The Weider Principles

Joe Weider

It amazes me how much knowledge is lost from one generation to another. I work at a gym. I love my job, even though I am one of the oldest employees there. The other day, I asked several of my co-workers who are fitness enthusiast if they ever heard of the Weider Principles, or Joe Weider. I got met with blank stares.

This surprised me because as a young man in the 80’s following bodybuilding, it was hard to imagine anyone who hadn’t heard of Joe Weider. Born in the year 1919, Joe would eventually become known as the father of modern bodybuilding.

In 1940, he published his first magazine Your Physique. Later the name would be changed to Muscle Builder and finally to Muscle and Fitness. He also published other magazines such as Men’s Health, Flex and Shape. Joe Weider also put out a line of fitness equipment and nutritional supplements.

What he is mostly known for is he and his brother Ben co-founded the International Federation of Bodybuilding (IFBB) and created the Mr. and Ms. Olympia which became the premier bodybuilding competitions in the world. Joe was also known for bringing Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was still relatively unknown, from Austria to the United States.

Being a former bodybuilder and being around bodybuilders all of the time, Joe had opportunities to talk about the training routines of all the great bodybuilders of the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.

Joe was able to gather all kinds of routines and techniques from the most elite bodybuilders of his day. He eventually wrote these techniques in his book "The Weider System of Bodybuilding”.

In the book, he set out some thirty plus principles that he learned from the bodybuilders he knew. The principles can be divided into three categories; principles on how to get the most out of an exercise, principles on how to group your exercises together and principles to help you put an exercise program together.

Some of the principles seem like contradictory principles. It only shows that there really is an infinite variety that can be used to gain muscle and build your body.

Let’s look at the first set of principles.

A. How to get the most out of an exercise

1. The Continuous Tension Principle

This is a simple technique that you don’t even realize how good it is until you try it yourself. Normally, when you do a set, for example, for your biceps, you pick up the dumbbell and curl the weight for eight to ten reps. When you are using continuous tension, try flexing your muscle while lifting the weight. Continuously flex through the whole range of motion, both on the positive (upward motion) and the negative (downward motion) of the exercise.

What you will discover is a more intense workout. You will also notice that not only are you working out the bicep when doing curls, but you will also be working out the opposing muscle, the triceps.

One thing to note. You will need to lower the amount of weight you use when doing continuous tension, but you will more than make up for it in the effect of using this principle.

2. The Superspeed Principle

Normal weight lifting style when trying to build the body is to move the weight at a steady to slow pace so that the muscle is pumped. Only power lifters and Olympic lifters usually use speed to lift the maximum amount of weight.

Using the superspeed principle will aid in adding strength, when adding strength, you can also add size. For those who are also active in sports such as basketball and soccer, the superspeed principle is also a good way to build strength for their sport.

There are three guidelines to follow when using this principle. First is to never forget to keep proper form. No matter how fast or slow you lift the weight, do not ever swing the weight or cheat on getting the weight to the top position. If you are doing that you are defeating the purpose and not building your body at all.

If you can’t lift the weight without cheating, then lower the weight to a level that you can handle with proper form. Find that sweet spot where the weight isn’t too heavy to keep proper form, but isn’t too light to be effective for your muscles.

The second key to using superspeed is to only use the principle on the upward (positive) portion of the exercise. Lower the weight at normal speed.

Lastly, only use superspeed on some of your sets, not all of the time. Use superspeed when you are fresh, like at the beginning of a workout. This way you can be in better control of the weight.

3. The Quality Training Principle

This is a principle that I try to include in my workouts regularly. This is a great principle for those who lead busy lives. The whole idea is quality time versus quantity time.

The tendency one has when lifting weights is to take long rest periods between sets to fully recuperate. With the quality training principle, one tries to lower that time between sets to just 30 seconds to a minute at most. Doing this increases the intensity of your workout. Instead of getting 20 sets done in an hour and a half, you can do 30 sets in an hour or less.

This type of workout will exhaust your muscles more quickly because you are not allowing them to have enough rest. That exhaustion will lead to more growth and size.

Exercising with minimal rest also literally pumps blood into your muscles which helps create muscle growth and recovery on a cellular level. I have noticed my upper arms become visually larger for a short period of time after a workout because of this principle.

