I came across an interesting point in a book “…some people are genetically better at gaining muscle strength than others, according to which version of the ACE gene they possess on chromosome 17.”
reference: Williams, A.G, Rayson, M.P., Jubb, M., World, M., Woods, D.R., Hayward, M., Martin J., Humphries, S.E and Montgomery, H.E. 2000 The ACE gene and muscle performance. Nature 403:614.
This is probably a long shot, but has anyone come across this before? I am most interested in the magnitude of variance they found, which would have obvious implications for strength training, and possibly important benefits for future research on strength training. I think I will post this on supertraining as well.
This is the “enhancement” senario of the future. 3 years ago on BBC “tommorows world” they were talking about the idea that some doctors will be adding one of the strength genes to various athletes. At first the athletes body thinks it is a foreighn object or invader, fights it (or something to do with it) like a cold or common flu then adapts and excepts it. Something like that. Ofcourse it won’t be detectable and they are suggesting that by the 2012 olympics many athlets will be undergoing this operation.
