Group: General Fitness & Exercise

General Fitness & Exercise
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Is genetics a major factor in gaining...

c2sellit
c2sellit
Posts: 44
Joined: 2003/03/06
United States
2004/01/07, 11:40 PM
In gaining muscle? My past history has bad genetics especially once getting older my family gets bigger? Will I be less likely to put on muscle then since my parents and grandparents and so on arent what you could say healthy.
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2004/01/08, 02:52 AM
Well if you haven't get a bodybuilder in your family or haven't tried to push yourself to the limits with training, diet etc, then you cannot really say if you have bad genetics or not.
We all got different bodytypes so an endomorph works harder to stay lean and it takes forever for an ectomorph to put on muscle mass.
And the thing of getting bigger when getting older, I guess it's not just in your family.......

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