depending how serious you are, you could ask around and find a good trainer. they reproduce good results on many others all year long. plus if you lose you have someone else to blame it on jk
I'm far from a beginer, Been competing pro natural for 4 years until this final year when I made the decision to compete for NPC.
I have a show coming up in May and I am in the begining of my first bulk cycle for that show.