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[Closed] Training plan based on a DNA test - would you?

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My 'training' tends to be 'ride my bike a bit more leading up to the one event of the year I actually enter' but if you're the sort of person who trains to a plan during the course of a year would you think that a plan based on a DNA test be any better than the traditional one you might get?

https://cyclingindustry.news/madison-to-distribute-tailored-athlete-dna-profiling-tech-muhdo-to-uk-and-ireland/


 
Posted : 12/02/2018 4:34 pm
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I’m sure it’ll sell to those happy to throw money at possible advantages, but I’ve read quite a lot of criticism of these home test kits and the interpretation of their results.

Personally, no I wouldn’t.


 
Posted : 12/02/2018 4:40 pm
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Given DNA is how you were built and training is probably about where you are now and where you want to go I'd be sceptical.

If your hypothetical identical twin was 10kg heavier than you and been doing weights for years would you both do the same things to end up in the same place?


 
Posted : 12/02/2018 4:49 pm
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There's hormone profile testing for training too, ISTR.  Makes more sense.


 
Posted : 12/02/2018 7:40 pm