The Impact Of Genetics On Building Muscle And Shedding Fat

one of the biggest variables in prediction of how jacked you will ever be there are really two of them one I'll cover later and you do have influence over that one but the second variable is what did you start with there are people in high school that just exist they just grew up and played normal Sports and they're 5'11 and they weigh 175 lbs and they have a six-pack and you're like holy shit this is just the muscle you normally carry these are the guys that when they go to college they start training a lot

they get up to 220 completely drug- free they get up to 290 not drug free and then they win the USA on their first try hey folks Dr Mike here for RP strength I am a professor of sport Science and I'm a competitive bodybuilder Brazilian jitu Grappler and this YouTube channel if you're new here is all about getting e jacked and lean and strong and healthy and happy and potentially laid if you're uh not new to the channel I sure hope you're getting laid by now good luck let me know in the comments if anyone's

gotten laid in any case today's video is a bit more philosophical than usual I guess it is to discuss genetics as they apply to your muscle growth and fat loss potential so let's get right into it people talk about genetics all the time oh I have good genetics I have bad genetics my biceps suck I can't lose fat on my ass etc etc etc and I wanted to lay out kind of like a bit of a logical architecture so that we can all think about genetics maybe a little bit more astutely and make more sense

out of the whole thing and fall for fewer kind of fallacies so one thing that I see not getting discussed a ton with genetics is that people tend to bifurcate into these kind of distinct categories of good genetics versus bad genetics and some people think there's really two categories now that's a real crappy approximation to the shape of what most genetic Expressions do look like which is a normal distribution okay it looks like one of them do hickeys like a little mole hill type of situation um and the normal distribution implies something it implies a

few things it's actually one of the deepest shapes in nature believe it or not it is kind of uh the closest you get to viewing the structure of the deep universe and how it's arranged what the hell does that mean well normally distributed functions which very many genetic variables in trying to get jacked and lean are mean a couple of things one is the it's also called the bell curve the big thick part of the bell curve is that 50% area so we can first very very easily conclude that the vast majority of people and

statisticians typically say something like 2third of all people are just really close to the average for any given trait so that means if if you thinking about hey like what what are my genetics for getting jacked or do I have good genetics for fat loss or bad genetics the very likely answer more likely than not is that your genetics are pretty close to average maybe a little worse maybe a little better give and take but outliers folks with really good or really bad genetics are by definition statistically rare So something like one out of every

10 people you ever meet will either have exceptionally positive genetics in some regard with getting jacked and lean or exceptionally negative genetics what we call Extreme genetics amazing genetics or terrible genetics are even more rare something like one out of 100 but they sure sh do happen one out of 100 is an interesting number because if you went to an average sized high school that means ma maybe five to 10 5 to 15 people in your high school or put probably in a way you could relate to a bit better if you have a four-year

High School one to three people in each graduating class is very likely to have extremely good genetics for getting jacked and lean and one to three people is likely to have extremely bad genetics now the upside of this in a good way is that most prob bodybuilders that you often look up to have very good often unusually good genetics not always extremely rare but much more often you see in the general population but very very often they have just straight up good genetics at least if not great genetics on the downside is that if you're

a personal trainer if you're trying to help your friends and family with Fitness some of your personal training clients for example will respond very poorly to any stimulus their bodies just won't change much it it'll take Heaven and Earth for them to change a little bit and there's an issue with that so now that you're aware that genetics can be so different among people it's rare for them to be extreme but nonetheless still happens you can understand the phenomenon of when maybe your personal training clients or maybe yourself or someone you know really tried really

hard at the whole lifting thing and the dieting thing and they're saying like dude I just like it's not happening and then the trainers vexed and they're like what am I doing wrong and it could be that you're not really doing anything wrong this is just kind of the state of the world as it is you know if you try to get a 10-year-old ready for like an tryouts for an NBA team you could have two months of really good train up and then it would just get dunked on get KN in the face by

accident and that that's the try out and it would be real giant waste of your time for you to be like what what did we do wrong how come he's not playing for the Phoenix Suns uh because he's 10 and genetically at that point as far as expression of his genes he's just not an adult and you know not good at basketball yet so some people that yet lasts well geez got most of their lives or the whole lives and so you have to understand it some people are just going to be exceptional and some

people are just going to be real me but most people are somewhere in the middle that means you're probably somewhere at least close to the middle next Point another philosophical point point that may interest you is that genes your DNA affects almost everything in physique outcomes we already know a bunch of the physical stuff and we're going to cover that in a bit the the real important stuff that I think genes can affect and how really that can change how your training outcome occurs but genes affect things that are somewhere between unusual for people to

suspect genes affect them uh especially in most colloquial conversation or downright Politically Incorrect so I'll try to steer Mo most of the politically incorrect out of this conversation and try not to get canceled but we got to talk about a little bit something so for example roughly 50% on average huge caveat there because it varies considerably of the proclivity to be a hard worker is explained by your DNA so people will often say yeah he's got good genetics but he doesn't work hard that actually means he doesn't have good genetics because good genetics means that

