There’s probably no one more well-known in the body
building world than the governor of California.
Arnold Schwarzenegger made body building a household phenomenon with the
release of his 1973 movie “Pumping Iron”.
He has been granted the honor of single handedly making body building an
everyday term.
When Arnold first started out in his bodybuilding career,
he was just a young man. He started out
as a “98 pound weakling” and grew into Mr. Universe. His transformation was an incredible display
of body building might, along with some amazing dedication.
There is probably no better body building story than that
of Arnold Schwarzenegger. He worked a
variety of jobs, including that of the street worker in Santa Monica,
California. The entire time, he was also
devoting all his off hours to honing and sculpting a beautiful body. In 1970, he was awarded the ultimate body
building title of “Mr. Universe” and became a household name.
He kept on with his body building until he decided that a
film career was the way to go. He found
success as an actor in such films as “The Terminator”, “End of Days”, and “True
Lies”. While he never won any type of
award for his acting work, he still garnered the respect of many Hollywood
elite for his strong performances in these films.
Arnold's first approach to bodybuilding was fairly
atypical. When he was 13, he played soccer, but felt very dissatisfied with a
team sport. "I didn't like the fact that I couldn't be personally
gratified" he declared. He tried other endeavors: track and field, boxing,
javelin throw and weightlifting. But only when his coach suggested he tried
working with weights (to strengthen his legs), Arnold found his true vocation.
When he first walked into a gym, he was literally awed.
"I found myself in a gym, in awe of muscles I had never seen before and of
which I didn't even know the correct name. The bodybuilders were powerful,
Herculean. Before my very eyes, my true future opened up: I had found the
answer I had been looking for." Thus began, at 16, the career of the
greatest bodybuilder of all times, the man who would be crowned Mr. Olympia for
a record seven times.
As his physique started developing, so did his
self-confidence. Very soon he discovered the thing somebody described as the
"power of size". And, as his muscles grew, so did the respect he was
receiving from his peers. The growing of his muscle mass started influencing
his relationships with other young men and, of course, with women too. He
realized that some women were decidedly turned on by his physique, whereas
others seemed to be disgusted by it. "I wanted to become even bigger, so
that I'd be able to really impress the girls who dug muscles and... Irritate
even more the ones who disliked them."
Arnold Schwarzenegger is quite possibly the epitome of
the body building ideal. When you are
serious about your body building goals, you could do worse than following the
advice of the great governor of California!
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