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THE
FIRST
60
YEARS
As he prepares to celebrate his 60th birthday
on July 30, we look back at the amazing
life and times of Arnold Schwarzenegger
iNCLUDES
ARNOLD:
THE MOVIE
1960–1970
The inspiration,
the dedication
and drive that
fueled Arnold’s
early years
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PLUS
ARNOLD:
THE MOVIE
1970–1980
The Oak becomes
Mr. Olympia, and
Hollywood begins
to take notice
of Arnold
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COMPLETE
ARNOLD
The best of
Arnold’s training
advice featured
in one amazing
collection
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ARNOLD COVER COLLECTION
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ARNOLD: THE FIRST 60 YEARS
ARNOLD
THE MOVIE
Lights,
camera,
Arnold!
By Joe
Wuebben
and
Peter
McGough
2007 Photos
by Robert Reiff
“Truth is stranger than fiction,
but it is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
— Mark Twain
Look at Arnold Schwarzenegger; look at
everything he has done since growing up
poor in a tiny Austrian village. See all the
bodybuilding titles he won, all the movies
he starred in, the hundreds of millions of
dollars he made, the political office he now
holds and the influential national figure he’ll be
in the 2008 presidential election. See the enormous
legend growing right there in front of you: One of the
largest yet perhaps most improbable icons the world
has ever seen — maybe even the most recognizable
person on the planet.
But for a better perspective you must look
through the lens of a movie camera. The
naked eye won’t work — it would never
believe what it was seeing. No way, your eyes
would tell you, that this man’s story actually
occurred the way it did. Only in a movie
would this happen, and only in the most unbelievable
of fantasy tales. Through a camera lens
it’s easier to understand, even if for only a couple
of hours, that, sure, maybe it could’ve happened.
That’s the only way you’ll be able to put Arnold’s
story in context. In fact, he feels the same way.
“I still look back today,” he remarks about his
incredible life journey, “and say to myself, ‘How did it
happen? How did that become a reality?’” Through
a series of events that can be told only as if
scripted for a movie, that’s our contention.
So sit back, relax and enjoy the picture.
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ARNOLD: THE FIRST 60 YEARS
960-1970
ARNOLD: THE MOVIE
Before
The Oak
there was
The Acorn
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SCENE I
Summer 1962. Fourteen-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger walks
into a gym for the first time in his hometown of Graz, Austria. The place
is very primitive, like some sort of torture chamber or dungeon.
Weightlifters are doing clean and jerks and presses and squats on a
weightlifting platform. You can hear the humming of quiet conversations,
and every so often someone screams loudly in the middle of a set of squats
or snatches. Outside of that, very little idle chitchat takes place. The walls
of the gym are filled with chalk. In one small area, for instance, “Cleanand-Jerk
20 sets” is written on the wall. Underneath that, white chalk
lines are drawn to tally how many sets have been performed. Other
lifting stations have different colored chalk on the walls for different
exercises, all serving as archaic training logs.
Forty-five years later, those chalk lines stand
out in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mind more
than anything else.
And why not? Because, after all, you can more
or less boil the story of Arnold Schwarzenegger
down to chalk marks: setting goals, drawing up
a plan to achieve those goals and then executing
the plan successfully. Then setting further
goals and planning and executing, and so on.
No goal was off limits. No goal was too grand,
too far beyond Arnold’s reach, whether it
meant setting out to be the best bodybuilder
in the world as a 150-pound 14-year-old or
somehow parlaying that into a movie career, in
ACT ONE
America of all places. What better way to set
a goal than with some chalk on a wall?
“I loved the idea of writing down your goal
and then, in the next hour or two, turning
it into reality,” Arnold says. “You knew that if
you made 18 lines and the number 20 was there
you were short, and you could not really follow
through with your goal, and you better go
and do the other two sets. That’s one thing
I learned from bodybuilding: If you set a goal,
you better follow through. You write it down,
you tell everyone about it, so you make an
official commitment. Then you have to go allout,
otherwise you embarrass yourself.”
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Arnold can still recall his hands
sticking to the chinning bar while
working out because it was so cold
Arnold was born July 30, 1947, in Thal, Austria, a small village
of 1,200 people. He was the son of Gustav, a tall, solidly built
man, a former ice-curling champion who
made a career in law enforcement as chief of
police for the area surrounding Graz (4
miles or so from Thal), and Aurelia
Schwarzenegger. His older brother Meinhard
was physically gifted in his own right,
maybe even more so than Arnold, though
he didn’t possess the same drive. (Meinhard
died tragically in a car crash in 1971.)
With the encouragement of his father,
Arnold grew up immersed in sports: soccer
especially, but also ice-curling, running,
swimming, boxing and throwing the
javelin and shot put. The latter activities are
evidence that he preferred individual
sports, where one person, and one person
only, would receive reward and praise for
a victory.
During the summer of 1962, just before he
turned 15, Arnold discovered bodybuilding
as a way to get stronger for soccer, and
immediately he knew that’s what he wanted
to do. At roughly 6 feet tall and only 150
pounds, Arnold, though thin, was athletic and muscular
for his age, and older gym members who saw his physical
ARNOLD’S
TIMELINE
By Joe Roark
The early days: Arnold and his
older brother Meinhard and the
house they grew up in
1907
Aug. 1
Arnold’s father Gustav
is born
1922
July 29
Arnold’s mother Aurelia
is born
potential took him under their wings.
Soon thereafter, Arnold quit playing all other sports. He
was hooked on lifting weights. Three
nights a week he would go to the gym in
Graz, 6 miles from his home. He either
walked or rode his bike to get there,
which didn’t bother him, as he knew it
was helping strengthen his body, specifically
his legs and lungs. The gym, housed
in Graz’s soccer stadium, was closed on
weekends because of matches being
played there, which forced Arnold and
his lifting partners to break the gym’s
windows to get in and lift. Other days he
trained at home in the gym he constructed
out of basic equipment welded to suit
his needs.
This home gym wasn’t heated, of
course. In the midst of an Austrian winter,
Arnold often trained in below-zero
temperatures. The club where he lifted
in Graz was similar in that it had just one
primitive heater for the entire place.
Arnold can still recall his hands sticking
to the chinning bar while working out
because the room and equipment were so cold, and ripping
the skin off his fingers to remove them.
1945
Oct. 20
Arnold’s parents marry in
Mürsteg, Styria
1946
July 17
Arnold’s older brother
Meinhard is born
1947
July 30
Arnold is born at 4:10 a.m.
in Thal, Austria
1953
Arnold begins attending
the Hans Gross School
in Thal
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SCENE II
Later that summer, 1962. Arnold is looking up at the wall
again; this time it’s the wall of a movie theater in Graz. He is watching
Hercules vs. the Vampires. And there he is: Reg Park, the man Arnold
had already seen and admired in muscle magazines. Reg is rugged,
powerful and rough, more so than, say, Steve Reeves, another popular
bodybuilder turned movie star, who Arnold finds too polished and elegant
for his liking. Reg Park is Arnold’s new idol.
