1. ARNOLD:
THE MOVIE
1960–1970
The inspiration,
the dedication
and drive that
fueled Arnold’s
early years
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ARNOLD:
THE MOVIE
1970–1980
The Oak becomes
Mr. Olympia, and
Hollywood begins
to take notice
of Arnold
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YEARSAs he prepares to celebrate his 60th birthday
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ARNOLD
THE MOVIE
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Look at Arnold Schwarzenegger; look at
everything he has done since growing up
poorinatinyAustrianvillage.Seeallthe
bodybuilding titles he won, all the movies
he starred in, the hundreds of millions of
dollars he made, the political office he now
holds and the influential national figure he’ll be
in the 2008 presidential election. See the enormous
legend growing right there in front of you: One of the
largest yet perhaps most improbable icons the world
has ever seen — maybe even the most recogniz-
able person on the planet.
But for a better perspective you must look
through the lens of a movie camera. The
naked eye won’t work — it would never
believewhatitwasseeing.Noway,youreyes
wouldtellyou,thatthisman’sstoryactually
occurred the way it did. Only in a movie
would this happen, and only in the most unbe-
lievable of fantasy tales. Through a camera lens
it’s easier to understand, even if for only a couple
of hours, that, sure, maybe it could’ve happened.
That’s the only way you’ll be able to put Arnold’s
story in context. In fact, he feels the same way.
“I still look back today,” he remarks about his
incrediblelifejourney,“andsaytomyself,‘Howdidit
happen?Howdidthatbecomeareality?’”Through
a series of events that can be told only as if
scripted for a movie, that’s our contention.
So sit back, relax and enjoy the picture.
“Truth is stranger than fiction,
but it is because Fiction is obliged
to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
— Mark Twain
COVER STORY
ARNOLD: THE FIRST 60 YEARS
By Joe
Wuebben
and
Peter
McGough
2007 Photos
by Robert Reiff
Lights,
camera,
Arnold!
2. ARNOLD: THE MOVIE
ARNOLD: THE FIRST 60 YEARS
960-1970
Before
The Oak
there was
The Acorn
SCENE I
Summer 1962. Fourteen-year-oldArnoldSchwarzeneggerwalks
into a gym for the first time in his hometown of Graz, Austria. The place
is very primitive, like some sort of torture chamber or dungeon.
Weightlifters are doing clean and jerks and presses and squats on a
weightliftingplatform.Youcanhearthehummingofquietconversations,
and every so often someone screams loudly in the middle of a set of squats
orsnatches.Outsideofthat,verylittleidlechitchattakesplace.Thewalls
of the gym are filled with chalk. In one small area, for instance, “Clean-
and-Jerk 20 sets” is written on the wall. Underneath that, white chalk
lines are drawn to tally how many sets have been performed. Other
lifting stations have different colored chalk on the walls for different
exercises, all serving as archaic training logs.
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Forty-five years later, those chalk lines stand
out in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mind more
than anything else.
Andwhynot?Because,afterall,youcanmore
or less boil the story of Arnold Schwarzenegger
downtochalkmarks:settinggoals,drawingup
a plan to achieve those goals and then execut-
ing the plan successfully. Then setting further
goals and planning and executing, and so on.
No goal was off limits. No goal was too grand,
too far beyond Arnold’s reach, whether it
meant setting out to be the best bodybuilder
in the world as a 150-pound 14-year-old or
somehowparlayingthatintoamoviecareer,in
America of all places. What better way to set
a goal than with some chalk on a wall?
“I loved the idea of writing down your goal
and then, in the next hour or two, turning
it into reality,” Arnold says. “You knew that if
you made 18 lines and the number 20 was there
youwereshort,andyoucouldnotreallyfollow
through with your goal, and you better go
and do the other two sets. That’s one thing
I learned from bodybuilding: If you set a goal,
you better follow through. You write it down,
you tell everyone about it, so you make an
official commitment. Then you have to go all-
out, otherwise you embarrass yourself.”
