DNAfit x Fiit: Genetically matched workouts from your lounge
With so many exercise fads and classes out there, which is the best for you? Are they all the same, or will some give you faster results than others?
At DNAfit, we believe the latter is true: Training smarter will help you get the gains you’re working for. This involves going on a personalised fitness journey uniquely tailored to your body.
In combination with Fiit, we’re here to offer you the best at home workout, tailored to your genes! If you’re a UK-based DNAfit customer, you can log into our partner portal to see your genetic recommendations.
Finding the perfect Fiit
Fiit have three studios: Strength, Cardio and Rebalance. Classes from these studios have been combined to create specific training plans, such as “Lift” and “Super Fiit”.
Behind the scenes, DNAfit and Fiit were able to match these plans to a person’s DNA Power/Endurance response. When a person logs into the DNAfit portal, they’re able to see these recommendations in real-time.
Below, you can see Fiit Founder, Ian McCaig, has ‘Total Burn’ as his recommendation, as his Power/Endurance is 29:71 in favour of Endurance.
Recovery and preventing injury
If, like me, you like to sweat it out in gym, but prefer to tackle injury prevention at home, DNAfit x Fiit’s second recommendation is for you. This training plan recommendation is based on the relationship between a person’s genetic disposition to recover quickly from exercise vs. their risk of injury.
This recommendation finds classes from the Fiit Rebalance Studio. These classes involve a mix of Yoga, Pilates, and Stretching, from the likes of Richie Norton, Chris Magee and Lottie Murphy.
What is a genetically matched workout?
Part of the DNAfit offer looks at how your muscle fibres respond to different intensities of training. We call this a person’s Power/Endurance response. It looks at 14 different gene locations that have an effect on a muscle’s adaptation to exercise.
Essentially, your genes can tell you whether you will get fitter faster from high-intensity exercise with fast efforts or heavy weights, or from more aerobic efforts, with lighter weights, or even just bodyweight.
This insight is based on revolutionary science that has won DNAfit a Queen’s Award for innovation. In a nutshell, DNAfit divided a cohort of people into groups: power responders and endurance responders. These groups were further subdivided and then trained with their genetics or against their genetics.
Training someone with their genetics looks like asking an endurance responder to do endurance exercise (e.g. 3x 15 reps). Training someone against their genetics looks like asking an endurance responder to engage in high-intensity training (e.g. 10x 2 reps).
What were the results?
DNAfit found that everyone who trained improved their strength and aerobic performance, measured by a Counter Movement Jump (CMJ) and an Aero3 Cycle test respectively, but those who trained with their genetics had a three-fold better performance increase!
How to get DNAfit x Fiit
Either Body Fit or Health Fit from DNAfit will give you access to the genetics of diet and exercise, with Health Fit including additional information on sleep and stress. Once you have taken the at home DNA test, you can get the Fiit training plan recommendation in the DNAfit portal.
Sign up to Fiit here. There’s a free version you can try, but we recommend you explore Premium so you can see your live stats, track your progress and take on the live leaderboard classes.
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Simon is the Founder of STANCE, a brand storytelling agency.
