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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been in gyms for almost twenty years and around strength athletes who devote their lives to getting bigger and stronger, and can definitely count on one hand the number of natural (AAS free) women whose muscle mass made them "too bulky" by any reasonable standard.  People like Serena Williams or Annie Thorisdottir are well known because they are extreme genetic outliers.  If you were beset by the "problem" that afflicts them, you would know it, because you would have been dominant in sports at at least the national level for your whole life, and would be getting paid a lot of money as an athlete.

To the individual who mocked "trainers" who implied she did not know her own body, I would reply that, in fact, you do not know your own body.  If you have limited exposure to resistance training, the edema that accompanies the tissue injury you are suddenly inflicting will hang around for awhile.  Certainly weeks, possibly even months.  It goes away with time as the body adapts to the stimulus; the adaptation will likely be slower if you are older, as physical adaptations generally are.  If you find the phenomenon intolerable, by all means stop lifting weights.  What is unhelpful is posts like these that perpetuate this idiocy that women are capable of quickly "bulking" their muscles to unseemly proportions.

Research and decades of anecdotal experience demonstrate pretty clearly that a drug-free woman can expect to accrue about 3 lbs of muscle mass per year of serious training, assuming she is training consistently, overeating, and is healthy.  This amount drops off over time, as continued adaptation gets harder and harder.  Understand that 3 lbs spread over your entire body is not likely to be noticeable.  What is noticeable is the tissue swelling that accompanies trauma to which your body is not accustomed.  Not knowing the difference leads to ignorant posts like the one that spawned this dumpster fire of a thread.[/quote]

A million times, this.  The first few months of lifting a lot of people experience inflammation/water retention. And then you lean out.[/quote]

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