![]() ![]() In 1972, Ellington Darden, author of The New HIT, won the Collegiate Mr. America contests a couple of years before. By all accounts, Jones was a genius on many levels, but no one ever called him a "people person."įinally, Jones was whisked off stage and one of his assistants was asked to save the day and explain this new training concept. The speaker was Arthur Jones, inventor and founder of Nautilus and the father of high-intensity training. He certainly wasn't going to entertain the criticisms of some skinny college kid. This was, after all, a man who'd once jerked a young Arnold Schwarzenegger out of a car and told him to shut his yapping trap. He ridiculed the audience, ignored the scheduled break times, and threatened to "whip the ass" of a graduate student who dared question him. The speaker had begun the seminar with a lecture about ignorance and stupidity, implying not so subtly that those who didn't accept his ideas were of the former persuasion. The audience that day at Duke University was getting restless. ![]()
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