In this Find Your Edge podcast episode, host Chris Newport interviews Yael Joffe to dive into genetics, training and performance. We discuss how understanding your genetics is so critical in affecting your decisions about training, exercise programming, recovery and more.

Yeal describes:

• How performance is relevant whether you’re an Olympic athlete, recreational athlete, or even a non-athlete
• Current problems in genetic testing on the market and how the 3x4 report is different by focusing on systems, cellular function and more
• Why some athletes respond differently to exercise training than others depending on genetics. She says, “We don’t need to be Olympic athletes to improve.”
• Why some of us are more likely to get injured during training than others and how that can change the way you train
• How your genetic insights (and not just HRV, HR, etc) are the key to improving your performance
• Why “set” training programs may not be a great fit for training according to your genes
• How endurance and power training are interrelated and what activities best match our potential (and mental health and enjoyment)
• Why “exercise for life” is so important
• How genetics can help you determine what workouts are the best for the amount of time you have to train and the amount of recovery you need
• How mental health, mood and neurotransmitters are related to performance and even exercise addiction 
• What dopamine does and how it’s related to anxiety, depression, nutrition, exercise and meditation
• How genetics drives what we eat, how we eat and when we eat (no, it’s not about willpower)
• Why caffeine metabolism affects our mental and physical performance differently (and why that matters for ingesting it before and during exercise)
• How methylation and B vitamins are critical for performance and how they are genetically related
• Why purchasing supplements from the grocery store shelf (or Amazon) is a terrible idea
• Why having a good Dietitian to help you navigate supplement choices for your optimal health and performance is so important

In case you missed it, here’s the first episode we did with Yael Joffe of 3x4 Geneti

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