QUESTION 10: What Can I Do To Gain Weight?

  
So here's what you do: 

Step 1: You need to figure out how many calories a day you need to consume. 

3500-4000 might be a goal but how do you know that is what you need? 

Step 2: You have to track your daily caloric intake closely or you are just guessing. 

It does not need to be accurate down to the last calorie but it needs to be an 

ACCURATE (within 10% or so) portrayal of what you have eaten during the day. 

Most people are greatly surprised to learn that they are consuming more calories per 

day than they had originally thought, sometimes THOUSANDS of calories more. 

This does not mean that you start skipping meals; it just means that you need to have 

an accurate understanding of what you are putting in your body so you can balance 

that against what your body needs to achieve your goals. 

Step 3: No more excuses for not eating. Going to college and having to work nights 

means you will have to plan on making meals in advance. Eating 5-6 times a day is a must. 

When I went to college I didn't do this. And I didn't gain weight either. 

I ate my 2-3 meals a day and had fun at college. I never planned a meal.

 And I stayed a skinny kid. 

So there you have it. You can figure out a training program all you want. 

You can do a very basic, somewhat heavy, 4x a week program and make more 

gains if you eat right then a guy who has the perfect hardcore routine and just

eats to get by. 

By the way, many of these hardgainers train hard and too frequent. If you have a 

high metabolism, you will make better gains by going heavy and training less.

If you can dedicate time to training at a specific time, you can prep some food, 

put in it Tupperware, baggies or whatever, throw it in a backpack and eat at 

sheduled intervals. 

And yes, being in college makes that very hard.