John Grimek
John Grimek (born 17 June 1910 in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, † November 20, 1998 in York ( Pennsylvania)) was an American weightlifters and bodybuilders.
Career
John started as a teenager, animated by his older brother, with weight training, which was initially designed only for bodybuilding. He visited the studio of Mark Berry, who was also his coach for the coming years. In 1929, he sent the first photos of themselves to American muscle magazines that were published promptly. They showed John in outdoor shots, which was new at the time. When in 1932 the U.S. weightlifters at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles at first successes came (Anthony Terlazzo ), he became interested in the next few years more for the weight lifting and trying to improve its performance in this sport. He rose on the initiative of Mark Berry his body weight of 85 kg to 102.5 kg, and won at the 1936 U.S. Championships AAU title with 357.5 kg in the heavyweight division. He achieved this performance then also at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. After these Olympics, he moved to York in the famous York Barbell Club to Bob Hoffmann. Up to the World Championships in Vienna in 1938, for which he again qualified, he had again abtrainiert in the light heavyweight ( to 82.5 kg of body weight). After these World Championships he was on the weight lifting and started only as a bodybuilder.
In bodybuilding, he was the type of extremely powerful and well-sized athletes. He was only 1,74 m tall and weighed as a bodybuilder 88 to 90 kg. He was the first athlete who won the Mr. America title twice. Sensational were his two victories over the phenomenal Steve Reeves.
Since the 1930s, John Grimek worked as a journalist for muscle magazine " Strength & Health". In 1964 he then moved on to " Muscular Development " and ended there in 1985 his activity. Countless articles about bodybuilding were incurred in his pen.
Career as a weightlifter
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, Hs = light heavyweight, S = Heavy weight)