you have the genetics for the body physically and the genetics in your brain to make the body because all bodies require tons of work to get to their extreme most elite Perfection look and so if you don't have the proclivity to work hard or put it another way if you're in the bottom 10% of that normal distribution you're all the way back here in the little tiny corner of proclivity to work hard you probably won't amount to shit in physique and it'll probably be quote unquote your fault in the sense that you just never did

the work or never did nearly enough of the work so that's definitely a thing now it also goes the other way where some people are born to work hard and if you don't give them hard work they go insane and we call those people Asian I had to say it it was funny it's funny but on a serious note people of all Races genders Etc sometimes fall into that category and while they are awesome to work with because they will absolutely accomplish everything they could sometimes they also tend to stress out a lot and have

uh trouble unwinding so that's another thing another thing is genetics absolutely play a huge role in your ability to take instruction and even your interest in taking instruction you don't take instruction well ah geez you're probably not going to amount to shit in sport probably in physique and Etc and it takes some really good genetic proclivity to even begin to understand the new is on training Theory and application which means if you have bad genetics for taking instruction you're not working well with a coach or at all if you have bad understanding of nuance you're

just going to train like an idiot all the time many very ve very many jacked people fall into that category maybe bottom fifth uh of taking training insights from other people bottom fifth for understanding nuance and complex training Theory and then they end up like lifting a lot taking lots of steroids getting really big and then getting really hurt and then retiring when they have a third kid they need a real job so that's thing that happens and that is also highly genetic just to put that on the map now let's talk next about some

of the genetic stuff that really you can't change as of 2024 hopefully in the 2030s we'll be able to alter our DNA I'll see you there but let's talk about big big things in physique that you can't change that are very very genetically uh prone some of these are the heritability of these is in the 0.95 or 90 to 95% of this is determined exclusively by our DNA and and if you have a normal environment where you're not like malnutritioned when you grow up it's damn near or close to 100 height you don't choose your

height there's nothing really you can do in your child life to extend your height that's not some kind of ridiculous surgery uh and if you're just fed normal Foods you're going to get about as tall as you can get limb length like some people have short arms some people have long arms it's going to look a lot different on a physique and limb ratios evolve from that as well if you have long legs and short arms it's going to look a certain way you have long arms and short legs it's going to look a certain

way and everything in between between you can't change those ratios with any technology we currently have next is specific muscle shape this is very very very important how your muscles are shaped like Ronnie Coleman's bicep peak that's not some shit that you can actually alter you can make a muscle bigger or make it smaller and some Research indicates that on the teeniest of margins you can grow one part of a muscle and not the other part of a muscle or rather grow one part of a muscle a tiny little bit more than you grow the

other but the general overall muscle shape super quad sweep super Peak biceps super whatever how horse you tricep that's just not up to you and that's going to be your genetics 90 some per. which means like if you have a bodybuilder and you like their quads and you look at Instagram pictures of them often you are naked when you do this sometimes entirely covered in petroleum jelly I don't know why you would do this but it's you doing it you're weird don't stop it's 2024 weird is in you look at their quads or whatever your

favorite pro scrolling on Instagram there's jelly on the fucking phone you don't worry you wipe that off later it's totally cool to be inspired and be like damn dude I want the biggest fucking quads I can get because these are beautiful but it's probably unwise to be like I want Chris bomb stud's quads you're never going to have them because his quad shape is exactly and only what his genetics produced you have different genetics unless your Cris bumsteads long lost evil twin we made two of them in case one of them strayed from the path

I guess you're the robot twin in any case you cannot have other people's muscle shape it is impossible as a current technology so stop wanting it but it's totally cool to get inspired I look at Kevin lon's chest and I'm like damn but I don't pretend that my chest looks like his and it would be a Fool's errand to do because you're literally trying to do the impossible next this is another big one fat storage areas your body likes to put fat is kind of where its DNA says it should put fat that means if

you're one of them love handled peoples like myself that's where your fat goes I can have damn near glute strations and just hanging love handles at the same time it's the fucking weirdest thing in the world other people they have little wasp waist and they diet for 19 weeks straight and their their hamstrings are diced their quads are separated and their ass looks like they're 15 weeks out you're like what the fuck is going on how do you have so much ass fat first of all sucks for being a competitive bodybuilder to deposit a lot

of fan glut second of all there's really nothing you can do about it that has any measurable effect and three go out there and reproduce and half daughters God damn it Scott is that too fucked up to say cuz like list real talk if you're a dude with a fat like what up that's kind of what's whatever you say we all look different but a girl with a fat ass Scott the video guy is also not single I don't know where I was going with that lastly initial total musculature one of the biggest variables in

prediction of how jacked you will ever be there are really two of them one I'll cover later and you do have influence over that one and that one as a preview is how much muscle do you actually grow with any given unit of time on top of what you started with but the second variable is what did you start with there are people in high school that just exist they just grew up and played normal Sports and they're 5'11 and they weigh 175 pounds and they have a six-pack and you're like holy fucking shit this

