The first 6 months you lift weights, you get the 1/4" to 1/2" or all the way up to 1" growth of muscles. Because of this a lot of guys I hear in the gym say stupid shit like "Oh, I don't want to be big as the guys in the magazines." First of all these guys don't lift heavy enough to get that big or lack the dedication, commitment, sacrifice, discipline or the passion to get there. Secondly they don't eat enough nor do they have pharmaceutical help to get there nor do they have the years of training behind them. The guys you see in the magazines have at least 5 years (the exceptional ones) minimal training behind them. The average guy you see in the magazines have at least 10 years of training behind them plus they do 400 plus pounds bench presses, 500 plus pounds of squats. These are guys that barely push 200 pounds on the bench press thinking they'll get there.

Here's my question: Why is it that if we take up golf we know we can't be like Tiger, or if we take up basketball we know we can't all be like Mike or even tennis or baseball, we don't have those delusions. Yet why is it that when people (men and women) take up weightlifting they're so delusional to think that they can look like the people they see in the magazines?

If you have any thoughts on this please let me know!!!!!!! I still can't figure this one out for the life of me!!!