It’s possible for beginners to gain 10lbs or more in a month, but it requires a lot of dedication to include diet and recovery. During your bulk phase, you should be taking around 15% extra calorie (opposite will apply when you transition into cutting phase). During these transition, you should be measuring your weight weekly to ensure you don’t lose or gain more than 1% of your body weight. 30-35% of your calories should be protein, 55-60% should be carbs, and rest should be fat for macronutrient.
Combination of carbs and protein should be consumed within one hour after workout. Carbs and protein are critical for recovery and the best way is to eat three meals a day with protein based snacks before and after lunch (protein shakes are recommended). Best carbs are from food like sweet potatoes, pasta, edamame, and rice while protein are best when it comes from food like eggs, seafood, and chicken.
For the one month work out, your first two weeks should be heavy hitting compound exercises while last 2 weeks should be the same exercises with intensity boost (volume increase will promote muscle hypertrophy). Weeks 3 through 4 should be where you have trouble increasing your weight load, so the only way to stimulate your muscles to grow is by increase the amount of reps. It is recommended to have a 4 days out of the week workout plan with muscle splits to allow proper recovery.
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