WOODSTOCK – For this bodybuilder, the journey to the Mr. Olympia competition started not with a flex, but with a fight.

You might not have heard of Joe Weider, but he was the man who invented modern bodybuilding. Formalised training, published magazines, birthed massive international competitions, and unearthed a ...

Russell Kane is joined by Jess Fostekew, Joe Sutherland and Emmanuel Sonubi put Joe Weider, the father of bodybuilding as we know it, in the squat rack of Evil Genius. Show more You might not have ...

JOE Weider was hailed by Arnold Schwarzenegger as the “Godfather of Fitness”. He was also the mastermind behind some of bodybuilding’s biggest competitions and publications — here’… ...

Joe Weider was the co-founder of the International Bodybuilders Federation and a man who promoted bodybuilding worldwide. Weider played a significant role in Arnold Schwarzenegger's journey as Mr ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger shared that Joe Weider's editorial magazine called Muscle Magazines inspired him to take up bodybuilding. He also revealed that it was Weider who brought him to America.

I had dinner with Joe and Franco Columbu one night, and Joe had asked me to meet him and the Gardners for a workout at Gold’s Gym in Santa Monica, which was then the epicenter of bodybuilding.

Horatio Alger stories don’t get much more archetypal than fitness pioneer Joe Weider’s: scrawny Jewish child of the Depression learns to defend himself from schoolyard prejudice by ...

The movie’s wayback device is the 2008 funeral of Joe Weider’s brother and business partner Ben, at which the elderly Joe (Robert Forster) agrees to tell his story to a journalist (DJ Qualls).