Jerry Brainum a conversation, publisher of Applied Metabolics By Dr. Michael Dusa
SEE FULL INTERVIEW AT...
http://jerrybrainum.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-conversation-with-jerry-brainum.html
MD: Hey Jerry. Thanks so much for
talking with me. You know, I've been reading your cutting-edge material
in the physique magazines since I was a kid in the 70's. Much of what I
know and practice to this day has been borne from the information you
have disseminated.
JB: Thanks Mike. Yes, I have over 5,000
published articles in my name or under a pen name in over 35 years of
involvement in the industry.
MD: So, as we always want to know,
how did you get your start and what kindled your interest in
bodybuilding, science, and nutrition?
JB: Well, I grew up in
Brooklyn. When I was three, my mother simply threw me in the pool
(laughs) and I started dog paddling. I became a swimmer, and as the
years rolled by I won some AAU swim meets. Of course, the swimming
coaches back then said that using weights would slow you down. One day
at the community center where I'd swim in the Olympic sized pool, there
was a throng of people blocking the hallway. Suddenly, the group parted
in the middle and a guy in posing trunks came walking out. It was Jerry
Winick. He had great arms and had placed second to Larry Scott in the
Mr. Universe in either 1962 or 63. I was about 12 years old at the time,
and (laughs) two days later I saw Jerry outside the center smoking a
cigarette. I asked him how he got so big, and, of course, he told me he
did so by lifting weights. He told me to go buy some muscle magazines,
so I did..........SEE REST OF INTERVIEW AT...http://jerrybrainum.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-conversation-with-jerry-brainum.html
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MD: Hey Jerry. Thanks so much for
talking with me. You know, I've been reading your cutting-edge material
in the physique magazines since I was a kid in the 70's. Much of what I
know and practice to this day has been borne from the information you
have disseminated.
