Arnold quote from 1975

[tweeter]

Do you all really believe Arnold did this kind of unconventional training or is this just a fabricated story or exxageration?

"I finally arrived at the idea of shocking the muscles.  So once a week I took a training partner and drove out into the country with the weights. We limited ourselves to one exercise for a particular body part. I remember for the first day we carried 250 pounds into the forest and did squats for two hours straight. I began by doing 20 repetitions with 250 pounds;  then my partner did whatever he could. Then it was my turn again. We ended up doing something like 55 sets of squats each. The last hour seemed endless. But it worked. Our thighs pumped up like balloons. That first day we gave our thigh muscles such a shock that we couldn't walk right for a week and each of us put something like an eighth or a quarter of an inch on our thighs; they just blew up. They had no chance to survive except to grow. We made it a regular thing. We brought girls out there to cook. We made a fire outdoors and turned the whole thing into a little contest. We worked hard, but we had a good time. After the muscle-shocking sessions, we drank wine and beer and got drunk and carried on like the old-time weightlifters sometimes it be came pure insanity." 

[alexxx]

Do you all really believe Arnold did this kind of unconventional training or is this just a fabricated story or exxageration?

"I finally arrived at the idea of shocking the muscles.  So once a week I took a training partner and drove out into the country with the weights. We limited ourselves to one exercise for a particular body part. I remember for the first day we carried 250 pounds into the forest and did squats for two hours straight. I began by doing 20 repetitions with 250 pounds;  then my partner did whatever he could. Then it was my turn again. We ended up doing something like 55 sets of squats each. The last hour seemed endless. But it worked. Our thighs pumped up like balloons. That first day we gave our thigh muscles such a shock that we couldn't walk right for a week and each of us put something like an eighth or a quarter of an inch on our thighs; they just blew up. They had no chance to survive except to grow. We made it a regular thing. We brought girls out there to cook. We made a fire outdoors and turned the whole thing into a little contest. We worked hard, but we had a good time. After the muscle-shocking sessions, we drank wine and beer and got drunk and carried on like the old-time weightlifters sometimes it be came pure insanity." 

Yeah Arnold was a hard trainer! He used to train 8 hours a day in the army with crap food. Thats like a full time job plus overtime cause he trained 6 times a week.

[HERACLES]

Do you all really believe Arnold did this kind of unconventional training or is this just a fabricated story or exxageration?

"I finally arrived at the idea of shocking the muscles.  So once a week I took a training partner and drove out into the country with the weights. We limited ourselves to one exercise for a particular body part. I remember for the first day we carried 250 pounds into the forest and did squats for two hours straight. I began by doing 20 repetitions with 250 pounds;  then my partner did whatever he could. Then it was my turn again. We ended up doing something like 55 sets of squats each. The last hour seemed endless. But it worked. Our thighs pumped up like balloons. That first day we gave our thigh muscles such a shock that we couldn't walk right for a week and each of us put something like an eighth or a quarter of an inch on our thighs; they just blew up. They had no chance to survive except to grow. We made it a regular thing. We brought girls out there to cook. We made a fire outdoors and turned the whole thing into a little contest. We worked hard, but we had a good time. After the muscle-shocking sessions, we drank wine and beer and got drunk and carried on like the old-time weightlifters sometimes it be came pure insanity." 

ha,ha..yes i remember this.  I used to study his encyclopedia of bodybuilding when i was a junior/senior in high school, religiously.

I cant believe i was training chest and back in one day back then. (one of the Arnold workouts) Push/pull theory.

Arnold was a nut. And he was a pimp.  

I remember stories where he would let chicks back stage to suck him off...craaazyyy.

[Deadpool]

Arnold was a nut. And he was a pimp.  

I remember stories where he would let chicks back stage to suck him off...craaazyyy.

I wanna hear some of them stories...

[alexxx]

I wanna hear some of them stories...

I have the full interview in which he discusses such things but that is rated pg13.

[Deadpool]

I have the full interview in which he discusses such things but that is rated pg13.

so, what, you can't listen to it? 

[arce377]

and he and the Mecca crew trained a hot black chick..IN the Mecca!

[BigWhoop]

Yes he said that in his book, back then people did what we consider to be crazy. But without the internet, money or cable TV what else were you going to do to have a good time but lift, drink and have sex with women on a camping trip. Its like thier version of sking or going to the mountains to snowboard.

[Team Diver]

Do you all really believe Arnold did this kind of unconventional training or is this just a fabricated story or exxageration?

"I finally arrived at the idea of shocking the muscles.  So once a week I took a training partner and drove out into the country with the weights. We limited ourselves to one exercise for a particular body part. I remember for the first day we carried 250 pounds into the forest and did squats for two hours straight. I began by doing 20 repetitions with 250 pounds;  then my partner did whatever he could. Then it was my turn again. We ended up doing something like 55 sets of squats each. The last hour seemed endless. But it worked. Our thighs pumped up like balloons. That first day we gave our thigh muscles such a shock that we couldn't walk right for a week and each of us put something like an eighth or a quarter of an inch on our thighs; they just blew up. They had no chance to survive except to grow. We made it a regular thing. We brought girls out there to cook. We made a fire outdoors and turned the whole thing into a little contest. We worked hard, but we had a good time. After the muscle-shocking sessions, we drank wine and beer and got drunk and carried on like the old-time weightlifters sometimes it be came pure insanity." 

This is the reason why his legs overpowered his upper body!