Bonjour, welcome to episode 15 of the James Smith podcast.

Now, this week we are going to be talking about body fat percentages.

And this is them. I kid you not right now. It's 3.45 pm.

Like 9 a.m. this morning, someone from the Facebook group asking me about

Dexas and other things and went back and forward in conversation.

I was like, you know what? This is going to be a perfect subject for a podcast.

So again, one of those things where I popped in a new bar, made a few notes of things that I'm going to waffle on about.

And everyone should walk away from this podcast a little bit more clued up about body fat percentages measurements, etc.

Now, for some reason, I don't know, but I don't know why or how this has happened.

But as an industry or as fitness enthusiasts, we're hugely caught up with the percentage of body fat that we have.

First thing to make very clear is this is different between people, two different people at 12% body fat.

Or even, I say, I get a room full of women at 20% body fat. They're all going to look very different.

Yeah, people think they can compare it to each other. And that's just not quite how it works.

Now, I would love to know why or how this kind of thing is stemmed in the fitness industry, but to be perfectly honest, I don't fucking care.

And my parents don't care. I've said about this before. My parents aren't on social media. They've never been to a gym before.

But I like to use them as almost like the canary down the mind. They care about the important things in life, finances and going on holiday and all of that.

But my mom's never gone, all James put on a couple of percent body fat. You know, my dad's never come home and gone, oh, I wonder what percentage of muscle mass I've got or any of that shit.

And again, my parents never get caught up looking in the mirror. They gain a bit of weight. They're not better put my bigger jeans on.

And I think that as a whole, the world can learn a lot from my parents, although you never probably will, because they don't have social media.

And often I kind of worry and think to myself, whether or not this is just hypothesis that obesity could stem from this desire to be perfect, you know.

Which sounds like kind of a weird thing to say out loud, but imagine, I don't know, you've got someone who isn't enthusiastic wants to be a millionaire, social media, blue tick.

He wants everything, let's say, right. And he works really, really hard for three years trying to be into the famous and he gets nowhere. So what does he do? He ends up not using social media at all.

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