5 Things Genetics Decides About Your Shape (And What It Doesn't)
Body, Presence, and Power with LaToya Loren
9,072 views
FREE TUTORIAL: The 4 Training Mistakes Killing Your Teardrop Hourglass. Why you cannot feel your reverse lunges in your glutes, why loading your hip thrust heavier is not building them, the muscle group you are skipping that builds your thighs, and why your hamstrings are not growing. It is short, it is free, and it goes straight to your inbox. Link below.
https://gettheteardropmethod.com
If you have ever looked in the mirror, done everything right for months, and decided your body just is not built for it, this episode is for you. The truth is that a lot of your shape is genetic. Your bone structure and your muscle insertions are fixed. But muscle and fat are not, and those two things are the entire toolkit you need to change how you look. This is the honest version most influencers and coaches will not give you: what your frame actually decides, and the much bigger part you still control.
I am a nurse practitioner, a physique coach, and a bodybuilding competitor, and I will tell you plainly where genetics really does win and where blaming genetics is just an excuse. We get into recovery capacity and why the same program buries one woman and barely touches another, muscle insertions and ceilings, training one side at a time to close a gap, and why narrow hipped women still build the S curve on stage. Then I break down the real reason your program is not working, and why it is almost never your genetics. It is what the program was built for.
In this episode you'll learn:
• What is fixed on your frame (bone structure, insertions) and what is not (muscle, fat)
• Why recovery capacity is a programming variable, not a character flaw, and how to train around it
• How to build around a thicker waist or a shorter torso so it reads smaller by contrast
• The rule for training a weak side so you actually close the gap instead of widening it
• Why a fat loss phase cannot build your shape, and the build then reveal order that can
• Why two women with the same goal need completely different programming
Chapters:
00:00 How much of your shape is genetic
01:10 What genetics actually decides
02:50 The part that actually limits you
03:52 There is no single shape you match or you don't
04:26 What the wellness stage really proves
04:57 My own body, honestly
05:52 Free tutorial: the 4 training mistakes
05:59 Why your program is not working
08:02 The verdict: strategy over genetics
08:36 The Physique Design Diagnostic
08:51 Coming up in two weeks
Ready to stop guessing and start building the shape you actually want? Book your Physique Design Diagnostic, a 45-minute session reviewing your training, nutrition, recovery, and aesthetic goals, with a 4-week execution map built for your body that you can start immediately. $99.
https://iamlatoyaloren.com/diagnostic
And if you are not there yet, start with the free tutorial. Downloading it puts you on the wait list for the Teardrop Method app, and you get the launch date and the doors before I announce them anywhere else.
https://gettheteardropmethod.com
Subscribe and turn on notifications. In two weeks I get into why your glutes are not growing. I skip the three reasons you already know and spend the time on the fourth one, the one almost nobody explains properly, and it is probably yours.
LaToya Loren Price is a board-certified nurse practitioner (MSN, APRN, FNP-BC), certified physique coach, and competitive wellness bodybuilder with 20 years of clinical practice and 6 years of physique coaching, helping women build strong, feminine physiques with real bodybuilding principles and clinical precision, without extreme dieting or shrinking.
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5 Things Genetics Decides About Your Shape (And What It Doesn't)
Body, Presence, and Power with LaToya Loren
9,072 views
FREE TUTORIAL: The 4 Training Mistakes Killing Your Teardrop Hourglass. Why you cannot feel your reverse lunges in your glutes, why loading your hip thrust heavier is not building them, the muscle group you are skipping that builds your thighs, and why your hamstrings are not growing. It is short, it is free, and it goes straight to your inbox. Link below.
https://gettheteardropmethod.com
If you have ever looked in the mirror, done everything right for months, and decided your body just is not built for it, this episode is for you. The truth is that a lot of your shape is genetic. Your bone structure and your muscle insertions are fixed. But muscle and fat are not, and those two things are the entire toolkit you need to change how you look. This is the honest version most influencers and coaches will not give you: what your frame actually decides, and the much bigger part you still control.
I am a nurse practitioner, a physique coach, and a bodybuilding competitor, and I will tell you plainly where genetics really does win and where blaming genetics is just an excuse. We get into recovery capacity and why the same program buries one woman and barely touches another, muscle insertions and ceilings, training one side at a time to close a gap, and why narrow hipped women still build the S curve on stage. Then I break down the real reason your program is not working, and why it is almost never your genetics. It is what the program was built for.
In this episode you'll learn:
• What is fixed on your frame (bone structure, insertions) and what is not (muscle, fat)
• Why recovery capacity is a programming variable, not a character flaw, and how to train around it
• How to build around a thicker waist or a shorter torso so it reads smaller by contrast
• The rule for training a weak side so you actually close the gap instead of widening it
• Why a fat loss phase cannot build your shape, and the build then reveal order that can
• Why two women with the same goal need completely different programming
Chapters:
00:00 How much of your shape is genetic
01:10 What genetics actually decides
02:50 The part that actually limits you
03:52 There is no single shape you match or you don't
04:26 What the wellness stage really proves
04:57 My own body, honestly
05:52 Free tutorial: the 4 training mistakes
05:59 Why your program is not working
08:02 The verdict: strategy over genetics
08:36 The Physique Design Diagnostic
08:51 Coming up in two weeks
Ready to stop guessing and start building the shape you actually want? Book your Physique Design Diagnostic, a 45-minute session reviewing your training, nutrition, recovery, and aesthetic goals, with a 4-week execution map built for your body that you can start immediately. $99.
https://iamlatoyaloren.com/diagnostic
And if you are not there yet, start with the free tutorial. Downloading it puts you on the wait list for the Teardrop Method app, and you get the launch date and the doors before I announce them anywhere else.
https://gettheteardropmethod.com
Subscribe and turn on notifications. In two weeks I get into why your glutes are not growing. I skip the three reasons you already know and spend the time on the fourth one, the one almost nobody explains properly, and it is probably yours.
LaToya Loren Price is a board-certified nurse practitioner (MSN, APRN, FNP-BC), certified physique coach, and competitive wellness bodybuilder with 20 years of clinical practice and 6 years of physique coaching, helping women build strong, feminine physiques with real bodybuilding principles and clinical precision, without extreme dieting or shrinking.