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what do you guys think of Arnold the Great
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Great- but not as great as some people hype him up to be.
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Great and in his peak actually better than I thought. Legs not half as bad as people think. Upper body still world class, pretty darn aesthetic, perfect skin, no gut. A little weak in the front lat spread as his pecs overshadow his delts, abs a little lacking but generally I bet we would all have liked to have looked like Arnold over 95% of other champs. Side chest and front dbl bi were as good as any ever and I mean from head to toe.
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Arnold? The best bodybuilding champion ever! ;D
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Arnie had some big flaws. Very uneven biceps, his right arm had a huge egg shaped peak but his left arm was kinda flat. Almost never do you see him do a straight on dubble bi shot. He does do a rear dubble bi shot that hides his weaker left arm. Some of the worst sloped shoulder around. Not to say he had bad shoulder development just not the best genetics in the world- he was no Scott Wilson. Just my opinion
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He is one of my favorite bodybuilder's ever... also my biggest inspiration to hit the stage myself. Awesome Lines and size while still keeping his shape
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Arnold is by far the number one persona in bodybuilding today and when he was the Mr. Olympia. He brought in a new level, one which raised the bar, and then, even after he finished competing in the pro ranks, kept in the bodybuilding industry by helping to promote a contest, and keeping in the publics eye even to this day.
From a humble bodybuilder to a powerful movie star, to a stern business owner, to the governor of California, by far the most famous bodybuilder of them all.
To this day, his covers outsell many others, Physical Magazine has thier annual cover, and Muscle & Fitness has theirs too. He is probably one of the most prolific bodybuilder and should have the most covers too.
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among non-professional weightlifters he probably had the most desirable physique of all time. he was huge, muscular, proportional and aesthetic but not extremely veiny or 'freaky'.
i still believe he had the most perfect biceps and chest of all time.
i also grew up watching his movies. he was like a god to us little kids. he was huge and tough and could beat up anyone or shoot his way out of anything. ive been a fan of arnold longer than i can remember. now hes the governor. his story is unbelievable.
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i also grew up watching his movies. he was like a god to us little kids. he was huge and tough and could beat up anyone or shoot his way out of anything.
His best movie of course is Hercules in New York (Europe=Hercules Goes Bananas)....they had to dub big A's voice-but it is a classic......
Some of you might not have seen this film b/c Aronld had a stage name-look for Arnold Strong at the video stores....
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It always amases me that one can have such big muscles but yet was able to have a slim waste like he had. If you would meet him back in the days with his clothes on you wouldn't be impressed by his size, but when he took them of and flexed you would be amazed how big he really was!!!!!
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He's the man who succeeds in almost everything he gets involved. Some of his latter movies were bad or at least nothing special (Collateral Damage, End of Days etc.), but he was/is still considered as one of the biggest names in Hollywood, the king of action movies etc. , but not a fallen muscleman. I mean, see what happened to his contemporary rivals from the '80s and '90s - where is Van Damme, Seagal, or Stallone? They've been on the way out for years...
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Arnie had some big flaws. Very uneven biceps, his right arm had a huge egg shaped peak but his left arm was kinda flat. Almost never do you see him do a straight on dubble bi shot. He does do a rear dubble bi shot that hides his weaker left arm. Some of the worst sloped shoulder around. Not to say he had bad shoulder development just not the best genetics in the world- he was no Scott Wilson.
And STILL has 7 Mr. Olympia titles, 5 Mr. Universe, and a Mr. World. Imagine that. :P
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Arnold had a persona that filled the entire stage. He “owned” his competitors and defeated them not only physically, but mentally as well. He used his intelligence to create doubt in others. Bodybuilders can get pretty self conscious about themselves. Arnold saw that as a weakness and exploited it. Pretty powerful stuff.
Not only did he have a physique that was ahead of his time, he knew how to show it off as well. Arnold knew how to minimize his flaws. He knew how to do a front double bi pose and hide his smaller arm. He did a lot of twisting shots to make his V taper seen even more pronounced. He blew up his calves to hide his relatively mediocre quads and hams.
