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| If you're my age or older, you probably remember Hoffman's Hi-Proteen powder and Hi-Proteen tablets. (Not a typo, that's how it was spelled.) You were supposed to gain one pound of muscle for every dollar you spent on Hi-Proteen - but that never happened for me. |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Back in the early 1950's, everyone started
selling protein powder.
A guy in Chicago named Irving Johnson
started the craze. He later moved to
Beverly Hills and changed his name to
Rheo H. Blair.
He made so much money selling protein
powder that everyone who published a
weight training magazine decided they
needed to do the same thing.
Bob Hoffman did it - Joe Weider did it -
and even Peary Rader did it (for a short
period of time - and then he - thankfully -
stopped).
Hoffman called his protein powder Hi-
Proteen. (Not a typo - that's how they
spelled it).
The stuff was made out of soybeans,
which were being hailed as a super food -
even though, prior to that time, soybeans
had been used almost exclusively for
animal feed here in the USA.
But the bodybuilding world began using
them for humans - as a food supplement -
and before you knew it, pretty much every-
one who lifted weights had tried the stuff
at least once.
There was a relentless advertising campaign
for all the protein powders. We were bom-
barded with articles telling us we needed
to eat more and more protein.
Three square meals a day weren't enough.
You needed six high-protein meals a day.
You needed to take protein powder at
every meal.
If you were extremely underweight and
skinny (as most beginners were), you
needed to guzzle a gallon of milk loaded
with protein powder every day.
For good measure, you were supposed
to take a thermos of high protein shake
to the gym and glug it in-between sets.
And just to be on the safe side, you were
supposed to carry high protein tablets in
your pocket and eat them like candy all
day long - just to be sure you didn't go
a single minute without an adequate
supply of protein. You didn't want to
start shrinking and lose all your gains!
I remember trying all of the different
protein powders when I was a kid.
MAN, DID THEY TASTE BAD!
A pair of dirty soaks boiled in swamp
mud would have tasted better.
If you ever tried them, you know what
I mean.
Bob Hoffman always said he ate
more Hi-Proteen than any man
who ever lived.
I don't know if that's true or not, but
if he did, it probably killed him.
That's also why - to this day - I steer
clear of any protein supplements. Been
there, done that - and don't want to do
it again.
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
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- Brooks Kubik
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