hey guys you know what's really amazing that I have not done an Arnold
Schwarzenegger video on this channel yet oh by the way this Streets of Rage
poster here I've had some comments people wanted me to turn it the right
way so here you go I'm not really sure if that's better or worse for now we'll
keep it the way it was that's better so welcome to ten amazing facts about Arnold
Schwarzenegger. Arnold Schwarzenegger also known as the "Austrian Oak" is one of
the greatest action heroes to ever grace the silver screen so here are 10 amazing
facts you may not be aware of now some of these facts you may be aware of I'm
gonna give you some extra information to help you appreciate the man even more in
addition to that I'm gonna provide some key takeaways that correlate to these
Arnold facts so make sure to stay until the end because there's gonna be something
worth learning more about now let's appreciate this man because I know he
motivated inspired many of you just like he did myself oh and make sure to
comment below if there's any interesting facts that I missed in this video that
you want to share below some number 10 on the list he's actually a lot bigger
than you think but he's also a lot smaller than you think
this may sound contradictory on its surface let me explain when you conjure
up an image of honor short snicker in your head he'll likely be an image from
the 80s or 90s from one of his action masterpieces which is how most people
first seen him and will remember him by the Terminator Predator commando or even
Conan and while he sported a very impressively muscular physique in those
films he's actually much bigger on stage when he was competing in bodybuilding so
he's actually a lot bigger than most people think of remember from a
muscular perspective as far as him being a lot smaller than you think there
are two things going on first we have to put things in perspective I'm sure a lot
of you first see pneumonia with kids growing up in the 80s and 90s he was
larger than life we probably compared him to our own
fathers and other male adults in our lives
most likely puny in comparison so we've seen him as a very large man but look at
this picture of Arnold next a real big men while shooting Conan the Destroyer
Andre the Giant and Wilt Chamberlain and make him look like a little doll also as
far as his actual height goes it's reported that he's 6 foot 2 but I'm not
so sure that's actually accurate he's likely closer to 6 foot in my opinion
let's be honest most of us probably round up when someone asks us how tall
we are for example I'm 5 foot 9 but I claim 5'10" also as far as people who
have actually seen him in person they'll usually say he's not quite as tall as
you'd think case in point one of my ex's father
who's six foot five by the way claimed that Arnold was barely taller than me
I'd say realistically Arnold's probably 2 to 3 inches taller than me but
regardless of height or size he's certainly larger than life the key
takeaway here is just to put things in perspective as that as many of you think
you may have it right now in your own life I guarantee there are millions of
people that would trade shoes with you in a heartbeat I mean literally 1 in 3
people globally do not even have access to safe drinking water and here we are
honoring and that's watching YouTube so number 9 on the list is that he's
actually way richer than you think he's realistically probably worth half a
billion dollars that's 500 million dollars let's put that in perspective
let's say somebody made $50,000 a year it would literally take them 20 years to
get up to a million dollars and that's if they didn't get taxed on any of it
and they didn't spend a single dollar for living expenses it would take them
20 years just to hit the million dollar mark if you're thirty years old and just
had a kid they'd be well on their way to graduate
not only high school but college in that amount of time so 500 million dollars
that's working that same job for ten thousand years now I think that gives
you a realistic picture of just how much money that actually is but here's the
cool thing you don't have to be an international movie star to make that
kind of money though it certainly helps but that's not how Arnold amassed such
wealth he actually started a brick laying business in the late 60s with Franco
Columbu who is also a workout partner of his at the time he then managed to
parlay that into his mail order business selling exercise equipment and
instructional videos then he became a champion bodybuilder we all know and
transitioned into the movie star we all loved and then parlayed that money into
real estate investments and other business ventures despite being from