is just the muscle you normally carry these are the guys that when they go to college they start training a lot they get up to 220 completely drug free they get up to 290 not drug free and then they win the USA is on their first try some Eric janicki looking ass motherfuckers now I don't know how Eric jikki looked when he was a kid but my suspicion is that he wasn't so small Maybe I'm Wrong I was quite small when I was a kid but it turned out I had a huge ability to add

muscle I didn't start out with a lot but how much you start out with absolutely matters and this actually this genetic difference is one of the biggest differences in why males and females are of different sizes because at least in the early phases of training relative to their size males and females gain roughly the same amount of muscle uh that probably my hypothesis is are probably changes because there's lots of stuff unexplained later I think muscle Peters off in women but at least at first the relative muscle gain is very similar but the thing is

females start out weighing like you know know what what does a high school girl look like Scott the video guy I'm kidding that's fucked up uh you know 110 pounds or some shit where the guys weigh like 130 and and the girls are typically a little bit more high body fat so we're talking about like starting out with 30 pounds more muscle yeah geez that fucking adds up man 20 25 pounds more muscle you have the exact same growth rates for years that person's still going to be 25 pounds of muscle ahead of you that's

fucking nuts actually more because it's relative growth rate so it's even it's even more compound than that these geneic things that you cannot change you just can't change now here's a list a little bit longer luckily of genetic things that you can do something about they're not wholly genetically determined the environment which is your interference with how you live your life and how you train and how you monitor things can have a big effect but genetics is still very important first is maximum recoverable volumes some people you recover from the fucking kitchen sink and some

people you know do a few sets of this and that and they're sore for days and days and they get weaker and then get stronger again after a week and you're like holy fucking shit so I can do this explaining for you now you've probably done it in your head already one of the major differences between people who are super hardcore online Advocates of Mike mener and hit training and low volume and those who Advocate high volume one of the biggest differences is just these people just have different genetics like there's a a NeverEnding number

of comments actually want Scott we should get chat GPT to be like hey chat GPT pretend you're a commentary on a YouTube video and someone is advocating for High Vol volume and I want you to generate uh uh a 2500 unique responses telling people a personal story about how lower volume worked best for you it's probably read a trillion comments like that already it's like no problem uh and so you got to get confrontational you got to tell people they don't know what they're doing and you have to say well I used to do high

volume do I drop my volume I got the best Gams ever and here's the thing I'm mocking those people because people are fun to mock as a joke but as a serious thing those people 90% of the time are completely right on for them it did work better because they have a very low ability to recover from high volume if they had a very high ability to recover from high volume they could just keep pushing the volume and keep growing more as we see with almost every single average study another thing is the Adaptive magnitude

per level of stimulus what does that mean that means that if I give you three sets of squats and I give someone else three sets of squats you grow some number of grams of muscle from that until it goes back to Baseline on your heels and they grow one and a half times or double as much or half as much some people for the same exact stimulus will just grow more like that's just a thing that you observe in the gym many of you have seen it you you watch some kid who started when he

was 15 and by the time he's 16 he's like Mega fucking jacked you're like the fuck like took me two years to do that and you were even the same size when you started some people just grow faster From Any Given unit stimulus that's a big deal but remember you have something to say about it how you sleep how you eat and the quality of your training all determine that magnitude but that's going to be anchored relatively well into your genetics so you have amazing genetics for growing a ton you can kind of fuck shit

up and still grow pretty well if you have amazing genetics for growing a ton and you're really op everything you're going to be Jay Cutler who gained like 50 pounds of muscle in his first year of training he also went over to like a local farmer and bought like a whole whole cow's worth of ground beef so like this is a very serious commitment plus some of the best genetics and that's how you get crazy shit but on the other hand if you don't have amazing genetics to adapt to any given level of stimulus and

you're kind of half-assing it you may experience very little growth whatsoever and then it's not a mystery as to why it's happening it's a mystery to you but at least philosophically we know it could be this thing next is the another really big one the degree of fatigue imposed by a given stimulus if you get a huge adaptive magnitude out of a stimulus you grow a ton from any given number of three sets of squats or some shit you also just don't get really fatigued from squats like some people do squats like pretty good quads

are pumped but I feel great other people are like dude my back hurts my life hurts my soul hurts I can't breathe I'm throwing up and it take me three days until I can walk normally again that means you impose a lot of fatigue for a given stimulus and even if your adaptive magnitude is high you got to de lo more often you can't do as much volume you can't ramp the volume as much because the fatigue will kind of kick you in the dick at some point uh much sooner it's kind of a good

analogy to think about it this you have two cars they both go the same max speed and they have the same kind of track endurance but one car just like uh tends to have a component fail or break down uh twice as often as the other you don't want to take that car too Scott how do you say that race that's spelled l m ANS Leon so it's it's Lans right o lanss and then and then some French asshole inevitably like no no is the how you say no that's a French way of saying lemon

motherfucker where are we all at in World War II I'm French people I'm so kidding right also you guys are about to beat Russia's ass in World War III which is going to be fucking sweet to watch that goddamn place in any case if you take less fatigue for any given stimulus you can alter that remember you can have better exercise selection better technique and so on down the line but genetics do play a role in that absolutely some people just get beat up more than others and sometimes that correlates well to the same people

