1. Josef Weider was a Canadian bodybuilder and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders alongside his brother Ben Weider.
15 Facts About Joe Weider
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Joe Weider was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Louis and Anna Joe Weider, Jewish immigrants from Poland.
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Joe Weider published the first issue of Your Physique magazine in 1940, and built a set of barbells out of car wheels and axles the same year out of the family garage on Coloniale Street in Montreal.
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Joe Weider designed numerous training courses beginning in the 1950s, including the Weider System of Bodybuilding.
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Joe Weider worked alongside his wife Betty, together authored books on bodybuilding.
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Joe Weider published the first issue of Your Physique magazine in 1940.
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In 1983, Joe Weider was named "Publisher of the Year" by The Periodical and Book Association.
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In 2003, his publication company, Joe Weider Publications, was sold to American Media.
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Also in 1972, Joe Weider encountered legal problems for claims made in his booklet Be a Destructive Self-Defense Fighter in Just 12 Short Lessons.
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Joe Weider was ordered to offer a refund to 100,000 customers of a "five-minute body shaper" that was claimed to offer significant weight loss after just minutes a day of use.
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Joe Weider married Hedwiges "Vicky" Uzar, with whom he had a child, before divorcing in 1960.
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In 1961, Joe Weider married Betty Brosmer, who was then the highest-paid pin-up girl in the US.
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Joe Weider died of heart failure on March 23,2013, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 93.
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On Labor Day 2006, California governor and seven times Mr Olympia winner Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Joe Weider protege, presented him with the Venice Muscle Beach Hall of Fame's Lifetime Achievement award.
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Schwarzenegger credited Joe Weider with inspiring him to enter bodybuilding and to come to the United States.