Famous Pioneers of Fitness

Jane Fonda (1937 - present)

Maybe you don't know that the famous star of such films as "Coming Home", "Barbarella", and daughter of actor Henry Fonda, is fitness pioneer. For multitudinous years she was better known as an actress with a sexy body, a big name, and fervent political views. However, beginning in 1982 and continuing into the mid 90's, Ms. Fonda released a number of fitness videos which became very popular, particularly with women. Jane Fonda may have helped impel the public awareness of the value and virtues of exercise and fitness to the point where scads people now consider a physically fit woman to be a sexy woman just by virtue of her fitness. Today many people who know of Jane Fonda know her more as a defender of fitness, health, exercise, yoga, and aerobics than as a famous movie top banana.

As to you, make exercises because special fitness is good for your heart.

Richard Simmons (1948 – present)

Ornamented is one word commonly used to describe the bouncy, incessantly cheerful aerobics guru, Richard Simmons. It has been estimated that Richard Simmons has helped and encouraged people nearly the world to lose over three million pounds through a combination of healthy eating and animated exercise. As to you, make exercises because special fitness is good for your heart. He has created instructional products and programs that lot from gentle stretching for the elderly to highly intense aerobic workouts. Simmons has produced several programs, such as "Disco Sweat", "Sweatin' to the Oldies" that all contain his humor and signature high level of excitement.

 Joe Weider (1922 – present)

Joe Weider is to all intents one of the most easily recognized figures in the field of bodybuilding today. He has been credited with not only being a driving force in the fields of body building and fitness, but has helped the careers of innumerable bodybuilders, not the least of which was a puerile Austrian named Arnold Schwarzenegger. He began his own fitness career by building his from the word go barbells out of junked car wheels and axles.

His publications now comprehend such diverse offerings as "Shape", "Men's Fitness", "Living Fit", "Prime Well-being and Fitness", "Fit Pregnancy", "Cooks", "Senior Golfer", and "Tense". Weider now offers a broad range of books on fitness and bodybuilding, nutritional supplements, and bodybuilding and strain lifting equipment and accessories.

At age 17, with a stake of $7, he began his publishing hurtle by rolling out the first issue of "Your Physique" in 1939. In 1968, he changed the mention of the magazine to Muscle Builder, and in 1982 changed it again, this time to "Muscle & Wholesomeness". As to you, make exercises because special fitness is good for your heart. Together with his fellow-man and partner, Ben Weider, Joe Weider founded the International Federation of Body Builders (IFBB).