how to gain muscle or bulk for skinny/ectomorph persons

[ectomorph]

helo can someone help me, im an ectomorph, i workout for about 6 months before but i didnt notice any muscle gains(bulking) i am 5'6 115 lbs..the only thing that has gained is weight went 129 on the weighing scale, but muscles remained thin and even came harder like rock!!!..now ive stopped for 2 months unless i figure out the right way, and too bad i became thinner...one thing that i got an idea from this forum was to eat 6 meals a day, but how bout the training side???

-what is the optimal resting time between sets for an ectomorph?

-should i target a body part once a week only? like for example if i do chest on monday, theerefore i sould do it next monday??? or like for example a bench press already targets the chest/triceps and shoulders, therefore i should do bench press only once a week???

-i caught a post from rob maraby, a known bodybuilder from his articles about the recovery time for ectomorph and i wondered why he said that it takes 1-4 weeks to recover!!! train once every 2-4 weeks!!! and never train before you have recovered!!! thats too long??? heres what he said:

There are 3 Stages of Recovery!

The first Phase of recovery begins seconds after you have completed a set of an exercise. The muscles begin to recover a substantial amount of their strength it lost as a direct result of the exercise. This phase essentially allows local energy reserves to be replenished. This phase usually takes a couple of minutes.
Phase two can only begin after phase one is completed. Phase two is systematic and chemical in nature. The damaged muscles must be repaired on a cellular level. Your whole energy reserve system in the body has to be replenished and this takes time –on average 4-10 days, for some individuals this process may take weeks if not months to finish. That is why it is so important that you never train before you have recovered. As an individual you have to find your own recuperative cycle. This is done for you in the FASTMUISCLE PROGRAM. No guesswork involved.

The third phase is the phase of overcompensation, the phase where you increase muscle and strength. This phase occurs when the other two phases have been fully completed. I.e. Phase 3 cannot occur until phase two has occurred fully.

We have found that it can take 1-4 weeks to recover and then grow and it takes longer the stronger you get-since you inflict greater damage on the muscles, that is why you train once every 2-4 weeks using the FastMuscles program.
Once all this is done, we can bring in nutrition which is a part of all the above. The reason I put this last is because nutrition is not as important as the principles above, obviously nutrients are needed to replenish energy supplies and allow growth to take place , but we have found that even in situations where nutrition is not optimal muscle growth will still take place if the other elements are in place. So you do not need to “eat big to get bigâ€Â