You know what the meaty back days entail. You walk into the weight room, and you crawl out. You spend an hour and a half clubbing the back with set after heavy set of deadlifts, rows, and other assorted painful movements. At the end of the day, your back is pumped, you don’t fit in your shirt, and you know tomorrow is going to being some soreness. This is the way you should always train, right? Not exactly. There are going to be times when you don’t want to all-out destroy the back with heavy barbell and dumbbell movements. Maybe your central nervous system is a bit down, and you’re fighting off an illness. Maybe you’re letting a tweaked or overly sore area recover from what has been a bad week. Perhaps your joints ...

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The body builder’s physique constitutes of two distinct sections namely: the frame and then the core. Core muscles in a body builder comprise of the general abdominal outlay, the back section and the chest. Muscles in the three sub-sections are very vital in creating and stabilizing a body structure and must be independently but simultaneously developed. To conceptualise the core of a body, we can think of it as the fulcrum column that links the upper torso to the lower torso. Very deliberate exercises like the ones exemplified below, will help enhance the core muscles. Enhancing the core is the very key to unlock all possibilities to a body builder, especially that of achieving a champion’s physique. In essence therefore, success in body building must entail a simultaneous development and maintenance of an excellent core-muscles system alongside the other three sections. Some ...

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