Body Fat Percentage Pictures: A Visual Guide for Men

June 15,2024

For the women's visual guide to understanding body fat percentages, click here. This guide can be used to estimate a man’s body fat percentage by eye. In contrast to most of the the compilation photos you can find online, all of the photos in this guide were taken within a few days of having done a laboratory grade body composition measurement, namely hydrostatic weighing, the BodPod, DXA scanning (most commonly) or multi-frequency BIA scanning. All photos are from clients of Menno or publicly posted photos from the internet. As a semi-objective reference, the following table from the American Council on