glad you were able to fit all that in. My question is how do you get the skin to grab the abdominal muscles like that? i look at your bicepts, pecs, neck, obliques, etc and it is not thin and tight, but in your abdominal area it seems to be reaching down in between.

Do you use lotion or soemthing, or are you just one lucky mofo? I have that gift with my leg skin it seems.

Nope, no lotion. My shoulders are soft because I have not used them so much in the last several years after my many shoulder surgeries. But I'm also tightening up my abs a little, not flexing the upper body muscles, have lucky genetics to an extent, and the light is hitting me favorably.

I've always seen the outline of my abs, even when I've been as high as 23% bf. Look through some of my old posts (if you have the patience) from about three years ago when I posted some progress pics. You will see a shirtless pic of me at 20% bf and see what I mean.

Here is a link from when I was 36, 8 weeks into a program:

http://training.fitness.com/weight-t...diet-1893.html

This next photo update was when I was 3 or 4 months on the program, down to mid 170's, and about 11% bodyfat.

http://training.fitness.com/weight-t...otos-2631.html

Here's one from the original photos from yesterday... I was goofing around, the guy shooting it said, "Do the Heisman!"

Damn, your abs do always show. I was just looking at the 205 vs. 175 pics. How tall of a guy are you?

Lookin' great man!

5'9"... Not especially tall. What's funny is that I couldn't get life insurance at 205 because I was considered obese (score of 29-30 on BMI). Obviously I have some bodyfat on me, but I was hardly obese.

Oh my god, does life insurance go after BMI? Jeesus.. According to my BMI I'm overweight.. which I'm not :P

They use BMI as one of the things to judge the cost. When I was getting life insurance I was 300lbs. I have the same rate (price) as a person who has normal body weight because my blood work came back WAY ahead of the curve.

If I was 165lbs my rate would be crazy low. Of course I would also be weak and small and hate myself.

Does Erica know that you are allowing random males to photograph you without your shirt?

Lookin good, post some wheel pics up if you got 'em!

JP,

you are a riot man! Cool to meet you here.

everybody else in this thread are losers!

LOL, When I was 225 the life insurance rep that came looked at my license and said "are you SURE you're 225?" I said yes and he kept saying "are you sure?" and I said "oh yeah, I lost 15 lbs and he wrote that down

I will... Those shots were sort of spontaneous. I had my camera at work that day because I was taking after pics of a bunch of my clients. I will do some leg shots next week and post them up.

It's not a "posed" pic, but as you requested, DA WHEELS!