And there it was, on the wall, another goal: to become the
next Reg Park. Arnold became obsessed with the man. He
learned everything he could about Reg — what he ate, how
he trained — from programs published in muscle magazines.
He studied every photo of Reg he could, read every
German article on Reg he could, and even had a friend translate
the ones written in English. The men Arnold trained
with at the gym told him maybe, just maybe, he could
achieve what Reg had in the next 10 years. But Arnold didn’t
have 10 years. He wanted it sooner, so he stepped up his
training, lifting six days a week, sometimes more than once
a day. Workouts on top of workouts, and, more importantly,
goals on top of goals: Arnold wouldn’t just be the next Reg
Park. He would be the best-built man in Europe. And he
would eventually be the best bodybuilder in the world. Then
he would go to America where he, like Reg, would star in
movies. The chalk was on the wall.
But how? No one in those days ever traveled that far, from
Nowhere, Austria, to America. No one could afford to. “The
goal was to become another Reg Park,” Arnold says. “I had
no idea at that point how to do it, but I was absolutely convinced
that this was going to happen. I always felt that I was
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going to get out of Austria and come to America. From the
time I was something like 10 years old I felt this way. But
I had no idea how I was going to make that happen, because
there just seemed to be no way.”
No way he would do all this — move to America, star in
movies, become famous — all because of bodybuilding. It
was a widely unaccepted sport at the time — most of his
friends, not to mention his parents, found it a rather peculiar
way to spend one’s time — but Arnold set a precedent of
carving his own path rather than simply doing what was
popular. He didn’t want to be a fireman, detective or sailor
like the other kids. And, for that matter, he didn’t want to be
just another bodybuilder.
“With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn’t normal,”
Arnold says. “Normal people can be happy with a regular
life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than just
plodding through an average existence. I’d always been
impressed by stories of greatness and power. Caesar, Charlemagne,
Napoleon were names I knew and remembered.
I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the
best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to
the top, and I put all my energy into it.”
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1955
Nov. 6
Maria Shriver, Arnold’s
future wife, is born
1962
February
Arnold finishes sixth in an
ice-curling competition
1962
July
A 14-year-old Arnold
meets Kurt Marnul (future
Mr. Austria), manager
of the Athletic Union Graz
in Graz, Austria
Arnold begins work
as an apprentice
carpenter in Graz
1964
February
Arnold wins the city
and national curling
championships, junior
division
April 26
Arnold places third
in Mr. Austria and
Mr. Herkules, and fourth
in Mr. Steiermark
The
odyssey
begins
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Ladies and
gentlemen, the
“Best Built
Athlete in
Europe”
winner for
1966
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SCENE III
October 1965. Arnold is staring up at the wall of his army
barracks in the middle of the night. He can’t sleep. He can’t decide what
he should do: obey his orders and not leave the base, or sneak out of camp
and cross over into Germany to compete in the bodybuilding competition
he so desperately wants to win. He finally makes his decision. He’ll leave.
Not even stopping to pack a bag with extra clothes in it, he gets up and
climbs over the wall, out of camp. He has scrounged barely enough money
for a third-class train ticket. The train stops at every station along the
way and one day later arrives in Stuttgart.
Three years after first visiting that rundown gym and
seeing Reg Park on the movie screen, Arnold was training as
hard as ever. And now, at age 18, he had joined the Austrian
Army, conveniently assigned to a camp near Graz and
commissioned as a tank driver. “The army became a luxury,”
Arnold says. “Before that, I only ate meat once a week or so
because my family didn’t have the money. In the army,
you could have meat every day. And then, if you screwed up,
they would put you in the kitchen at night to peel potatoes
and do preparation work for the chef the next day. That was
no punishment to me; it was the ideal situation, to go and eat
everything you wanted. There was always meat left over, and
there were eggs that you could make right there. So I worked
out, then did my duty for two hours, and then I’m eating.
I was actually gaining the most weight during that period
[up to around 225 pounds from 200]. Even though we were
working hard and running every day, it was still the time to
really get in there and gain weight. It was fantastic!”
1965
Spring
Arnold wins Mr. Steiermark
Oct. 1
Arnold begins compulsory
one-year service in
Austrian Army as a tank
driver
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In 1965 Arnold (center) was a tank driver in the Austrian Army
1966
Aug. 1
Arnold begins working
at Putziger’s Gym in
Munich; he buys the gym
the next year
Sept. 24
At the NABBA
Mr. Universe in London,
Arnold places second
in the amateur tall class
Sept. 29
British magazine Health &
Strength offers its first
mention of Arnold:
“This 20-year-old Austrian
is typical of the huge
improvement in European
entries in our [Mr.] Uni-
verse.” Arnold is erro-
neously called Leopold
Schwartzenegger
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1) Arnold came in second at the 1966 Mr. Universe at age 20 2) Doing an impromptu posing routine after the 1966 Mr. Universe
3) Arnold and Chet Yorton (right) at the 1966 Mr. Universe 4) Developing the mind/muscle connection 5) Posing by the lake in Graz
Only one problem: The Junior Mr. Europe competition, in
Stuttgart, Germany, happened to fall in the six weeks of basic
training when the soldiers weren’t allowed to leave the base for
any other reason besides the death of a family member. Arnold
bolted anyway. When he arrived at the competition, this being
his first one, he was clueless. He had to borrow posing trunks
and body oil from other competitors. For his posing routine, all
he could do was try and mimic what he had seen Reg Park
doing in the magazines. Somehow it all worked out — Arnold
went through the preliminary rounds, then got called for the
pose-off, and then became the new Junior Mr. Europe.
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3 4 5
When he returned to camp, he was caught climbing back
over the wall and spent the next seven days in jail with very
little food and only a cold, stone bench to sleep on and a
blanket to keep warm with. But Arnold had his trophy, and
by the time he was released from jail, word had spread around
the base that he was the new Junior Mr. Europe. He became
a local hero, even among his superiors, who granted him two
days leave for bringing prestige to the Austrian Army. “You
have to fight to achieve,” the drill sergeants said to the
soldiers in the field. “You have to have courage. Look at what
Schwarzenegger did just to win this title.”
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SCENE IV
Early 1966. Arnold is beginning to prosper. He now lives in
Munich, Germany, having moved there shortly after winning the Junior
Mr. Europe competition and leaving the army. He trains at a gym alongside
top-level bodybuilders. For work, he manages the gym where he
trains, after spending just two weeks as a personal trainer. Arnold’s
learning curve is steep, having hardly ventured outside of Austria and
not being up to speed with the multitude of languages being spoken at
the gym and around the city, such as Spanish, Turkish and English. But
Arnold learns quickly — learning how to train, learning how to become a
champion bodybuilder. He’s training to become Mr. Universe.
To truly understand the success of Arnold Schwarzenegger
is to realize that it’s as much due to his aptitude for social
interaction — specifically that people have always been drawn
to him and wanted to help him — as his physical prowess.
This is one reason he moved to Munich in the first place, for
in Stuttgart he had met Albert Busek, who by that time had a
considerable presence in the German bodybuilding community
as the co-founder and editor of the magazine Sport Revue,
and soon would found the German Bodybuilding and Fitness
Federation in 1966. (To this day, Albert is still involved with
the sport as a photojournalist living in Munich, and remains
close friends with Arnold. In 2005, he received the Artie Zeller
award for photographic excellence at the Ironman Pro Invitational
in Pasadena, California.) Albert, impressed both by
Arnold’s physique and charisma, convinced him to move to
Munich and work in the gym he managed.
1966 (CONT.)
Oct. 9
Arnold wins Best Built
Athlete of Europe, in
Cologne, Germany
Oct. 30
Arnold wins Best Built Ath-
lete of Europe, in Stuttgart,
and wins a heavyweight
powerlifting title; Franco
Columbu wins the mid-
dleweight division
1967
Jan. 28
Arnold gives a barbell-
curling demonstration at
the Mr. London contest,
working up to doing cheat
reps with 260 pounds
March 2 & 16
Arnold gets his first and
second covers of Health &
Strength magazine
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“After the show [in Stuttgart] I took Arnold to a restaurant,”
Albert says of his first encounter with the then 18-year-old.
“I already knew that, physically, he had the greatest potential
I’d ever seen. As we talked, his personality and sense of fun
made a deep impression on me. He had a hunger for success
and a drive for improvement I’d never experienced in anyone
before or since. He told me he was looking to make the next
step in his bodybuilding career. He told me his ambition was
to eventually go to the United States, become the best bodybuilder
in the world and be a movie star.”
Indeed, the trip to Stuttgart proved in many ways to be a
worthwhile, if not deviant, venture, as another individual
Arnold met there was Franco Columbu, who was competing
in the lightweight division of the Europe Powerlifting
Championships at the same location. Arnold and Franco,
who was from Sardinia and was now living in Munich, too,
April 4
Arnold places second
at a powerlifting contest
in Germany
Sept. 23
Arnold wins the amateur
NABBA Mr. Universe in
London, tall class and
overall, becoming the
youngest man ever to win
a Mr. Universe title
Even early
in his career,
Arnold
attracted
attention
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When Arnold turned 20, his weight
had reached between 240 and 250
pounds, practically unheard of
for a bodybuilder in the late ’60s
became training partners and friends right away. “Franco
would invite me over to his apartment and cook,” Arnold
says. “He was already a good cook. So we had a terrific time.”
Arnold began training twice a day, six days a week, using a
split routine that would one day become famous. He trained
in the morning from 9–11 o’clock, and then came back at 7 p.m.
for another two-hour lifting session. Fellow gym members
thought Arnold would surely overtrain himself and lose size,
but he gained another 5 pounds of quality muscle in less than
two months using the double-split routine. By the time he was
to compete in his second competition, the Mr. Europe in early
1966, rumors were already spreading of the 19-year-old
Austrian giant with the biggest arms in all of Europe, at 20
inches. Bodybuilding spectators were clamoring to see him in
person, to touch his enormous physique. Arnold won the Mr.
Europe, and soon thereafter won the title of Best Built Man in
Europe in a separate competition.
His next contest was the NABBA (National Amateur
Body Builders Association) Mr. Universe in London, in
September 1966. It was Arnold’s first time on an airplane.
Luckily, he was seated next to two German businessmen who
spoke English. They immediately were enamored of the
young bodybuilder — so much so that they, too, like Albert
Busek, felt compelled to help him. “In that hour-and-a-half
flight,” Arnold says, “it became very clear that I didn’t know
how to even reach my hotel [in London]. The businessmen
guided me through the luggage department and passport
check in the airport. And they offered me a taxi ride, even
though they were going to a different hotel.”
As for the competition itself, being 230 pounds with 20-inch
arms gave Arnold all the size he needed, but one look at his
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1967 (CONT.)
Oct. 26 & Nov. 9
Arnold is on the cover of
Health & Strength
December
Arnold spends Christmas
with Reg Park and his
family in South Africa
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1968
Feb. 2
Arnold’s nephew Patrick
is born
Sept. 21
Arnold wins the NABBA Pro
Universe in London
American competition, namely Chet Yorton, told him he had
a ways to go yet. Arnold was big, yes, but he wasn’t nearly
where he needed to be as a bodybuilder. “The kind of thing
I was seeing [in Chet and the other American bodybuilders]
had very little to do with body size, which was what I had
concentrated on,” he says. “That was mere foundation material.
Now I had to work it down, to carve and shape it. I had to get
the separation, the finish, the tan.”
Regardless, Arnold placed second in the tall class to Chet.
More important, people noticed him. After the show, American
journalists wanted to interview and photograph Arnold.
They wanted to know his training secrets, because surely
to get that large he had to be doing something different.
Spectators of the event were anointing Arnold the next Mr.
Universe. But Arnold took nothing for granted. His hunger
to become the best-built man in the world was only growing.
Arnold would use his arm strength to do 12-ounce curls…
Sept. 27
Arnold arrives in Miami,
Florida, brought to the
United States by Joe
Weider for the IFBB Mr.
Universe. They meet for the
first time the next day
Sept. 28
Arnold wins the IFBB Mr.
Universe tall class, but he
loses the overall title to
Frank Zane in Miami
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…within a few years they measured 22 inches
He returned to Munich and began training even harder,
determined to avenge his loss at the Mr. Universe. By the
following summer, when Arnold turned 20, his bodyweight
had reached between 240 and 250 pounds, a bodyweight
practically unheard of for a bodybuilder in the late ’60s. He
also became leaner and more defined, as he’d set out to do the
previous year in London.
To become an even more complete bodybuilder, Arnold
honed his posing technique, this time with the help of Wag
Bennett, an instrumental player in England bodybuilding
circuits who’d been a judge at the Mr. Universe contest. Wag,
in addition to inviting Arnold to do bodybuilding exhibitions
in England, had him over to his home in London to work on
posing routines. For the first time, Arnold posed to music. As
he recalls the educational session with Wag: “‘Arnold, to
what music do you pose?’ [Wag asked.] ‘Reg Park poses to
Legend of the Glass Mountains.’ And I said, ‘I pose to no music.
I would never know what music to pick.’ And he would say,
‘We’ve got to pick some music for you, because when I bring
you over here for exhibitions, there has to be music.’”
The music Wag selected for him was from the soundtrack
to the movie Exodus. At first, flexing to music seemed silly to
Arnold, but soon his poses were in sync with the rhythm.
After receiving a strong ovation in his first London posing
exhibition, Arnold’s confidence was at an all-time high. The
amateur Mr. Universe competition was approaching once
again, in September of 1967, and in Arnold’s mind, he had
already won.
He was right. Dennis Tinerino, who’d just won the Mr.
America competition, was Arnold’s biggest threat, with
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Chet Yorton not competing this time around. But just as had
been predicted a year earlier, the outcome was clear. Leaner,
more defined and now armed with a new posing routine,
Arnold was the obvious winner, the youngest man ever to
win the Mr. Universe title. And he soaked it all up. As photographers’
light bulbs flashed and fans screamed, Arnold
thought to himself, over and over, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
Mr. Universe 1967.
“It was unlike anything else, the amount of help I got
from so many people,” Arnold says in reference to, among
others, Albert, Wag and even the lucky encounter with the
German businessmen on the plane. “I think they saw I was
sincere, that I wanted in the worst way to be a champion,
that I appreciated any help I could get. It’s amazing how I’m
a product of people helping me and pushing me along.”
Arnold and Franco Columbu, friends for more than 40 years
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SCENE V
December 1967. It’s 4:30 in the morning in South Africa and
Arnold is sleeping.
Reg Park: Come on, Arnold, we got to go training.
Arnold: What?
The two train together from 5 to 7 in the morning. After the workout
they eat protein powder and corn flakes for breakfast. Arnold is staying
at Reg’s house, located on a mountain called Mount Olympus. Reg has at
least one dog named Hercules. This is total madness, Arnold thinks to
himself. But where is he — at the theater again, watching another Reg
Park movie, mistaking some other Austrian teenager for himself? No
way that Arnold is actually working out with his idol and staying at his
house. But it is happening. It isn’t a movie. Arnold may not be the next
Reg Park just yet, but hell if he isn’t training with him!
By the time Arnold won the Mr. Universe title, Reg had
become very familiar with the enormous young Austrian
and invited him to South Africa to train with him. Arnold
couldn’t believe it; not only did he finally get to meet his idol,
but he was now working out with him, too, learning the
things from Reg he could never have gotten from the magazines.
Every morning they trained together, from 5–7. Arnold
was a sponge, soaking up every bit of advice Reg had to offer.
“I was like a panting puppy dog,” he recalls, “lapping up all
the tidbits my master tossed at me. Working out with Reg
definitely changed my view on when to work out, because
I always felt before that the body doesn’t get up to speed until
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around 9, 10 o’clock. With him, we always had to do calf
raises at 6 o’clock with 1,000 pounds, and squatting with 500
pounds at 5:30 in the morning. I don’t think I’ve ever met
anyone who could come close to those kinds of experiences.
I mean, you come from Austria, from the farm, and then all
of a sudden you step into this! You’re living and training with
your idol, who you’d first seen in movies.
“When I came back to Munich, I worked out not from 5–7,
but from 7–9,” Arnold says. “And having my first workout
early in the morning, I could actually put in three workouts
a day — morning, a lunch workout and one in the evening.
Experiences like that will change your way of thinking.”
Arnold couldn’t believe it;
not only did he finally get to
meet his idol, but he was now
working out with him, too
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4) Arnold sizes up his idol Reg Park
5) In 1967, Reg Park (left) was Arnold’s mentor.
Three years later, the pupil beat Reg for the
1970 Mr. Universe title
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“How d’ya
like the
trunks?”
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SCENE VI
September 1968. Arnold is in America. Finally. In Miami.
He’s seeing, for the first time, things he has only seen in movies and books
and magazines: six-lane highways, concrete overpasses that seem to all
spiral together to join this freeway to that freeway. He senses an energy
around him he has never felt before, what he would later describe as a
“Cuban flavor.” He hears Latin music everywhere he goes. Where he’s
from, it’s cold this time of year, but in Miami it’s hot and humid. All
this newness going on around him leads to one simple conclusion: This is
a totally different place.
Arnold was fresh off winning his second NABBA Mr.
Universe contest on Sept. 21. Immediately afterward, he was
contacted by Joe Weider and invited to come to America and
compete in the IFBB Mr. Universe to be held in Miami one
week later. Joe told him that they would then discuss Arnold
coming out to California for a few months afterward to train.
Arnold was confident heading into the contest. American
onlookers were seeing him for the first time and were immediately
taken aback by his size, especially for how young
he was, still only 21 at this point. But Arnold learned yet
another lesson in quality over quantity from one of America’s
top bodybuilders, Frank Zane. Arnold outweighed Frank by
at least 50 pounds, but his definition was no match for the
American’s meticulously carved physique. Arnold won the
tall class but ended up finishing second overall to Frank.
Joe Weider was not deterred. He was fascinated by the
gigantic young bodybuilder with the thick Austrian accent.
Joe and Arnold worked out an agreement shortly thereafter:
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Arnold wins the
Mr. International in
Tijuana, Mexico
Arnold begins writing
under his own byline in Joe
Weider’s MUSCLE BUILDER
Franco arrives in America
and becomes roommates
with Arnold
Arnold would spend one year in America, training and
divulging his techniques to Joe’s magazines. He would also
compete in the following year’s Mr. Universe in New York.
Arnold moved to Southern California and immediately
resumed his training. Only this time, instead of aiming
merely for size, definition and muscle quality held a higher
priority, as he whittled his physique down to 230 pounds from
250 in preparation for the Mr. Universe.
Arnold and Joe formed an immediate bond. Where once
Arnold was like a sponge soaking up Reg Park’s every ounce
of knowledge, now Joe was hungry for every detail of
Arnold’s new life in America. At one point, in 1969, he sent
Arnold to Chicago to train with the reigning Mr. Olympia
and Cuban behemoth Sergio Oliva, who Arnold would
compete against later that year. Joe wanted to know everything
about their time together so he could write a story
about it. “Tell me about your day and about working out with
Sergio,” Joe said each night on the phone. “What did Sergio
Sept. 13
Arnold wins the IFBB
Mr. Universe in New York
City, then places second
to Sergio Oliva in the Mr.
Olympia that same evening
Sept. 20
Arnold wins the pro NABBA
Mr. Universe in London
Sept. 28
Arnold wins the IFBB
Mr. Europe in Essen,
West Germany
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say? How many protein drinks does he take?”
