Daily Water Chart

If you’re wondering what you can do to maintain a healthy weight and eliminate the unnecessary toxins from your body, here’s a suggestion … follow this daily water chart (from FullSpike.com) and watch nature work.

Here are a few other interesting facts:

Note: Heat and Activity
If you participate in fitness activities or sports, you will need more water due to sweating and heavy breathing which causes water loss in the body. Such activities would include bodybuilding, basketball, baseball, football, soccer, tennis, running / jogging, cycling, dancing, swimming, yoga, pilates, golf, etcetera. Also note that being in a hot environment, like being outside on a hot day, will cause you to perspire, and increases the amount of water you need for the day. This chart is simply a baseline.

Water is extremely important, and vital to not only bodybuilding and fitness, but overall health. Water plays one of the most important roles in muscle growth because water is a nutrient transport mechanism by which the nutrients you consume are transported directly to the muscle. Water also aids in nutrient absorption and cell volumization.

Think of the body like a contained river that’s always flowing. When the river gets low, the boats have problems delivering the goods (nutrients) to the docks (muscles).

Daily Water Intake Calculator

2 oz of water per 5 lbs of body weight

Example: If you weigh 100 lbs, you need 45 ounces of water per day. If your weight is 200 pounds, then you need 90 oz of water per day.

Body Composition & Water
The human body is composed of 55% – 78% water depending on body size. Taking into consideration that water makes up about 85 percent of our brain, about 80 percent of our blood, and roughly 70 percent of our lean muscle, it would seem crazy to starve the body of its daily water needs. Water accounts for about 60% of a man’s body weight, and represents about 50% of a women’s body weight.