{"id":99,"date":"2020-02-12T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T00:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hypertrophia.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2020-04-23T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T16:43:19","slug":"genetics-muscle-strength-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gghc.org\/genetics-muscle-strength-training","title":{"rendered":"Role of Genetics for Muscle, Strength, Training – Hardgainers and Extreme Responders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Most of the time, informative health, fitness, nutrition and supplementation articles and essays that end up on our computer screens, books and magazines deal with averages and majorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t cater to everyone due to the very nature of uniqueness. This is no more apparent than when you offer advice about strength and muscle building to an audience rather than an individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bigger the group, the more generalized your advice has to be. By definition, you have to talk about averages in order to resonate with the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You are, however, an individual, and for some individuals making gains in the gym is not as easy as it is for others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The topic of genetic predetermination, giving rise to natural talents, or \u201cgifts\u201d<\/em> as they are so often called, is a subject of unending debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn\u2019t going to be resolved anytime soon either, and that has a lot to do with the emotional furor that can erupt when dealing with such sensitive issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Put two men in a room together, one a self-professed \u201chardgainer\u201d<\/em> and the other a professional bodybuilder. The small guy might tell the bodybuilder that he\u2019s just lucky on a genetic level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bodybuilder might reply with something along the lines of, \u201cmy physique is a result of extremely hard work and determination. You are small because you don\u2019t train like me.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The argument could go on ad infinitum because they might both be partly correct, and partly wrong, or one might be almost 100% correct and the other almost zero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No-one really likes the idea that you can be dealt a good genetic hand at birth, for anything, because it negates a lot of that hard work, true grit, steely determination, motivation, drive stuff and replaces it with, \u201cmeh, they just have the right genes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the person with the talent, this is a pretty big blow because no matter how close to reality it is, the hard work they have actually put in has lost some meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And for the person who wants the talent but can\u2019t have it, they might have to deal with the fact that no amount of hard work will get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like I said, it\u2019s emotional.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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