Before you start a hardgainer's workout or hardgainer's diet, you need to understand who the hardgainers are.
Body types can be separated into three categories.
Skinny (Ectomorphic) - Long and thin limbs and muscled.
Average (Mesomorphic) - Solid torsos and average bone size.
Heavy (Endomorphic) - Large bones and a wide waist.
Skinny guys are what are known as 'hardgainers' Each of us has a limited amount of muscle cells within our bodies.
When you bulk up you don't get more of these muscle cells, they simply expand.
Skinny guys are called hardgainers because their metabolism is higher while they have a smaller amount of muscle mass.
All of which combined makes putting on muscle quite difficult.
If you are a hardgainer and want to bulk up, you need to do things differently than an average sized person would.
When you first start weight training you will benefit more from more reps and less weight, rather than higher weight and less reps.
So don't do something like 5 sets of 5 reps, instead do 4 sets of 12 reps.
You should also focus on each muscle group with a variety of exercises, three exercises per muscle group.
If you want to see good results then do isolation as well as compound lifts.
When doing a compound lift you will be using various muscle groups.
For example doing a benchpress is a compound lift, it works your triceps, deltoids and pectorals.
When you use these numerous muscle groups, your body starts to create more HGH.
If you don't know what HGH is, it is human growth hormone, your body produces it naturally and it aids muscle growth.
With isolation lifts, as the name suggests, you only target a single muscle group.
For example doing classic bicep curls.
With an isolation exercise you target that particular muscle which works it really hard.
If you do both isolation and compound lifts you will be getting the best from your workouts.
You should workout at the very least for three time each week.
Alternate what you do on each day, so for one day work your pulling muscle, then the next workout day do your legs and back, while on the third day do your pushing muscle.
For certain muscles, such as your abs, you can work them each day.
Never workout three days in a row, you need a recovery day in between each workout so your body ca recover and repair.