Stephanie stared at the large weights all over the gym her mother had set up. She cringed at the idea of lifting any of them, much less the large ones already set on several stations. She turned her head toward her mother and the large men, Jeff and Bill, standing next to her.
“Well I understand you wanting me to be in good shape and all, but there is no way I can lift most of these weights. Did you set this up for those two?”
Angela smiled as she handed her daughter the bottle that had the formula mixed in. Angela was looking for quick results, so the concentration was high. With her other connections, Angela had also added other muscle building proteins to the drink, unknowingly amplifying the effects.
“No, this is all for you. Just look at this as your goal. Now make sure you drink your sports drink, it’s new.”
Stephanie sighed as she took the drink and with her mother staring on, took a long drink. Stephanie crinkled her nose. The drink tasted good. Not thinking, she took another long drink, smacking her lips. She blinked her eyes as a tingling sensation permeated her body.
“Uh, what exactly is in this drink? I feel kind of weird.”
Her mom looked her over. Stephanie didn’t look any different. “Just special vitamins and minerals.”
Stephanie shrugged her shoulders as her mom smiled. “Well I’ll leave you with your trainers. I’ve got a meeting to get to.”
Stephanie smiled weakly and turned to look at the two large men. Each man was 6 foot 2 and had to weigh 250 pounds of solid muscle. Why on earth did her mom think she needed one man that big, much less two to work with her. It was bad enough that she felt puny normally at only 5 foot tall and 90 pounds. Tugging on her pink designer work out shirt she shuffled forward, her matching pink shorts ruffled half way down her thin thighs. The pink work out shoes padded forward and a hard breath did nothing to push her bone thin chest forward. The men kept straight faces as they guided her to a machine used to work her chest.
She sat down and with some quick guidance and a booster seat brought her arms around to the side of the machine. “So what does this do?”
Jeff stood in front of her, ready to help pull the bars to the center. “This works you chest muscles. Don’t worry, we’ll start with the smallest weight, 20 pounds.”
Once Bill set the peg, he nodded to Todd, who looked at the nervous Stephanie. “OK, now try and pull your arms together.”
Taking a deep breath, Stephanie did just that and with some effort and a little guidance from Jeff, pulled the weight forward until the bars met in the middle. He smiled at her. “Now let the bars back, but slowly.”
Stephanie complied and with a small grunt from the effort and a light clang of the weights had her arms back at the starting point. Jeff nodded his head. “OK. 11 more just like that.”
Stephanie’s eyes widened. “Eleven?”
Jeff snickered. “You can do it. Now we’ll just work one at a time.”
As Stephanie sighed, she felt an odd sensation. The tingling she felt from the drink returned and with it a feeling of energy. Shaking her head, she looked ahead and pulled the weight forward again, and this time it felt easier! Before Jeff could even reach out, Stephanie was pulling the weight back and with little hesitation, started a third rep. Jeff’s eyebrows raised slightly as Stephanie cranked out the reps like a pro and in no time finished her set of 12. Smiling, Stephanie looked at the somewhat surprised Jeff.
“Well that was easy! Maybe I’m stronger than you thought!”
Jeff tilted his head in agreement. “I guess so. If 20 pounds was too easy, let’s raise the weight up.”
Bill reached down and moved the peg to 40 pounds. Jeff looked at Stephanie and nodded his head. Stephanie did the same and pulled at the weight, feeling the added resistance. But to everyone’s continued surprise, she showed no additional strain and after reaching the middle and bringing it back down she held her arms.
“Still felt kind of light.”
Jeff looked over at Bill. “You heard the girl. Let’s try 60 pounds. Although that is pretty heavy considering you barely weight 90 pounds.”
As Bill complied, Stephanie puffed a strand of hair from her face. “Yeah. But whatever mom put in that drink seems to be working. I’m feeling pretty energetic. And strong too.”
As Stephanie brought the bars forward the serum was truly working on her body, building up muscle quickly against the stress at a previously impossible rate. The once bone thin chest had already added a few pounds of muscle across her pectorals and was poised to add more. So when Stephanie pulled the weight back, her muscles had already compensated and were already capable of lifting more. Stephanie looked at Jeff and in a barely contained excited voice asked for more.
Bill looked at the weights to make sure there wasn’t an issue, but complied, bringing the peg down to 80 pounds. Stephanie repeated the pull and this time seemed to struggle a bit. Jeff nodded his head and resumed his position to see how many reps she could do. But even as she started her second rep her muscles built up from her forearms, across her biceps and triceps, down her shoulders and across her chest. With a solid inch of pectoral muscle blazing across her chest, Stephanie felt the resistance melt away and after the third rep stopped. Feeling like she were in some kind of weird zone and now wanting to truly tax her body, Stephanie grunted with a bit of annoyance.
“Still too easy. I need more weight!”
Jeff stood back up. “Are you sure?”
Stephanie looked at him through narrow, almost angry eyes. “Of course I’m sure! Now either add some real weight or I’ll do it myself!”
Jeff nodded to Bill who figured to put this silly contest to an end. This girl must have worked out before he figured. So instead of putting it to 100 pounds, Bill moved the peg to 160 pounds, figuring that would shut the little girl up.
And it looked like it would once Stephanie began to pull and could only move the bars a few inches before dropping it back. Jeff tried not to smile and as Stephanie grimaced, he waited for her to fail before asking Bill to drop the weight back down. But the first lift only caused Stephanie’s body to work faster, building up muscles at an accelerated rate. And not just any muscle, but dense, stronger than normal muscle. Muscles ripped and repaired grew to over twice the density of the originals, effectively more than doubling her strength each time her body was stressed. So when Stephanie pulled her arms together for the second time, the bars sailed to the center with a loud clang, easily raising the 160 pounds as her chest pushed out three inches thick, pulling her athletic top taught as her back had also widened. Another quick rep caused Stephanie to pause.
“More. That second rep felt easy.”
By now Jeff was stunned. And he now noticed that this once bone thin girl was sporting muscles that weren’t there moments before. But he was warned about this from Angela, although he didn’t believe her. So he looked at Bill and shrugged his shoulders. Bill gave him a look of equal surprise, but reached down and pulled the pin down again, this to the bottom and 300 pounds.
And as Stephanie took another breath she started to tug on the bars. And this time…
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