ACT ONE
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ArnoldwasbornJuly30,1947,inThal,Austria,asmallvillage
of 1,200 people. He was the son of Gustav, a tall, solidly built
man, a former ice-curling champion who
madeacareerinlawenforcementaschiefof
police for the area surrounding Graz (4
miles or so from Thal), and Aurelia
Schwarzenegger. His older brother Mein-
hard was physically gifted in his own right,
maybe even more so than Arnold, though
hedidn’tpossessthesamedrive.(Meinhard
died tragically in a car crash in 1971.)
With the encouragement of his father,
Arnold grew up immersed in sports: soccer
especially, but also ice-curling, running,
swimming, boxing and throwing the
javelinandshotput.Thelatteractivitiesare
evidence that he preferred individual
sports, where one person, and one person
only, would receive reward and praise for
a victory.
Duringthesummerof1962,justbeforehe
turned 15, Arnold discovered bodybuilding
as a way to get stronger for soccer, and
immediatelyheknewthat’swhathewanted
to do. At roughly 6 feet tall and only 150
pounds, Arnold, though thin, was athletic and muscular
for his age, and older gym members who saw his physical
potential took him under their wings.
Soon thereafter, Arnold quit playing all other sports. He
was hooked on lifting weights. Three
nights a week he would go to the gym in
Graz, 6 miles from his home. He either
walked or rode his bike to get there,
which didn’t bother him, as he knew it
was helping strengthen his body, specifi-
callyhislegsandlungs.Thegym,housed
in Graz’s soccer stadium, was closed on
weekends because of matches being
played there, which forced Arnold and
his lifting partners to break the gym’s
windows to get in and lift. Other days he
trainedathomeinthegymheconstructed
out of basic equipment welded to suit
his needs.
This home gym wasn’t heated, of
course.InthemidstofanAustrianwinter,
Arnold often trained in below-zero
temperatures. The club where he lifted
in Graz was similar in that it had just one
primitive heater for the entire place.
Arnold can still recall his hands sticking
to the chinning bar while working out
because the room and equipment were so cold, and ripping
the skin off his fingers to remove them.
Arnold can still recall his hands
sticking to the chinning bar while
working out because it was so cold
TIMELINE
ARNOLD’S
ByJoeRoark
The early days: Arnold and his
older brother Meinhard and the
house they grew up in
1907
Aug. 1
Arnold’s father Gustav
is born
1922
July 29
Arnold’s mother Aurelia
is born
1945
Oct. 20
Arnold’s parents marry in
Mürsteg, Styria
1946
July 17
Arnold’s older brother
Meinhard is born
1947
July 30
Arnold is born at 4:10 a.m.
in Thal, Austria
1953
Arnold begins attending
the Hans Gross School
in Thal
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SCENE II
Later that summer, 1962.Arnoldislookingupatthewall
again; this time it’s the wall of a movie theater in Graz. He is watching
Herculesvs.theVampires.Andthereheis:RegPark,themanArnold
had already seen and admired in muscle magazines. Reg is rugged,
powerful and rough, more so than, say, Steve Reeves, another popular
bodybuilderturnedmoviestar,whoArnoldfindstoopolishedandelegant
for his liking. Reg Park is Arnold’s new idol.
And there it was, on the wall, another goal: to become the
next Reg Park. Arnold became obsessed with the man. He
learned everything he could about Reg — what he ate, how
he trained — from programs published in muscle maga-
zines. He studied every photo of Reg he could, read every
GermanarticleonReghecould,andevenhadafriendtrans-
late the ones written in English. The men Arnold trained
with at the gym told him maybe, just maybe, he could
achieve what Reg had in the next 10 years. But Arnold didn’t
have 10 years. He wanted it sooner, so he stepped up his
training, lifting six days a week, sometimes more than once
a day. Workouts on top of workouts, and, more importantly,
goals on top of goals: Arnold wouldn’t just be the next Reg
Park. He would be the best-built man in Europe. And he
wouldeventuallybethebestbodybuilderintheworld.Then
he would go to America where he, like Reg, would star in
movies. The chalk was on the wall.
