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Article: Body fat testing: Here's the skinny
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- December 23, 1988
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William Perry brought a whole new meaning to the term "body fat"
when he joined the Bears.
Here was a 340-pound lineman who, according to George Lesmes,
director of the Human Performance Laboratory at Northeastern Illinois
University, was not fat. At least not then.
Perry's body fat test at Northeastern led Lesmes to believe the
player was "a freak of nature."
"The average NFL lineman, in hydrostatic weighing, has 20 to 22
percent body fat," Lesmes said. "Perry was right in that ballpark.
During his Super Bowl season, he weighed 325 and had 19 percent body
fat. That was not a bad playing weight for him."
Lesmes believes the Bulls' Michael Jordan is a freak of
nature, too, but in ...