Quality Training

Way back in the 1960s, Joe Weider began promoting a very successful and result-producing training philosophy in his bodybuilding magazines called Quality training.

- Chris Lund

Quality Training consisted of ‘feel good’ movements that encouraged you to take much shorter rests between sets so that you could feel an extreme pump and burn deep down inside your muscles like never before. instead of the usual two or more minute-rest between sets, bodybuilders in Southern California were taking only 30-second breaks and sometimes even less in between sets. in some extreme cases, some of them would just take five deep breaths before moving onto their next set.

Of course, it was virtually impossible to use this system on exercises such as heavy squats, but this didn’t seem to bother these bodybuilders because they simply substituted Hack machine squats instead. on bench presses, and other demanding exercises, they simply reduced their training poundages every set. A typical Quality Training approach would look something like this: