![]() In the old days, we posed every day for half an hour. The good thing is that after enough complaining about it by certain people, including myself, the recognized that not everyone wants to see pregnant-looking men onstage. Sports develop, and the performances evolve, and it gets exaggerated. But it’s hard to imagine anyone being motivated by today’s top bodybuilding pros. When I look at pictures of bodybuilders from the ’70s, even knowing you guys used steroids, I can still get fired up to train. People always want the easier way out to become better. If there was an option to wave a magic wand and get rid of all illegal performance enhancing in sports, where someone can’t find the next big thing that can’t be spotted on a test, I am all for it. ![]() ![]() People take drugs to focus more, to sleep better, to feel better mentally, to feel less pain, to build muscle, to lose fat-you name it. It’s human nature, and you could probably write a book about all of the different ways we enhance ourselves and what that means and whether we need to cut back. Why do you think people still take steroids? So we limited it to a couple months before competition, so that we wouldn’t be on it at all times and get hooked. If you weren’t doing it, you would fall behind. I have acknowledged using drugs when I competed, but at that time, it wasn’t against the rules and it was with a doctor. But if you knew then what you know now about the health risks of steroids, would you have taken them? You’ve talked about how you cannot compare the steroids you took in the ’70s with what guys are taking today-you were taking only 15mg then and they take 1,000mg now. Today, you don’t have to do that anymore. In the old days, that’s what you needed to say to have people pay attention to you. But I still get a good pump.īut it’s not like an orgasm anymore, which you famously compared it to in Pumping Iron? But it’s not good for anything else.Īs soon as I was finished with competition in 1975, and then in 1980, I dropped the whole idea of heavy lifting completely and just did more reps. You go all out because you want to shock the muscle. That was good for competition because it’s all about giving the muscle the most resistance. Same with biceps and triceps.ĭo you still do the heavy squats and deadlifts you were known for? Or you can work your rear deltoids without bending over and doing dumbbell raises. So if you have a shoulder injury, you can find the machine where you can do normal lateral raises. Yes, because machines are so sophisticated that you can work around injuries. We ride the bike to the gym, which takes 20 minutes, and we work out for 45 minutes to an hour with the weights, and then we ride the bike back, and then eat. It’s cardiovascular combined with weight training. I get out of the hospital and try to live as if nothing happened. For you to remind me makes me think about it. I think that major surgeries like this literally take a year. It was supposed to be a minor procedure and it ended up being major. MH: You went in for surgery this past March to replace a heart valve. Even though his bearded, craggy face isn’t the one he implanted in our memories through sheer force of will and ambition, there’s no mistaking that “I’ll be back” voice. Men’s Health’s former fitness director Lou Schuler caught up with the 71-year-old via a glitchy FaceTime connection in Budapest, where Schwarzenegger was filming the new Terminator. ![]() The Constitution prevents him from seeking the only office he’d be interested in, but he still fights against climate change through R20 (a nonprofit he founded promoting clean energy and infrastructure projects) and advocates for better education and fitness opportunities for low-income kids. He’s returning to movies with the upcoming Terminator 6. He’s promoting bodybuilding, with this year’s Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, attracting more than 18,000 athletes. Since exiting public office in 2011, Schwarzenegger has juggled his various interests. Olympia, $5 billion box-office gross, two-time governor of California) and some low, low lows (steroids, Gropergate, a very public divorce), but through it all he’s always been Arnold. It contains some amazing highs (seven-time Mr. Yet here we are, decades later, and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s journey, from Austrian meathead to Hollywood legend, is one of the all-time top American success stories. We couldn’t imagine the guy who was so convincing as a killer robot in The Terminatorbecoming governor of our most populous state. We couldn’t imagine someone with 21-inch biceps as the highest-paid actor in show business until we saw him in Conan the Barbarian. We couldn’t imagine a bodybuilder chatting it up with Johnny Carson until we saw him on The Tonight Show.
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