Welcome back to Fit Body Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Today we're talking about genetics and how genetics influence

your training or your adaptations from how you train. It can get really easy for us to compare our results to someone else's.

Two people could eat and train exactly the same and still look completely different.

And it's because eating and training are not the only components

to how your body responds.

There's lifestyle factors, there is genetics,

and genetics aren't everything everything but they are important.

But today I want to kind of unveil how important are genetics and how do they influence how

our body adapts to exercise.

Again, we can't blame genetics for everything,

but we can acknowledge that they're a reality

and that we can work with what we've got

to improve our health as much as we can.

So today we'll kind of talk about how much genetics

influence your training.

We'll talk about hormones and fiber composition type and how much of that is genetically

predisposed and I'll kind of help you categorize yourself into different

buckets based on your genetics and I'll give you suggestions on how to train based on your

genetics. I think that understanding that so many people of fitness influence like

the people that we see on social media

are predisposed to look a certain way.

They're predisposed to be better at certain forms of fitness

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