SHAWN PERINE
Editor in Chief of FLEX, Men’s Fitness, Muscle & Fitness, and Muscle & Fitness Hers magazines Shawn Perine died at 51 years of age.
As Editor-in-Chief of Muscle Shawn Perine practiced what he preached, training five days a week while sticking fastidiously to a strict nutritional plan designed by himself, something he did for more than 30 years. Additionally, his passion for bodybuilding and fitness made him a well-known and a respected man in the fitness industry
Sadly enough a healthy lifestyle doesn’t always ensure anyone from all diseases.
Perine died of a rare form of lung cancer.
Rest in peace
Shawn Perine, an influential bodybuilding writer, and editor died at age 51. He was diagnosed with lung cancer two-and-a-half months earlier, in September.
At the time of his passing, Shawn was editor-in-chief of Muscle & Fitness magazine, as well as holding a vice president title at American Media, Inc., in New York City. He was also editorial director of Muscle & Fitness Hers, FLEX, Men’s Fitness, and Men’s Journal magazines.
Shawn Perine was one of the most prominent editors in fitness publishing, but his career success never changed him. When I met Shawn in early 2003, we were both junior-level staffers at Weider Publications in Woodland Hills, California—Shawn at FLEX, me at Muscle & Fitness. We became friends immediately. Eight years later, when he was named editor-in-chief, he became my boss, but our friendship never changed.
Everyone who knew Shawn Perine knew what he was about. On the surface, you could see that he was passionate about fitness and took incredible care of himself physically. He grew up on Long Island, New York, idolizing classic bodybuilding physiques, reading muscle magazines cover to cover, and living the fitness lifestyle full-bore from a young age.
A Poster Child For The Fitness Lifestyle
Shawn Perine being diagnosed with cancer, and an especially lethal kind (lung, stage IV), in his early 50s seemed like a particularly unfair twist of fate. He trained in the gym religiously, didn’t eat junk food, never smoked, never used drugs, and partook of alcohol only sparingly. He was a poster child for fitness as an all-encompassing way of life, and he looked the part. He was the leanest all-natural 50-year-old I knew, by far.
Shawn knew that healthy lifestyle choices can only shift probabilities in one’s favor—although clearly, nothing is guaranteed to anyone. Nevertheless, he devoted his career to helping others do as much as possible to live long and healthy lives.
In 2002, Shawn Perine parlayed his passion for fitness and bodybuilding into a career by first creating IronAge.us, a website devoted to the classic physiques of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sergio Oliva, Dave Draper, Frank Zane, and other iconic bodybuilders of the 1960s and 70s. His talents for both writing and graphic design caught the eye of FLEX staff writer Greg Merritt and then editor-in-chief Peter McGough, and in 2003 Shawn moved to Southern California for his dream job at Weider Publications. He started as a FLEX staff writer and worked his way up from there.
As his friend and former FLEX colleague Jim Schmaltz like to say, Shawn Perine was “one of the good ones.” He was friendly, kind, and compassionate without exception. So friendly, in fact, that leaving a Mr. Olympia or Arnold Classic Expo with him was a lengthy process; he seemingly knew everyone, and you couldn’t peel him away from a conversation. Long before Shawn was at the top of any masthead, he had formed strong relationships with many bodybuilding legends: Joe Weider, Schwarzenegger, Zane, and Oliva, to name a few. This wasn’t because he wanted something from them, but because Shawn valued personal relationships above all else, and invested a lot of time building them.
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