Physical Profiles
Resistance Profile
Resistance training is a form of exercise that improves muscular strength by the movement of your limbs against resistance using your body weight, gravity, bands or weighted bars. Based on your gene analysis, this section looks at how you respond to resistance training. For example, if your analysis identifies you as one that tends to accumulate subcutaneous fat with a type of exercise, recommendations are provided. This profile also looks at the production of inflammatory mediators, the degree of muscle breakdown and the flow of blood within muscles during your weight training. These variables are combined to produce the specific exercise for you.
Cardiovascular Profile
This profile analyses your muscle fibre type. Depending on your composition, certain types of activity will be preferable for you such as a high intensity (e.g. sprinting) or endurance (e.g. distance running) exercise. Your ability to accept nutrients (perfusion and delivery) into muscles for muscle injury and healing following exercise is considered. Lung function during specific types of exercise and the oxygenation of tissues plus other variables are combined to produce specific exercise recommendations.
Tissue (Collagen) Profile
Injury susceptibility, or the prevention thereof, is a critical factor in your overall physical profile. Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body & is found in tendons, ligaments and skin. Depending on the amount of minerals, collagen tissues may be rigid (bone), compliant (tendon), or a mix from rigid to compliant (cartilage). The profile looks at your production of enzymes that breaks down collagen as well as your body’s ability to increase production for repair and tissue strengthen. It also examines your production of inflammatory factors that may also affect your tissues. Treatment recommendations are aimed at health and repair by boosting your collagen production, inhibiting damaging enzymes and reducing inflammation in your body.