Rob, I'm looking at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Height page on your site
31 pages, 8000 comments...surely you're the man to tell me How Tall Arnie is?
Well do you want the short or long answer?
Make it somewhere in the middle
start where Arnie claims
you don't become by a nickname like Big Arnie
without there being some substance to it, right?
you're Big Rob though
I'm a special exception
Now Arnie in the past has been described
as a huge muscular man mountain from Austria
and during his bodybuilding career
he was actually described as about Six Foot One
but Arnie himself says he's heard these rumors
that he's a short guy
But he can assure you Jenny
He's really tall
And Six Foot Two
And you'd have to strain your neck UP
just to talk to him
Six Foot Two?
He looks TINY in this photo
How tall are these guys?
That's Seven Foot One Wilt Chamberlain
And Seven Foot Andre the Giant
most folk are gonna look tiny standing next to those two giants
Well he doesn't look Six Foot Two
Has Arnie ever been measured?
Funnily enough Jenny, he was!
Way back in 1969 in Honolulu
a fellow bodybuilder - Vince Basille - measured Arnie
barefoot
and he came in at
Six Foot One
and a half
What about Kevin Sorbo?
I read that he claimed Arnie was only 5 foot 11
He's been described...even shorter
WHAT?
No Way!
Yip
Back in 1984, when the Terminator was released
a journalist wrote: "At 5 foot 10, Schwarzenegger is not particularly tall"
That's a one-off surely?
Nope
In 1991
another journalist said
Schwarzenegger, who by the way isn't as short as apocryphal stories go
stands about 5 foot 10
do you believe he could be that short?
Well look at Arnie with people I've met
You've got Evander Holyfield
Whose over Six Foot One
You've got Chris Eubank
Whose a solid Five Foot Ten
and does that look
like a 5 foot 10 man
with BIG G?
And what about Sarah Douglas from Conan
She's almost 5 foot 10
Yeah, he looks over Six Foot
Those 80's movies are great
Remember Red Sonja?
Brigitte Neilsen
Claims she's almost 6 foot 1
So in the 80's Arnie was about 6 foot 1
Somewhere around that range
I mean if you believe the height measurement
then in his prime Arnie was
6 foot 1 and a half
But people shrink don't they?
Exactly
And if you've spent decades being a champion bodybuilder like Arnold
Then you're gonna lose more height
than mere mortals like ourselves
So how tall is Arnie nowadays?
You know Lewis Hamilton
the racing driver
Well he was measured about 5 foot 7 and a half
and even he was shocked
when he met Arnie
Wow
He looks barely 5 foot 10 there
It could be worse
How exactly?
Well see this guy with Arnie?
Who is he?
NFL player Antonio Brown.
I remember you mentioning that guy
Wasn't he measured just over 5 foot 10?
Which would make Arnie what?
Five Foot Nine?
maybe Antonio grew?
funny enough...here's Antonio
beside another natural bodybuilder Jeff Cavaliere
How tall is Jeff? 5 foot 8?
Would you believe Jeff got measured
5 foot 10 and a half
What!
Crazy...isn't it?
Remember Terminator 1 and 2?
Yeah, awesome films
Well look at Arnie nowadays
with the almost 6 foot Michael Biehn
and Edward Furlong
we met Eddie
he was over 5 foot 5
Arnie looks about Five Eleven
So what's your final verdict?
How tall is Arnold Schwarzenegger
Well in his prime
I reckon Arnie stood somewhere between 6 foot 1
and 1 and a half
and in his 70's he's shrunk
he's lost a couple of inches
and today
sits about 5 foot 11