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Optimizing Athletic Performance & Fitness


Existence Genetics offers a unique genetic testing panel that is focused on optimizing your athletic training while also protecting you against conditions that could cause you harm while exercising. Existence’s athletic performance and fitness testing is available through your healthcare professional and also through a variety of health & wellness organizations.



Existence Genetics understands that fitness trainers are on the frontline of our society’s battle against diseases that feed off of a sedentary lifestyle, including heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. By interacting with their clients on a frequent basis, sometimes as often as two or more times per week, fitness instructors are pivotal in helping to transition our civilization from being sedentary to being physically fit. Doing so will help decrease the incidence of many of the diseases that now plague humankind.

The following traits and conditions are included in Existence Genetics’ exclusive Athletic Performance & Fitness Panel testing:

  • Athletic Predisposition: Endurance versus Power
  • Surmountable Exercise-induced Fatigue
  • Insurmountable Exercise-induced Fatigue
  • Exercise-induced Muscle Damage (Sickle Cell Trait)
  • Heart Attack Risk (Both early-onset and routine-onset)
  • Preventable Sudden Death (including increased risk of sudden death while exercising)
    • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
    • Dilated Cardiomyopathy
    • Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
    • Long QT Syndrome
    • Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia
    • Brugada Syndrome
    • Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia


A Groundbreaking Partnership: Existence Genetics and Equinox Fitness

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Existence Genetics is proud to partner with Equinox Fitness, a leader in the field of lifestyle and wellness. At select locations in the United States you can now receive genetic testing for Athletic Performance and Fitness from Existence Genetics with the results delivered to one of Equinox’s outstanding fitness coaches. The Equinox genetic testing panel contains additional traits and conditions to those listed above that have been specifically chosen to empower Equinox fitness trainers with insight into their client’s genes.

The Equinox fitness trainers providing this unique service have all been certified by Existence Genetics after going through a special workshop taught by Dr. Brandon Colby, the company’s founder and CEO. This certification includes education about the genetic testing process and how to utilize the results to genetically tailor a fitness plan for Equinox clients.

Through this groundbreaking partnership, Existence Genetics and Equinox now offer the most advanced fitness training available anywhere in the world.


If you are interested in genetic testing for athletic performance and fitness, please email info@existencegenetics.com or ask your healthcare provider or fitness trainer to contact us. To facilitate the discussion, you can click here to print out a one-page informational letter that you can send to your healthcare professional or fitness instructor.

If you are an Equinox member or are interested in joining, please click here to find an Equinox club near you.

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