Weider Principles of Weight Resistance Raining

THE JOE WEIDER BODYBUILDING SYSTEM

The Weider System has been in existence for fifty years or so, and has grown over the years to incorporate other great training ideas as they came along. It’s actually not a "system" in the strict definition of the term, but rather a "guide" to aid you in developing your own personal system based on your own unique recuperative ability, experience, goals, strengths, weaknesses, and ---well -- "guts" to go the distance.

This Weider System "guidelines" comes in the form of a series of training methods collected (and in most instances named) by Joe Weider personally over many years, which became widely known as the Weider Principles. In fact, of the Weider Principles that were developed by Joe personally, one in particular had a major impact on the world of bodybuilding. That was the concept of splitting your workouts to train specific body parts. The split system, double split system and triple split system, as they became known as, are Joe’s unique contribution to bodybuilding science.

There are three broad categories of Weider Principles:

1. Principles To Help You Plan Your Training Cycle

2. Principles To Help You Arrange Your Exercises In Each Workout

3. Principles To Help You Perform Each Exercise

It’s easy to discern whether this orderly collection of training methods, both in the aggregate and individually, adhere to the seven grand daddy principles (laws) spoken of throughout this four-part series. The simple truth is that individually they do not. But when you look at them in the aggregate, and the guidelines as to when and how to apply them, they most certainly do! Here’s why:

· The fact that you are training at all assumes that you know 1) you’re going to grow (Overcompensation Principle), 2) you are going to train regularly (The Use/Disuse Principle), and 3) weight training is the most efficient method of doing 1) and 2) as opposed to (say) riding a bicycle (Specificity Principle);

· Both the type...