Because of this short rest period, you will notice a lowering of strength during the workout. To have maximum strength in a workout, it takes longer rest periods. The bottom line is if you want size this is the way to go. If you want strength then only use this occasionally.

4. The Isolation Principle

The point of the isolation principle is to use specific exercises to isolate specific muscles. Many exercises such as squats or bench presses involves more than one muscle group.

The squat for example works on your quads, hamstrings, calves and even your glute muscles. An exercise such as a squat is known as a compound movement. When building muscle compound movements are the quickest way for overall muscle growth.

The reason for this is because you are activating multiple muscles at the same time. In a compound exercise you work out your primary muscle, like the chest when you do a bench press, but you also are working out stabilizing muscles such as your shoulders and arms in the process.

Now you might ask why you should do isolation movements if compound movements are so good for you. Isolation movements are useful when you want to help grow a specific muscle that is lagging behind the others or a muscle you just want to accentuate.

The bicep is a perfect example. Most men that lift want to show off their arms. Doing regular bicep dumbbell curls or barbell curls actually activates your triceps and shoulders as stabilizers with the movement. To isolate the bicep muscle an exercise like a preacher curl takes the stabilizing work of the triceps out of the equation and focuses your entire effort on the biceps.

One of my favorite isolation movements that I enjoy doing is to take an e-z curl bar and turn my elbows inward so that I can press them against my body. Doing that enables me to restrict any unwanted movement and focus on the bicep entirely. I have made the most gains on my arms ever since I started doing that.

5. The Partial Reps Principle

Most of the time you will hear trainers and bodybuilders talk about using the full range of motion when exercising. What they are teaching is to fully work a muscle one should flex that muscle by moving the weight from a fully stretched muscle to a fully flexed muscle and then back.

Too often you can see novice members at a gym and those who have been there long enough to know better only moving a weight a couple of inches and calling it a repetition. Usually, it is because they either don’t know better or they are using way too much weight to do the exercise properly.

There are a few more advanced lifters who are the exception, who know how to get the most out of a partial rep. This is not a normal practice. Instead, this is something that should be done only occasionally for the sake of getting a little more out of a workout at the end when the muscle is getting fatigued.

The key to a profitable partial rep is to do it while using a controllable weight, doing the partial range in the middle of the movement where the most stress needs to be applied and not moving the range of movement to a place where you can rest. Doing this works the muscle more than usual because it is getting no rest during the set.

6. The Iso-tension Principle

Iso-tension is similar to using what is now call isometrics. What you are doing is flexing your muscles while you are holding the weight still at the mid-point of a movement.

Using bicep curls as an example, imagine lifting the dumbbell halfway up. At the halfway point, there is a lot of stress on the muscle. Now stop the movement and hold the weight there. The stress on the muscle is great and you can make it even greater by then flexing the muscle while holding the weight during this stressed state.

The concept of iso-tension, isometric exercise has been around for a long time. When I was young, I use to own what was called a Bullworker. It was two large tubes with a spring inside. On the sides were two cables encased in plastic. You would compress the tubes as far as you could and hold it for several seconds for some pushing exercises or pull on the cables that would compress the tubes for pulling exercises. It was billed as the perfect isometric machine.

These days, you can do basically the same thing with resistance bands. The best workout with them is when you stretch the band as far as you can during an exercise and hold it at that stretched point. The only key to add is to use continuous tension, flexing your muscles while holding the bands to get that extra little kick out of your workout.

7. The Retro-Gravity Principle

When you do a rep with weights there are two parts to an exercise, the movement that contracts the muscle, called the positive or concentric movement, and the part where you return the weight back to the starting point, which is called the negative eccentric portion. For example, when doing a dumbbell curl, as you lift the dumbbell, the bicep contracts, that is the positive movement, and when you lower the dumbbell the bicep lengthens, that is the negative movement.

Bodybuilders noticed that they could handle more weight during the negative movement than the positive movement. This principle emphasizes the negative portion of the exercise to stress the muscle and make it grow.

You can do this principle one of two ways, but to do this principle you are going to need a workout partner. The first way you can do this is to lift a weight that you can handle for 5 or 6 reps but as you get to the point that you can’t lift it on the positive side any longer, then your partner helps you reach the top position and then you slowly lower the weight fighting gravity to lower it. Try to slow the movement so that it takes at least 5 or 6 seconds to lower the weight.

