Hello everyone welcome back to Fitbody Happy Joints. My name is Shannon. Do you know anyone who seems to just look at a weight and

Get jacked or on the other hand maybe someone who seems to be doing everything right and does not see any change or any response.

Well today I want to talk about what may influence someone's response to training

specifically we will talk about satellite cells.

So there is variation in how people respond to training,

and the recommendations that the literature supports

and that I talk about all the time

are based on averages.

But the truth is, not everyone will respond to the same dose of

exercise. The things that account for variants in someone's response are

genotypes or their genetics,eline fitness, training history, nutritional intake, psychoemotional

states between session recovery, age, and sleep. Genetics do indeed account for maybe like 50% of the variance that you'll see with

training and although it seems unfair that some people can get away with less and

see better results it is hopeful that the literature does not seem to

support that there is any such thing as non-responders to exercise. I actually

used to believe that I was a slow responder to exercise because I did a lot of exercise but I never really saw

significant changes in my lean mass. Not only that but a lot of exercise really did not feel good for my body. It made me feel broken down and

depleted. Now granted the quality of my workouts were questionable. I was doing

lots of boot camp workouts and combination moves and burpies and kind of searching for the burn, but nonetheless I thought I was doing all the

right things and therefore I was just a slow responder to exercise.

And what I've since learned is that I actually don't build muscle as

slowly as I thought. I'm not as slow of a responder as I thought it was. I just wasn't training

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