Very good point and great story, qadancer. I was thinking more in terms of whether 737mech wanted to just gain the most muscle as fast as possible, versus gaining some but not at the expense of adding fat.
However, if the question is "will I get too big before I know it?" the answer is certainly no, as you pointed out so well.
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That would be 6 or 7 years now, right? I seem to recall that you wrote in another thread that you had gone from having people ask if you work out to them asking if you're on steroids. I've lifted on and off for years, working pretty hard at it the last couple, though not always as intelligently as this site teaches us to do. I'm at the "they notice that you work out" stage, but no one is asking if I use steroids.
As you say it doesn't happen overnight, not by accident, and even then natural lifters are not likely to get to the really huge size that many people find unattractive.
But just getting to the point after all that hard work where you get comments beyond the "do you work out?" must be hard to take
