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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 09 June 2013 12:23:30AM *  1 point [-]

The distribution is not multimodal, but very smooth. Timmons mentions test-retest reliability, but it's not clear that he means trying the intervention repeatedly vs just measuring VO2Max repeatedly. And his citation is not very precise, but to the Heritage family study. Here they say that response is heritable, which requires that it be individually real.