that are getting beat up are also growing the most but sometimes people grow a ton and get beat up very little uh that's ideal and sometimes people don't grow much but they get beat up like shit I've had personal training clients like that you just end up scratching your head like holy fucking shit were you just not cut out for hard physical training and sometimes the answer is not cut out so well for next you can impose a certain level of fatigue so let's say you do three sets of squats you get some good stimulus

you get some pretty decent fatigue another variable that's highly genetically determined but you do have something to say about it is how fast the fatigue falls off if you get crazy fucked up from squats like you're sore you're tired you're crampy but two days later you're like completely healed holy shit you out a gift because you can train squats three times a week just blow the fuck up whereas some people they won't even accumulate a ton of fatigue like a little sore a little tired but 3 Days Later they're a similar level of sore and

tired and you're like damn it the fuck I thought you'd be recovered by now very genetic but also huge intersection there with the variables that you control how you're sleeping what you're eating um how many adult films you don't watch remember porn steals gains wait does it Scott does porn steal your gains absolutely yeah less of a man less of a man what's that one crazy asshole in a bunch of comment section what's his name porn weakens men porn weakens men you pussy ass motherfucker you let porn weaken you a little bitch anyway if you're

watching this hello next huge one guys huge one coming up injury probability is a very very genetic but of course you have something to say about it you can do better technique you can not overdo the first week of working out you can slowly ramp in that drops your injury probability by 10 exercise selection and so on Down the Line warming up properly there's tons of things you can do however normal distribution right bell curve some people most people like this don't do dumb shit you won't get hurt very often but you still get heard

of an Al again people on the the way you guys are seeing it it's going to be right side but really what I mean to say is left side of the curve the lower numbers saying the the bad side of the variable well some people are just fragile motherfuckers man this shit is real and uh some people just get hurt a lot from shit you would think would never hurt them they're like doing perfect technique bench press and they're like ow my Packer the fuck the fuck we was rep six of like 12 and it's

your fourth week of training after D Lo how the fuck did this happen some people are just fucking fragile everything hurts their fucking shoulders their elbows blah blah blah and they take a long time to recover and so on and so forth the injuries are often more severe on the other end there are people that you're like how the fuck are you still alive and in one piece doing insanely dumb shit all the time people will do partials they'll you know do rack pulls with 600 with a rounded back they'll do half squats their toes

will come up with a heavy or heels will come up on a hack squat with eight plates and you're like how the fuck is that guy still alive just doesn't get hurt much the intelligent thing here is whatever your injury probability is you do everything you can to mitigate it because for everyone injury is bad however also you may want to look at various people and their experiences take something from them as a learning uh example and and kind of leave the rest for example if someone who's insanely High injury probability he just found this

out from interacting with them for a while tells you like hey man I found this great exercise it really like treats the pack super well on the one hand they maybe they found a good exercise the other hand the stimulus that exercise could be so small because they're working around so much injury stuff that you're just like yeah man you don't tell them this but you're like think you just just get hurt a lot and I don't so I'm just going to stick to the shit that fucking works because I don't need to do this

fucking weird shit on the other hand you look at guys that are insanely resilient and they'll tell you like yeah man you can fucking do this you won't get hurt like you're not that fragile and a lot of the people who you know the the which is a great group of folks like the pro movement people uh the ones that say you shouldn't be scared of moving in a certain way and your body's really resilient a lot of those folks actually very genetically and so it's easy for them to think oh you don't get hurt

often people are scared of stuff too much but if you've been hurt from everything all the time your whole life and gym and volleball class in seventh grade you're G to have a little bit of a different opinion about that so some people have you know you're like man that's really the technique you do for squats like yeah like you know feel anything weird in your back like yeah never been hurt you try it and your one of your vertebrae like just goes right out of your asshole and someone's like you shit yourself like nope

that's actually one of my vertebrae uh please pick that up for me thank you yes it is now covered with feces and blood and parts of nerves good God what is this an episode of the boys Scott the video guy have you begun to watch gen V still have fuck you um folks get out there Amazon genv I'm not sponsored by them um it's an amazing show I love it I love the boys also it's same universe uh and uh man that show just gets me pumped for some reason like when they like they'll fight

each other every now and again or they have cool superpowers and they'll do cool stuff and like try to intimidate each other the only thing I want out of this life is a full Sim VR that puts me in that fucking world but I get Amo from DC powers or second best you know Peak fucking Super Saiyan 4 Goku uh or Vegeta and then just go in there and be like nah nah just punch someone fucking I'm telling you guys I'm telling you go watch it it's fucking sweet anyway oh and the main character uh

sure what's her name and she's fine as hell what's up girl JK I'm married up lastly nope this list continues it was just on two pages continuing on a big difference genetically that you do have some control over is the speed of involution from training when you stop training how fast do you lose your gains some people cannot train for two weeks and you're out with them and you're like are you peeking for something they're like I haven't trained two weeks you're like the fuck you have veins and your pecs and they're completely full what

