Do Bodybuilding Genetics Limit Muscle Gain and Fat Loss?

Unrealistic expectations have proven to be thebodybuilding altogether, or decide to experiment with
downfall of many who pursue muscle building or fatdangerous drugs or bodybuilding supplements instead
loss, as bodybuilding far too often becomes a pursuitof modifying our expectations to match our own
of transforming into someone else, as opposed topotential.
maximizing the individual genetic potential that eachGenetics offer us a barrier which we all must obey,
of us has been granted.  We may frequently seeno different from one who wishes to become a
individuals on the Internet, TV or in magazines whobasketball superstar but lacks sufficient height, yet, in
have the bodybuilding physique we aspire towards,bodybuilding, very few ever achieve their own
so we somehow feel that by weight training andgenetic potential, not necessarily due to lack of
eating a certain way, we can develop an identicaleffort, but rather resulting from diet and weight
appearance, when in fact our physical makeup istraining errors which plague muscle building or fat loss
unique and specific to each of us, meaning thatefforts.  Certainly, if one were training and eating
results others produce do not in any way indicate weperfectly, genetics will then eventually limit future
are capable of the same, or conversely, we maygains, and will also impact the overall speed of results,
even be able to greatly exceed the bodybuildingbut most who feel genetics is curtailing any positive
success of those we admire.  Yet there is no waychange actually are eating and weight training without
of knowing our own individual potential without firstany sense of direction, which is the true culprit behind
following an effective diet and weight training routinedisappointing progress.
to determine how our body responds.Muscle building or fat loss is as unique as our
The unfortunate downside of basing our own level ofpersonalities, and we should never try to emulate or
bodybuilding satisfaction upon achieving the physiquebecome another in our pursuit of physical fitness,
of another is that, although we may produce musclerather forging our own road by maximizing the
building or fat loss progress that impresses nearlyindividual bodybuilding potential each of us has, and
every person we meet, in our own mind, we remaindoing so through an effective bodybuilding diet and
inferior, since our standard is not based upon howweight training routine.  When we begin to view
much we’ve achieved, but rather whetherbodybuilding as an experiment in personal
we’ve become the person we choose toachievement, we then begin to finally relish in the
emulate, and therefore, regardless of how ourimprovements we make, as opposed to feeling
progress appears to others, we continually seek forconstantly deprived by focusing on the achievements
the impossible dream, and eventually either quitof another.