Joe Weider

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Josef Edwin "Joe" Weider (born November 29, 1919 in Montreal , Canada ; † March 23, 2013 in Los Angeles , United States ) was a Canadian entrepreneur , bodybuilder and pioneer of weight training .

Life

Weider's parents came from Poland and were of the Mosaic faith . He grew up in Québec, Canada and was interested in weight training very early on, which he initially did with the help of self-made dumbbells made from car tires. At the age of 14 he finally published the first issue of the now internationally known specialist magazine Muscle & Fitness .

In 1946, he and his brother Ben Weider founded what is now the International Federation of Bodybuilding & Fitness (IFBB) and initiated the prestigious Mr. Olympia competition . In the 1950s he met his future wife Betty Brosmer, who was known as a highly paid pin-up girl and married him in 1961. He had his financial breakthrough as a pioneer of professional bodybuilding with the organization of international competitions and the publication of numerous specialist magazines and training programs . He was also the first to establish the mail order business of dietary supplements for bodybuilders. From the 1970s he also worked as a sponsor of Arnold Schwarzenegger , whom he first invited to the United States to train in 1968. Filmmaker James Bidgood published many photographs in Weider's magazines during his time as a photographer.

On March 23, 2013, Weider died of heart failure .

Movie

In 2018, director George Gallo filmed the lives of Joe and Ben Weider under the title "Bigger - The Joe Weider Story".

literature

  • Joe Weider, Ben Weider, Mike Steere: Brothers of iron. How the Weider Brothers created the fitness movement and built a business empire. Sports Publishing 2006, ISBN 1-59670-124-2 .

Web links

Commons : Joe Weider  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rebecca Trounson: Joe Weider dies at 93; bodybuilding pioneer and publisher . In: The Los Angeles Times , March 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ Megan Garvey: Joe Weider, legendary bodybuilding and fitness icon, dies at 93 . In: The Los Angeles Times . March 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Oliver Kube: filmstarts.de review of Bigger - The Joe Weider Story . January 31, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Weider, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weider, Josef Edwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian entrepreneur, bodybuilder, and strength training pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Canada
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2013
Place of death Los Angeles , United States