Honestly for a first cycle you could do just fine without the EQ. Test alone will produce massive results as long as your diet and training are in order. Then you could save the EQ for your second cycle when you want to increase the effect and continue to gorw. The bigger you get, the more it will take to continue growing, so leave yourself as much room as possible. So lets say you get to 205 lbs on your test only cycle, and then you are 195 after the cycle is complete and the water has come off. Then you recover and end up at 190 lbs. From there, going to a cycle with a second compound will help you make similar gains to what you made in the first. As for the HCG, I would suggest using 250-500iu, about 2x wk through the cycle up to 3 days before PCT starts. So I would measure it out and start it up far enough into the cycle so that it will last up to the end