I’m a hardgainer like yourself. After searching extensively online for a remedy to promote healthy weight gain, including weight gain pills which turned out to be little more then a sugar-coated multi-vitamin, I could not find any pills that are meant for gaining muscle weight.

But even though calories are an important part in gaining muscle mass, and increasing your appetite will certainly help your situation, it is good to remember these few things…

Heavy Weight and Low Reps

Change your workout routine to go heavy! If you can lift more than 8 reps, then you need to add more weight. You should reduce the number of reps per set to facilitate faster muscle recovery. It also ensures that you don’t drain all the glycogen stores and amino acids from the body, so you will be able to workout that same body part twice per week.

Eat often

Consume plenty of high calorie foods as well as protein, at least every three hours during the day. The majority of hardgainers are quick to blame their genetics for not gaining muscle when they simply aren’t taking in enough calories, especially quality calories. When undertaking an intensive weight training regime as part of a weight gain program, increased protein intake is required to meet exercise demands. Calorie-dense meals, healthy high calorie snacks, weight gain shakes, what ever. This will increase your metabolism, and as a result affects your appetite.

Stretching

Stretching helps you to recover faster following a workout, furthermore tears the muscle fibers. As you probably know, muscle growth occurs when there is micro-trauma to the fibers. The muscle is forced to become stronger and bigger to deal with the increased amount of stress. In fact, stretching is that important in gaining muscle weight that Vince DelMonte (formerly nicknamed ‘Skinny Vinny’ going from a 149 pound twerp to an incredible 210 pounds of rock hard muscle) features an entire chapter to this subject in his No-Nonsense Muscle Building program, which is aimed at hardgainers trying to gain weight and muscle.