Shortly after, Joe flew Arnold out to stay with him in his
New York apartment (before Joe lived full time in California).
During the stay, one story in particular paints a picture of
Joe’s affinity for Arnold. As Arnold tells it, “It was just
a regular-sized apartment, but it was really nice, with
beautiful antiques and Tiffany lamps and paintings. And Joe
says, ‘The only thing is these two chairs, don’t touch them,
because they’re antiques. I’m really a fanatic about antiques.’
So it comes time to go to bed and I start taking off my pants.
And you know how you take off your pants and you get
stuck? I started falling straight over the antique chair, and
I wiped it out into like 15 pieces lying on the ground. So
I went to Joe and said, ‘Joe, I don’t know what happened.’ If
anyone else would have done it, he would have killed them
right there. But he just looked at it and said, ‘Ah, don’t worry
about it. I’m gonna get it glued together tomorrow.’ That
was really funny because he was probably freaking out
inside over the whole thing.”
This all leads up to Sept. 13, 1969, in New York. It was a
momentous night for Arnold, a microcosm of his competition
experience to this point — a victory and confidence-builder
followed immediately by yet another humbling lesson.
The victory: an easy win in the IFBB Mr. Universe. The
lesson: a loss in the Mr. Olympia competition that same
night to Sergio, who had won the title in 1967 and 1968. Most
notable about the loss was how in awe of Sergio Arnold was.
No sooner did the Cuban strip down to his posing trunks
than did young Arnold concede victory to him. So sure of
himself was Arnold just hours earlier at the Universe, he was
now second place before he even stepped onto the Olympia
stage. But the experience marked an end to two things: This
was the last time he would be intimidated by an opponent.
And it was the last time Arnold would lose.
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1) This looks like the beginning of a beautiful friendship 2) Arnold and Franco soak up the California sun 3) Arnold offers
congratulations to Sergio Oliva for winning the 1969 Mr. Olympia 4) One of Arnold’s favorite issues of MUSCLE BUILDER/POWER
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5
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ARNOLD: THE MOVIE
The Oak is
now fully
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SCENE I
1970. Arnold’s back in the gym, in America for good, and training as
hard as ever. There’s no chalk on the walls in Southern California gyms.
Doesn’t need to be. Arnold knows his goal: to become Mr. Olympia.
Besides, he’s got Franco Columbu to train with now, having talked Joe
Weider into bringing his friend over to America so Arnold would have
a competent training partner. Arnold is taking no chances in his preparations.
He’s spending hours in the gym every day, keeping strict with his
diet, and even taking ballet lessons at UCLA to perfect his posing.
Not that the extent of Arnold’s California
experience was training. Los Angeles, not surprisingly,
was a far cry from Graz, or even
Munich, and Arnold soaked it
all in. “I had some really great
experiences right away,” he
says. “It was always a great
time. Joe would always have
photo shoots on the beach with
a bunch of girls, great-looking
girls. And other bodybuilders
were at the shoots, too, and they
were always a lot of fun. After
several months in California
I returned to Austria for a visit.
After the second day there,
I was already homesick for America.”
The Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia were
held back to back the year before, but in 1970
Arnold competed in three major competitions
ACT TWO
Arnold and Franco hit the weights at
Southern California’s Muscle Beach
in a 15-day span. The first one, the defense
of his pro Mr. Universe title on Sept. 18 in
London, might have been his toughest, based
solely on one factor: Reg Park,
staging a comeback, competed
in the show. Before the contest,
Arnold weighed his options:
Compete and likely beat his
idol, or drop out and avoid the
situation altogether. Arnold
stayed in the competition and
beat Reg, who finished an
impressive second place 20
years after his bodybuilding
debut. “We were both competitors,
sportsmen, and there
was a dignity in that,” Arnold said afterward.
“I didn’t look at it as beating Reg Park but as
being able to step up beside him, to finally
share an equal place with him.”
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The next show was the AAU Pro Mr. World a day later in
Columbus, Ohio. It was here that Arnold first met promoter
Jim Lorimer, who had arranged for Arnold to fly from London
to New York and then hop on a private jet to Columbus
in time for the contest. The two men immediately bonded
and would later become business partners in the Arnold
Schwarzenegger Classic, today one of the two biggest bodybuilding
competitions in the world. More memorable, however,
was the surprising entry of Sergio Oliva, whom Arnold
hadn’t expected to compete against until the Olympia two
weeks later.
As in the previous year, Sergio looked monstrous, but
Arnold was better now than in ’69 — more defined, more separated
and a more astute poser at 240 pounds. This time,
Arnold was victorious, bringing the crowd to its feet in
shouts of “Arnold! Arnold! Arnold!” The upcoming Mr.
Olympia contest, in New York City on Oct. 3, was immedi-
ARNOLD’S
TIMELINE
By Joe Roark
1970
Arnold stars in his first
film Hercules in New York
(sometimes called
Hercules Goes Bananas),
under the stage name
Arnold Strong
ately billed as the ultimate heavyweight showdown.
But the psychological edge was clearly in Arnold’s favor,
for after the Columbus show he cleverly “advised” Sergio to
add 15 more pounds to his frame before the Olympia, explaining
that the extra size would improve his chances of winning.
Sergio trusted Arnold’s advice and aimed to add the weight.
“I told Sergio [at the Mr. World contest], ‘Everyone out there
said that you were ripped, but you somehow had lost your
size,’” Arnold says. “And he says, ‘Oh, man, I’m going to gain
15 pounds so quickly. In New York I’m going to be big again.’
And of course that backfired big time, because you cannot
gain 15 pounds that quickly. You can gain maybe 3, 4 pounds
in two weeks, but not 15.”
Arnold went on to win his historic first Mr. Olympia title,
becoming indisputably the best bodybuilder in the world,
just as he’d set out to be less than 10 years earlier. And yet, his
story was still in its infancy.
Sept. 18
Arnold wins the pro
NABBA Mr. Universe in
London, beating his idol
Reg Park
Sept. 19
Arnold wins Mr. World
in Columbus, Ohio,
beating reigning
Mr. Olympia Sergio Oliva.
Arnold meets Jim Lorimer
at the same contest
Oct. 3
Arnold wins his first
Mr. Olympia title in
New York City
Dec. 5
Arnold receives IFBB
Certificate of Merit
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SCENE II
Early 1970s. Arnold is looking up again, this time through the skylight
windows at Gold’s Gym. He’s going to college in Santa Monica, he
and Franco have established their own bricklaying business, and he has
started his own mail-order operation. And whether he knows it or not,
he’s living in the Golden Age of bodybuilding, training practically every
day at Gold’s with the Francos and Dave Drapers of the world. And how
beautifully and organically it’s all coming together. Arnold and his friends
train early in the morning, as does legendary photographer and friend of
Arnold’s, Artie Zeller, before starting his shift as a postman — and he
always brings his camera. Those skylight windows are perfect for photographing.
