Rheo H Blair and the Secrets of Bodybuilding Nutrition
A Special Report By Russ McDermott

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RHEO H BLAIR:
The Genius of Bodybuilding Nutrition
Rheo Blair was born Irvin Johnson in Oct. 9, 1921 in New Jersey. Johnson moved to Chicago in the early 1940s to pursue his first love, music. He trained with the famed vocal coach Feuchtinger and his passion for singing would continue throughout his life. Johnson had worked out with weights previously because of ill health, but had made little progress. So in addition to his vocal studies, he began researching weight training and nutrition. In this field he found his true calling. By the late 1940s, Johnson had transformed his own physique well enough to win a minor contest in Chicago and owned a very successful gym in that city, Johnson's Barbell Gymnasium at 22 E. Van Buren Street, where he turned out champion physique stars. Johnson's success came when he decided to concentrate on the nutritional aspects of bodybuilding. He sought out nutritionists across the U.S. and experimented on himself and other bodybuilders. Finally his efforts paid off and he became a sought-after figure in the bodybuilding world. Johnson developed his concentrated protein supplement, Hi-Protein, and began marketing it through leading physical culture magazines, particularly Iron Man, in 1950. The first product was soy based and Johnson was not completely satisfied with the product's results. In 1951 Johnson published "Irvin Johnson's Scientific Body Building and Nutrition Course." The slim volume outline his exercise and nutrition theories and brought him some measure of recognition among bodybuilders outside Chicago. Johnson had already determined that six feedings a day were preferable to the three most were using at the times. As an example of Johnson's