I need to GAIN weight!

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Ive been tryin to do the same thing. I upped my calories to just about 3000 a day and hit the weights pretty hard. Ive only been at it a couple weeks.

I looked on your diary, and your carbs are through the roof. You're going to add a ton of fat if you keep that up. You need complex carbs throughout the day here and there, but you don't need more then 300 grams. Also, grab a source of high-glycemic carbs to gulp down right after your workout. I use 1 cup of low-fat chocolate milk. Look for something with a 4/1 ratio of carbs to protein. Drink this and only this after your workout, then get some good protein 15-30 minutes later.

Avoid using more then 1 serving of weight gainer per day. Try to get the rest of your calories from clean sources.

As for weight training, now your getting into my field. I recomend against doing any whole body workouts. It's a waste of energy for a hardgainer. You do NOT need to make the gym your home, but you do need to spend more time concentrating on individual muscles and areas as opposed to hitting everything every time. Over-training is a classic problem with hardgainers because of the misconception that more training = more gaining. Remember, your muscles grow when you REST. What that means is you need to hit your muscles hard, then give then sufficient time to rest and grow. That won't happen if you only rest 1 or 2 days between working the same muscle.

Here's the weekly routine I use

Sunday- legs
Monday- chest
Tuesday or wednesday- back
Thursday- shoulders
Friday- Arms
Saturday- rest

Notice that my arms get atleast 2 days to rest before my triceps get used again on chest day.

Each of my gym sessions in around an hour, some longer, some shorter. You don't need to spend this much time in the gym (5+ hours/week) to gain, as you can easily combine muscles into the same session to be more efficient. An example could be;

day 1- legs
day 2- rest
day 3- chest and back
day 4- rest
day 5- arms and shoulders
day 6- rest
day 7- repeat progressions (legs)

When you work a muscle, just choose one power move (pushing or pulling) to start with, start with a lighter warm up set, then do a "pyramid", going up for each consecutive set, then once you've reached a weight where you can only do around 5 reps, do a couple quick sets coming back down in weight. Then move on to isolation movements (for upper body, you'll know something is an isolation movement when your arms stay fairly straight throughout the movement, like chest flies) for a few sets.

If you're doing opposing muscles like chest and back, you can get done even quicker by going back and forth between the two muscles. Just don't go too fast, because you won't be able to really get a full, hard workout in, and you'll get to much of a cardiovascular effect.