A friend of mine use to do state shows all the time. Went from like 20th to 3rd over a 10 year period. All he ended up with was a slin belly...Dude looked better when he took 20th...The guy never should have tried to be more than a middle weight. But every year he kept saying he was going to compete in the heavies. Constantly trying to gain weight. He went from being 5'7, 176 pounds contest shape ,not placing well in the middles but looked good to ending up competing at 195 pounds, light heavy placing in the top 5 but looking like a bloated piece of shit...Arnold is right about the state of bodybuilding...As a middle he had a physique that would blow 99% of people away in most circumstances. Great beach body look. As a light heavy, the guy wouldn't even take his shirt off at the beach unless he was 5 weeks out or under which was once a year. And even then looked like a bloated turd...