the most important thing is your diet. i pretty much had this down from day 1....but over time i learned more and revised it everytime i figured out something better. My training was basically second on the list behind diet, then supplements behind training. in the beginning i put on weight pretty quick because my natural bodyweight was a lot more than 116, but as my weight went up, so did my calories. It took me a long time to really realize how much you have to eat to grow......a lot of my friends that lift always tell me they cant get anybigger and they eat a lot, but its simple, if you arent growing, you arent eating enough
eat big + train hard = get big
i can post a sample of what my diet was toward the end of my "bulking" phase if you would like me to.
my supplements always contained the basics, i never really got fancy with anything until the end
i started out with a weightgainer-cytogainer, which was great, but moved to whey + carbs a few months after reading on here
i used
myoplex deluxe, not as an MRP, but as a drink with my lunch.
i couldnt eat a whole lot of solid foods without getting totally stuffed, so i would drink something with a good amount of calories beacuse it didnt fill me up nearly as much as whole food
always used a blended
protein for nighttime
i started to take
creatine after a couple of months (2-3). by that time i knew that i wasnt going to stop lifting. i started with mono, didnt see much with it other than bloating and water retention. then i moved onto cee. SNS e2 matrix was great, but now i just use bulk cee. i didnt really like
dymatize xpand, the pumps were great, but strength gain wasnt anything extraordinary
i took
fish oil a few months after i started
always took a multi vitamin
at the end i started adding all types of nootropics and other bulk suppies that arent really necessary, just a little something extra
every single night (and i mean every night) right before i went to sleep i would eat a big PB and sugar free preserves sandwich on whole wheat bread and have a shake
i never left my dorm room without food. just incase i would be gone for longer than expected i could have a shake or a
protein bar (i used tri o plex all the time during school when i was desperately trying to add weight)
i ate very, very cleanly, had lots of
protein, lots of oats, and lots of whole wheat pasta, lots and lots of chicken and tuna and cottage cheese. i probably ate too much cottage cheese, because now im sick of it. i would easily eat a large tub a day, often more.
i had a meal plan at school, but cooked for myself everynight. i would go to the food court with my friends, then when they were done eating i would go make my food in the mini kitchen in the dorm.
the only thing i can really say is to get your diet down and follow it to a T. through my experience, it is by far the most important thing that you have to do in order to add size (or lose size if dieting)
post your diet in the diet section, people will be happy to help you out (hopefully, so far i havent gotten many replies

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you have to be 110% dedicated to it, always have food on you. i rarely went more than 2 hours without eating.
good luck and hopefully that helped. but unfortunately, most of it probably wasnt any news for you....its all pretty basic stuff, you just have to trust it and be patient