But how? No one in those days ever traveled that far, from
Nowhere,Austria,toAmerica.Noonecouldaffordto.“The
goal was to become another Reg Park,” Arnold says. “I had
no idea at that point how to do it, but I was absolutely con-
vinced that this was going to happen. I always felt that I was
going to get out of Austria and come to America. From the
time I was something like 10 years old I felt this way. But
I had no idea how I was going to make that happen, because
there just seemed to be no way.”
No way he would do all this — move to America, star in
movies, become famous — all because of bodybuilding. It
was a widely unaccepted sport at the time — most of his
friends,nottomentionhisparents,founditaratherpeculiar
way to spend one’s time — but Arnold set a precedent of
carving his own path rather than simply doing what was
popular. He didn’t want to be a fireman, detective or sailor
like the other kids. And, for that matter, he didn’t want to be
just another bodybuilder.
“With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn’t normal,”
Arnold says. “Normal people can be happy with a regular
life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than just
plodding through an average existence. I’d always been
impressedbystoriesofgreatnessandpower.Caesar,Charle-
magne, Napoleon were names I knew and remembered.
I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the
best.Isawbodybuildingasthevehiclethatwouldtakemeto
the top, and I put all my energy into it.”
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1955
Nov. 6
Maria Shriver, Arnold’s
future wife, is born
1962
February
Arnold finishes sixth in an
ice-curling competition
1962
July
A 14-year-old Arnold
meets Kurt Marnul (future
Mr. Austria), manager
of the Athletic Union Graz
in Graz, Austria
Arnold begins work
as an apprentice
carpenter in Graz
1964
February
Arnold wins the city
and national curling
championships, junior
division
April 26
Arnold places third
in Mr. Austria and
Mr. Herkules, and fourth
in Mr. Steiermark
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The
odyssey
begins
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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
inthemorningfrom9–11o’clock,andthencamebackat7p.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
twomonthsusingthedouble-splitroutine.Bythetimehewas
tocompeteinhissecondcompetition,theMr.Europeinearly
1966, rumors were already spreading of the 19-year-old
Austrian giant with the biggest arms in all of Europe, at 20
inches.Bodybuildingspectatorswereclamoringtoseehimin
person, to touch his enormous physique. Arnold won the Mr.
Europe,andsoonthereafterwonthetitleofBestBuiltManin
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,hewasseatednexttotwoGermanbusinessmenwho
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.”
Asforthecompetitionitself,being230poundswith20-inch
arms gave Arnold all the size he needed, but one look at his
Americancompetition,namelyChetYorton,toldhimhehad
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
concentratedon,”hesays.“Thatwasmerefoundationmaterial.
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, Ameri-
can 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.
When Arnold turned 20, his weight
had reached between 240 and 250
pounds, practically unheard of
for a bodybuilder in the late ’60s
Arnold would use his arm strength to do 12-ounce curls…
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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
1968
Feb. 2
Arnold’s nephew Patrick
is born
Sept. 21
Arnold wins the NABBA Pro
Universe in London
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
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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
circuitswho’dbeenajudgeattheMr.Universecontest.Wag,
inadditiontoinvitingArnoldtodobodybuildingexhibitions
in England, had him over to his home in London to work on
posingroutines.Forthefirsttime,Arnoldposedtomusic.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
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 pho-
tographers’ 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: THE MOVIE
…within a few years they measured 22 inches
Arnold and Franco Columbu, friends for more than 40 years
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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’tbelieveit;notonlydidhefinallygettomeethisidol,
but he was now working out with him, too, learning the
things from Reg he could never have gotten from the maga-
zines.Everymorningtheytrainedtogether,from5–7.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
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
ofasudden youstep intothis!You’relivingandtrainingwith
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
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1 2 3
“How d’ya
like the
trunks?”
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
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5
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ARNOLD: THE FIRST 60 YEARS
970-1980
The Oak is
now fully
grown
SCENE I
1970. Arnold’s back in the gym, in America for good, and training as
hard as ever. There’s no chalk on the walls in Southern California gyms.
Doesn’t need to be. Arnold knows his goal: to become Mr. Olympia.
Besides, he’s got Franco Columbu to train with now, having talked Joe
Weider into bringing his friend over to America so Arnold would have
a competent training partner. Arnold is taking no chances in his prepara-
tions. He’s spending hours in the gym every day, keeping strict with his
diet, and even taking ballet lessons at UCLA to perfect his posing.
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Not that the extent of Arnold’s California
experience was training. Los Angeles, not sur-
prisingly, was a far cry from Graz, or even
Munich, and Arnold soaked it
all in. “I had some really great
experiences right away,” he
says. “It was always a great
time. Joe would always have
photo shoots on the beach with
a bunch of girls, great-looking
girls. And other bodybuilders
wereattheshoots,too,andthey
were always a lot of fun. After
several months in California
I returned to Austria for a visit.
After the second day there,
I was already homesick for America.”
The Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia were
held back to back the year before, but in 1970
Arnold competed in three major competitions
in a 15-day span. The first one, the defense
of his pro Mr. Universe title on Sept. 18 in
London, might have been his toughest, based
solely on one factor: Reg Park,
staging a comeback, competed
intheshow.Beforethecontest,
Arnold weighed his options:
Compete and likely beat his
idol, or drop out and avoid the
situation altogether. Arnold
stayed in the competition and
beat Reg, who finished an
impressive second place 20
years after his bodybuilding
debut. “We were both com-
petitors, sportsmen, and there
was a dignity in that,” Arnold said afterward.
“I didn’t look at it as beating Reg Park but as
being able to step up beside him, to finally
share an equal place with him.”
ACT TWO
Arnold and Franco hit the weights at
Southern California’s Muscle Beach
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ARNOLD: THE MOVIE
SCENE V
August 1977. Look at Arnold now. He’s trying his hand at tennis.
Is he playing? Well, not exactly. He’s mingling with American royalty,
the Kennedys, attending the Robert F. Kennedy Tennis Tournament in
Forest Hills, New York, on Aug. 28. He’s being himself, despite being
in the presence of some of the most powerful people in the country. He’s
a smashing success with the Kennedys, especially with the 21-year-old
niece of JFK, Maria Shriver.
Arnold wasn’t just a bodybuilder any-
more. He was now a recognizable movie
star, as well as a businessman, having begun
promoting bodybuilding contests, his first
major one being the 1976 Mr. Olympia in
Columbus, Ohio, with Jim Lorimer. Natu-
rally, Maria was impressed by the fact that
Arnold was a self-made man with as much
passion and ambition as one human being
can possibly have. And the feelings were
mutual. Although Maria obviously benefited from being a member of one of
the country’s most famous families, she was extremely ambitious, a talented
budding journalist who had just graduated from Georgetown University. The
two were immediately attracted to each other and began dating.
The remainder of the 1970s was, by Arnold’s standards, a bit mundane. Fol-
lowinggreatsuccessinStayHungryandPumpingIron,hismostnotablerolewas
the part of “Handsome Stranger” in the movie The Villain, opposite Kirk Dou-
glas and Ann-Margret. It wasn’t until 1982 that his film career picked up where
Pumping Iron had left off. Before that, in 1979, CBS aired the Mr. Olympia and
hiredArnoldtobeanexpertcommentator.Hewouldhavedoneitagainin1980
but instead opted for a more controversial role in that year’s contest.
