Robert Kennedy is the founder Robert Kennedy Publishing, based in Toronto, Ontario. Kennedy was born in 1938, the son of an Austrian father and an English mother, both school teachers. He attended Culford private school and Norwich art school in Norfolk, England. After living in London and teaching art at the Tottenham Technical College for eight years, Kennedy moved to Canada in 1967, where he taught art for five years in Brampton, Ontario.[1]
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In 1972 Kennedy went into business for himself, selling courses of instruction by mail on nutrition, bodybuilding and fitness. In 1974 he started his first magazine, MuscleMag International, with an initial print run of 110,000. He had no previous experience with magazine publishing, but the magazine is still in publication, 35 years later.
In addition to MuscleMag International, Kennedy has also written 53 books, including several New York Times bestsellers; Hardcore Bodybuilding, Reps!, RockHard!, Beef It!, and Pumping Up! He eventually decided to become a book publisher himself, and under Robert Kennedy Publishing, the company has published hundreds of books.
In the 1990s, Kennedy opened a 26 fitness stores and franchises and created a fitness clothing line; all were eventually sold to concentrate on the core business of book and magazine publishing.
Currently, the magazine-publishing arm includes six titles: MuscleMag International (hardcore bodybuilding), Reps! (building a proportionate body), Oxygen (women’s fitness), American Curves (swimsuit images of fitness women), Maximum Fitness (men’s fitness) and Clean Eating (eating for health and fitness). Kennedy is also known in the bodybuilding world for coining the term "Hardcore Bodybuilding" after publishing the book under the same name; and the concept The Pre-Exhaust Principle,[2] known and used by most bodybuilders around the world.
Kennedy is married to fitness writer Tosca Reno, who is the author of the best-selling book series The Eat-Clean Diet (published by Robert Kennedy Publishing). Reno is also a feature writer for Oxygen and Clean Eating magazines. Robert and Tosca, along with their five children, live in the Caledon Hills of Ontario just north of Toronto.
"The Eat-Clean Diet for Men" (2009)
"Encyclopedia of Bodybuilding: The Complete A-Z Book on Muscle Building" (2008)
"1001 Musclebuilding Tips" (2007)
"The New Hardcore Bodybuilding" (1990)
"Hardcore Bodybuilding: The Blood Sweat and Tears of Pumping Iron" (1982)
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