Yeah wade was bulky as hell for basically his entire career there’s no way this is true

Not to mention it is BAD for performance to be that low. I’m a bodybuilder myself and my performance starts a steep decline below 9. You only really want to be that lean for a show. I couldn’t imagine competitively playing basketball when that depleted. You just want to lie down all the time.

Facts. People have no idea how to determine body fat percentage

Yep. It’s hilarious how much beat reporters get this shit wrong. They just eat up whatever they’re told

You’re also seeing basketball players and bodybuilders at the opposite ends of the dehydration spectrum

Exactly. Plus it would put your hormones at castrate level if you stayed there. Going below 12-15% is a temporary pursuit without exogenous hormones (so DWade may well have been below 12%, but he wasn’t shredded). Powell at 12% sounds pretty perfect, really.

Srsly. I was 8% at one point in high school, at 6’4.5” and 190. and thought I was 5% lol. 6% is insanely low, for someone 6’4” and 220+

I’ve seen this come up time and time again. For some reason last time I read about it they insinuated maybe the heat were using subcutaneous fat only vs total (visceral+subcutaneous fat) percentages. Ive never seen body fat listed that way before but its the only thing that could make sense when you start listing numbers like 4 and 5%

This is the exact argument I always give for why Danielle Hunter is the most juiced out NFL athlete because he DOES look like that

Body fat measurements are notoriously very inaccurate, and even more so when at a lower %. It’s very possible the calliper tests said 6%_ and Wade could be 8-10% range

Can’t play basketball at 6% bf. You’d faint

Lmao no joke. Arnold was 225# at 6’2” and about 6% body fat in the 1975 Olympia. No way in hell Wade at 6’4” (and there’s a decent chance his actual height is a bit lower) is 222# at 6%.

Exactly, I think that was Spo’s point, he too was confused and asked Powell if he thought it was AI or not.

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lol wut? On stage bodybuilders have a much lower BF than 6.5%, its like 3%…sometimes even as low as 2%. How some of these guys aren’t dead is a mystery to me.

He didn’t say it was true, he just said “Something to think about.” And now I’m doing just that.

This. 6% isn’t healthy or good for performance.

At that level of body fat your Testosterone goes in the toilet. Your recovery sucks. Your performance sucks. Your sleep sucks. It’s in no way conducive to playing basketball.

9-10% is probably as low as a basketball player wants to go.

Spot on. In his physical prime I’d guess Wade played at 12% BF.

NBA combine mean body fat percentage equals 6.7%

As long as our culture continues to treat weight as a moral failing this kind of behavior will continue

Well I may be wrong but Powell recounted this story on a podcast from memory so he was probably just fudging the numbers to tell his story.

Use your eyes

Spo straight up lied to him.

Wade was not 6% body fat.

Probably also heavier than 222 lbs, especially in his prime.

Wade wasn’t a tank until after 07 injury season when he linked up with Grover to get stronger

And you’re also not convincing me that Powell was 235 to start the season.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/bodydwyanewade/miami-heat-guard-dwyane-wade-insecurities-injuries-outies-body-issue-2016

I don’t think you guys understand what body fat percentage is

You can be strong and have low body fat percentage. The fact that he had so much muscle should help his body fat percentage since there is more muscle compared to fat.

Yeahthis guy isn’t below 10% body fat 🙄🙄🙄

Spo joe you see the difference between guys like you and guys like me is I am a college education from the university of mishgin 

D-wade age 34 covering ESPN the magazine they cite his weight at 218 — https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/bodydwyanewade/miami-heat-guard-dwyane-wade-insecurities-injuries-outies-body-issue-2016

Turns out Heat Culture is not encouraged at preschool

Did you send them Wade’s age 7 body fat measurements with “something to think about” too?

When I did something like this with my female employees, HR told me it’s “sexual harassment.” Same thing when I sent one a Dwyane Wade jersey with a note that I’d like to see her wearing it. And IT WAS A GENUINE GAME WORN JERSEY that I paid a lot of money for! It’s like my HR department never watched Dwyane Wade take over a playoff game or something. Or maybe they were Dirk fans or something. Maybe I should send them one of those “eat a bag of Dirks” shirts to get them on my side.

Yeah like a professional athlete responsible for 10s of millions of dollars a year of your money being lazy with his health compared to equivalent people is the same as making your daughter think he father finds her ugly

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All these dudes are hating when there is literally proof lmao. They think the militaristic system is phony & dudes aren’t really getting their body fat checked.

D-Wade; aged 34, espn cites his weight at 218 pounds. He’s damn near naked covering the magazine& he definitely isn’t bulky or a tank like all these guys keep saying that’s just his size strength combo. He’s a freak of nature.

Pat riley makes players lose weight as they get older

Norm about to get fat-traded for scraps.

LeBron does

This is satire/sarcasm right?

2 finals says u are wrong

I mean if you know anything about bodybuilding you’d know that a 6% body fat percentage is damn near stage-ready. So it’s just an unrealistic number.

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