1978
The Pumping Iron
calendar is published
and sells for $3.95;
Arnold declines a role
in the Mae West movie
Sextette
Sept. 23
Arnold co-promotes the
Mr. Olympia with Jim
Lorimer in Columbus,
Ohio. Frank Zane wins
1979
Arnold’s Bodyshaping
for Women by Arnold
and Douglas Kent Hall
is published;
Arnold and Bill Dobbins
co-author Arnold’s
Bodyshaping for Men;
Arnold is named Special
Olympics International
Weight Training Coach (he
currently serves as a
Global Ambassador to
the Special Olympics);
CBS hires Arnold as an
expert commentator
to assist in their
coverage of the 1979
Mr. Olympia contest in
Columbus, Ohio;
Arnold stars in The Villain
(also known as Cactus
Jack) with Kirk Douglas
and Ann-Margret;
Arnold has a cameo
appearance in the movie
Scavenger Hunt with
Richard Benjamin and
James Coco
Oct. 7
Arnold co-promotes the
Mr. Olympia with Jim
Lorimer in Columbus,
Ohio. Frank Zane wins
Nov. 10
Arnold graduates from the
University of Wisconsin,
Superior, with a major in
international marketing of
fitness and business
administration
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1) Arnold and Maria in the late ’70s
2) As a color commentator for CBS
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SCENE VI
October 1980. Arnold is looking out the window of an airplane
en route to Sydney, Australia, for the 1980 Mr. Olympia contest. He’s a
CBSemployee,makingthetripoverseastocoverthecompetitionasaTV
analyst. But for some reason, he has been training hard leading up to the
show. But why? Was it for a movie role? Or was he planning on making
acomeback?Couldn’tbe.Hehasbeenaskedthatquestioncountlesstimes
recently,andeverytimehehassaidno.FrankZane,MikeMentzer—the
top bodybuilders of the time — have nothing to worry about. Or do they?
So why was Arnold training so hard? He had told some
people that it was for the part of 1956 Mr. Universe Mickey
Hargitay in the upcoming made-for-television movie The
Jayne Mansfield Story. But he had already finished filming it.
Leading up to the show, Frank asked Arnold if he was plan-
ning on competing. Arnold said no. But what was he sup-
posed to say? That he was indeed competing,
onlytomotivateFrankandotherstotrainthat
much harder? Arnold would compete, but
he would keep it a secret up until the morning
of the competition. He’d psyched out Sergio
Oliva 10 years earlier at the Olympia. Now
he’d do the same to Frank and Mike with his
surprise entry.
Arnold won the competition in what is still
considered the most controversial Olympia
in history, with Frank finishing third and
Mike fifth. Some called the win a gift, saying
Arnold wasn’t in the shape he was in his
prime and that his legs weren’t nearly big
enough to justify the victory. Either way, it was his seventh
Olympia title, the most of all time at that point (two men,
Lee Haney and Ronnie Coleman, have since surpassed
Arnold’s record with eight titles each). It only proved that,
even when not at his best, Arnold still was the best.
“It was maybe the wrong decision, the wrong motivation
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1980
The 1980 Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Calendar With Exercises
is published by
Simon & Schuster
October
Arnold appears with
Loni Anderson in the TV
movie The Jayne
Mansfield Story, playing
Mickey Hargitay
Oct. 4
As a last-minute entrant,
Arnold wins his seventh
Mr. Olympia title in
Sydney, Australia
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[to compete],” Arnold said recently. “The fact of the mat-
ter was, I was an established bodybuilding champion. I was
someone who switched over to entertainment. I was some-
one who was making money from the movies, so why
would I take something like this, a title like this, away from
the [other bodybuilders]? But I always had a big ego and
that also came into play in the whole thing. And I barely
won.Irememberthat.Ibarelywon.Itwasreallylikeahair-
raising experience.”
The 1980 Mr. Olympia would prove to be Arnold’s last
bodybuilding contest. He left the competitive side of the
sport as the greatest ever (many feel he still deserves that
accolade), the king of his domain. For most, such accom-
plishmentwouldhavebeenenough—butcomeon,thiswas
Arnold Schwarzenegger. There were new worlds to con-
quer. Hollywood beckoned, and as we’ll discover in Part 2
of his story in the next issue, he was merely scratching
the surface of his legend. M&F
Check out our next
issue for part 2 of
“Arnold: The Movie.”
He’ll be back!
In 1980 Arnold
leaves competitive
bodybuilding
behind, but he
carries all the
lessons he learned
into the next
phases of his life
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