All in all, pretty amazing athlete…
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Arnie had some big flaws. Very uneven biceps, his right arm had a huge egg shaped peak but his left arm was kinda flat. Almost never do you see him do a straight on dubble bi shot. He does do a rear dubble bi shot that hides his weaker left arm. Some of the worst sloped shoulder around. Not to say he had bad shoulder development just not the best genetics in the world- he was no Scott Wilson. Just my opinion
How the hell did this guy win 5 Mr. Universe, 7 Mr. Olympia, and a Mr. World??? I don't get it. ::)
The man was awesome. ;D
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How the hell did this guy win 5 Mr. Universe, 7 Mr. Olympia, and a Mr. World??? I don't get it. ::)
The man was awesome. ;D
Arnie only WON 6 Mr Olympia's-you can't count the Sydney 1980 Mr O.
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Arnie only WON 6 Mr Olympia's-you can't count the Sydney 1980 Mr O.
Well.....
The Sandow is on his mantlepiece.
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Well.....
The Sandow is on his mantlepiece.
Actually, it is not there....
After Arnold was booed off the stage he broke the Sandow, and Zane smashed his 3rd place trophy as well.....
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Actually, it is not there....
After Arnold was booed off the stage he broke the Sandow, and Zane smashed his 3rd place trophy as well.....
lmao...
find me something to read about this.
I need a good laugh.
I def. can see Zane doing that. He's such a whiner & has such a pissy attitude.
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Actually, it is not there....
After Arnold was booed off the stage he broke the Sandow, and Zane smashed his 3rd place trophy as well.....
Is this a true story?
??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Arnie had some big flaws. Very uneven biceps, his right arm had a huge egg shaped peak but his left arm was kinda flat. Almost never do you see him do a straight on dubble bi shot. He does do a rear dubble bi shot that hides his weaker left arm. Some of the worst sloped shoulder around. Not to say he had bad shoulder development just not the best genetics in the world- he was no Scott Wilson. Just my opinion
who the hell are you???? arnie had some big flaws..........you've got to be kidding. dude show respect where it is due.
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who the hell are you???? arnie had some big flaws..........you've got to be kidding. dude show respect where it is due.
What the guy cant have an opinion? He wasn't attacking him. The question is WHO the hell are you asshole.
As for Arnold i would love to have a physique like him. He was incredable
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(as a small kid voice) I seen Arnold naked! I seen Arnold naked! He scared me.
The old showers at Worlds were gang showers so I couldn't help it.
I like the story where you saw the McDish naked in the showers------now that is a story!
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As Gene Mozee said, Arnold wouldn't be absolutely nothing without roids....
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Arnold actually had a wide waist. But from front to back he was thin. Of course I would love to has HIS wide waist now (i mean his old one)
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Stunt get some more pics up of Arnold. Arnold lived with Stunt while in Hawaii way back. He has the best stories
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arnold is my hero
;D
(wide waist i dont think so)
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(wide waist i dont think so)
Wide waist from front...
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Ok then, some pics from the "front".
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Stunt get some more pics up of Arnold. Arnold lived with Stunt while in Hawaii way back. He has the best stories
Stuntmovie, any good arnold stories, come clean
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Oh shit! That picture was taken at the Outrigger Cinerama Reef Hotel way back before Arnold was a movie star. I think I am right in saying that was the same year he was discussing his participation in that "Hercules in NY" movie or whatever name that was.
How did you find that picture Knny?
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I knew one of you guys would recognize that photo of Arnold & where it was taken.
Stunt....I just know where to search. There's so many picture galleries of Arnold on the web that it can take weeks to search them all. I was just browsing through some & stumbled across it.
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I've heard alot of negative stuff about arnold but without being there back then it's hard for me to judge a man. i do know that he has the perfect body in my opinion. i have read some of his books and the guy is a thinking machine, always finding ways to do something better than the next guy. awesome achievements throughout his life. i think his acting throughout the 80's and early 90's is incredible and he "really" made the terminator what it was through his cold accented voice and expressions.
