Don?t Let Bad Genetics Keep you From Building Big, Muscular Biceps

No matter who you are, I believe that you can build thickly muscled and chiseled biceps regardless of your size or body weight. Having said this, the fact remains that not all of us have the genetic potential to become Mr. Olympia (and most of us probably don’t want that much development anyway). The exact role of genetics in bodybuilding is not fully understood. One thing is certain – you’ve got to train smart to maximize whatever genetic potential you have to build massive, well-defined biceps.

Some people use “bad genetics” as a convenient excuse for quitting their training programs when they fail to see quick results. Don’t fall into this trap. You must remember to set your own goals and work to achieve them without comparing yourself to anyone else. Besides, how can you know what your genetic potential actually is until you’ve spent every effort and tried every available workout to maximize it?

Regardless of your genetic makeup, most of your biceps building success will depend upon the consistency and technical aspects of your training and proper nutrition. Moreover, you should understand that not every workout is going to deliver your desired results because there is no single exercise or workout plan that works for everyone. Depending on your body type and genetic abilities, some workouts will give you great results, some will work only modestly and others won’t work for you at all.

Biceps Training To Fit Your Body Type

To maximize your genetic potential to build big, muscular biceps you’ve got to understand your body type. In purest terms, the human body comes in three physiological forms: ectomorphic, endomorphic and mesomorphic. An ectomorph is the typical “hard gainer” who has general difficulty in gaining weight, especially muscle mass. Ectomorphs are usually tall with long, lean limbs, narrow shoulders and a relatively fragile bone structure. Ectomorphs also tend to have a high metabolism that causes the calorie burn that can eat into protein stores needed to build muscle after a workout.

Endomorphs are at the opposite end of the body type spectrum. Endomorphs tend to have rounded or “stocky” bodies with a slower metabolism that makes it easy for them to gain muscle. Unfortunately, this slow metabolism also means that endomorphs can get fat very easily. Endomorphs are particularly well-suited for powerlifting movements, but their tendency to hold on to calories makes high-repetition and cardiovascular training critical to their ability to achieve superior muscular shape and definition.

In between the ectomporhic and endomorphic body types is the mesomorph. Mesomorphs tend to have a naturally strong, balanced and athletic physique with an ability to gain and display muscle much more easily than the other body types (think NFL linebackers or world class sprinters). Although mesomorphs have a higher metabolism than endomorphs, they don’t have the ectomporhic ability to naturally burn calories and must therefore carefully monitor their food intake to avoid getting fat.

While pure ectomorphs, endomorphs and mesomorphs theoretically exist, the reality is that most people have mixed body types (e.g., “mesomorph-endomorph”). When it comes to training in a way that best fits your body type, there are subtle but important differences depending on whether you’re primarily an ectomorph, endomorph or mesomorph. If you’re mostly ectomorphic, you should emphasize low repetition mass building techniques with extended training intervals that minimize cardiovascular exercise.

On the other hand, if you’re primarily endormorphic you should emphasize high repetition training cycles with extended intervals that regularly include high intensity cardiovascular workouts. Finally, if you’re mostly mesomorphic your biceps should respond well to both low and high repetition training with moderate amounts of high intensity cardiovascular training for enhanced muscularity. The bottom line is that you must work with whatever genetic potential you have to build the big, muscular biceps that you desire. And you’ll never reach that potential if you quit too soon because of “bad genetics.”

These is the Relationship Between Alcoholism and Genetics

The question “is alcoholism is genetic oriented” has not a definite answer. However there are some evidences that it could be. A genetic study shows that some clusters of genetic variation play an important role in alcohol addiction. Alcoholism and genetics related factors are discussed below:

It is shown that all individuals with a family history of alcoholism have some risk of developing the problem of alcoholism. Family history of alcoholism means that either or both the parents had alcoholic problems. Parental alcoholism will be a factor for children to become alcoholics. The risk increases when the child is a boy having novelty seeking personality and impulsive behavior.

A new research shows that alcoholism and genetics have some relationship. The researchers identified a new gene that may be responsible for excessive drinking habit. The scientists used micro array techniques to study the genes expression in the brain which prompts high or low consumption of alcohol. This study gives new room to deal with alcoholism disorders.

