A quality long life, especially as a body builder, results from persistent and regular physical hyper activity and exercises. These are the key ingredients to good body health, psychological satisfaction and general vitality. Maintaining good body health can be easily done through amplifying physical activities engaged in. Physical activities basically refer to all kinds both movement and stretching which in their execution requires body energy. A theoretical difference exists between physical activity and exercises in that, exercises refer to various physical activities which done in a structured patterns usually progressive in intensity and which must continue for a given period of time. In simple terms, body builders should incorporate both exercises and physical activities in their daily schedules in a bid to improve both health and muscle gain.

Choosing appropriate exercises for body building is mainly governed by many factors such as availability of key resources, specific time allocated for workouts, specific aims and goals of the body builder, convenience and or privacy during the workout, the stage of body development and of course personal preferences. However, despite these constraints to the choice of exercises, a body building programme must primarily incorporate two fundamentally essential requirements. These are water supply and trunk exercises.
Body building and development requires water as a prerequisite because all bodily functions are either combustive or transport based. Naturally, body organs can only function well if there is water in sufficient amounts.

Exercising compounds the need for water both for the excretion of combustion wastes and for enabling transportation of the digested minerals. The old maxim of 8 glasses ration of pure water daily can not be over emphasized if one is physically active. Although the demand for body water can be met by drinking other fluids like juices, milk or tea, nutritional experts insist on the essence of adequate pure water to supplement these diuretics and or beverages. Body builders loose a lot of water at a particular uniform rate during their daily routines. This makes it very essential for them to take small but steady amounts of water compensating for the loss especially before, during and after body building exercises.

The conventional understanding that thirst is the natural indicator of the time one should drink water is wrong and is especially detrimental if used to determine when an active body builder drinks water. During strenuous exercises, body water is lost at a very high rate for the body builder to notice and it is possible that he or she may lose more body water than can be replenished without harming the body to begin with. A rule of thumb for all active body builders is to always drink a lot pure water before workouts and during the workout to allow regular breaks for hydration purposes.

The second fundamental factor in body building exercises is trunk exercises. To begin with the human trunk should be understood as the core of a human body, covering the entire transverse from toe to the head. It’s the masculine column linking the top most part of a body builder’s body to the lower torso. Most amateur body builders and general none athletes alike, develop imbalances of strength when abdominal muscles are compared to the lower back muscles. Sound body building exercises must correct this imbalance basically by balancing the exercises to project energy demands and pressure to all sections of the trunk. All parts of the trunk must be simultaneously challenged to grow and develop at the same rate.

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