31 Working Out According to Your Genetics with Ryan Hall

Joining The InForm Fitness Podcast is Exercise Physiologist and Certified Master Trainer, Ryan A. Hall.  Ryan has over 25 years of experience in the health and fitness industry. Ryan’s Exercise and Genetic Variability Lecture formed the basis of Chapter 8: The Genetic Factor in Body By Science by Dr Doug McGuff and John Little. He also contributed to Chapter 3: The Dose/Response Relationship of Exercise. This is part one of a two-part series titled: Working Out According to Your Genetics
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31 Working Out According to Your Genetics with Ryan Hall Pt. 1 Transcript

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

people, oxidative, exercise, training, glycolytic, subjects, sessions, pounds, person, intensity, adam, seconds, repetition, increase, inform, clients, fibers, rep max, ryan, fitness
 

Ryan Hall  00:06

So I mean, our number one goal with resistance training, right is to have that person get stronger, and that's our objective measurement of improvement. And over time as that load increases, and that absolute intensity increases, it's going to affect them eventually metabolic, but our main our main goal is to get them stronger in that muscle.

Tim Edwards  00:34

This is episode 31 of the inform fitness podcast 20 minutes with New York Times bestselling author, Adam Zickerman. I'm Tim Edwards with the inbound podcasting network and client of inform fitness at the Toluca Lake location, which is CO owned by our very own Sheila Melody who will be with us shortly. Also joining us as always, is Mike Rogers, the general manager of the Manhattan location of inform fitness. Alright, so we're about to kick off a two part series talking about genetics. Now hold on. For those of you who might be scientifically challenged like me, don't think that this information is going to sell right over your head, because joining us is exercise physiologist and certified master trainer, Ryan A. Hall, Ryan does a terrific job of explaining how our individual genetic makeup affects the results from our high intensity strength training. Are you oxidative? Or glycolytic? I have no idea what that means. Neither did I. Until Ryan explained it. I guarantee as a listener of this podcast, I know that you're going to find this information not only entertaining, but very helpful. Ryan has over 25 years of experience in the health and fitness industry. As a matter of fact, he contributed the chapters three and eight in Dr. Doug macguff book Body by science, which is an absolute staple for this protocol. Oh, and one final note before we begin, for those of you who participated in our month long contest to receive Adams autograph inside his New York Times best selling book, power of 10, the slow motion fitness revolution, and to receive inform fitness apparel, and an Amazon Echo. We will announce our winner at the end of the episode. In the meantime, let's talk genetics with Mike Rogers, Sheila Melody, Adam Zickerman and our guest for the next two episodes. Ryan Hall.

Adam  02:23

Ryan, you and I go back a while now we've been we've been in this game. You said you started this at 18 years old? Correct?

Ryan Hall  02:30

Yeah, it's like 1989. Yeah. When I started.

Adam  02:34

Yeah How old are you now?

Ryan Hall  02:36

45. I'm old dude.

Sheila  02:37

He's a baby.

Adam  02:39

25 years, 26 years of doing this?

Ryan Hall  02:42

Yeah, longtime man, longtime

Adam  02:44

how many sessions have you overseen in these 25 years would you estimate.

Ryan Hall  02:48

So at one time at one to one I was training between 100 and 120 sessions a week. And I mean, sometimes I've trained a lot less. But I averaged it out to maybe about 80 training sessions a week. And I gave myself a margin of error to say maybe 75 a week. And so I multiplied that out by about 50 weeks a year. And I'm coming clocking in around 100,000 sessions.

Adam  03:18

So I guess that means Yeah, I'm doing is 20 years. So I'm probably you know, I'm probably just about 20,000 less than you.

Ryan Hall  03:25

Yeah. And I would say probably around that. Yeah.

Adam  03:28

Mike is averaging that amount of sessions per week now. 90 to 100. A week now. And he's been doing is like 12 years. 15 years. Excuse me. So I mean, between the three of us alone, we got we got quite a number of sessions under our belt. So Ryan, like me, you're you're an exercise geek. And isn't it true that for fun that you dig around for relevant and quality research studies? Just for fun

Ryan Hall  03:55

all the time. I mean, I pretty much keep my nose in the research literature every day

Adam  04:00

and talk about you have a couple of college degrees Correct. Like what are they?

Ryan Hall  04:04

So both my undergraduate and graduate degrees are in exercise physiology. I had gotten accepted. Before I opened one to one, I had gotten accepted into the Ph. D. program in Baton Rouge LSU for exercise phys, but I decided to open a business instead. So I said I'm not going to continue getting myself in debt. And that's when we opened one to one in 1996. But my education didn't stop. Oh, you know, when I stopped going to school, I mean now it just gave me the freedom to research and read exactly what I wanted. So I didn't have to follow any syllabus or anything like that. And I learned most of what I learned honestly, by doing experimentations of my own clientele and actually writing my own research papers that way I could you know That way I could target indirectly I wanted what I wanted to study.

Adam  05:04

So like, yeah, so So between all the 100,000 sessions that you've overseen, not to mention your background in exercise physiology, and all the research you've been doing and all the digging, you know, is into all the current research you've discovered, then you've noticed a couple of things I would say. And today's discussion is really about genetics. So what have you discovered regarding genetics and people's response to exercise? Generally speaking, right?

Ryan Hall  05:38

Well, I mean...