individual’s DNA decreases, more research facilities and universities around the world are able to perform more research studies with larger test subject groups, all leading to further discovery about the connections between genetics and preventive health.
Genetics and Fitness The DNA test will identify your body’s response to exercise, specifi cally your fat loss response to cardio, fi tness response to cardio, body composition response to weight training, HDL response to cardio, insulin sensitivity response to cardio, and your glucose response to cardio. Each one of these categories allows you to piece together exactly what type of exercises you should be doing in order to maximize your results and experience increased weight loss. If for example you have a low response to cardio but a high response to weight training, then you should be lifting more weights when you hit the gym instead of just getting on the elliptical for half an hour.
It’s information like this that gives
your health coach the ability to create a personalized fi tness plan based on you as an individual.
There are two main aspects of fi tness that pertain to your genetics: aerobic fi tness and the ability to build strength and muscle mass. In recent studies, it was determined that aerobic fi tness is 40-50% heritable. This means that your body’s effi ciency and ability to pump oxygen through the blood to your muscles has about a 50% chance of being determined by the aerobic fi tness of your parents (or other relatives). Essentially, you could have a lowered aerobic fi tness from the get go simply because of your genetic makeup. This is a crucial piece of informa- tion when it comes to fi tness and weight loss as aerobic fi tness is one of the most impor- tant components involved in physical fi tness and could help or hinder your ability to lose weight.
Of course, your ability to build strength and muscle is a huge part of the weight loss process and has been discovered to be 50- 60% heritable. Your mix of “slow” and “fast” twitch muscles is also 45% heritable. This means that some of us may be genetically predisposed to have more muscles geared towards sprinting, some of us may have more endurance muscles, or some of us may have a harder time building added muscle at all. With all of this being said, it makes sense to understand what your genes say about your ability to really get fi t. While your
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genetic make-up is never an excuse to give up, your genes could be the reason you’re struggling to lose weight or see any type of results on your path to fi tness.
Programs tailored to an individual’s
DNA have proven to be much more ef- fective than generic programs. A recent study published by the European Society of Human Genetics found that dieters employ- ing weight management programs tailored to the individual’s genome lost up to 33% more weight than those following standard, “one size fi ts all” weight loss programs. With the latest genomic technology, any health management program that does not take an individual’s genetic profi le into account is simply guesswork.
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