As with any sport or even in day to day life, the main step is to actually avoid the injuries as best as you can in the first place. You can accomplish this by making sure that you drink plenty of water, so that your actual muscles and the tissues in your body will stay hydrated, as dehydration causes the most injuries. The next best thing to learn is that you will need good form when you are lifting weights. Lifting weights in the wrong way can cause serious injury. Never lift more weights than you know that you can handle, doing this will increase your chance of serious injury. Finally, always use a spotter, in case something goes wrong, you know someone is there to help you.

Of course even after taking all of these precautions, things can still go wrong, and injury could well happen. At the first sign of injury, stop what you are doing, and seek treatment immediately, this is vital. Seeking professional medical treatment early could mean the difference between being injured for a week or two, and being injured for life. Never listen to advice that tells you to work through the pain, seek medical help urgently.

You need to keep in mind the RICE method of treating your injuries. RICE is what is known as Rest, Ice, Compression, and Elevation. Your muscles needs to rest, it will then need to be iced, it will also then need to be compressed, and finally it needs to be elevated properly. When you rest it will allow the muscle to start repairing effectively. The ice will go on to reduce any signs of swelling and will help alleviate pain. With compression and elevation, edema is therefore limited.

When you use the ice, make sure it is crushed or chipped ice in an ice bag, or use a specially chemically cooled ice bag on the area that is injured. Place this bag of ice on a towel, which covers the injured area. The usual rule is 20 minutes on, 20 minutes off with ice. During the first 10 minutes though make sure you wrap the ice bag around the injured muscle with an elastic bandage to supply compression, and make sure you keep the area elevated above the heart if possible.

Do not be fooled if you are new to body building, that if you eat more and exercise that you will bulk up to become a body builder. This is obviously untrue. The only way to bulk up your muscles and body mass is to eat the right foods, keep to a natural body building diet and exercise and train right and that is how you will see real results.

The most crucial thing you can eat when you are body building is in fact carbohydates. You to intake at least 1.5-2 grams of carbohydrates per pound of your body weight. This will help you build your muscle mass, to do this the carbohydrates that you intake will help your energy levels and help remove amino acids from your proteins into the actual muscle tissue instead of turning into fats.

However, the type of carbohydrates that you eat are very important, remember to eat brown foods, not white if you want good carbs. For example, brown rice, oatmeal, sweet potatoes instead of normal white potatoes. By eating these type of carbs instead, your muscle mass will be maximised instead of becoming fat. Also eat the carbs when your body needs them most, for example, in the morning or after an intensive train period.

The reason these two times are the periods where your body needs these particular carbs is that these are the times in the day when your body is craving the carbs the most. Early in the morning you will not have had anything to eat yet, and after an intensive training or exercise routine your body will be tired and  will then need the carbs to fuel back up again. You also need to remember that not all fats are bad for you and your body, and that your body actually needs certain fats in order to be healthy.