What is Genetic Fitness Testing?

Whether you are striving to lose weight or gain muscle mass, it can be difficult to begin your fitness journey. This is absolutely true when you don’t even know where to start. This is where genetic fitness testing is so vital. When you fully know everything about your genes and how your environment affects them, you will be able to create a fitness plan specifically according to your body’s needs. With a customized fitness plan, you will be able to see results you want much faster and that will encourage you to strive for a higher level of health.

Why is Genetic Fitness Testing Important for My Fitness?

Your body is completely unique because of your DNA. Your genes determine everything about your body. They determine your body’s metabolic rate, endurance, and how quickly you can recover.  You cannot start your fitness journey without knowing your starting point and without fully knowing the path that you need to take in order to reach your goals. Understanding your genetics is the best way to figure out the best way to reach your fitness goals. Doing genetic fitness testing is the first step you need to take in order to begin setting your goals for your fitness and achieving the results that you want.

Understanding Exercise and Diet through Genetic Fitness Testing

When it comes to becoming more physically fit, we know that eating right and exercising more is the best way to reach your fitness goals. However, every body reacts to diet and exercise differently. When it comes to the type of exercising that you should be doing, genetic fitness testing will let you know what amount of cardio and weight lifting will help you get the results that you are looking for in your fitness goals. Also, your body may be intolerant to certain foods, and this intolerance could not only be preventing you from losing weight, it could be forcing you to gain weight.

A comprehensive genetic fitness test will not only help you understand exactly what you should be doing when it comes to your exercise and diet, but it will help you understand your body as a whole. For example, some people are naturally born with a higher resting metabolic rate. This makes it much easier for them to burn fat and lose weight. If you have difficulty losing weight, you may have a slower resting metabolic rate. Once you have this information, your fitness plan can be adjusted according to your body’s specific needs.

What Does Genetic Fitness Testing Test For?

Your genes tell you so many things about your body and how it reacts to your environment and your current fitness plan. Here are some of the most important things that a genetic fitness test can tell you about your body.

Muscle Fatigue

Anyone that has done a workout that isn’t right for their body has experienced exhaustion in their muscles and the hours, if not days, of soreness that comes after that workout. This pain can be discouraging and can be incentive for many people to stop working out. A genetic fitness test can tell you how your genes react to certain types of exercise so that you understand what types of exercise are best for you to avoid muscle fatigue. A genetic fitness test also informs you about how long and how often you should be exercising.

Vitamin Supplementation

Ensuring you have the right vitamins in your body is vital for keeping you in the best of health. There are many different vitamins that can help you boost your metabolism and help you recover from your workouts faster. A genetic fitness test will help you understand how your body reacts to particular vitamins and what vitamins your body needs to keep you feeling great help you optimize your workouts and your recovery process.

Food Cravings

Do you tend to crave foods that you know will stall your fitness journey? Some people are genetically predisposed to crave certain foods. Knowing whether or not you have this gene can help you understand why you crave specific foods and what you can do to combat these cravings so that you can stick to the diet plan that the genetic fitness testing recommends.

Food Intolerances

Your body might be intolerant to food that you are not aware of. It may be difficult for your body to digest these foods properly and that can prevent you from losing weight and reaching your fitness goals. They can also make you feel sluggish and tired. Understanding what foods your body can and cannot digest is helpful to develop the right diet and meal plan so that your body feels great and ready to reach your goals.

Metabolism Efficiency

Everyone has a different resting metabolism rate (RMR). Your RMR is how many calories your body burns just to keep your body alive while you are doing nothing all day. Some people naturally have a faster RMR and some people have a slower RMR. People with slower metabolism rates will have more difficulty losing body fat.

While there are things that everyone can do to help boost their metabolism, a genetic fitness test will help you understand exactly what you should be doing to improve the efficiency of your metabolism. If knowing more about your metabolism is important to you, you should do an RMR test so that you have a full analysis of your metabolic health.

What are the Next Steps?

Once you have seen your entire genetic blueprint, you will be given a plan when it comes to your diet and exercise to help you meet your fitness goals. We still want to be there to help you every step of your fitness journey, which is why we recommend reassessment and growth.

Reassessment

However, your plan may still need to be adjusted to fit your lifestyle.  We recommend that after your initial testing, you come in a few weeks or months after you have been working on your fitness plan so that we understand how your fitness plan is working for your body and if any adjustments need to be made. Once we have confirmed that your plan is getting results, we may look into updating your fitness goals to see where you can grow.

Growth

The initial genetic fitness test and the reassessments should help you fully understand how your body functions and reacts to exercise and diets. With this information, we can help you learn more about fitness from our nationwide network of fitness experts who can help you ask better question that will help you reach a higher level of fitness.

Genetic Fitness Testing and Your Fitness Journey

We know that it can be difficult to begin any fitness journey, especially when you don’t know where to start. This is why genetic fitness testing is vital for your success. Whether you want to lose weight or gain muscle, we want to make reaching your fitness goals as easy as possible. If you know everything about your genetics and how your body reacts to exercise, your diet, and the world around you, you will understand why previous fitness plans may not have worked as well and you will have an easier time adapting to your customized fitness plan. We want you to be happy in the body that you have and we will be there to help you reach your wellness goals.

See the difference that genetic fitness testing can make in your fitness journey!