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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 174 174 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 MUSCLE & FITNESS Month July 2007 2005 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 » PHOTOGRAPHER’S PhotograPher’s NAME Name THIS PAGE, FROM TOP LEFT: NEW PHOTO BY ROBERT REIFF WITH ORIGINAL IMAGE USED FOR CUTOUT COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS, COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS. OPPOSITE PAGE, FROM TOP: COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS, CARUSO/COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS …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 ARNOLD: THE MOVIE 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 2007OLYMPIA.COM 175
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 176 176 MUSCLE & FITNESS Month July 2007 2005 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 PhotograPher’s Name CLOCKWISE FROM TOP RIGHT: COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS, NEW PHOTO BY ROBERT REIFF WITH ORIGINAL IMAGE USED FOR CUTOUT COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS, GEORGE GREENWOOD/COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS (2), COURTESY OF WEIDER HEALTH AND FITNESS (2). 4 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 5 ARNOLD: THE MOVIE 1 2 3 1) Arnold’s first Mr. Universe win 2) At one of his many magazine photo shoots 3) Victorious in London at the ’67 Mr. Universe “How d’ya like the trunks?” MUSCLE-FITNESS.COM 2007OLYMPIA.COM 185
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