So here are Arnold and Dave and Franco, lifting away, and
Artie, clicking away, and morning sunlight shining down on the entire
scene, helping to create the timeless, legendary photos you’re looking at
now. Take away one of these factors — Arnold or Artie or the skylight
windows — and there is no Golden Age, at least not on film.
But amid all the serendipity, Arnold was as hungry as ever.
It had always been his goal to beat the world’s best bodybuilders,
and now that he was the best he still desired to take
on any would-be champions. The 1971 Olympia had all the
makings of the most competitive contest ever, particularly
because of the top two challengers to Arnold’s title. “If there
was ever a heavenly situation, it was [the Mr. Pro Universe in]
London in 1971. Because there was Sergio and [reigning Mr.
Universe] Bill Pearl,” Arnold says. “Sergio had gotten so big
— he went up to 245 pounds or so — and he was scary. And Bill
was the king of the conservative world of bodybuilding, the
traditional NABBA Mr. Universe. I was big, too. I was training
hard and I was around 246 pounds. I felt like this was it —
there is no better place to go and just destroy these guys.”
But Arnold didn’t get his wish. A few weeks before the contest
the IFBB announced that anyone who had competed in
a non-IFBB-sanctioned competition would be ineligible to
compete in that year’s Olympia. Consequently, Arnold
defended his Olympia title unopposed. Looking back at the
Bill Pearl clash that never happened, Arnold says, “To me, taking
on Sergio and Bill would have been pure heaven. It’s
a challenge I would have relished.”
In 1972, he beat Sergio for the last time to claim his third
straight Olympia win, in Essen, West Germany. The victory,
however, wasn’t without some controversy, as Sergio had
improved significantly and came in as big and sculpted as
ever, so much so that many bodybuilding insiders felt he had
the decidedly superior physique. But here was the difference
between having star power and simply having physical power,
between being able to outsmart your opponent and being susceptible
to being outsmarted. It was the difference between
Arnold and Sergio. Had Sergio possessed the intangibles of
his rival, maybe the Olympia outcomes in ’70 and ’72 would
have been different. But, of course, this wasn’t the case — all
the more fortuitous for Arnold.
Arnold won the Olympia again in ’73 and ’74, minus the
controversy that had surrounded wins in previous years. No
one argued his victories anymore, what with Sergio having
removed himself from IFBB contests after his defeat in ’72,
Arnold continuing to improve his physique and his chief competition
being Franco and Frenchman Serge Nubret, both
quality bodybuilders but not quite in Arnold’s league. Running
out of challenges on the bodybuilding stage, Arnold had
his eye on the horizon.
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would have been pure heaven. It’s
a challenge I would have relished”
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1971
May 20
Arnold’s brother
Meinhard dies in a car
crash. Arnold would later
bring his nephew Patrick
to the United States
Sept. 25
Arnold wins the
Mr. Olympia for the
second time (in Paris)
1972
Arnold studies general
courses at Santa Monica
City College in California
Sept. 16
Arnold meets George
Butler for the first time,
and George almost imme-
diately decides that Arnold
should be the main focus
of an upcoming book and
movie tentatively titled
Pumping Iron
Sept. 24
Arnold wins the
Mr. Olympia for the
third time in Essen,
West Germany, with his
father in the audience
November
Arnold injures his knee
when a platform collapses
during a South African
guest-posing appearance
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4) In the Golden Age of bodybuilding, Gold’s Gym featured a who’s who in the sport. From left: Paul Grant, Ed Corney, Danny Padilla
and Arnold 5) Arnold and Ed Corney 6) An off-camera moment from the movie Stay Hungry 7) Arnold and Frank Zane in Santa Monica
5
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Dec. 11
Arnold’s father Gustav
dies of a stroke at age 65
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SCENE III
October 1974. Arnold wants to retire from bodybuilding. What
more is there he can do in the sport? He has just won his fifth Mr.
Olympia title. It’s as if the chalk on the wall said, “Mr. Olympia 5 times,”
and Arnold has drawn five lines underneath that. Time for a new goal.
Time to advance his movie career. But wait. What if going for Olympia
No. 6 will advance his movie career? One more go-round, then. He can’t
miss the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest. George Butler will be there.
Who? George Butler, the author, along with Charles
Gaines, of the book Pumping Iron: The Art and Sport of
Bodybuilding, released in 1974, that delved into the subculture
of bodybuilding and profiled its major players, including
Arnold. The book was well-received,
so now George wanted to turn it into
a movie documentary. And he wanted,
no, needed, Arnold to be the star. No
other bodybuilder had the résumé, presence
and charisma of the Austrian. The
plan was to shoot a number of bodybuilders
preparing for the 1975 Mr.
Olympia, to be held in Pretoria, South
Africa, with the climax set for the finals
onstage. Arnold couldn’t pass up the
opportunity. The cast would include
him, his new “rival” and eventual star
of The Incredible Hulk series Lou Ferrigno,
Franco, Serge, and amateur competitors
Mike Katz and Ken Waller, among others.
Not that this was Arnold’s first motion picture. He had
just filmed the movie Stay Hungry in the spring/summer of
’75, which found him playing a considerable role as Austrian
1973
Arnold starts taking
business courses while
attending night school
at the University of
California, Los Angeles
January
Arnold has surgery on his
left knee, which was
injured in South Africa
Arnold wins his fourth Mr. Olympia title
March 7
Arnold’s second movie,
The Long Goodbye,
premieres
Sept. 8
Arnold wins his fourth
Mr. Olympia title (in New
York City)
bodybuilder Joe Santo alongside Jeff Bridges and Sally Field.
The role required Arnold to drop down to 210 pounds. This
made for close timing, as filming concluded in July and
Arnold had just three months before the Olympia to get his
weight back up to 230–240 pounds. With
cameras on him throughout his precontest
training, he managed to pull it off.
