Your encouragement to get me back to shape!

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The guy in the picture has a super-low body fat percentage. Which takes more cardio, and pre-competition a lot of guys starve and dehydrate themselves to get more definition and to meet their weight limit. In terms of muscle mass, my husband is pretty similar to that, but he carries a bit more fat (slightly less defined), because he doesn't like to starve and he's very grumpy when he does. It's easier to build muscle mass if you don't focus so heavily on body fat, because you need the calories to build mass, especially as an ectomorph who doesn't put on fat easily. Then once desired mass has been achieved, drop that last bit of fat. Check out photos for off season bodybuilders, you'll see what I'm talking about. But, yeah, hubby is comparable, albeit with the ability to pinch about 1/2 an inch of fat off those abs.