Q: In regards to Q.487-how many pounds of muscle can I expect to gain just in my legs? I am a woman and don't want to have extremely bulky legs, but I am built with broad shoulders & skinny legs, so I just want to balance that out.

A: The muscle gains will be quite slow for you, as a woman. Check out http://www.mikesfitness.com/content/how-long-to-gain-pound-muscle for a rough idea of how much muscle can be gained. Because you'll only be training roughly half of your muscles, your gains will be even slower. I'd say optimistically in the first 4 months you can expect to gain 5 pounds of leg muscle (beginner gains always come easiest) and you might gain another 5 pounds in the following year. So you can see that your weight gain during the muscle-building phase should be quite slow or else you'll just gain a lot of the unwanted fat back.