How to gain muscle fast

How do I gain muscle fast?  Possibly, one of the most common questions being asked by hardgainers that are simply sick and tired of being skinny and having next to no muscle mass.   This problem can have a huge effect on ones self confidence and their ability to function as a confident person in society.
The journey to build any kind of quality muscsle mass used to be a very long and tedious process.  Countless hours spent in the gym along with countless calories being ingested and even then, most hardgainers understand all too well, the painfully horrible results still seem to be the norm!
Thankfully, many effective shortcuts have been uncovered with the help of the expanding science of athletics physiology.  As a result, these studied techniqes now enable you to build high quality muscle at a substantially quicker speed than what used to be the case!
One huge discovery that has been found is that you are not required to spend countless hours working on each muscle group as was previously the popular school of thought.  Spending 3 to 4 hours per day in the gym used to be the norm, but people that are willing to learn from other peoples research, understand that the misconception of the need to spend hours at the gym every day are certainly not necessary and we have found that sometimes less is actually more!
Another misconception of times past was that in order to be a top performing athlete, you should stay clear of weight training because it made you slow, muscle-bound and inflexible.  We now know that weight training can be responsible for making athletes stronger and actually more flexible when training the right way.  Today, sports trainers from all different walks of life (different sports), have begun to see the advantage to weight training in order to improve performance in their athletes.  It is now common place for trainers to incorporate weight training routines for football, basketball, baseball and even track and field athletes just to name a few.
Pumping iron doesn’t have the same perception in the athletes world as it did just a few years back, and as a result much more time has went into understanding it better and tuning it in for faster results.  A more scientific approach was adopted to cut the learning curve down substantially!
Bodybuilders took advantage of all this fantastic research and eventually started training smarter in attempt to build their physiques much faster.  A
fair amount of time was still found to be necessary in the gym, but substantially less then in years past.  In fact their gym time was literally cut in half with better and faster results to boot.  You may be asking yourself how this is possible.  Specific exercises and routines were evaluated and tracked in order to find the best possible way to build bigger muscles much much faster.
Where bodybuilders used to train the same muscles several times in a week, today they are advised on only work each muscle group once per week, especially for skinnier, scrawnier individuals, otherwise known as ectopmorphs.  That one time each week a muscle is worked though, it is worked to absolute exhaustion and then given more than adequate time to heal and grow.  Muscles don’t grow when being trained as many people think.  The growing actually happens during the rest period so the muscles being worked on any given day should only be exhausted on that specific day.
Because muscle groups are allowed the time to rest, heal and rebuild themselves adequately, it is not necessary to be in pain and exhausted every day as what used to be thought of as a normal part of the process.  Now that you understand that every muscle group should be brought to total exhaustion only once per week, you can rest those muscles the remainder of the week.
Nutrition is the other and perhaps more important half of the building fast muscle equation.  Many experts today say that building muscle is actually 80% diet and 20% weight training.  While some may disagree, this has definitely been my experience.
Adequate amounts of protein are required to rebuild the muscle tissue that was tore down during the workout process.  Historically, the protein would only be enough to rebuild the broken down tissue istead of developing it even further as is the case today with all of the scientific discoveries.
To build muscle and build it fast to boot, your food regimen must have at minimum 25% of its calories provided by
animal protein as well as vegetable protein. This will also go a long way to keeping you healthy in the process.  Eating complex carbohydrates and many vegetables that are known to also have protein in them are also great for optimum health and performance.  Fibre, although overlooked by many bodybuilders is also essential.  25% of your food intake should be comprised of fast also, although it is adviseable to eat high quality good fats and there have been extensive discoveries as to what fats are good and how extremely beneficial they are in order for your body to function at an optimal level.
Refined sugars, starches and alcohol should be avoided as well.  Caffeine should only be used minimally, perhaps before a workout to give you that little extra boost.  The diet can be supplemented with high quality protein powders mixed with raw mild or water.  Other good protein boosters are kelp tablets, desiccated liver and eggs.  To maximize the benefits or your protein, an oil such as wheatgerm oil that is soluble will aid in the process of metabolizing the protein.  As an extra benefit a good soluble oil improves your endurance as well.