Do that at least 4 or 5 times to complete a set of 10 reps total.

The other way is to do an entire set of negatives. Choose a weight that is heavier that you can lift on your own, but not too heavy that you can’t slowly lower the weight. Have your workout partner help you lift the weight and then lower it for 5 or more seconds. Lift again with assistance and repeat. Do a full set of 8 to 10 reps and you will notice the burn.

Joe Weider could have called this the negative principle but being good at marketing he gave it a name with a more positive spin.

8. The Forced Reps Principle

Forced Reps is very similar to the retro gravity principle in that it takes a workout partner to do it. The difference is forced reps focuses on the positive rather than the negative.

If you go to the gym, you might have seen someone spotting for another on the bench press or when doing squats. When the lifter reaches the point where he can’t lift the weight any longer, the spotter jumps in and helps him just enough to lift the weight. That is what it means to do a forced rep when you help the lifter force the weight up when he no longer has the strength to complete it. That alone helps create the maximum amount of stress upon the muscle so it can grow.

9. The Burns Training Principle

Like I said earlier, sometimes it seems that these training principles are contradictory to one another. For example, one basic principle that is always taught when lifting weights is to always use the whole range of motion when doing an exercise. This principle says it is okay to only use a partial range of motion. The difference is in the timing of the movement.

The idea is to lift the weight in such a way that you actually feel the burn of the muscle when you finish. You are pumping as much blood into the muscle by the end of the exercise and can feel it.

What you are to do is this. Start by doing an exercise with a weight that you can handle for 8-10 full range reps. As you get close to the end of the set and don’t think you can handle any more, then do burns. Burns are short partial reps where you don’t go all the way down, nor do you go all the way up. Just simply pump in the mid-range of the movement until you can’t pump anymore, getting every last ounce of work into that muscle.

10. Flushing Training Principle

The idea of the Flushing Principle is to pump your muscle enough to draw blood into your muscle to produce growth. You can imagine pumping air into a basketball or bicycle tire. The more you pump, the more you notice the ball or tire getting bigger and tighter.

The way to accomplish this is through volume. The more reps and sets of an exercise you do the more blood gets pumped into the muscle. One thing to do to accomplish this is to use lighter weight. Too often, when lifting, many people try to lift the maximum amount of weight they can handle. What really needs to be done to grow muscle is to focus on working the muscle, not working the weights.

For example, I love using the flushing principle on my biceps. I will do about 9 sets of moderate weight in which I can do 8 to 10 reps, then on the last set I drop the weight almost in half and do that set to failure no matter how many reps it takes. Usually, it feels too easy through the first ten reps, then around 15 reps you notice it is getting harder to do. By rep 24 or 25, I simply cannot lift it anymore.

I love doing this. Once I’m done, I can see my arms are visible larger due to the influx of blood. Over the last few months of this routine, I have seen growth in my arms, which is the goal of this principle.

11. Cheat Training Principle

The Cheat principle is something that should be done rarely and only for certain muscle groups. The idea of cheating in weightlifting is when you relax your form when doing an exercise.

Form is important because proper form protects you from injury. When you cheat on your form you can damage your muscles, damage your tendons and end up having to stop lifting until you recover.

When you use the cheat principle, it should be limited to biceps, triceps and shoulders. Exercises where you can sway a little bit when you lift without causing harm.

The cheat principle should also only be used at the end of a set where you can no longer raise the bar with strict form so you can get two or three final reps done. Otherwise, this principle probably should be left to the pros.

12. Peak Contraction Principle

The peak contraction principle is for those exercises where when you reach the top of the movement your muscles are at their peak of their contraction. When at the point where your muscle is at the peak of its contraction, hold the weight still while the muscle is contracted for a few seconds and at the same time flex the muscle while holding it there.

Take the triceps pulldown as an example. When you push the cable down as far as you can, the triceps contract. Hold it at the bottom for a few seconds and squeeze the muscle flexing it. This helps you focus more on the muscle you are working rather than just doing rep after rep.

It is a simple principle, but it has lots of benefits when you do it.

This concludes the principles on how to get the most out of an exercise. Now it is time to expand to a wider circle and see how we can group our exercises together to get the most out of our workouts. There are eleven ways we can group our exercises together.