But the groundbreaking documentary
almost didn’t happen. If Charles and
George thought pulling off a book about
bodybuilding was tough — the book’s
first publisher, Doubleday, pulled out
upon receiving the manuscript, reasoning
that no one would be interested in
this character named Arnold Schwarzenegger
— completing a movie project
was a much more difficult (read: expensive)
challenge. George had raised
$400,000 for the filming but soon found
that wasn’t enough. He resorted to fund-raisers, dipping into
his own pocket and incurring serious debt to finance the film,
but it was eventually completed and sold. Once again, fate
was on Arnold’s side, for if the movie had never been made,
1974
Charles Gaines’ and
George Butler’s book
Pumping Iron: The Art and
Sport of Bodybuilding is
published and well-
received
Oct. 12
Arnold wins his fifth
Mr. Olympia title (in New
York City)
October
Sports Illustrated
features Arnold in
“The Men and the Myth”
by R.W. Johnson
Nov. 19
Arnold appears on the TV
show Happy Anniversary
and Goodbye with Lucille
Ball, playing the character
of an Italian masseur
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In the midst of filming the groundbreaking documentary Pumping Iron, which would introduce him to a worldwide audience
who knows what would have become of his Hollywood fate.
In Pumping Iron, Arnold brought the metaphysical — what
he calls “it” — into play. Franco didn’t have “it,” nor did Mike
or Ken, and Lou, playing the role of the subordinate son to the
domineering father, definitely didn’t have “it.” But what
exactly is “it”? Maybe it’s Arnold so eloquently describing
in a now-legendary segment of the movie how the muscle
pump he achieves in the gym is like sex and how he achieves
that orgasmic feeling all day, every day. Maybe it’s Arnold
having breakfast with the Ferrigno family the morning
before the contest, talking trash, telling the Ferrignos he’d
just spoken to his mother on the telephone and told her he
had already won the Mr. Olympia for a sixth time, even
though the contest was still hours away, yet somehow managing
to endear himself to Lou and his dad, the latter two
laughing right along with Arnold. Maybe “it” is Arnold owning
the spotlight throughout the film, concluding in the final
1975
June 16
People magazine
features Arnold in “Arnold
Schwarzenegger: A Name
to Remember in the Body-
Building Business”
by Andrea Joiner
Nov. 8
Arnold wins his sixth
Mr. Olympia title
(in Pretoria, South Africa),
then announces his
retirement from
competitive bodybuilding.
His preparation for the
’75 Olympia is the
backdrop for the groundbreaking
documentary
Pumping Iron, produced
by George Butler
scene with his arm around “Big Louie” on the bus going back
to the airport in Pretoria, even though he’d just beaten him
(Lou finished third). Maybe that’s what “it” is.
But who cares what “it” is? Arnold certainly doesn’t, so
long as he has it. “I had the personality better than anyone
else,” Arnold says. “And I had ‘it,’ whatever ‘it’ is. In terms of
the personality, I think it’s a combination of a zest for life,
curiosity and being entertaining, enjoying being on the stage
and being in the spotlight. Lighting up the room when you
walk in. This is what ‘it’ is. In movies, the camera guys
always come up to me and say, ‘You can’t take any credit for
this because the camera loves you.’ Certain people have it,
and luckily only a few. It means you can go further, you can
push the envelope much harder…you can get away with
more,” Arnold says, smiling.
Arnold, of course, won the 1975 Mr. Olympia competition
easily, beating out Serge and Lou in the over-200-pound class,
Nov. 22–23
Arnold begins a six-city
seminar tour
in Pittsburgh
1976
Feb. 25
With Frank Zane and
Ed Corney, Arnold poses
at the Whitney Museum
of Art in New York City in
an exhibition titled
Articulate Muscle: The
Male Body in Art
April 23
Stay Hungry is released.
Arnold stars with Jeff
Bridges and Sally Field
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“So I did the meditation and it really
helped me for about a year. And then
I stopped, and I never needed it again”
then beating his best friend Franco, the
under-200-pound class winner, in the
pose-off. At the end of the contest,
Arnold predictably announced his retirement
from competitive bodybuilding,
adding, among other things, “This is the
best sport in the world.” In a scene following
that, he strutted around backstage
wearing a T-shirt that read
“ARNOLD IS NUMERO UNO.”
“That year [1975] was the one time
that I had to take transcendental meditation
[to relieve stress],” Arnold says. “I
had to bring myself down because I was
so wired with bodybuilding, Stay Hungry
and Pumping Iron — it was the only time
I felt as though there was really a lot on
my plate. Like with Pumping Iron, it was
the experience of having a camera there
24 hours a day. The film crew just
descended on the gym, you were filmed
all the time, and it rattles you occasionally.
So I did the meditation and it really
helped me for about a year. And then
I stopped, and I never needed it again.
What it came down to was this: You have
24 hours in a day, and you have only
so many years to reach your dreams. I
utilized the 24 hours more than anyone
I know. You snooze, you lose. So what
are you gonna do?”
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Arnold believed
in always moving
forward, never
standing still
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SCENE IV
January 1977. Arnold is staring up at the stage at the Beverly
Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. This is all new to him. Sure, he has been
onstage many times before, he has even sat in the audience. But always in
posing trunks or a sweatsuit, and always around bodybuilders. Never in
a tuxedo. Never in the company of Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman
and Sylvester Stallone. And then suddenly, his name is called, and he’s up
onstage. Arnold has just been awarded the Golden Globe for Best Acting
Debut in a Motion Picture, Male, for his role in Stay Hungry, which
was released in 1976.
Pumping Iron was finally released on Jan. 18, shortly after
Arnold won the Golden Globe, and the documentary
became an instant cult classic. Arnold went on a full media
tour to promote the film, from CBS’s program Who’s Who to
the Today show with Barbara Walters. Just like that, he was
the hottest actor in America, at least temporarily. The little
boy from Thal was standing 10 feet tall.
And was this all brand-new to him? Of course. But he was
right at home, even at the Cannes Film Festival following the
releases of Stay Hungry and Pumping Iron. “Yes, I was at
home,” Arnold says, articulating his innate ability to enter a
new arena and play by its rules. “That’s exactly the way it
ought to be every day, the whole year, with girls lying
around on the beach, and playing soccer with Pelé, and
talking with producers. But it was all crap. Ninetynine
percent of the dialogue at Cannes is nonsense.
This guy or that producer promises you three movies,
so you go back to the press and say, ‘I have so many deals
and now I’m going to make all these movies.’ But it
1976 (CONT.).
Sept. 18
In partnership with Jim
Lorimer, Arnold promotes
the Mr. Olympia contest
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Pumping Iron
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1977
Douglas Kent Hall’s Arnold:
The Education of a Body-
builder is published;
Arnold wins a Golden
Globe for Best Acting
Debut for his role in Stay
Hungry
January
The world’s best-known
bodybuilding movie to
date, Pumping Iron, is
released
Arnold with fellow Stay Hungry cast members Sally Field
and Jeff Bridges
was nothing, it was bogus.”
And what did the two movies, Stay Hungry and Pumping
Iron, have in common? In the latter, Arnold played
himself, a champion bodybuilder from Austria; in the
former, Arnold played the role of, um, a champion
bodybuilder from Austria. A formula for success: Play
yourself, Arnold, be yourself, and you’re set.
