Wednesday 17 April 2013

Joe Weider - Jewish Boy from Montreal, Dominates Body Building

«Josef Edwin "Joe" Weider ... (November 29, 1919 – March 23, 2013[1]) was a Canadian bodybuilder and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) alongside his brother Ben Weider. He was also the creator of the Mr. Olympia, the Ms. Olympia and the Masters Olympia bodybuilding contests. He was [also] the publisher of several bodybuilding and fitness-related magazines... and the manufacturer of a line of fitness equipment and fitness supplements.

Weider was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, to Louis and Anna, Jewish immigrants from Poland. He published the first issue of Your Physique magazine in 1936 when he was 14 years old, ...»
Joe Weider - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Weider#section_3


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