8)
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wide waist? Uneven biceps?
What the hell are you guys talking about? I'd take that anyday.
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As Gene Mozee said, Arnold wouldn't be absolutely nothing without roids....
lord help us ::)
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Gene I think was the first person to write an article on Arnold and take his pics for the mags. I know he must have hundreds of pics at his place.
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Arnold is the most overhyped celebrity in history. He is a terrible actor and an even worse governor. Terminator and Terminator 2 are about the only Arnold films that aren't completely forgettable. The idea that Arnold is some great actor is simply ludicrous. He has never starred in an Oscar worthy film. He has never won an acting award of any significance. He is little more than a Hollywood oddity and overpaid action star.
Many of his bodybuilding wins were of dubious legitimacy. He never won any legitimate titles in the US, such as the AAU Mr. America. I think he competed against half a dozen people between 1970 and 1975. The IFBB was a joke back then.
Arnold is also one of the biggest bullshitters in history. He claims to have won the "German Powerlifting Championship" in 1968, yet no record exists of this event. He has claimed a 500 bench and a 700 deadlift, yet nobody has ever seen him lift anywhere near those poundages. All of his books and magazine articles were ghostwritten by professional writers. It's amazing how many people have bought into his crap over the years.
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Of all the past and present BB'ers, Arnold had the most street smart instincts (including stage smarts) combined with a clever intellect. A true entrepreneur in the spirit of Joe Weider and probably with the same level of scruples as Papa Joe. I believe Arnold could survive and thrive in just about any environment by any means possible. He knew he could just go so far in BB'ing so branched out to movies when given the opportunity. Being a top money making movie star does not mean your a good actor. Winning acting awards is not the point, making big box office is. ( the Oscar's and Golden Globes for example have become highly political ...not so much about acting preformences anymore) The average movie fan wants personalties bigger than life in action flicks not a method actor in a movie about some dark , deep classic Greek drama. The fan base now is mid teens to late twenty's and they want macho action & thrown in sex for the hell of it movies.
Arnold had a outstanding upper body and could hold his own against some of the all time best. Too bad that outstanding upper body and his quads didn't showup at the 1980 Mr. O contest. Personel view is that his best physical movie, where he looked his best, was Commando.
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If you notice most of the biggest paid actors are not good actors. What they are, are money makers. Their films are huge money makers for the studios. If a movie makes big bucks you are going to make huge bucks too. Jean Claude, Sly, Arnold, and others are huge stars cause their movies made big money and they are featured in films that are exciting with allot of action. ALL actors based on what they do in a film are overpaid. Most of them admit that. As are many major sport athletes. But, if what they do are bringing in major dollars then they are going to get a share of it.
I highly doubt Arnold has ever said he was a good actor at the least. I was thinking about this last night a little when I saw the guy on TV pushing the Gazelle (Tony Little). I see everyone on here ragging on this guy for being a nobody and pushing a stupid machine that does nothing. All a bunch of remarks puttng him down. The funny thing is if you are going to put someone down then you should be better than they are. If you are inferior to them how can you put them down. That is basically JEALOUSLY. Flat out. Nothing less. The funny thing is if he is so bad why is he (and others) so much more successful in terms of a carreer and money making. What does that say to the person who puts him down.
Same with Arnold, the people that put him down on here have done nothing remotely close to his success. How he got there might not be exactly what some of us would do but no matter, he has done it. He basically had a game plan when he moved to the US and he has followed it and acheived every goal he set for himself. That says allot about him. You might not like him or think he is great but you gotta give him credit, he did what he wanted to do and got everything he went after.
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Arnold is the most overhyped celebrity in history. He is a terrible actor and an even worse governor. Terminator and Terminator 2 are about the only Arnold films that aren't completely forgettable. The idea that Arnold is some great actor is simply ludicrous. He has never starred in an Oscar worthy film. He has never won an acting award of any significance. He is little more than a Hollywood oddity and overpaid action star.
