When I was young, innocent and naïve, I sat in the front row at the fitness circus. The experience was colorful, loud and raw. I trusted anyone who seemed to know more than me. And having been brought up in the Midwest, I also tended to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Well, almost everyone, even at a young age, I found it hard to believe that Joe Weider invented every training principle ever conceived by man or beast, especially when I read it just six months earlier in Peary Rader’s Ironman Magazine. Read the rest of this entry »