Austria he is a human embodiment of the American dream an Arnold grew up in a
small village in a house that had no phone no fridge and no toilet in fact he
says one of the biggest highlights of this youth was when his family could
afford to buy a refrigerator here's a takeaway on this one it doesn't really
matter where he came from Arnold's great success is not nearly as
unique as you think now don't get me wrong he's extremely successful and
wealthy and obviously among what would be considered the ultra wealthy which by
definition is usually considered wealth in excess of 30 million dollars but
here's where I'm going with this his success is not unattainable
had very humble beginnings in fact the majority of ultra wealthy individuals
are actually self made just shy of 70% of them in fact let
that sink in and think about this picturing the self-made guy with the
kind of fu money who flies around in his own Learjet let's say was wiped out in a
day all of his wealth gone do you think he would ever get it back of course he
can now picture the average guy or girl could they ever get that kind of fu
money in their own Learjet well they most likely won't but they're
essentially starting at the same level as a self-made individual who did so why
couldn't they something to think about key takeaway don't set limits for
yourself in other words just like Arnold never did
speaking of Arnold growing up number 8 on the list is that his father never
liked him and instead had a clear preference for Arnold's older brother Meinhard
sad but true the reason for this was that apparently stem from his
father's unfounded suspicions that Arnold was not his biological son now
whether or not that was true the fact of the matter is Arnold did not have a
great childhood as a result and did not even get along with his own brother
though he was at least close with his mother key takeaway here is that at the
end of the day some people have it easier than others and we can consider
them lucky but what we really need to focus on is a great quote by Bruce Lee
he says "don't pray for an easy life pray for the strength to endure a
difficult one." so number seven on this list he was way stronger than you think
they don't just cast anybody as Hercules after all he may not exactly be able to
show the press a Mini Cooper during his early years in bodybuilding he also
competed in Olympic weightlifting and powerlifting contests he won two
weightlifting contests in 1964 and 65 as well as two powerlifting contests in
1966 and 68 in 1967 he even won the Munich stone lifting contests lifting a
five hundred and sixty pound stone between his legs while standing on two
foot rests as far as his Olympic lifts go his personal records for those were a
clean impress of 264 pounds a snatch of 243 pounds and clean-and-jerk
of 298 pounds as far as the big three lifts for powerlifting goes his pros
from records for those were squad of 545 pounds a benchpress of 520 pounds and a
deadlift of 710 pounds no siree big list would add up to a
total of 1775 pounds very impressive very solid numbers for
the key takeaway here is not to just look the part but be the part especially
in this day and age where everyone seems to put up a front especially on social
media but for you lifters out there don't just pile on the weight and risk
injury instead I think most gym rats you focus on being more athletic and agile
so number six on the list is it's way more dominant body building than you
think in fact the Guinness Book of World
Records called him the most perfectly developed man in the history of the
world I'm sure plenty of you are aware that he's won the mr. Universe title as
well as numerous mr. Olympia titles let's get a little more specific here
and break down what he really achieved he became the youngest mr. universe in
history winning that first title at the age of 20 and then winning it several
other times as well but the biggest competition of bodybuilding is actually
the mr. Olympia the brainchild of Joe Weider who created it as a way to enable
winners of the Mr Universe title to compete against one another honest first
Olympia appearance was in 1969 and he took second place to Sergio Olivia
the following year in 1970 Arnold would win the highly coveted title and
continue a dominant reign until 1975 when he would retire from the sport the
1975 and mr. Olympia was a subject of the documentary pumping iron by the way
which really helped the sport of bodybuilding gain some much-needed
popularity Arnold would then make a comeback in the 1980 mr. Olympia and be
the subject of yet another documentary this one appropriately titled comeback
