Fascinating read: Greg Rutherford uses DNA analysis which tells him to do hill workouts as he has good endurance

Apparently the quotes come from a full radio interview which you can listen to here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b076nsj8

Check out Athletigen.com. Certainly an interesting subject, and something that many pros currently are utilizing.

LetsRun.com wrote:

What the hell doe sit tell you. See below.

"The DNA showed I have a level of endurance in me which I never really realised, which makes sense.

It tells me that he's doing the wrong event. He should be a triple jumper.

Ouray Chalet wrote:

Check out Athletigen.com.

Has anybody tried this or other similar companies?

Seems to be a fair bit of doubt out there, e.g.

A white endurance athlete rules the LJ... turns out Carl Lewis was right!

Skip to 1:35:10 (1 hour, 35 min, 10 sec) to the start of the interview with Mr. Rutherford.

You're welcome.

when you are using dna analysis, I'm wondering a little. I find it hard to believe that is useful at this stage and I'm wondering how far you are pursuing technical advantages.

Until you have a controlled study, any perceived or actual improvement has to be chalked up to placebo effect.

Following Ross Tucker in Twitter (up to some point) and occasionally reading linked websites I got the impression that DNA testing is part of the current "talent identification" trend-topic.

That t.i. seems big atm