If you’re reading this, it’s likely that you’re about to start your DNA journey with FitnessGenes. We’re thrilled to have you join us and look forward to delivering personal insights that will help you achieve your health and fitness goals – whatever they are.

This blog will introduce the structure of your DNA reports and reveal how your genetic insights and recommendations are delivered. We hope that this will help you to maximise the value of the results. We’ll walk through each section in turn: your Result, the Members Result Distribution, your Insights, your Actions, and the Additional Content. There’s plenty to cover, so let’s jump straight in.

Your Result

At the top of each report, you'll find your personal result. This is accompanied by a coloured icon and a personalised result statement. The number of possible results for each report varies depending on the number of genetic and lifestyle factors analysed. For example:

1. Muscle Performance (ACTN3). Single gene report. 2 possible results: Supportive Trait and High Priority.

2. Gut Inflammation Risk. Multiple gene and lifestyle factor report. 5possible results: Supportive Trait, Low Priority, Moderate Priority, HighPriority, and Very High Priority.

Most of your results will be framed within the context of relative risk, indicated by the colour of the icon that accompanies them. The key below sets out each risk-based result and what it means.

A smaller set of results are accompanied by a blue icon and aren't based on relative risk at all. These are information-based results — rather than flagging a risk to manage, they tell you something specific about yourself, such as your optimal training structure.

Members Result Distribution

You’ll find all the possible result permutations for each report within the Members Result Distribution graph. Here you can see how common or rare your personal result is relative to the rest of the FitnessGenes population.

As this data is based on those who have taken a FitnessGenes test rather than the general or global population, the result percentages may shift over time as more people receive their results.

Insights

Your Insights provide the detail behind your result. This is where you'll discover your personal gene variants and how they're impacting your health and fitness. Insights are more specific than your personal result — delivering further granularity depending on your individual genes and lifestyle.

For example, the Gut Inflammation Risk report has 65 unique sets of insights across the five possible results. This is because a different combination of genetic and lifestyle factors can place two separate individuals within the same result band.

Actions

Actions are where insight becomes change. Each of your reports includes positive daily steps you can take to help manage your risk or build on beneficial results.

These steps are grouped by five distinct categories: Exercise, Nutrition, Behaviour, Supplements, and Lifestyle. Our in-house team sources the actions from peer-reviewed research, following evidence rather than popular trends.

You're not expected to follow every action across all 180+ reports. Instead, you can choose the ones that fit your current lifestyle and training experience. Selecting just one or two actions from your highest-priority reports is enough to start making meaningful, sustainable progress.

Additional Content

The final section of each report is related items: products, articles, recipes and traits relevant to your result.

If you'd like to explore the original research our team have reviewed, follow the links in the Articles dropdown. Recipes that include ingredients matched to your actions are a great way to start tailoring your nutrition to your DNA. You'll often find member-exclusive discounts on relevant partner products in this section, too.

How to prioritise your reports

When your results arrive, you'll have access to a wide variety of reports. We recommend prioritising them based on your overall goals and personal results.

For example, if you're an athlete focused on building performance, Appetite Control reports that are Moderate or Low Priority are unlikely to have the highest overall impact for you.

Instead, start with the report categories most aligned with your primary goals. From those, focus on actioning your Critical Attention, Very High Priority, and High Priority results first. Once you've mitigated their effect, you can look to maximise the benefits of your Optimising Factor and Supportive Trait results.

What happens next

Over the coming weeks, we’ll highlight several reports identified by our science team that we believe everyone should be aware of. This will ensure that you don’t miss critical health and fitness guidance.

In the meantime, why not explore your free lifestyle-based reports? Available to you right now, these reports follow the same structure you’ve just read about. Familiarising yourself with these is the perfect way to get comfortable navigating the platform, so that when your personal DNA results arrive, you’ll know exactly where to start.

Our in-house support team are also on hand to answer any questions you have when navigating your personal reports. Reach them by emailing into support@fitnessgenes.com (available Mon-Fri, 09:00-17:00 UK).