Many of his bodybuilding wins were of dubious legitimacy. He never won any legitimate titles in the US, such as the AAU Mr. America. I think he competed against half a dozen people between 1970 and 1975. The IFBB was a joke back then.
Arnold is also one of the biggest bullshitters in history. He claims to have won the "German Powerlifting Championship" in 1968, yet no record exists of this event. He has claimed a 500 bench and a 700 deadlift, yet nobody has ever seen him lift anywhere near those poundages. All of his books and magazine articles were ghostwritten by professional writers. It's amazing how many people have bought into his crap over the years.
Show us where there has ever been a statement regarding Arnold as a great actor. You must be too young to remember anything of significane with regards to Arnold's populartity boom and rising star. He was the butt of all jokes by anyone who thought he should be a serious actor. They all laughed at his one or 2 lines of dialogue in his first movies.
I can tell you that Arnold was not bothered by it one bit, he made public jokes about it. He never said that he was going to win an oscar or that he ever wanted one.
His goal was to be a star the likes of Clint Eastwood, one who at the time was not known for great acting but a huge box office draw.
Arnold lived up to his expectations and goals, and in fact achieved greater sucsess than even he could have dreamed of.
as far as his competive bodybuiling days the record stands you moron. He beat anybody and everybody who either held the title or had won any title he never competed for. What does that tell you? retard.
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Arnold has a persona
he doesn't need to be a great actor to sell movies
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arnold is great i love all his movies (some exceptions) and his book.
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Arnold is the most overhyped celebrity in history. He is a terrible actor and an even worse governor. Terminator and Terminator 2 are about the only Arnold films that aren't completely forgettable. The idea that Arnold is some great actor is simply ludicrous. He has never starred in an Oscar worthy film. He has never won an acting award of any significance. He is little more than a Hollywood oddity and overpaid action star.
Many of his bodybuilding wins were of dubious legitimacy. He never won any legitimate titles in the US, such as the AAU Mr. America. I think he competed against half a dozen people between 1970 and 1975. The IFBB was a joke back then.
Arnold is also one of the biggest bullshitters in history. He claims to have won the "German Powerlifting Championship" in 1968, yet no record exists of this event. He has claimed a 500 bench and a 700 deadlift, yet nobody has ever seen him lift anywhere near those poundages. All of his books and magazine articles were ghostwritten by professional writers. It's amazing how many people have bought into his crap over the years.
Lol
Something tells me that you're someone who likes to pick things appart to find the negativity in them :o :D
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I like this pic
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I told Arnold, Ralph, Sven & a few others, one of my Hitler jokes one night at 'Cigar Night' at Shatzi. Arnold and his entire table of friends laughed for 5 minutes at my joke.
Arnold's cool. ;D
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I'll tell you just one thing - Arnold was/is the biggest man in bodybuilding.That's all from me(for now).
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As Gene Mozee said, Arnold wouldn't be absolutely nothing without roids AND a world-class work ethic.
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Actually, Arnold has won an acting award.As to it's significance?,...beats me as i'm no actor but it was touted as being significant from what i've read.The award I can't remember the name of but he recieved it for the 70's film Stay Hungry in which he acted alongside Sally Field.He plays a fairly quirky (unusual,strange) type of bb'ing character in the film
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believe he won the ward for best newcomer for stay hungry.
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I think Arnold was nominated for best supporting actor, but didn't win, for his role in Stay Hungry.
I could be wrong though.
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Nevermind, Powerforward was right. I looked up the movie on IMBd website and it had this written in the trivia part:
Arnold Schwarzenegger won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture", even though his debut was in Hercules in New York (1970).
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Well.....
The Sandow is on his mantlepiece.
i thought Samir was the first guy to get the sandow?
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i thought Samir was the first guy to get the sandow?
LarryScott,SergioOliva,Arnold,Franco,FrankZane,ChrisDickerson,SamirBannout,LeeHaney,Dorain,Ronnie.