B. How to group your exercises together

1. Set System Training Principle

Joe Weider’s Set System Principle is so commonplace today that some would find it hard to believe that it had to be stated as a principle. The idea is to do what it takes to pump as much blood as possible into a muscle group and exhausting the muscle until it can do nothing but grow in response.

To pump up the muscle it takes multiple sets of an exercise as well as multiple exercises for the same muscle group. Typically, that would mean 2 to 5 exercises with 3 to 5 sets per exercise.

These days doing multiple sets for a muscle group is what is normally done, but it wasn’t always that way. Many instructors back in the 1950’s and 1960’s would teach others to do a full body routine in which you only did one set per muscle group, that was it and there was no progression beyond that.

Through trial and error, some bodybuilders back then started experimenting with multiple exercises for a body group and found that it grew muscles better. Weider then put what they learned into this principle.

Now we all benefit from what they learned.

2. Muscle Priority Principle

Everybody who exercises has some body part that they want to improve. Maybe you want larger arms, maybe a more toned waist or maybe a wider back. Whatever you want to improve, pay attention to this principle.

The point of this principle is if you have a muscle group which is weaker or more underdeveloped than your other muscle groups, then focus on that muscle group first when your body is fresh.

Bodybuilders in the past, noticed if they prioritized the muscle, they wanted to improve upon first in their workouts then they would quickly improve that muscle group.

Since those days, researchers have proven that the old bodybuilders were correct in their conclusion, prioritizing your weaker muscles first will aid in growth.

3. Superset Training Principle

Superset training is when you take two exercises from opposite muscle groups such as chest and back, biceps and triceps or quadriceps and hamstrings and work them together. The key to this to not take any rest between sets and move straight to the other exercise.

The one thing that happens when you do a superset is as you contract a muscle when you exercise, the opposite muscle gets stretched out. Then as you contract the opposite muscle the first muscle gets stretched out.

An example of this would be when you do a bench press and immediately get up and pick up the dumbbell you placed next to the bench and do one arm rows for your back.

This is a more efficient way of working two muscles at the same time. Some research has shown that this type of training also burns more calories and can be an aid in weight loss, because it in effect creates a bit of a cardio response to the extra work and lack of rest between sets.

Doing superset is also a way to speed up your workout and cuts time out of your workout which is a plus in our already busy lives.

4. Compound Set Training Principle

Most of the time nowadays, this principle is often called a superset as well. Joe Weider saw enough of a difference that he gave it the name compound set.

Like the superset you do two exercises, back-to-back, without taking a break in-between. The difference is you are doing two exercises for the same muscle group. For example, an easy combination for shoulders is to do side laterals raises with dumbbells and then immediately do front raises without stopping or putting the dumbbells down.

5. Tri-Set Training Principle

Tri-set training is simply a compound set where you have set up three exercises for the same muscle group and go from one to the next, and then to the next, without taking any rest.

6. Giant Set Training Principle

A Giant set is simply doing four or more exercises for the same muscle group. This can at times be difficult to do at the gym unless it is empty that day. People might complain that you are hogging up everything. I, myself will do tri-sets and giant sets in my home gym. With a combination of weights, resistance bands and body weight exercises, you can become creative with your workouts.

7. Pre-Exhaustion Principle

When you want to target a specific muscle to get it to grow more, you may want to use the Pre-exhaustion Principle.

The way the Pre-Exhaustion Principle works is this, you begin by working a muscle group by doing an isolation exercise which focuses on a specific muscle. You follow that exercise by doing a compound exercise, which involves the muscle from the previous exercise as well as a combination of other muscles.

For example, if you do leg extensions on a machine, you will focus on the quad muscles on the front of your leg. Follow that exercise with squats which also works the quads but also incorporates the hamstrings and glutes to accomplish the exercise.

By doing this, you already have focused on the quads in the first place. You will notice the effect on your quads when you try to follow up by do squats. You may even need to lower the weight on your squats from what you would normally use if you had started out with squats first. It helps to grow the quad muscle in the long run.

I have used this principle to grow my arms. Normally, most people will work out their chest before their triceps, or their back before their biceps. I have found when I work on the biceps or triceps first, I can get a strong pump with them, then I follow the biceps with my back workout, because the back also incorporates the biceps in its movements. The bicep is pre-exhausted, and not as strong, so the back workout must be done with lighter weights. The same goes with the triceps and chest. Chest exercises use the triceps in its movements as well. So, if you work the triceps before working on the chest, the triceps will have to work even more because they are already exhausted.

