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Step 1
You’ve got to train with intensity. Amp up your workouts with High Intensity but keep your workouts under an hour.
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Step 2
Rest often. Make sure your work outs are spread out enough so you don't hit the same muscle group more than once a week. It needs time to repair and then some. Shoot to work out 4 days a week. You don't want to be living in the gym because then you are burning a lot of calories when you want to be gaining weight. Furthermore, every 4 weeks take a week off from the gym. That means don't do anything. Give your body a break so that it can come back bigger and stronger. Sleep a lot. Shoot for 8-9 hours a night. If you feel tired and cannot function off of that, sleep even more. Listen to your body and it will respond positively to your attentiveness.
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Step 3
Despite popular opinion, do a couple of cardio sessions a week. Your heart is a muscle as well. The better trained your heart, the more efficient it works and can effectively do its job. The better trained the heart is, the better it is at carrying out its job of passing oxygen through blood to help you through those high-intensity workouts to bang out more sets and more reps (which equals more total work and total volume during each bout). These cardio sessions should consist of 30 minute sessions of interval training. Sprint, jog, sprint, jog. Stairs are awesome for building tree trunks of legs as well. And besides the point of gaining muscle, don't you want you to be a chiseled 200 pounder? Being 200 lbs and above 20% bodyfat is not impressive but 200 lbs. and seeing every striation throughout your body...now that's something we all can admire. Cardio helps shred that bodyfat while maintaining lean muscle mass. If you perform cardio right, it actually facilitates muscle building. Performing cardio in terms of HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) where you combine high intensity sprints with lower intensity runs, you torch the bodyfat during and well beyond the workout is over while promoting lean muscle tissue gains.
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Step 4
Develop a mind-muscle connection. Take it from "Governator" Schwarzenegger. Arnold used to train his back a certain way. He used to envision that there was a nut/acorn in the small of his back and that every time he did a rep he envisioned cracking that nut/acorn by squeezing his back muscles together. This gave him a sense of what muscles he was using during the exercise and to concentrate only on using those muscles when performing the repetition. You want the muscle your training to do the work. Not to use momentum and to complete a full range of motion.
