At the beginning stages almost any routine will be enough to make you grow...even mens fitness magazine routines. The main reason people lack results in this stage is because there diets are terrible. I'm confident I could go into any standard commercial gym and take the 90% of guys that look the same each year that are trying to look different and have them make the most progress they've ever made in there life with only diet changes in 6months. All i'd ask for them is to send me a copy of the routine there using so I can customize the diet. If guys spent as much time arguing/debating/researching diet methods, food choices, meal planning, scheduling, lifestyle issues, saving money on food strategies as they did on routines, a lot more goals would be reached. Just something to think about.