Arnold Schwarzenegger

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2 Bears, 1 Cave with Tom Segura & Bert Kreischer · Arnold Schwarzenegger PUMPS UP The Bears | 2 Bears, 1 Cave · 23 Dec 2024 podcast

Well, thank you.

But I cannot even take credit for it. Because people always say, you're so disciplined. I have no discipline. It's just who you are. I'm addicted. Oh, you're addicted. It's an addiction. It's kind of like I cannot even imagine myself. the mornings without riding down to the gym with the bike and then working out.

If I don't have it, like sometimes it doesn't work out because there's a morning schedule right away or something like that, then I miss it all day and I'm kind of lost in the way. So it's an addiction. So I think that for my entire life, The 60 years that I've been working out now, it's all because it's an addiction. It's kind of like, I have to. I have to go to the gym in order to feel good.

Because I always tell people, the difference is when I come down with my bike, it's like going through a black and white movie. Then as soon as I work out and I ride back my bike to the hotel and I have some breakfast, it becomes a colorful movie. It becomes colored. Everything is more beautiful. Everything is brighter. I look at life differently. Everything is positive and everything like this.

So it's just... That the workout and having done something for yourself and having pumped up and having struggled a little bit, it makes you feel good for the rest of the day.

Well, first of all, let me tell you, I was so fortunate that I worked out and began my workouts in a weightlifting club. Why? Because I learned quickly that the basic exercises are extremely important. You know, like deadlift, the curl, the barbell curl, bench press, incline press, dumbbell press, deadlift.

All of this stuff is basic stuff that has nothing with machines, but it should be basic weight that if you build that and if you really use that, that you really can build a body, everything from ground up. Those are the basic exercises, or cleaning the weight and then pressing it, snatching the weight up in one motion. All of this stuff is just so good.

You know, so that to me was always the key thing. I always tell people, you know, you always, you learn how to do everything the perfect way for the rest of your life with the other machines, because you know the basic exercises. So to me, the basics are the most important thing.

Then the other thing is, when you talk about what I found out was, I said to myself, I was looking with my bicep, and I said to myself, well, if I go like that, it flexes. I turn the wrist and the bicep flexes. I said, so therefore the motion is not just up and down, but it's also to turn the wrist. So now I put an inside of the dumbbell, an extra two to five pounds.

So now when I curl up like that, I struggle turning the wrist. And therefore, I get more of a cut and more of a height in my bicep. So this was something that no one could see because no one counts the plates and says, why is Arnold using on the left side only four plates and then on the right side there's five plates or something? They don't do that, right?

So you can do that in a very, very subtle way. And then eventually I started explaining it. I said, look, I figured this out a long time ago. And I looked at the anatomy book. and even talked about it, that one of the jobs that the bicep says is to turn the wrist. And so I said, well, here we are. I mean, we got to go into load up on the inside and do the turning of the dumbbell.

So there's certain things that you can't do with just having a barbell because you don't turn. So people that are using a barbell and using a bridge or bench can only get a certain size bicep, but never can really get the height. So the height and the peak you only can get if you turn the wrist. With dumbbells. If you use dumbbells, exactly. Wow. That's right.

Those are the little things that you learn. And the key thing is also when eventually when you get into competition that you really figure out your own body because there is no routine that is exactly the same for everybody. You know, this is like buying gloves or buying shoes. There's different sizes, you know, and the different colors and all that stuff.

And the same is with the working out that, you know, you're brought, like, for instance, Franco, he had shorter thighs, right? So therefore he never had to do as much squats as I had to do. I had long legs, so I had to do twice as much leg work than Franco did. So we, even though we trained together, we sometimes split and Franco was working more on calves,

Or working on his kind of like biceps problems that he had that I didn't have. And I had leg problems that he didn't have and stuff like that. So you have to kind of realize that everybody is built differently and everyone has different needs. And this is exactly the same again with everything. You cannot go and have one way of teaching someone a language.

There are some people that are doing much better when you give them pictures and show them what the words are. Sometimes when you have them watch TV. Sometimes when you have conversations. Everyone operates differently. And so this is what you have to realize, that everyone is somewhat different. There are some common rules, but don't get stuck on those.

Just figure out yourself what works for you.

Well, there was this problem at the day of the competition. And the reason was because you're trying to get rid of the fluid in your body. So doing exactly that what you shouldn't do. I mean, you should do it in order to win, but you shouldn't do it because of health reasons. It's not really good.

So there's guys that actually have... Huge cramps on stage. They do. I've seen that. And this is also the time when you tell people to kind of lay off water so that they do cramp up and you win. And you win. How would you not have them? Like, what's the way that you... Well, I just never went that extreme with the whole thing.

So I said to myself, you know, if I lose because I have too much fluid, I'd rather keep a little bit of fluid because I know I have to do... The pre-charging sometimes takes three hours. So that means that you're posing for three hours. Yeah. You know, legs and calves, and show me your back. And then these idiots ask you the same thing again.

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