Fast and Slow Developers

Some people believe that developing muscle happens slowly but surely over time, so the longer you train, the bigger you get. That's why they will frequently ask a bodybuilder, "How long have you been training?" Or,
"How long will it take me to get that big?" The way they see it, one bodybuilders bigger than another simply because he or she has been training longer. But the reality is that not everybody gains muscle at the same rate
and not everyone has the talent to create the same level of development.
           Your individual genetics have a lot to do with how your body will respond to training. 7 times Mr. Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger was 15 when he started training and with every 1 month he got his bicep peaked up by 1/2 inch. Casey Viator turned from powerlifting to bodybuilding at an early age and at nineteen
became the first and only teenage Mr. America.  Mr. Olympia Lee Haney at nineteen or twenty years of age and he already had a mature physique. Texaspolice officer and bodybuilder Ronnie Coleman won the World Amateur Bodybuilding Championships title only two years
after he began serious physique training.

But not all successful bodybuilders were early bloomers. Frank Zanewas good enough to win his share of victories in the sixties, but it wasn'tuntil the seventies that he achieved the perfection of development that allowed him to be victorious in three Mr. Olympia competitions. Female bodybuilder YolandaHughes broke through and won her first pro show the Ms. International that Arnold Schwarzenegger  promote every year in Columbus-after twelve years of amateur and pro competition. The problem for slow developers like this is that they don't get the immediate success, the positive feedback, that helps so much to keep you motivated. But bodybuilding is like the race between the hare and the tortoise: Ultimately, determination and endurance over a long period of time can win out over a quick start and headlong sprint for the finish line.