8. Descending Set Principle

This is an excellent principle to use at the end of a workout for a body part. The idea with the Descending Set Principle is to start your last set to finish off the workout with a heavy enough amount of weight that you can do about 8 to 10 repetitions. Without taking any time to rest, you remove some weight and begin another set, doing as many reps as possible. Then you repeat the process again and again, taking weight off and trying to do more reps until you practically have no weight left on the bar and can’t do another rep.

Some people call this principle drop sets or stripping. It works especially well when you have two friends on each side of the bar to pull off the weight, cutting out the time it takes to remove the plates.  

9. Staggered Set Principle

The stagger principle is where you work on a lagging smaller muscle group by working sets for it in the middle of working larger muscle groups.

Be selective, do not work adjacent muscles, biceps will affect working out the back, triceps affect the chest, and hamstrings will affect the quads. Try staggering muscle groups at opposite ends such as calves and chest or quads and biceps.

The idea is to do a set for the larger muscle and while that muscle is resting move to the small muscle and do a set. For example, work on the chest muscles first, followed by working on the calves. That way since the two muscles do not affect each other, both get the appropriate amount of rest, so they are ready for the next round.

10. Pyramiding Training Principle

The idea of Pyramid training is when doing multiple sets, start with a light weight and do a high number of repetitions. With each following set, increase the weight and lower the number of reps.

For example, when doing a bench press, start with something that is fairly easy for you, something like 100 pounds for 12 repetitions. The next set increase it by ten pounds and do it for 10 reps.

The next increase it by ten more pounds and drop the reps to 8.

You can also do the Pyramid in the opposite direction, starting with 120 pounds for 8 reps. For the next set, drop it ten pounds and increase to 10 reps and lastly, for the third set, decrease the weight another 10 pounds and increase the reps to 12.

The third option is one I like. Let’s use triceps pushdowns for example. Starting with 40 pounds and 12 reps, do the next set with 50 pounds and 10 reps, then 60 pounds with 8 reps. Then do a 4^th set with 50 pounds and 10 reps and finish with a 6^th set at 40 pounds and 12 reps, a true pyramid.

11. Rest-Pause Principle

Use this principle when getting use to using heavy weights. When you still want to do a set of at least 6 to 10 reps, but you want to go heavy, this is the way to go.   

Use a weight where you are able properly handle the weight for 2 to 3 reps. Pause for a few seconds while still holding the weight. Then try to do 2 to 3 more reps. Pause again for a few more seconds, resting your muscles while holding the weight and then once more do the last 2 to 3 remaining reps.

C. How to put an exercise program together.

1. Split System Training Principle

Back in the 1950’s and 1960’s, the weight training programs consisted of doing full body training, three days a week. Anyone who has done a full body workout knows that you can only do so many exercises before you start running out of energy.

Some bodybuilders started experimenting by only working out a few muscle groups on one day, and coming back the next day fresh and ready to work out other muscle groups.

This was revolutionary when they started doing this. They found they could increase the number of sets for each muscle group causing even greater muscle growth.

Of course the split system is commonplace today, but back in the 60’s and 70’s it was innovative. Today there are a few different split systems, with the upper body/lower body as well as the push/pull/legs splits being some of the most popular.

2. Double or Triple Split Training Principle

Double or triple split training is something that only the professional or someone with a lot of spare time would be able to do.

The point of this principle is to get the most out of each workout, you train two or three times a day. For example, you are doing a split system where you are working on shoulders, back and biceps on one day. Instead of hitting all three body parts in one workout, you break it up into two. In the morning your go to the gym and workout the back and biceps and in the evening you return and workout the shoulders.

The benefit of doing this is you can increase the volume of sets for each workout. Also, you can be rested in the evening so the shoulders can get a strong workout rather than using what energy is left after working out the back and biceps in the same workout.

With the amount of time that is involved in doing this principle, it becomes obvious that this is something usually reserved for the professional athlete, especially when they are preparing for a contest.

3. Cycle Training Principle

Cycle training describes the changing up of one’s workout for the purpose of accomplishing a specific goal. Primarily there are two goals that require two types of training: bulking and shredding.

