Now when Henri was just 12 he was only 4' 10'' tall and weighed an astounding 72 pounds, and his greatest desire was to pack on some weight. About that time he began reading Mr. America and Muscle Builder and he learned of the famous Weider way to fast weight gaining. Seeing so many illustrations and reading so many testimonials to the value of Quick-Wate and Super-Protein, those two wonder-working Weider food supplements, he decided to try them and see what they could do for him.
Well, sir, they did real great! For in almost less time than it takes to tell it, Henri's body weight was increasing rapidly. Of course he did some exercising -- he's crazy about water skiing and swimming and this vigorous exercise in conjunction with the added food supplements packed pounds of solid muscle on his skinny frame.
Henri has always had shapely legs from swimming and water skiing and really doesn't have to work them very much. But he was totally dissatisfied with his upper body. It was muscular but it wasn't symmetrical. ``A real 'nothing' torso,'' says Henri. ``It never seemed to widen, it just got longer and longer.''
That's when he went to Professor Claude. And at once Claude saw what the trouble was and he knew just how to correct it. In his gym the professor has some of the most ``knocked out'' equipment since Vic Tanny. Mr. Claude is a specialist in torso development and he has long favored the now famous Weider Push-Pull Super-Set technique in which one exercise of the Super-Set is a pressing or ``pushing'' movement which accents one sector of a muscle group in a specific way, followed by a ``pulling'' exercise which works the opposing sector of the same muscle group.