Is there such a thing as being too lean?

[Artiste]

Title.
Is there such as being too lean, too low body fat?
There was a thread @SubhumanCurrycel made yesterday. Saying how his parents thought he looked sick/gaunt/unhealthy because of his hollow cheeks. He looked healthier before etc.
I remember @Titbot saying how some girl said something similar, like he looked a crackhead when he got lean.
When Zayn got very lean everybody was saying he looked ill. Same thing with Justin Bieber he got very low and everybody said he looked like a crackhead. Even some users here.
You get the point.
I’m starting to think this site’s starting to lose sight of what looks good. Image of male models are twisting are our minds. I could be wrong... Thoughts?

TL;DR Can one be too lean?

 

[Deleted member 6939]

Title.
Is there such as being too lean, too low body fat?
There was a thread @SubhumanCurrycel made yesterday. Saying how his parents thought he looked sick/gaunt/unhealthy because of his hollow cheeks. He looked healthier before etc.
I remember @Titbot saying how some girl said something similar, like he looked a crackhead when he got lean.
When Zayn got very lean everybody was saying he looked ill. Same thing with Justin Bieber he got very low and everybody said he looked like a crackhead. Even some users here.
You get the point.
I’m starting to think this site’s starting to lose sight of what looks good. Image of male models are twisting are our minds. I could be wrong... Thoughts?

TL;DR Can one be too lean?

yes
lower than 6% BF can be dangerous

 

[antiantifa]

Yes, easily. It's called anorexia. It causes paradoxial increase in facial and visceral fat, making you look fugly bloated in face and stomach.

 

[Artiste]

yes
lower than 6% BF can be dangerous

Yes, easily. It's called anorexia. It causes paradoxial increase in facial and visceral fat, making you look fugly bloated in face and stomach.

Im not talking being skinny to obscene levels of body fat. I’m talking below 12%. Most people seem to think that look, looks unhealthy except for Pslers and the modelling industry..

 

[Deleted member 6939]

Im not talking being skinny to obscene levels of body fat. I’m talking below 12%. Most people seem to think that look, looks unhealthy except for Pslers and the modelling industry..

it depends on how much muscles mass but generally below 8 it starts looking unhealthy

 

[Artiste]

it depends on how much muscles mass but generally below 8 it starts looking unhealthy

Ok so, tell me what looks better in your opinion?

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[Deleted member 10516]

Yeah under 8% year round

 

[antiantifa]

Im not talking being skinny to obscene levels of body fat. I’m talking below 12%. Most people seem to think that look, looks unhealthy except for Pslers and the modelling industry..

PEOPLE WITH ANOREXIA ARE OFTEN BELOW 12% BODY-FAT.

Ok so, tell me what looks better in your opinion?

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Honestly both look horrible never understood his appeal to JBs. But those were unique times tbh before TikTok.

 

[Deleted member 12303]

Realise that when you sub 10% bf you are literally a few pounds of fat away from death. 8% is ideal tbh

 

[GucciMvne]

maybe

 

[Deleted member 12303]

Ok so, tell me what looks better in your opinion?

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He looks good in the first pic cause he actually has bones. It probably edited tho

 

[Deleted member 12303]

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He is a few pounds of muscle away from being a mogger. Id kill for those hollow cheeks

 

[GucciMvne]

He is a few pounds of muscle away from being a mogger. Id kill for those hollow cheeks

yeah he's a mogger

 

[Artiste]

Yeah under 8% year round

Again, I’m not talking to the extremes. I’m talking like below 12%, what most people here, who preach is the optimal look.

PEOPLE WITH ANOREXIA ARE OFTEN BELOW 12% BODY-FAT.

Honestly both look horrible never understood his appeal to JBs. But those were unique times tbh before TikTok.

Fair enough.

Regardless what you might think of his appeal. What looks better?

 

[antiantifa]

Again, I’m not talking to the extremes. I’m talking like below 12%, what most people here, who preach is the optimal look.



Fair enough.

Regardless what you might think of his appeal. What looks better?

Look about the same.

 

[Danish_Retard]

Ok so, tell me what looks better in your opinion?

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He has an open mouth in the first pic which gives an illusion of hollow cheeks. Get better pics op.

 

[TopzCat1]

IRL those really low bf male models have 0 sex appeal

 

[brainded]

volcel if above 5% body fat

 

[Artiste]

He has an open mouth in the first pic which gives an illusion of hollow cheeks. Get better pics op.

Are you blind? He’s clearly lower in the first regardless of his mouth being open. Besides, this is the only pic I could find of him being lower with a normal look without looking like a homeless bum.

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[Zradrad]

Lots of people attempting to leanmax are depriving themselves of essential nutrients - making their skin/hair look worse. This makes them look worse overall. If you can get lean while maintaining skin/hair yhou'll look healthy and not like you just left aushwitz

 

[Deleted member 5927]

Looking sick is a thing that’s about it