I believe that the extent to which you can build muscles is dependent on 3 factors:
- How you workout (I include resting between workouts in this factor)
- How you eat (you actually need to feed the body for it to grow properly and recover)
- Your genetics
While you do have control over how you workout and how you ear, your genetic makeup is outside your control as you’re born with it and “stuck” with it for the rest of your life. Some people are generally more muscular than others and will achieve better results with the same workouts and nutrition protocol.
Some muscle building programs and products that are sold online suggest that they hold the key to overcoming bad 
genetics (the kind that doesn’t lend itself to fast anabolic muscle growth) and can help anyone gain lots of muscle mass, no matter how much their genes aren’t made for this to begin with.
Let me make one thing plain: there’s no such thing as overcoming or eliminating the effects of genetics on you and your body. Your genes are a part of you as the color of your eyes, your height, and the number of fingers you have on each hand. You can’t get rid of them and you can’t erase them.
So, don’t expect any product or program to be able to help you overcome your genes. This is not going to happen anytime soon.
What can happen is that you come to a compromise with your genes. I call this the Great Compromise of muscle building because this is the essence of training.
What the Great Compromise means is that you strive to become the biggest and most ripped you can be according to your genes. While you may not become Mr. Olympia any time soon you can still get the kind of body most guys dream of and are too lazy to try to get for themselves.
The truth is that even with bad genes, you can still pack on quite a lot of muscle tissue if you only workout hard and eat right. There are many examples of guys who weren’t born to be huge but still got there with hard work (Vince Delmonte is one famous example). However, they still won’t win high level competitions because some guys are just made better with more muscle building genes.
What I want to prevent is you going all crazy trying to find someway to overcome seemingly bad genes instead of focusing on what’s important, which is to workout intensively and eat carefully and perfectly to get the best results you possible can.
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