overrated as fuck as a bodybuilder.
Love his movies though.
Vastly superior to anything out there today. Or ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty or more years ago. Arnold is hands down the best druggie bodybuilder ever. The bloated pigs of today and even fifteen years ago cannot compare. Their huge distended bellies look as though they belong on gigantic pregnant guppies. They have a wasteline.
Pigs in bondage is what they are.
Serge Nubret in his prime is superior to these synth filled swine. Zane too. Bob Paris? Yup. Danny Padillla? Ditto.
As for natural, read: REAL, bodybuilders, Steve Reeves and Reg Park are the benchmarks and depending upon personal aesthetics either one can be consider number one.
What do we have in today's bodybuilding?
For the greater part, bloated midgets that are bigger around than they are tall. Trolls that are so large they doubtless require schmoe assistance to whipe their humongous, albeit striated, butts. Characatures who when they strike a "most muscular" pose appear for all the world to be struggling to poop. Or any pose for that matter. Their faces are an emotional landscape of agony. Contrast that with the fact that for the greater part Arnold's face remained calm during his posing routines. Why?
Confidence and class.
This was also true of Nubret, Zane, Coe, Columbu, Sipes, Scott, Draper and many other champions from the past.
It used to mean something to be a Mr. America, Mr. Universe and especially so a Mr. Olympia. The top title should be changed to reflect what bodybuilding really has become.
Mr. Pharmacia.