happens when you lift nothing or you just get like to look like the Hulk maybe that's the case some people hang on to it other people sometimes pretty gifted as far as how they can look they stop training for 2 weeks and they're notably downsized and softer and smoother now with good nutrition with proper maintenance training not taking exceptional amounts of time off you can mitigate most of these factors and doesn't matter a ton but nonetheless absolutely matters for how uh you look and how you feel and how you structure your realistic thing some people

could tell you like hey you want to look jacked on vacation uh don't lift her on vacation don't even for the week before you want to drop your fatigue for some people that's absolutely the right advice for other people like dude I'm going to be fucking half my size by the time I get to vacation and people are going to be like I thought you started lifting weights last year and like God fucking damn it so definitely something to consider next the balance of size between different muscle groups your genetics don't just give you the

basis of how big your muscles are going to be to begin with they do that for every single individual muscle and every individual muscle part because that's how your shape forms so it's totally possible to have really awesome genetics for biceps chest shoulder ERS quads Etc but have tricep genetics they're like bro what the fuck perfect example of that no offense intended one of one of the best Marcus rule you can Google him if you're younger if you're older you know what I'm talking about if you're younger Google Marcus rule however you spell that Google

pick it up and is just like a German dude who like who offseason he weighed like 330 pounds or some shit at like 510 and he competed at like 275 and he had like one of the biggest chests ever maybe the shoulders didn't make any sense traps I have no idea how he didn't have like sleep apnea while he was awake uh biceps were fucking killer but his triceps were just like and people tell him like why don't you bring up your triceps and he was basically a super nice guy but in a sense he

was like do you think I haven't been trying he's actually injured his triceps a few times because he's trying to pour so much volume into them they fucking snapped that's just some shit we have you know um some people have like really tiny forms some people have really tiny calves some people have really tiny insert muscle anywhere and that means that you can do something about it but doing something about it means you may need to not invest a ton of time into training the whole body similarly but train a little bit more focus on

one muscle group that you want to bring up or you can lean into the differences and be like fuck it I like having big arms and small shoulders it's a cool look that's totally fine but you do have something to say about it but it also is very very highly genetic next is your ability to train hard in the gym yes that has a very big genetic base some people are psychotic and they're like a fright train some people are just not interested in hurting themselves which is really natural human proclivity to not want to

hurt yourself like hey you know what's going to get you big like what put your hand over this fucking candle fuck that get out of my face like well that's not going to hurt as bad as if you do hack squats for a set of 20 like well fuck that too you're like all right fuck that but there are absolutely mental exercises you can do just being in the gym for a long time really wooing and meditating about the training process and pain and what that all means I'll have a lecture for you guys at

some point about all that shit too but um you can modify how hard you're able to go you can but there's a decent genetic component there next the ability to relax and stress when not outside the gym I've made a few observations over over my time as a competitive bodybuilder and one of I think my most important observations is that uh precisely the people who give the most of a shit at a very immersive level about how jacked they're getting if you go past the 90% point of giving a shit you just get um uh

negative returns because that much giving a shit tells me you have a more neurotically prone personality uh with some OCD Tendencies and that means you just worry all the time and that means chronic Baseline stress hormone is really high in your body and you just don't get very jacked from that and you don't lose fat very well from that all the not so great things occur because you cannot relax it's very difficult for you to relax some of the best athletes I've ever personally interacted with are people that can turn it on for training and

as soon as they're in training they turn it off and then like you could run up like to a crapload of bodybuilders probably punch them in the face and they'll be like oh what's up do you know me from Instagram and you're like holy shit whereas other people often times the skinnies are like super neurotic and they're like R I've got to log shit like yeah you you do it's good great workout what are you doing later like H I don't know uh I'm going to plan my next day's training really s and think about

it like Jesus fucking Christ relaxation is the state of your body which helps you grow muscle and burn fat the state of your body that's fight or flight is great for performing the training but terrible for after if you don't know how to relax it's bad news normally distributed trait you can do something about it you can lean into the hobbies that help you relax stay the fuck away from your work when it's not work hours so on and so forth uh but the more you can relax outside of the gym gy straight up the

better it is the ultimate arrangement for a professional bodybuilder who wants to be the best ever is to do really just two things uh one is train hard as fuck and two is like play PS5 or whatever with his friends that's it two things you have to do every day you don't even have to do the PlayStation thing but better than sitting and staring at a wall next this is a very interesting one because this the video is about muscle growth and fat loss and these things kind of contradict each other is genetics for appetite

appetite is highly highly highly genetic but with food choices with meal timing with learning how your body works you can absolutely modify it and now with the birth of true anorectic drugs OIC tepati Etc uh now we're on to some shit where you can modify this pharmacologically to a great extent however there's a yin and yang here with appetite if you have genetically High appetite and great proclivity for muscle growth and all these other variables line line up you're going to be 300 fucking pounds you have to want to eat food to get to 300

fucking pounds at some level and the guys who weigh 300 who are bitching about how much food they have to eat when they stop eating as much food as they have to they go back down to 250 and they're like oh this is better you're like 250 fucking pounds I'd have to stuff myself to get to 220 250 is your natural state then 300 is possible with some Force feeding there's only so much force feeding you can do until you're just out of the fucking sport the opposite is true however though for those guys who

