The Claim

People’s muscles before they start lifting weights already have different gene activity patterns, and those patterns seem to predict how much their muscles will grow after training.

Source: Muscle Transcriptional Networks Linked to Resistance Exercise Training Hypertrophic Response Heterogeneity.

What the research says

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In plain English

People’s muscles before they start lifting weights already have different gene activity patterns, and those patterns seem to predict how much their muscles will grow after training.

See the scientific wording

Baseline gene expression patterns in skeletal muscle are associated with the magnitude of muscle hypertrophy following 14 weeks of resistance training in older adults, suggesting individual differences in resting transcriptional networks may predict responsiveness to exercise.

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: Muscle Transcriptional Networks Linked to Resistance Exercise Training Hypertrophic Response Heterogeneity.

    Scientists found that before people started lifting weights, their muscle cells already had different activity patterns in their genes—and those differences helped predict who would gain more muscle after 14 weeks of training.

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