Bangkok September 2020

FITNESS & YOU
- THE KEY TO A BETTER LIFE -
NO RESPONSE TO AN
EXERCISE ROUTINE
MAY INDICATE YOU ARE
A NON-RESPONDER
Exercise science has a name
for people who train hard in a certain
way, yet don’t really get to see
much in the way of change for the
effort they put in. That name is
‘non-responder’.
Sadly, if you are a non-responder
then there’s a good
chance you’ll never see any benefit
from the exercise regime you’re
using. Despite this, don’t despair. It
just means the regime you’re using
doesn’t suit your own unique biology,
and a simple change, or maybe
a more radical change will see
you start getting the benefits you
expect from all that training.
In 2001, an analysis of several
previously published exercise
studies found that a single exercise
routine could affect different
people in dramatically different
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ways, regardless of age, gender, or
other demographic factors. Some
trainers may build up their stamina
from a running routine, or build up
muscle mass from lifting weights,
and yet others on the same regime
might see their fitness levels
remain stagnant, or even end up
worse off than when they started.
The good news is that a study
conducted by the journal PLOS
One suggests there is no such
thing as a universal non-responder,
so if the workout you’ve been on
for the last six weeks, or months,
or longer, is not working for you,
there will be one out there that will.
The study authors had their
subjects go through three weeks
of endurance training and three of
interval training, with a few months’
break in between the two, and
measured each person’s fitness
at the beginning and the end of
each program. The results: “As a
group, they had gained admirable
amounts of fitness from both workouts
and to about the same extent,
but individually, the responses varied
considerably.”
The study showed around 33
percent of the people failed to
show much improvement in one of
the measures of fitness after three
weeks of endurance training. Similarly,
about 33 percent had not improved
their fitness much with interval
training. And after each type
of workout, some participants were
found to be in worse shape.
A majority of the participants, in
other words, had failed to respond
as expected after one of the workouts.
The researchers’ main takeaway,
though, is that each participant
had at least one workout
that did work for them. So, being
a non-responder to one type of exercise
never meant that someone
was a non-responder to all types.
The real downside to some extent
is that the only way to really tell
if you’re a non-responder to something
is through trial and error.
Yes, this means you have to battle
through four, five, six weeks of the
one style of training and see what
happens. If you’re lucky, you’ll hit
on a great response straight away;
if you’re unlucky you might slog
away for some time before finding
the right regime for you.
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