like to eat a lot contest prep and getting lean is unnecessarily hard on the other hand if you don't have a big appetite dieting is as easy as breathing someone's like here's your diet for fat loss you're like this is more food than I usually eat they're like all right well eat it and tell me what happens eight weeks later they fucking veins in their abs and they're like are you hungry they're like no actually I hate eating all this and you're like oh my God you want to be the leanest person of all time

you let me know looks like it's in the cards on the other hand if you try to get a person like that to get jacked dude people straight up quit I've coached a few people who after they got over about 17 180 pounds like that uh this ain't for me man uh I can't do this anymore I hate food I don't want to eat any more food get food the fuck away from me I can't do it and you try to do more cheat meals more High palatability food food that's easier to shovel in your

face with a spoon all these work which is why it's a modifiable trait but you're running up against a huge huge problem here so uh depending on if you're going to go for more for the mass game or more for the easy fat loss game you kind of get sort of the Both Worlds there next related to diet and fat loss how quickly you gain diet fatigue some people you start on a pretty tough diet and you 12 weeks later you're like how do you feel they're like feel pretty good just kind of grooving you

know and Fat's coming off Everything feels great other folks after three or four weeks they're like dude is there a way I can like snort Pizza without accounting to my goals and by the way I sleep 12 hours a day now and I got fired from work because I can't work my brain doesn't work anymore you're like oh my fucking God you really do gain diet fatigue really really fast and it gets really really high on the other hand there's a question about how quickly people lose diet fatigue so some people curiously they gain diet

fatigue really fast but then they lose it really fast so for them the best approach is probably four-week diet two we maintenance four- we diet two we maintenance if they're coachable like that hey if you're one of those people that works really great Dr L Norton talks about that as diet Sprints for those people it works really really awesome for other people they are going to lose diet fatigue in the course of months and you could guess what the worst genetics here are gains diet fatigue to a high level early and takes a long time

to lose it that sucks man that means you're probably going to best benefit from pharmacological intervention uh something like anorectic drugs in order to get the job done otherwise you just man it's really really tough some people however will gain very little diet fatigue and after a couple of days of high carb eating will lose all of it and then these are the kind of people that like just have abs walking around anyway and they'll diet for a show and they'll be backstage yapping to everyone about how they like their second place Trophy and they

like the color silver and you're like how the fuck do you still have energy and they're like I don't know this is great you guys want to go clubbing you're like the fuck out of here you just don't accumulate diet fatigue the bad news for those kinds of folks is they often don't make the best coaches because they can't relate to what's going on with their clients most clients will have drum roll for genetics average diet fatigue and if if you're on one of the extremes or the other if you're on the extremes of you

you accumulate a lot of diet fatigue you're actually going to be work out a lot of strategies how to mitigate that you're going to be a godsend to your clients and people that you help as a coach as a mentor whatever if you don't accumulate much diet fatigue and it goes away really quick you're going to be giving your clients nonsense advice like oh yeah here's a 16 week straight diet or thousand calorie deficit and every now and again if you feel really tired just eat like one high carb cheat meal and you're you're going

to be good and it just doesn't work for almost anyone CU you're a fucking freak and it only works for you so big deal there lastly Sleep Quality and duration what but that this entirely our choice no it's not it's highly genetic some people man they just sleep like a fucking dream my wife who I sleep with fellas your boy in that shit sleep actual sleep right uh she'll just pass out at 900 p.m. in front of the TV and have fucking REM sleep right there it doesn't matter what's on I could be talking on

the phone to somebody else and doesn't give a shit out completely and at roughly 7 in the morning she just opens her eyes and she's completely rested and she's G like there could be a fucking thermonuclear war outside of our house she'd sleep right through that fucking shit other people that I know man you know like 2 am. if you could give them some compelling television or some good Instagram scrolling they're still awake trouble getting to sleep they never sleep very deeply they wake up all the fucking time and then some folks you know have

trouble getting up in the morning and and so on and so forth so how much sleep duration and quality you can get is highly highly genetic but of course we've made a few videos on this channel about how to improve your sleep hygiene how to sleep better you know making the room colder making the room darker trying to hire someone to be your friend to cuddle with you no I'm kidding uh yeah I guess that would work cuddling guys let's do a poll in the comments who here can sleep fall asleep and have decent sleep

in a cuddled position with someone that ain't me bro people produce too much goddamn body heat I needed cold and also like I need to turn a lot my arms don't fit like I'd be putting my arm on your face like that doesn't fucking work Scot the video guy can you sleep cuddled or do you need uh you cuddle first and then and then go in your own little corner and sleep own corner I hate sleeping with people sleeping with people is terrible I like uh I swear to God like some of the movies you

know they'll do like the guy and the girl meet and that's big romance and they'll like put a towel out on the beach and they like huddle up and they'll sleep and they like the sunrise will come up and I'm like the fuck about 2: in the morning be like I'm fucking cold my arm's dead by the way because you're lying on it can we get the fuck out of here and get somewhere without sand or sun or water fuck the beach I hate the fucking beach Scott do you like the beach no fucking hate