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theyre the winners, but the first official sandow statue was presented to samir as opposed to a trophy
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arnold seems to have more clout or influence in bodybuiding that the greatest lifters hd in their sports rigert or alexeev for instance or coan and pacifico in powerlifting .in bodybuiding it seems that evereything goes back to scwarzenegger there is a personlity cult around him
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theyre the winners, but the first official sandow statue was presented to samir as opposed to a trophy
Actually, I believe Frank Zane was the first to receive the Sandow in 1977.
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Arnold 1968-69 :)
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Arnold 1968-69 :)
Thanks, Johnny! That's from he '69 NABBA Pro Universe, which Arnold won.
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As Gene Mozee said, Arnold wouldn't be absolutely nothing without roids....
Is that accurate i wonder; he would have known more than most.
If you look at those younger pics it always seem that when he was heavier the extra weight seemed to go to the thighs, filling them out better and creating better overall balance.
Also obvious from those young pics is that most of the size advantage over other BBs happened very early on, before or around age 20.
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Actually, I believe Frank Zane was the first to receive the Sandow in 1977.
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Zane with his second Sandow,which was in 1978.
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Arnold is the most overhyped celebrity in history. He is a terrible actor and an even worse governor. Terminator and Terminator 2 are about the only Arnold films that aren't completely forgettable. The idea that Arnold is some great actor is simply ludicrous. He has never starred in an Oscar worthy film. He has never won an acting award of any significance. He is little more than a Hollywood oddity and overpaid action star.
Many of his bodybuilding wins were of dubious legitimacy. He never won any legitimate titles in the US, such as the AAU Mr. America. I think he competed against half a dozen people between 1970 and 1975. The IFBB was a joke back then.
Arnold is also one of the biggest bullshitters in history. He claims to have won the "German Powerlifting Championship" in 1968, yet no record exists of this event. He has claimed a 500 bench and a 700 deadlift, yet nobody has ever seen him lift anywhere near those poundages. All of his books and magazine articles were ghostwritten by professional writers. It's amazing how many people have bought into his crap over the years.
Arnold won the 1970 AAU Mr. World, beating a couple of AAU Mr. America's in the process. He didn't win the AAU America for obvious reasons.
Arnold did win the heavyweight class at the German pwl championships on 5th May 1968.
A record of this event does exist and can be found in the German magazine Kraftsport revue (issue 46). Arnold’s numbers were squat 215 kg (473 pounds), bench 200 kg (440) and deadlift 310 kg (682). Franco won the lightweight. Photos have been published as well.
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Arnold did win the heavyweight class at the German pwl championships on 5th May 1968.
A record of this event does exist and can be found in the German magazine Kraftsport revue (issue 46). Arnold’s numbers were squat 215 kg (473 pounds), bench 200 kg (440) and deadlift 310 kg (682). Franco won the lightweight. Photos have been published as well.
In your face, brianX! LOL :D
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Hey guys,
I stumbled across a Youtube clip of Arnold from an appearance on the Dating Game.
it's short & sweet, but i thought it was hilarious, and that you might get a kick out of it. enjoy! :)
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Arnold 1976 ;) ;) ;)
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Arnold 1976 ;) ;) ;)
don't think I ever saw that
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Arnold IMO was one of the first over 230lb BBers with the rare (for 1970s) Xams tree :o :o :o
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Arnie had some big flaws. Very uneven biceps, his right arm had a huge egg shaped peak but his left arm was kinda flat. Almost never do you see him do a straight on dubble bi shot.
That's one of the biggest myths about Arnold's biceps.Actually his biceps were very symmetrical when viewed from the same angle as in a strait on front double bi's shot.In a twisted FDB everyone's biceps look uneven simply because they are shown and viewed from a different angle.
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1973
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1973-74
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1974 Perhaps his Best shape ever....or 1973 :-\ :-\ :-\
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2 BB Legends collide @ the 70 O 8)
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a complicated man to understand dome say he is great some say he is a bullshitter . a guy full of ambitions who comes from austria the country who saw the birth of great people and adolf hitler too ...
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1973-74
younger huger arnold of course not as defined and white as a ghost.