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Inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.

Inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame in 2005 (inaugural class).

In 1968, Weider helped bring an Austrian bodybuilding sensation named Arnold Schwarzenegger to Los Angeles. He paid him $100 a week to write magazine articles that endorsed Weider products. Weider remained a reliable source of support throughout Arnold's entire career. When Weider died in March 2013, Schwarzenegger said, 'He was there for me constantly throughout my life, and I will miss him dearly.'.

New York physical culturist who published a number of magazines in the 1960s catering for the perfection of the male physique, such as The Young Physique, Muscleboy, Demi-Gods, and Muscle Teens, that presented several art photo studies by James Bidgood.

Competed in the 1951 London Mr. Universe Contest sponsored by the British organization, the National Amateur Bodybuilders Association (N.A.B.B.A.). In it he placed 5th in the tall division, the overall winner being future Movie Hercules, Reg Park.

He designed numerous training courses beginning in the 1950s, including the Weider System of Bodybuilding. Arnold Schwarzenegger credited Weider with inspiring him to enter bodybuilding and to come to the United States.

Joe Weider was a Canadian bodybuilder and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) alongside his brother Ben Weider. He was also the creator of the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding contest. Joe Weider was the publisher of several bodybuilding and fitness-related magazines, most notably Muscle & Fitness, Flex, Men's Fitness and Shape, and the manufacturer of a line of fitness equipment and fitness supplements. Weider was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. His parents were Louis and Anna Weider, Polish Jewish emigrants from the town of Kurów, Poland. Joe 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.