{"id":16618,"date":"2016-07-20T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T18:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicalfitnessnetwork.org\/public\/public\/?p=16618"},"modified":"2016-07-20T11:18:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T18:18:03","slug":"genetic-testing-for-athletic-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/all-mfn\/genetic-testing-for-athletic-ability\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetic Testing for Athletic Ability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16619\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/genomemag.com\/genetic-testing-for-athletic-ability\/#.V4rdJqJi-me\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16619\" class=\"wp-image-16619 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/genome-summer2016-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"genome-summer2016\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16619\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>This article is featured in the Genome Summer 2016 issue<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Emily Hu had always considered herself a mediocre athlete. Short legs made her a terrible runner, she says, and poor upper body strength made pull-ups an exercise in frustration. But the 33-year-old Californian stayed in shape through the years by practicing martial arts and hitting the gym regularly, never losing the desire to be \u201creally strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So no one was as shocked as Hu when she showed up at her first powerlifting competition three years ago, which she\u2019d entered out of \u201cpure curiosity,\u201d and swept all three events \u2014 squat, bench press, and dead lift. It was a breakthrough moment, with Hu discovering previously untapped potential that transformed her self-perception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought, if monkeying around at the gym could get me these results, think what hiring a professional could do,\u201d recalls the medical device researcher. Hiring a coach and training some 10 hours per week has since produced phenomenal results: Hu is now a champion powerlifter, ranking in the world\u2019s top 10 overall and breaking two world records in the bench press.<\/p>\n<p>Another shot of curiosity prompted Hu last year to undergo direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing to reveal markers for athletic performance. But she was skeptical that such tests, which are said to spot athletic prowess or help tailor training to optimize performance, would yield any surprises.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/genomemag.com\/genetic-testing-for-athletic-ability\/#.V4rc2KJi-md\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full article at Genome Magazine \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/consumer-portal\/medical-health-partners\/genome-magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Genome Magazine<\/a>\u2018s mission is to explore the world of personalized medicine and the genomic revolution that makes it possible, empowering you to make informed health decisions that will help you live better and longer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Hu had always considered herself a mediocre athlete. Short legs made her a terrible runner, she says, and poor upper body strength made pull-ups an exercise in frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":16619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-16618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-mfn","tag-fitness"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medfitnetwork.org\/public\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}