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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
College and High School football players gain 25 lbs of muscle in a year all the time. Thats what I said. Shoot sometimes even the men in the pro's you see massive body changes in a few months off season.
Of course Tiger didnt gain it in a year. And all 25 lbs he's gained over the past year might not even be all muscle. All these articles talk about how much he drinks.. thats an easy non-muscle weight gainer there!  |
I'm not sure you understand the difference between gaining 25 pounds of muscle and simply gaining 25 pounds.
Proper bodybuilding includes two cycles - bulking and cutting. When you bulk you might gain 25 pounds or more, but a significant portion of that is going to be fat because you're basically consuming as many calories as possible (mostly in an effort to consume large amounts of protein). You can't simply put on muscle without putting on fat, unless you're an ectomorph (a.k.a. "hard gainer") and if you're an ectomorph you're never, ever going to naturally gain 25 pounds of muscle in a relatively short amount of time. Once you've bulked, you have to cut in order to get rid of the excess weight you've gained.
I guess if you're going through an extreme growth spurt or puberty (added testoterone) you have a chance to gain more, but if you think college-aged or professional athletes are gaining 25 lbs. of lean muscle naturally over the course of a year you're naive.