At the 1965 Mr. America Contest Jerry Daniels finished first and beat future bodybuilding legend Sergio Oliva. In this article you will learn how Jerry Daniels trained for the Mr. America contest, have fun – Mr. Berg When he first started entering contests he didn’t realize there was such a thing as training a special way …
Jerry Daniels’ story begins in October of 1960. He was a sophomore in high school and had just finished the 1960 football season when he found out that his coach, Charles Pruitt of Lakeview High School in Rossville, Georgia, was trying to get some of the football players to begin working out with weights during …
Jerry Daniels of Chattanooga won the crown. But there were other outstanding bodybuilders. Jerry Daniels had 51 1/2 inch chest; 31 inch waist and 19 inch biceps. He started training at the age of 17 at Dave Collier’s Colonial Health Studio in Chattanooga. Four years later he won his first big contest – the Teenage …