sand isn't that crazy we're officially crogen 40-year-old assholes oh the beach the sand gets in my well you know you know every time I leave the beach I like bite down and I hear a crunch because somehow it gets in my mouth yes every time mine's less mysterious because I actually try to eat the sand they keep saying it's not good but I feel fine it's just the crunch is annoying Scott I get sand in my ears and I get if it's like Wave Beach with cool ocean waves which I love the most if well

hate the least it'll get in like when I used to have hair I would spend 30 minutes shampooing my head washing it out get out of the shower to go like like out with friends or something brush my hair through my with my hand and pick up like five sand particles and I was like how how I had a fucking power shower on my fucking how does it work the sand gets everywhere folks don't go to the beach the beach sucks all right wrapping it up how to deal with your own genetics couple points here

first learn as much as you can about how your body responds to all of the training variables we just talked about diet fatigue accumulation of training fatigue stimulus so on and so forth and train for your best responses not someone else's I'm very curious to know about what other very good people in bodybuilding do and think but I'm never going to interpolate their process directly into mine because I ain't them it's too much it's too little it's off one way or another you got to think about what's best for you so take all the ideas

you can from other people watch the trend twins a lot ideally on mute I'm kidding Trend twins all love and jokes and then pick up some ideas but if that doesn't exactly work for you make sure it's working for you because you are the only person in the world that has your genetics unless you have an identical twin and then they also have your genetics uh Scott video guy uh Dr Crystal my wife and I we've been watching uh this show on Amazon called twin love oh my highly recommended basically they pair up identical twins

uh in like a dating show but they separate the two twins so first of all they deal with separation weirdness because identical twins um as predicted by behavioral genetics and as revealed by the literature they actually love each other more than any two people love each other they doesn't give a fuck how much you love your wife or the fuck dentical twins love each other more and how do we know this when one twin dies typically the other twin uh reports the highest possible level of grief That Never Ends until they die it's a part

of you it's the same person P.S some of them when they live together and talk together they actually their cognitive processing doesn't work to full capacity um because they bounce ideas off each other it's like having two gpts uh team up on a task versus just one so you separate the Twins and some of them are like I feel like a part of me is missing that's literally true because half of your DNA is stuck in some other fucking body like if you cut your arm off and give it to someone else preserved on Ice

potentially to reconnect it someone's like how do you feel like I feel like I'm missing a fucking arm but imagine missing a whole other person in any case twins are dope as fuck um and all these twins are hot too holy fucking shit and one of these bitches mascot no joke the two twins that hilariously they're identical twins and they're two different houses the kind of outfits they wear when they go out I'm like are you auditioning for a porn star stripper act what the fuck is going on you know that like when girls like

want to like dress up dress up they look super fucking hot but just barely it's like okay to go in public these bitches just dumped over that line completely I was like I can see your asshole and am I complaining fuck no I think it's the greatest thing ever in any case so one do your best and next point be okay with being your best no you do not have SE bom's waistline neither do I neither does anyone except for seum you have to be okay with what you are building because you cannot yet get

someone's DNA doesn't matter how many magazines you look at or how many Tik Tok reels you scroll through you ain't get in anyone's body but in enhanced and Superior version of your own so learn your own body and as you put in work learn to to be proud of what you've built because you can't have anyone That's genetics you see a dude at the gym with big ass arms I love it I love your big arms can I touch them can I touch you can we make out those are perfectly good things to say but

oh man I wish I had your arms well motherfucker why don't you wish for a bigger dick and a million-dollar bank account at the same time I have one of those tell you that much soon Scott should I get one of those experimental Swiss surgeries that inserts like a sock into your yeah like that extender in there I barely use the thing I have nothing to lose really plenty of healing time but what do I have to gain can you imagine I fucking Stick it to the wife and she's like too big I'm hurting I'm

like oh I guess go back out oh I made a terrible decision is there a way I call the surgeon like is there a way to deflate this he's like no there's no way to deflate the actual penile tissue we inserted I'm like re remix get it out good problem to have I guess although hey Scott wouldn't it be sweet like you have a a surgery to reduce your dick size in a week dude I would be dropping that shit to everybody bro fucking checkout line at the grocery store you know the people usually bullshit

with you like how's your Tuesday like it's pretty good I got a hospital trip coming up next week and they're like oh yeah I'm sorry to hear that like yeah no big deal just getting the old dick cut off a little bit it's too big you know you can tell they're like really and all of a sudden doesn't matter gender age it's all good the the the store clerk is like maybe you don't need to cut it off and they're how would you know I don't we uh why we take a look at it see

if uh can't make things fit anyway back to real life big one be careful when judging other people let me give you a couple of scenarios all of which are reasonable by the way and happen all the time the people that you think suck small Harry Potter looking motherfuckers putting their fucking lifting on Instagram and you're like why do you even bother they could have such dog shit genetics for the physical part they're trying harder than you'll ever know just have bad genetics I happen to know many people like this personally they're real and they

really are trying harder than you not you specifically you watching this right now yes you I'm talking to you exactly you've trained harder than everyone ever because you're the fucking man but the rest of you who we won't talk about you don't train very hard and you judge other people for it the thing is you don't know who's got it good and Who's Got It Bad genetically and it could be like this person is training fucking way harder than you and you should be looking up to them another thing the people you look up to

