Wrong....Tim. No-one can claim that they were their trainer unless they specifically asked him or her to train them. Joe Weider may have asked Dan to train with him but Joe never asked him to TRAIN HIM. As far as Dan's competitive career is concerned, it really didn't matter. He can't claim to have train Joe Weider unless he asked him to train him. From what I understand, they both worked out together and for Dan to take credit is pretty much a weasel like move on his part.
1939-1942: Dan Lurie, one of the top half dozen bodybuilders in the world. Joe Weider, a Canadian publishing entrepreneur still trying to hit the big time.
I think Lurie was one of the first to do the MM pose...looked really good for the time...maybe you can post it Tim
this one?
vince i don't think it's such a big issue, but i believe dan already winning most muscular man three times at the aau mr america contest, would have lots to tell joe about training seeing joe's underdevloped state. could you imagine a guy coming to your parents house and sleeping in the same bed as you not in a gay sense but because of lack of room and than that same guy screwing you out of 18 grand and than laughing about it to your face.
I'm not defending Joe Weider at all. Telling people that he trained people when he was 14 years old sounds like a tall tale. What I'm saying is that Dan and Joe were birds of the same feather in terms of business. They both played dirty and they both made millions except that Joe got all the prestige and even more money while Dan was relegated to a side show.But at least Dan posed with his own physique while Joe was pinning his face on other bodybuilders physiques.....
I'm not defending Joe Weider at all. Telling people that he trained people when he was 14 years old sounds like a tall tale. What I'm saying is that Dan and Joe were birds of the same feather in terms of business. They both played dirty and they both made millions except that Joe got all the prestige and even more money while Dan was relegated to a side show.Great men never play by the rules. Of course, Vince, we would not expect you to know this.But at least Dan posed with his own physique while Joe was pinning his face on other bodybuilders physiques.....
here's more pics from that day. i have a Lurie mag with an article called 'Meet Boy Wonder'. it is the first published pics of Ferrigno. he looked 16 years old.
interestlingly the worst selling issue of mmi was the lou ferrigno cover. and the best was m o'hearn. would be curious if anyone knows the best and worst selling issues of the other mags md im mti mb mp etc.
in lurie book he also mentions how bodybuilders were getting pure testosterone injections way back in 1938, predating steroids in america.
Do you think the mag was bought because of Mike O'Hearn, or 20 pounds of Silicon next to him?
and finally dr c.f.smith a bodybuilder after my own heart, because doctor smith recommended eating whatever you wanted because a calorie is just a calorie according to dr smith, he often indulged at mickie d's. if only this theory of his was true.
two non silicon:i think} mmi covers for the purest out there.
first totally nude cover in a main stream muscle mag. hoffman rolled over in his grave.
two of my fav hoffman mag silicon covers.
