lower leg It was quite cool quite cool. I'm not gonna lie You know being being a bodybuilder at heart loving bodybuilding there's nothing wrong with having a few veins on your body I would say when I get to 7% body fat my lower abs are coming in, but they're not quite there You know certainly my upper leg is coming in, but it's not quite there when I get to 5% body fat It's coming in a bit more But it's still not quite there 4% my luck my upper leg is sort of Really starting to get split, but it's still not there. You know, I probably had a good five I don't know probably not five, but two or three kgs of body fat to lose Still before getting on stage, and I just I just couldn't push it that hard I couldn't push myself that hard to get rid of that body fat But like places like your glutes your hamstrings Someone said to me years and years ago, and I never thought this was actually true But it probably is You if you're if you're planning on getting on a bodybuilding stage You need the skin on your body to be like the skin on the back of your hands everywhere Including your glutes, and that was something that scared the shit out of me back in the day, but you know I'm not saying that my glutes got this lean. They certainly didn't but they did get lean and You know that's something you'll notice So if you do pose properly, you know you stick your back leg back You pose your uh, you know from the bottom you pose your calf up to your hammy up to your glute The lines that I saw at the back of my leg. I'd never seen before you know, and these are These are legs that hadn't been trained a hell of a lot in the two years prior to this prep So it's just amazing. It is amazing what what your body can can look like when you're down at a certain level of body fat and and It's not easy. It's not easy. It's it's a lot of discipline. It's a lot of consistency to get there, but but you know The journey and seeing all these different things happen slowly but surely to your body is is the fun of it You know, that's that is the journey and that will probably be what keeps you Motivated and consistent to continue is the certain changes that you see happen So the skin folds from my my calipers if you want some numbers and the numbers that that I I know now after having it done probably about 12 13 weeks in a row I Used a seven point Jackson Pollock Caliper method, I believe seven points on your upper body and lower body one on the one on the quad the rest of them are on the upper body and I started at Above 10% body fat getting readings of around about eight Nine ten mils at certain points on the body When I got down to my leanest those readings were Maximum six if not four. I never ever got a two millimeter reading ever I never got a three millimeter reading But at one point when I was my leanest pretty much every reading on my entire body was at four millimeters So if you're getting a seven point Jackson Pollock body fat caliper method and your caliper readings are coming in at You know what four fives threes fours of fives you're gonna be at five percent body fat. No fucking doubt That's all I'm gonna say if you're up at 10s. You might be at 10% I'm not saying that a body fat caliper is the best way to to measure your body fat. In fact, it's not But it was the best way for me because it was consistent. It didn't matter what method I used To track my body fat as long as it was the same method each week. It was gonna work It was gonna be consistent. So that's the way that we did it Between four and six millimeters all round is about five percent. That's that's what I think and four millimeters ain't fucking much I'm telling you that So now I got things like striated triceps for the for the very first time My biceps were split. You know what I mean? We do have two heads of the bicep and it's it's split you can see It might not be the biggest of biceps because you know I'm so lean but it is split and they do say that the fastest way the fastest way to put on 10 kilos of muscle Well, the fastest way to look like you've put on 10 kilos of muscle is to lose 10 kilos of fat and That's pretty much what I did. I lost six kilos of fat and I looked much bigger But I wasn't I was actually smaller and weaker But that's just the illusion of bodybuilding Anyways guys, those were some of my thoughts. I hope you've enjoyed these videos. 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