this also happens quite often they're barely trying they just have amazing genetics there's tons of people like that not to call anyone out but to put it in perspective Kevin levone bodybuilder from back in the 90s one of the greats for much of his career he only trained for four to six months the rest of the time he actually had a a rock and roll band he would just tour with a band and I assume have sex with everyone possible that's what you do on tour I think that's the whole purpose of touring with a

band music is somehow involved I'm not sure how but um he only trained for like a third of the year for like five years in a row and end up showing up on the Olympia stage looking like he always does which is fucking unbelievable one of the best ever so hey this is not working that hard period maybe he worked quite hard during that four months but Jesus Christ it's four months who gives a five fuck that's a thing you may be looking up to this person like they have something to teach you but what

they have to teach you is like choose the right parents I guess not to throw any shade just it is what it is another one the people you think are trying hard with bad genetics because you're like okay this guy's a skinny twerp and he looks like he's trying hard but he clearly has bad genetics uh they might not actually be trying very hard because it looks like they're trying hard but they're really not they just have no ability to push and they complain how do I do this optimal blah blah blah but they've never

put in a gram of fucking effort in their entire lives that's totally possible as well another scenario is the people with good genetics you think have it easy because like oh my God look at the genetics could have both good genetics and put in more effort than you ever could so people will automatically uh some people will say like as soon as you get a jack eyy they like steroids yes also he's taking steroids also when he wasn't he was two times your size also he's more man than you'll ever be you're nothing to him

you live in a basement he lives in the real world that's a real thing so sometimes you think oh it's just these genetically gifted guys but there are some genetically gifted guys who push everything they can into their training and prep as well and some of them rise to Great quite Great Heights and they kind of have it all and so it's not life isn't strictly some kind of fairy retail where you're going to have the one thing but also it comes at a cost you know uh not everything comes at a cost some people

do have it better and work harder they're just Superior and some people have shitty genetics for training uh hard and shitty genetics for looking good and then so they're kind of in a sense largely hopeless this the real world is full of fucked up shit like that and that's what you're going to see in the real world and lastly because we judge people morally for not putting in hard work given their genetics I think we're forgetting that the ability to put in effort is at least half genetic anyway and some of the proclivities for muscle

growth are also half genetic so if you're saying yeah you got good genetics but you don't try hard you actually should be rephrasing that statement in your head of you have bad genetics for trying hard uh and pretty decent genetics for putting on muscle so on an aggregate you actually don't have good genetics for putting on muscle because the genetics for putting on muscle as expressed by a behavioral geneticist will be like do you have the genetics to do all the things involved in muscle growth which means uh yeah have the genetics that can grow

muscle but also show up to the gym and work hard if that part is not in your DNA really or you really suck at it you're one of the ends of the normal distribution uh I don't know then you're not going to be that great so kind of what are we judging anymore and why um I think judging other people for a variety of things is kind of fun to do if you want to feel good about yourself for a few seconds and then bad about yourself for a lot longer it's fun a little dope

me and here be like yeah fuck this guy uh but in reality I think uh most of us could kind of do better by just observing the world and and doing our very best no matter what so to finish this all up main point here for beginners is do your best and don't worry about genetics at all it takes years for you to understand what kind of genetics you have so it's pointless to worry like one of my least favorite questions to answer in a sense all jokes is when people who have been Lifting for

two weeks are like what do you think my genetics are for this shut up shut your fucking mouth you have no idea and I don't have any idea shut up and put in the work you don't even have to shut up you can keep talking but put in the work after a few years you'll realize what your genetics are and no sooner than that by the way for intermediates the big Tak homes here are get to know your strength and limitations now is the time to get to know them and begin to alter your approach

to optimize for results based on how that works basically tailoring your training to your genetics and lifestyle and so on and so forth and then for advanced folks people have been lifting you know seven to eight years or more getting into that uh realm of lifting where gains are very difficult to come by you have to be very familiar with the strengths and limitation one one of the trippiest things ever is people who have like genetically weak chest they've tried everything and they're still obsessed about getting their chest to be double the size not like

10% more like yeah man I just need to double my PCS like dude the rest of you is massive your chest clearly sucks dick I think we should be War realistic and it just tells me they just haven't gotten to know their bodies they're just they know them but they're kind of purposefully ignorant of them because they're rebelling against reality don't do that reality is by far the stupidest thing to rebel against because it doesn't ask you for permission it's always here get to know it well and then just optimize your approach to training however

as an advanced person don't think you know it all you could say look for my my best leg exercises are hack squats and leg presses hands down I don't like this I don't like that I used to be like that and then I discovered belt squats through a friend and then I optimized my own I didn't do much with them because I didn't like them I did optimized my own technique and now belt squats are like my rank one for leg training no joke because experimenting and continue to do that a little bit while knowing

the core of what works best for you is a true Mark of an advanced athlete all right we talked about a lot of stuff uh go out there and uh cuddle with someone that means something to you and try to get good sleep I'll see you guys next time [Music]