after an absence of five years six times mr. Olympia when her arms war singer
makes a comeback and attempts to take the world bodybuilding championship for
the seventh time and he did this one however was considered controversial as
some people believe he wasn't deserving of the title his most outspoken critic
at the time was a late Mike Mentzer who came in fifth place that year but
Arnold's win and the overall politics with in bodybuilding as a whole of such
a bad taste in Mike Mentzer's mouth he wound up retiring his posing trucks and
decided never compete again nevertheless whether Arnold Schwarzenegger was deserving
with that 1980 mr. Olympia title win or not that contest would gain him his
seventh overall title and he still remains the face of bodybuilding to this
date and an overall great ambassador for the sport the key takeaway here is and
we're gonna go with Mike Mentzer's perspective life's not fair
it never was for anyone and never will be but you know what get over it
Mike Mentzer never got over the 1980 mr. Olympia he felt like he gave the contest
is all but was a victim of politics and conspiracy
I could clearly see why he might be frustrated but let the anger and
frustration subside don't let it consume you don't let it turn you into a victim
so what if you were passed up on that job promotion by another colleague who
was less deserving of it if you really feel that way and you're honest with
yourself and you know your value then find another company that will pay you
for what you're worth it's too easy for us to get complacent I've been there
myself some number five on the list is his dedication of training was insane he
was obsessed although Arnold Schwarzenegger was always athletic he
wasn't immediately drawn to weightlifting the study got his start in
soccer I'll say as a way to try to impress his father who had some catch in
the iron bug however at around the age of 14 or 15 after her soccer coach took
him and his team to do some weight training at the local gym and that
moment on Arnold was hooked he gave up soccer and began pursuing the
career as a professional bodybuilder and strongman after he had started lifting
weights as a teenager he noticed this body was becoming disproportionate his
arms and chest were developing nicely but as the calves and lower legs weren't
quite getting the same type of development to motivate himself to work
even harder on his calves he could off to his pants at the knees walk around
like that people would look at and sometimes snicker out the big man with
the chicken legs he was actually so dedicated as a teenager that when the
local gym was closed on the weekend he would break in to work out all said it
would make me sick to miss a workout I knew I couldn't look at myself in the
mirror the next morning if I didn't do it
Schwarzenegger served in the Austrian army for here as part of the mandatory
service requirement for all eighteen-year-old Austrian males he went
AWOL during basic training so he could compete in the junior mr. Europe
conscious and spent a week in military prison as a result
honorable is also known as a volume trainer for example when training for
the 1975 mr. Olympia title the schedule consisted training six days a week twice
a day on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays and once a day on Tuesdays Thursdays and
Saturdays it's not the type of volume that anyone would really advise these
days and is actually pretty similar to what Sylvester Stallone did throughout the 80s when
training for a new Rocky or Rambo film even Stallone admits that what he did at
the time was just overkill and no one really needs to train that long to get
great results the key takeaway here is that to become great at something you
have to become obsessed now realistically what most of us could take
away from this is just to be more efficient smarter with that time it's
not like any of us really have six hours just for a day to work out but we're not
exactly trying to be mr. Olympia either but there's no reason we can't put in a
solid efficient hour in the gym several times a week just get off your phone if
you're gonna do that and cut the rest time down and you'll still get great
results remember to take advantage of the time you do have there some number
four on the list is the man has his own statute the statue of honor
Schwarzenegger is an 8 foot tall bronze sculpture erected in 2012 in commemorate
his 1970 mr. world title at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium was at that out of
Turin where the 1970 mr. world competition was actually held at that
time young bodybuilding sir I just arrived in the city fresh from the mr.