Jan. 24
Newsweek magazine
reviews the movie
Pumping Iron
May 5
Arnold appears in an
episode of TV’s The
Streets of San Francisco
called “Dead Lift”
Aug. 28
Arnold meets
Maria Shriver at the
Robert F. Kennedy Tennis
Tournament in Forest
Hills, New York
Oct. 1
Arnold co-promotes the
Mr. Olympia with Jim
Lorimer in Columbus,
Ohio. Frank Zane wins
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ARNOLD: THE MOVIE
SCENE V
August 1977. Look at Arnold now. He’s trying his hand at tennis.
Is he playing? Well, not exactly. He’s mingling with American royalty,
the Kennedys, attending the Robert F. Kennedy Tennis Tournament in
Forest Hills, New York, on Aug. 28. He’s being himself, despite being
in the presence of some of the most powerful people in the country. He’s
a smashing success with the Kennedys, especially with the 21-year-old
niece of JFK, Maria Shriver.
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Arnold wasn’t just a bodybuilder anymore.
He was now a recognizable movie
star, as well as a businessman, having begun
promoting bodybuilding contests, his first
major one being the 1976 Mr. Olympia in
Columbus, Ohio, with Jim Lorimer. Naturally,
Maria was impressed by the fact that
Arnold was a self-made man with as much
passion and ambition as one human being
can possibly have. And the feelings were
mutual. Although Maria obviously benefited from being a member of one of
the country’s most famous families, she was extremely ambitious, a talented
budding journalist who had just graduated from Georgetown University. The
two were immediately attracted to each other and began dating.
The remainder of the 1970s was, by Arnold’s standards, a bit mundane. Following
great success in Stay Hungry and Pumping Iron, his most notable role was
the part of “Handsome Stranger” in the movie The Villain, opposite Kirk Douglas
and Ann-Margret. It wasn’t until 1982 that his film career picked up where
Pumping Iron had left off. Before that, in 1979, CBS aired the Mr. Olympia and
hired Arnold to be an expert commentator. He would have done it again in 1980
but instead opted for a more controversial role in that year’s contest.
1978
The Pumping Iron
calendar is published
and sells for $3.95;
Arnold declines a role
in the Mae West movie
Sextette
Sept. 23
Arnold co-promotes the
Mr. Olympia with Jim
Lorimer in Columbus,
Ohio. Frank Zane wins
1979
Arnold’s Bodyshaping
for Women by Arnold
and Douglas Kent Hall
is published;
Arnold and Bill Dobbins
co-author Arnold’s
Bodyshaping for Men;
Arnold is named Special
Olympics International
Weight Training Coach (he
currently serves as a
Global Ambassador to
the Special Olympics);
CBS hires Arnold as an
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expert commentator
to assist in their
coverage of the 1979
Mr. Olympia contest in
Columbus, Ohio;
Arnold stars in The Villain
(also known as Cactus
Jack) with Kirk Douglas
and Ann-Margret;
Arnold has a cameo
appearance in the movie
Scavenger Hunt with
Richard Benjamin and
James Coco
1) Arnold and Maria in the late ’70s
2) As a color commentator for CBS
Oct. 7
Arnold co-promotes the
Mr. Olympia with Jim
Lorimer in Columbus,
Ohio. Frank Zane wins
Nov. 10
Arnold graduates from the
University of Wisconsin,
Superior, with a major in
international marketing of
fitness and business
administration
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ARNOLD: THE MOVIE
SCENE VI
October 1980. Arnold is looking out the window of an airplane
en route to Sydney, Australia, for the 1980 Mr. Olympia contest. He’s a
CBS employee, making the trip overseas to cover the competition as a TV
analyst. But for some reason, he has been training hard leading up to the
show. But why? Was it for a movie role? Or was he planning on making
a comeback? Couldn’t be. He has been asked that question countless times
recently, and every time he has said no. Frank Zane, Mike Mentzer — the
top bodybuilders of the time — have nothing to worry about. Or do they?
So why was Arnold training so hard? He had told some
people that it was for the part of 1956 Mr. Universe Mickey
Hargitay in the upcoming made-for-television movie The
Jayne Mansfield Story. But he had already finished filming it.
Leading up to the show, Frank asked Arnold if he was planning
on competing. Arnold said no. But what was he supposed
to say? That he was indeed competing,
only to motivate Frank and others to train that
much harder? Arnold would compete, but
he would keep it a secret up until the morning
of the competition. He’d psyched out Sergio
Oliva 10 years earlier at the Olympia. Now
he’d do the same to Frank and Mike with his
surprise entry.
Arnold won the competition in what is still
considered the most controversial Olympia
in history, with Frank finishing third and
Mike fifth. Some called the win a gift, saying
Arnold wasn’t in the shape he was in his
prime and that his legs weren’t nearly big
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1980
The 1980 Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Calendar With Exercises
is published by
Simon & Schuster
October
Arnold appears with
Loni Anderson in the TV
movie The Jayne
Mansfield Story, playing
Mickey Hargitay
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enough to justify the victory. Either way, it was his seventh
Olympia title, the most of all time at that point (two men,
Lee Haney and Ronnie Coleman, have since surpassed
Arnold’s record with eight titles each). It only proved that,
even when not at his best, Arnold still was the best.
“It was maybe the wrong decision, the wrong motivation
With Loni Anderson and Russ Warner at the
premiere of The Jayne Mansfield Story
Oct. 4
As a last-minute entrant,
Arnold wins his seventh
Mr. Olympia title in
Sydney, Australia
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[to compete],” Arnold said recently. “The fact of the matter
was, I was an established bodybuilding champion. I was
someone who switched over to entertainment. I was someone
who was making money from the movies, so why
would I take something like this, a title like this, away from
the [other bodybuilders]? But I always had a big ego and
that also came into play in the whole thing. And I barely
won. I remember that. I barely won. It was really like a hairraising
experience.”
The 1980 Mr. Olympia would prove to be Arnold’s last
bodybuilding contest. He left the competitive side of the
sport as the greatest ever (many feel he still deserves that
accolade), the king of his domain. For most, such accomplishment
would have been enough — but come on, this was
Arnold Schwarzenegger. There were new worlds to conquer.
Hollywood beckoned, and as we’ll discover in Part 2
of his story in the next issue, he was merely scratching
the surface of his legend. M&F
Check out our next
issue for part 2 of
“Arnold: The Movie.”
He’ll be back!
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ARNOLD: THE MOVIE
In 1980 Arnold
leaves competitive
bodybuilding
behind, but he
carries all the
lessons he learned
into the next
phases of his life
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