Bulking is when someone wants to gain more muscle quickly, so they increase their calorie and protein intake. They also change their training routine. During this portion of the cycle, they will lower their reps and use heavier weights.

Shredding is when you try to maintain the muscle you have gained through bulking, but now you are trying to remove the excess fat and fluid that was gained by the extra calories during the bulking cycle. To accomplish their goal, someone shredding will cut their calories while continuing to have as much protein as possible and train using moderate to light weight, while increasing number of reps and sets.

The length of the bulking and shredding cycles can vary from person to person. It can be a few weeks or several months for each cycle, depending on the persons goals.

4. Muscle Confusion Principle

This principle simply means to mix things up from time to time. If you do the same workout week after week and month after month, the workout gets boring. Your interest in continuing your workout will diminish. Psychologically, you need to change things up to continue enjoying the process.

Also, the reason for this principle is because if you do the same workout over and over again, your muscles will get accustomed to the same thing. It will not react to the stimulation of the workout like it once did. It will need something new to stimulate it.

Introduce different exercises to the routine. Use different equipment. Mix up the order of your workout. Some days I will use all machines to workout. Other days I will use free weights. Sometimes I even do a resistance band workout, because it hits the muscles differently. Make changes to your routine every few weeks to a month to give your muscles some fresh stimuli.

5. Progressive Overload Principle

This is one of the most basic principles that as a fitness trainer, I constantly teach those I train. What I teach is you should try to do at least 8 to 12 reps per set if building muscle is your goal.

If you can’t do at least 8 reps with good form than the weight is too heavy and you need to lighten the weight. But, on the other hand if you can do 12 reps and still keep going the weight is too light and you need to increase the weight.

Once you find that sweet spot for 8 to 12 reps, then use that weight to do your workout.

This is when the progressive overload come in to play. After working out with the weight for a few times, you should notice it getting easier to do.

Once you can comfortably lift that weight for at least 12 reps, then you need to increase the weight a little more. The reps may go down to eight again at the heavier weight, but soon you will build up the reps to 12 and once again you will need to increase the weight.

Increasing the weight over time to build muscle and strength is what is called progressive overload.

6. Holistic Training Principle

Similar to the Muscle Confusion Principle which focuses on changing the exercises you use to keep things fresh and spur new growth, the Holistic Principle teaches that the body must be trained in a variety of ways so to maximize growth.

This principle is a comprehensive approach to training the whole muscle.

The human muscle is composed of two types of fibers that respond to different demands on it. The first is fast twitch fibers which react quickly with great force for short periods of time. Slow twitch fibers react more slowly, but are what is used for exercises and motion that require endurance over a long period of time.

To activate both the fast twitch and slow twitch fibers in the muscles, they must be trained by using a variety of methods of training.

For fast twitch fibers, heavy weights, low rep, and fast lifting speed are needed. For slow twitch fibers, lower weights, high reps and slower speed is needed.

Also, specialized training from time to time is helpful to create this holistic approach, like adding a cycle of powerlifting and an cycle of ballistic training to your routine.

7. Eclectic Training Principle

The last two principles are more for the advanced weightlifter. Someone who has been lifting for a while and intuitively knows what they need to do.

A person who is eclectic is someone who has collected their ideas, style and tastes from a broad and diverse range of sources. When it comes to the Eclectic Principle, it means to learn to be able to use a variety of ways to accomplish your fitness goals.

Depending on how you are feeling, you can change your workout to get the most out of it. If you get to the gym rested and ready, you might go heavier than normal with your weight. If you’re feeling sluggish, you might lower the weight and pump out a few more sets.

8. Instinctive Training Principle

Very similar to the Eclectic Principle, the Instinctive Principle is based more on your mood, than actual nuts and bolts of a plan.

After spending some time in the gym, you start learning what works for you and your body. Instead of going to the gym with a plan and specific workout, you go in only knowing that you want to work on a specific body part. You then choose what exercises you want to do based upon what you know will work for you for that day instinctually.

You also know when you go the gym how much energy you have, so instinctually know how much effort you are able to put into your work and which exercises are better for you when you are not at your best.

This brings us to the conclusion of the Weider Principles. Hopefully, this has given you some information that you can use in your training. The beauty of knowledge is it never ends. But knowledge is worthless until it is put into practice. Put these principles into practice see what they can do for you.