Joe Weider, Creator of Bodybuilding Empire, Dies at 93

(CNN) -- A bodybuilding icon. A fitness innovator. A magazine publisher. A mentor to one of the world's biggest action heroes. A pioneer. Joe Weider was all those things and more in his 93 years, right up until his death Saturday morning at a LosLegendary fitness icon Joe Weider -- who mentored Arnold Schwarzenegger during his body building days and built a vast fitness empire -- died of heart…LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Joe Weider, the self-made fitness and bodybuilding guru who built a magazine empire that included more than a dozen popular publications such as Muscle and Fitness, Shape and Men's Fitness, died on Saturday at the age of 93.Joe Weider, a child of the Great Depression who built a bodybuilding empire, has died at the age of 93. The cause was heart failure, said his publicist. Weider grew an empire of magazines, fitness equipment, doubtful dietary supplements and

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