O good god - Arnie's first film
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Isn't that picture from before he did Terminator 3? He definately got in shape for that
that pic up their was before T3 was filmed and after his heart op. His doctor told him that he couldn't exercise for a few months.
this is what happens to a toned body when you don't exercise.
the very fact that he can still get into butt-kicking shape at 58 years old is impressive.
this is what happens to a toned body when you don't exercise.
the very fact that he can still get into butt-kicking shape at 58 years old is impressive.
Respect for the guy, to get all the way from some little silly village hidden away in Austria's mountains, to governor of the 6th largest economy in the world, whilst being popular with billions of people all over the world and having single-handedly changed the look and shape of Hollywood. 
Nix said:
You can lose muscle mass. You can't physically lose muscles, everybody has the same muscles. Just the sizes greatly differ.
Indeed it does look like his diet for bodybuilding has ( I can imagine it being hard to shake off after decades of training ) carried on after he stopped hitting the weights.
However, after all he is nearly 60 and the journalist probably published the most unflattering photograph out of the bunch.
Ex-RoNiN said:Respect for the guy, to get all the way from some little silly village hidden away in Austria's mountains, to governor of the 6th largest economy in the world, whilst being popular with billions of people all over the world and having single-handedly changed the look and shape of Hollywood.
This is true, I read his first autobiography published around about 1979/80 and he describes how he grew up in a small Austrian village with a domineering Police man as a father. There was a group of weight trainers in his village and he fell in with this group when he was 14/15 or so. They introduced him to weight training and he loved it.
Fastforward to just a few short years later, he goes AWOL from the army he was conscripted into to win Mr Austria. He eventually gets invited over to London where someone of influence in the BB scene takes a queer interest in him. When he's in London he starts to compete in the 'big' BB events like Mr Universe etc and he's good ranks high but seing those big yank BB'ers he wants to get over to the states.
I can't recall how he gets over there but he does and works as a bricklayer making pals with Franco Columbo whilst trying to break into the USA BB scene. The Weiders, two brothers who were/are the controlling masters of the yank BB scene eventually take Arny and Franco under their wing and train them down at Golds Gym on Muscle beach California.
From here he goes from strength to strength, training and getting a university education until Arny wins the biggy titles over and over again...
No matter what you may think of Arnolds politics ethics etc, you can only admire him for sheer determination to succeed at his chosen profesion when BB was seen as laughable in the late 60's early 70's. And succeed he has, from humble beginnings in a small Austrian village to risking imprisonment going AWOL from the Army to taking a chance in foreign countrys without being able to speak English, when someone takes a wrong interest in him he tells this person where to go and somehow ends up in the US achieving all that wanted...