03/07/2025
🏛️ FUNDAMENTOS DEL MÉTODO WEIDER PARA PRINCIPITES
(Version adapted with wisdom from the old school)
1. 🧱 Focus in the perfect shape before the total volume
The Weider method is based on multiple series (3 to 5 per exercise) and several exercises per muscle group.
But technology is everything.
"The muscle doesn't know how much you lift, but how you feel it."
✅ Advice:
Don't start copying Arnold's routine.
Start with 3 exercises per group, 3–4 series each. Control the movement. Feel the muscle.
2. 🔁 Frequency: each muscle group 2 times a week
The pro of the 70s trained up to 6 days in a row. Pero vos no tenés su genética, ni química.
As a beginner, do it 4 to 5 times a week, dividing the body into parts.
✅ Classic example:
Day 1: Pecho y triceps
Day 2: Back and biceps
Day 3: Legs and shoulders
Day 4: Repeat the cycle, or active rest.
3. 🧠 Mental control: the mind over the muscle
Weider said: "The mind-muscle connection is the secret of the superior physical form."
Each repetition must have conscious intention.
✅ Advice:
Train with control, visualizing the muscle contracting and expanding. Don't lift by ego. Lift to sculpt.
4. ⏱️ Tiempo bajo tensión: clave oculta
Weider didn't speak so much of TUT (as Mentzer), but in practice they used it.
Slow, well-controlled repetitions, without rebounds.
✅ Advice:
2 seconds up - 1 pause - 3 seconds down.
Hacé que el músculo trabaje todo el rango. That's worth more than 5 series a los tumbos.
5. 🩸 The pump as a signal, not as a goal
The method seeks maximum congestion (pump), but not as a momentary aesthetic purpose, but as a metabolic stimulus.
✅ Advice:
No persigas solo el pump.
I chased the feeling that the muscle was challenged with technique, tension and sustained volume.
6. 💤 Rest and recovery: the other half of the method
Weider believed in constant training, but they slept like beasts and ate even more.
✅ Advice:
I slept at least 7–8 hours.
High proteins, controlled carbohydrates, essential fats.
Basic supplementation: creatine, omega 3, quality protein.
7. 💡 Logical progression
No increases volume without purpose.
Increase reps, weight or control every week. Not everything at the same time.
✅ Advice:
Keep a booklet or app.
The record + daily feedback is what you are going to transform, not the "perfect routine".
📜 Closure philosophical (Weider Style):
“The bodybuilding is not lifting weights.
— Joe Weider