Family history of alcoholism seems to have biological dysfunction in individuals who develop stress even before they get into drinking problems while others develop such problems only after the drinking problem arises. Some other studies show that stress may lead to alcoholism. The relationship between stress and alcohol is however not yet clear. But it is found that stress increases the release of Beta endorphin and high doses of alcohol also increase the Beta endorphin. Therefore family history of alcoholism is risky and will exhibit the dysfunction of stress even before the individual develops drinking problems. Hence individuals with family history of alcoholism must try to cope up with stressful situations by some other ways and should try to avoid consuming alcohols.

The degree of genetic influences on alcoholism risk may be sex specific also. The studies show that males with family history of alcoholism have more chances to develop alcoholism than women. A research in more than 50 families shows that alcoholism runs in families. This study reveals that first degree relatives like parents, children and siblings of treated alcoholics have two or four times higher risk of developing alcoholism.

The scientists in Washington have observed that parental alcoholism and personality leads to higher risk of alcoholism in individuals. The novelty seeking personality trait and parental alcoholism will develop addiction to alcohol. If someone has thrill seeking impulsive behavior then they have chance of becoming alcoholics. The risk is double the time more if they have either or both the parent is alcoholics.

The desire for consuming alcoholic products may be due to environmental signals also. However the genetic factors also play an important role here. Adoption and twin studies show that alcoholic consumption is likely to be inherited from parents. As already stated, sex will also influence the genetic factors leading to alcoholism. The researchers identified that Chromosome 1 is the area related to alcohol consumption. Therefore it is confirmed that genetic factors will increase the risk of alcoholism. However the extent of genetic factor leading to alcoholism requires further studies.

Genetic Disease

A genetic disease or disorder is any disease that is caused by an abnormality in an individual’s genome. The abnormality can range from minuscule to major — from a discrete mutation in a single base in the DNA of a single gene to a gross chromosome abnormality involving the addition or subtraction of an entire chromosome or set of chromosomes.

Why do we have genes that cause genetic disorders?

Many genes are named for the disorders to which they have been linked. This can be very confusing. For example, the gene associated with hereditary hemochromatosis is called the “hemochromatosis gene.” This name implies that the gene exists for the sole purpose of causing disease, which of course is not the case. The normal function of a gene is to encode a protein, not cause illness. Disease occurs when genes are unable to work properly. The hemochromatosis gene actually codes for a membrane protein that works with other proteins to regulate iron absorption in cells. Like other single-gene disorders, hemochromatosis occurs when a gene is mutated in a way that prevents it from encoding a normal, functional protein product. See hereditary hemochromatosis disorder and gene profiles for more information about this condition.

People who have one recessive gene for a disease are called carriers, and they don’t usually have the disease because they have a normal gene of that pair that can do the job. When two carriers have a child together, however, the child has a 1 in 4 (25%) chance of getting the disease gene from both parents, which results in the child having the disease. Cystic fibrosis (a lung disease), sickle cell anemia (a blood disease), and Tay-Sachs disease (which causes nervous system problems) are caused by recessive disease genes from both parents coming together in a child.

Genetic diseases can be inherited and are mutations in the germ cells of the body—the cells involved in passing genetic information from parents to offspring. Genetic diseases can also result from changes in DNA in somatic cells, or cells in the body that are not germ cells.

Some genetic diseases are called Mendelian disorders—they are caused by mutations that occur in the DNA sequence of a single gene. These are usually rare diseases; some examples are Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis. Many genetic diseases are multifactorial—they are caused by mutations in several genes compounded by environmental factors. Some examples of these are heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.

Children and adults with a rare genetic disease have multiple needs to address: health concerns, primarily, but others as well. As a service to the global Jewish community, Mazornet.com is committed to gathering and compiling data about Jewish genetic disorders. More importantly, Mazornet.com’s mission is to serve as the ultimate information resource by surfacing areas of assistance online and in the real world. It is not Mazornet.com’s intent to choose resources, but rather to make support information and resources of any kind available to the people and to the families afflicted by these diseases.