yes you too can have a body like mine if you're not careful pathetic isn't it but
here to show us what the human body can look like is rather a remarkable man
we've just been watching him in action Arnold Schwarzenegger Arnold is probably
the most successful body builder of all time he's won the Mr Universe
competition five times and the mr. Olympia competition which is the
American version a staggering six times um let me start by asking you this can
anybody build muscles like this I mean could I or is it something you're born
with no I think anybody could build muscles
like that but it's not to the interest of anybody I mean a lot of people go
into weight training and just want to do it for fitness or for health and further
reasons like that only 5% of the people who are training with weights are doing
it for the reasons I did it for which is you know to go into competition to try
to win mr. America mr. universe and mr. Olympia and it was just the goal that I
had when I was 15 what why did you start to do it I mean well you were you
bullied when you were little sand kicked in your face no we don't have that much
Saint in Austria but I tell you I just got into it because it really felt great
doing weight training I did it for soccer you know and like a lot of soccer
players to weight training to strengthen their legs and I really I think I fell
in love with that with the weight training or with the feeling of being
strong and being big and all that and I wanted to win mr. universe and it was a
dream that I had when I was 15 years old and there's a dream that a lot of kids
have and that's what the film pumping iron is about about a dream that kids
have then they make it come true in the film you know you can see that and
that's what I did well although it's a dream that would never come true in my
case supposing I wanted to put a bit of put a
bit of muscle and we've got a set of weights here in the studio yeah perhaps
you could show us some basic exercises that were just getting start you off
from the right track yes first we have to compliment you for your physical
development because you really look very athletic and good so don't put yourself
down just okay okay the first exercise I'm gonna show you is what we call the
bench press it is a exercise a basic exercise that every beginner should do
no matter what sport you're in you let it down the weight to the chest
and you press it up which muscles is not that develops the chest muscles the
pectoral muscles the pectoral yeah okay you do around 10 repetitions with the
light weight just to warm up and you do it in five times you're not again yeah
sure that's right I'm gonna bench like this you could almost make do with a
couple of chairs you can do it on the floor or that's the great thing about
this exercise is you can do it at home okay just let it down slowly and press
it up to my hand okay and press out when you press up yeah that's very good yeah
okay keep doing to my reputation how many two more two more okay great so
have is the spot that this is only 65 pounds only yeah the next exercise you
do after that is what we call a squat or knee bends you put the weight behind
your neck and then you go down below parallel now this is a exercise that
every athlete is doing skiers soccer players football players everybody is
doing it why don't you try one I suppose you really need someone to help you
don't you if no you really don't I mean you get into the habit of helping
yourself but it's better training with a training partner
okay come slowly up yeah and slowly down up quickly okay what about the dumbbells
down here is there is there a simple exercise we can do with you cuz I should
imagine that they're not too expensive so perhaps if you're thinking of
starting right you might be able to invest
okay the dumbbells the numbers are very good for arm development for the lids at
the biceps okay you start along your thigh area and then you move them up
slowly to your shoulders in town like end up in always very slow and
concentrate on the muscle you're training it's a very simple exercise
that everybody can do right from the beginning why don't you try to do one
when you go in for a bodybuilding competition what are the judges looking
for what is looking for proportion symmetry the size of the muscles you
know how you can pose and present the muscles to the judges okay why don't you
do it the way I did you start turning is that right on the thighs and
then you turn it up because the biceps is two jobs to do one is to lift up the
forearm and the other one is to turn the wrist so there's movement yeah okay very
good yeah okay well we've got some you already pumped up but can't believe that
we do Spanish groans look at me doing it now let's we've got we've got a little
piece of film of some of your friends in action perhaps you'd like to take a look
at this yeah and tell us just what they're doing and exactly what the
exercises that they're doing is going to help here it comes
okay fine he's working the arms yeah he's working around on a chest actually
and this is what what you see right now it's just training it is done before
competition which is a very strenuous type of training that we go through it's
two hours in the morning and around two hours at night and we lift an average of
50 tons of weight a day in order to get those built and you know you gain around
20 pounds of company of muscle size before a competition like three months
before a competition listen it look to me as though those guys were in absolute
agony doing that is the pain in any way important well that's the great thing
that this film brings out that you can see you know what kind of strainers
exercises one has to go through to become a world champion and that I think
you know separates the ones who just do it for a hobby or for health and fitness
and the ones who really do it for a profession and want to be the world
champion I mean that's where the difference is you have to break through
this pain barrier otherwise you will never get there well thank you very much
indeed for coming in and giving us a few tips I gather that you've not only
broken through the pain barrier very successfully you've broken into films so
on behalf of everyone here come I wish you all the very best of success