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Originally Posted by Arroe
How do those guys get from my size in high school to huge football players over the course of a year?
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Either good genetics plus hard training and nutrition, or steroids plus hard training and nutrition. Or a combination. There will be a lot of steroids; competition for college football, athletic scholarships, and a possible shot at the pros is huge.
For the average person, it's an amazing feat to put on 15-20 pounds of muscle in the gym in a year. Training hard and eating right will put the muscle on you, up to your natural limits, but it will not make you huge in a year. And frankly, if you're 5' 11, lean, and pack on an extra 20 or 30 pounds of solid muscle over the next two or three years, you'll have a body that 98 percent of other guys will envy, and a whole lot of women, too.
Some of the most muscular-looking guys I've known are at 200 pounds or only slightly below. They _look_ huge, even though they aren't, because their musculature is hard, dense, and well-defined, and they've worked a lot on their upper body.