Joe Weider: His Fitness Legacy

The Weider Principles

One of the focal points of the Weider training system is to help people understand the link between athletics and nutrition. As early as the 1930’s Joe Weider was warning of the dangers of smoking and consuming alcohol. The Weider principles were developed to provide “education of the whole person: body, mind and spirit” and to provide a set of training and lifestyle guidelines that were research based and tested. Joe Weider is not only an entrepreneur; he is also an active body builder and fitness enthusiast. He truly does practice the principles that he is credited with developing. Joe himself does not claim to have invented the principles; rather that he honed them into the standards they are now. His greatest accomplishment with the Weider Principles was to bring the research of nutrition in to the realm of bodybuilding and provide scientifically proven guidelines to help others achieve their fitness goals.

There are three large overlaying Weider principles that are then split down even further into sub principles. The three categories, with a very brief example of the subcategories of each are:

• Principles to help plan your training cycle.
• Double or triple split training principle – breaking your workout into two or three shorter but more intense training sessions per day.
• Principles to help arrange the exercises in each workout.
• Descending sets principle – start with the heaviest weights use lighter weights each sets as the muscles tire. This is also called “stripping”.
• Principles to help perform each exercise.
• Quality training principle – gradually reducing the rest time between sets while maintaining or increasing the number of reps per set.

Each of the three categories of principles contains between three and thirteen principles designed to provide the best training strategies possible.

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