universe victory in London and rügen third president of Columbus City Council
said that the statute not only memorialized as a partnership between
Schwarzenegger in the city but also the former governors accomplishments in the
state of California as well as his promotion of leadership and healthy
lifestyles throughout the world the Veterans Memorial Auditorium was
bulldozed in 2014 by the way so obviously that statue could not remain
there the statue was moved downtown near the Columbus Convention Center where the
annual Holland Sports Festival is held under Schwarzenegger has got another
statue this time when carved out of a black oak tree trunk which is very
fitting since his nickname is the Austrian oak master sculptor James
O'Neill's Austrian oak measures six foot two in height weighs 350 pounds and
features Arnold in a signature bodybuilding pose the black oak statue
took James O'Neal more than six months to complete the wooden statue of Arnold
ended up being a big hit at the 2019 Arnold Sports Festival and James O'Neill
has since gathered quite the following on Instagram under his username James
O'Neillwoodart, he currently has over 25,000 followers the key takeaway here
is to make a positive impact while most of us will never have a statue fashioned
after us we can still positively impact lives
whether it's with your own children or volunteering to help out the less
fortunate do something that helps in some way to make this world a better
place when you leave and when it was when you arrived number three on the
list is that Arnold Schwarzenegger actually did ballet
despite the tutus ballet is way more manlier than you may think
ballet is all about grace and confidence body posture and creating visual
symmetry with the body these elements are what les Schwarzenegger become such
a good poser so with bodybuilding you obviously need
a good amount of muscle and it will define physique and with that you need
to know how to properly show it off and Arnold certainly knew this I don't think
a lot of bodybuilders spend nearly enough time developing this skill in
fact there was an amazing body builder in the 90s who is truly lacking in this
area being Paul Dillet. Arnold: "Posing is just extremely
important this is why I always say to bodybuilders, you must practice the posing
as much as you train your body because it's the very crucial stage it's the
last round that's where you win or lose. Paul Dillet is 260 pounds has enormous chest and leg
developments and I hope he works on his posing." Arnold's not the only one who
practicee ballet in order to better their own craft by the way Jean-Claude Van
Damme comes in mind he also implemented ballet and his own
training to help increase his balance and flexibility which is one reason he
looks so incredibly graceful with his karate
so you might think the takeaway here is that ballet is awesome which it
certainly is but the real takeaway is to think about something you can include in
your own life to make you better at your craft even if it's something more broad
like meditation for example that practice will make someone more focused
and calm in all aspects of life speaking of meditation Arnold Schwarzenegger says
a year of practicing Transcendental Meditation in the 1970s squashed his
anxiety and fundamentally changed the way he approached life so number two on
this list despite all odds he became one of the most successful actors in the
world before becoming one the most successful actors in the world
he really had everything going against him yet his films that ended up grossing
over 4 billion dollars worldwide when he started his acting career he was told
his body was too muscular his accent was too thick and his name was too confusing
for him to ever become successful in a very early film Hercules in New York for
example Schwarzenegger was actually credited as Arnold Strong but he would
soon drop the cheesy pseudonym insisted upon using his real name which has since
become synonymous with some of the greatest action films of all time
going back to Hercules in New York the studio ended up dubbing his voice due to his
strong accent "I am tired of the same old faces, the
same old things." now his accent has since become part of
his appeal in fact he stated that he could speak unaccented English if he
needed to but added the very things that they said would make it impossible for
me to be successful in acting were the things I became my assets referring to
his name his voice "the same old things" and his physique the key takeaway here
is that all of us are unique individuals we shouldn't try to become something
we're not it's not authentic what we should do
however is become the best versions of ourselves that we can Arnold has clearly
done this and achieved great success as a result speaking of movies number one
on this list is at Arnold Schwarzenegger actually directed a movie now this
wouldn't be on the same caliber what sylvester stallone did that man directed
rocky two three four Rocky Balboa as well as 2008's Rambo in 2010's The
Expendables Arnold gave us a remake of the film from 1945 something you'd
probably never guess, for example it was romantic comedy 1992's made for
television movie Christmas and Connecticut the story sees a star of a
successful cooking show that is set to do a live show on Christmas where she'll
cook Christmas dinner but what no one knows is that she can't cook I'm not
sure why I did this movie but he probably wanted to try something new and
needed a break from all the action after 1991's Terminator 2 Judgment Day smashed
box-office records now the key takeaway here is to try new
things you never know what will happen while Christmas in Connecticut didn't exactly
make Arnold a prominent film director and that was likely not his intention it
is a good idea to stretch yourself I mean what if Arnold just stuck to soccer
and never tried out weightlifting as a teenager well I'm pretty sure no one
would have ever heard of him. so there you have it that's Arnold let me know in
the comments section by the way if any of you enjoyed these key takeaways and
as always thanks for watching the video