BASIC EATING RULES
1) Think of total daily consumption rather than a certain number of meals.
2) Don’t just try to rack up empty calories. Consume a high-calorie, nutrient-rich diet in order to encourage health and muscle
growth.
3) If you are having trouble eating enough calories, drink as many of them as you can.
4) Before going to bed always have the next day’s food already prepared and packed. It is easier to stay on course when all you have to do is warm something up and get it down.
5) Always be ready. If you are going to be out of the house for four hours, take enough food for at least six hours.
6) Setting your alarm clock for a middle-of-the-night protein shake is a good option if you are having trouble packing any more calories in during the day. If it is pre-made you can stumble to the kitchen, chug it down, gargle some mouthwash and be back under the covers without missing a REM cycle.
7) With the exception of your training, limit your energy expenditure as much as possible. Limit your stress levels. Make sure you get as much sleep as possible. Nap whenever you can.
8) If you are craving pizza or fast food, by all means have it but limit it to once or twice a week unless you have an extremely fast metabolism (single-digit bodyfat and can maintain visible abs) and even in that case, do not make it a daily thing.
9) Design the diet to incorporate items you enjoy but strive for variety in your choices to avoid burnout and avoid any nutritional deficiencies.
10) A weight gain program should never an excuse for allowing you to become a sloppy pig.
Train often (two days on/ one day off) with short, fast-paced workouts (40-50 minutes long). Pick one or two heavy low (1-5) rep strength exercises to do for the bodypart you are hitting that day for multiple sets (4-8). Good choices are squats, front squats, deadlifts, good mornings, incline DB press, military press, bent rows, front chins. Following your low rep strength exercise, do one or two hypertrophy exercises (2-4 sets of 8-12 reps). Make gradual improvements in your poundages, get lots of sleep and stay on your eating regimen and over time you will jump from medium to large, to extra-large, to two-X. Good luck!