Heredity and Bloodline!

                                                                            

          

Why Heredity Just Might Be Holding You Back In Your Muscle Building

It is clear that certain traits are handed down to people by their parents and unfortunately your ability to grow muscles beyond certain limits is no exception. That doesn’t mean to say hard work and carefully planned training won’t have a positive effect on your physique, it just means that some people will inherit a greater abundance of the favored physical characteristics than others. Not everybody has the genetics to be the next Lou Ferrigno or Charles Atlas, but everybody can create substantial results with whatever we had been handed with upon birth.

The ideal bodybuilding physique tends more towards the mesomorph with broad shoulders, narrow hips with arms and legs of medium length. When it comes to determining muscle building potential, though, there are two other hereditary factors to consider, and these would be a person’s fiber density and his/her neurological efficiency. Don’t let the big terms confuse you – fiber density means the possible size a muscle can grow to, while neurological efficiency would pertain to how the nervous system interacts with the muscles. Those with a genetic advantage can utilize up to 50% of all fibers, in comparison to 30% for an ordinary person, so this is a very important part of the role genetics plays. This allows greater scope for stimulating growth.

The fact that there is no easy way to measure fiber density or neurological efficiency is actually a blessing because the incentive remains for all of us to train hard and strive for improvement. Think of it this way – only a small percentage of people in this world have the potential to win all sorts of bodybuilding titles, but everybody else can simply work towards fulfilling their specific goals and still be satisfied afterwards.

Written by Jason Wright 

Discovery Fit & Health

While scientists can’t pinpoint a single “happiness” gene, there are certain personality traits that contribute to happiness. A study carried out with nearly 1,000 pairs of twins seemed to show that traits such as low-stress, high sociability and conscientiousness contributed to the widest ranges of happiness.

Fortunately, genetics aside, there are things we can all do to give our happiness levels a boost. Positive Psychology, a new discipline started by Martin Seligman, former president of the American Psychological Association, suggests that by practicing gratitude and focusing on the good in life, we can create our own happiness. In addition, performing kind acts and having worthwhile goals contribute to a meaningful and happy life.

Heredity:1. The genetic transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring.

Bloodline (Sociology) all the members of a family group over generations, esp regarding characteristics common to that group; pedigree