Arnold's Philosophy on Bodybuilding

In his essay, “Building a Bigger Action Hero”, Logan Hill examines the things it takes for actors to be taken seriously by Hollywood. He wrote, “Today’s actors spend more time in the gym than they do rehearsing, more time with their trainers than with their directors” (Hill 59). We see that acting is no longer the Hollywood actor’s priority here. What matters more is the actor’s external body appearance. According to Hill, they have to go to extreme lengths to meet Hollywood’s unrealistic expectations. It is not natural for the human body to have only 5% body fat or to be able to retain it easily, but Hollywood actors are required to meet that standard. Thus, they are put through rigorous exercises, starved, and dehydrated, especially on days of the shoot where they would have to take off their clothes and show off their bodies, “A fat Superman can’t fly, a pudgy Spiderman can’t swing. And an actor who can’t get jacked on a deadline doesn’t have a shot at being the leading man in Hollywood. Given the choice between better acting chops and physique, producers and directors will often choose the better body” (61-62). In other words, a Hollywood actor is no

I have always been very obsessed with body image. When I was young, baseball was my sport. Soon after, I joined the swim team. During these years I’ve never looked the way that pleased me. When the age of fourteen came around, I decided to join the gym with a personal trainer. At this time, being overweight and unhappy. Never did I think the gym would mean so much to me in the future. Just before the age of sixteen, bodybuilding made a drastic impression on me. The art of building a well symmetrical body. Everything about this sport fascinated me because it gave a chance to create a new me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was known greatly around the entire world for his amazing body and ability to almost win every competition he was entered in. When entering the bodybuilding scene in nineteen sixty-six Schwarzenegger started off his success in bodybuilding in sixty-seven when he beat Dennis Tinerino in the Mr. America. Schwarzenegger kept striving for excellence and winning many competitions but by the nineteen eighties and nineties men like Schwarzenegger, Franco Columbo, and Frank Zane were slowly being defeated with no problem by the new age of modern bodybuilding.

I developed a character to be a representative of the main audience for my essay by taking the characteristics of individuals observed in McComas’ weight room and combining them into one persona. Based off of this, the persona is a male Virginia Tech college student who is familiar with the weight room and the concepts of body building. He is in good physical shape, and wears typical gym clothing, such as gym shorts, sweatpants, t-shirts, or wife-beaters. He has long-term experience with the majority of the weight and machines found in McComas’ weight room, and falls into the category of “serious lifters,” rather than just an occasional gym-goer. He is very perseverant in his work out regiment, and has a focused mindset.

All of these and many more actors spend hours and hours in the gym to build their body for a

"How can I build muscle, boost my performance and lose fat?" This question has generated hundred of books and magazine titles. Many people even risk their health in a chance to look "buff." If you spend the time reading these articles you will certainly find no shortage of proposed answers, complete with picture documentation of the results with the use sport supplements. Even recreational athletes who might play softball on the weekend or shoot a game of hoops on occasion find it hard to resist the messages that promise the bigger muscles, and thinner body, and all from a bottle or pill.

It is important for us to understand the subculture that we are to cover. By bodybuilding, I mean the drive that individuals have so as to maintain the perfect physique as well as ensuring that they have low fat levels in their bodies. It is true that all that is involved in bodybuilding is hardcore. Most people often enroll for the bodybuilding so that they could have an appealing physical outlook. Bodybuilding makes the muscles to expand and as such those involved with the

He did not let this discourage him, though. Arnold channeled all his frustration and anger into becoming an outstanding basketball player and was finally able to defeat his old school and his best friend

Apart from protein supplementation, consume the diet enriched with protein such as meat, eggs, skimmed milk, and fish as they contain the essential amino acid which are also added in a trace form into some of very famous muscle building supplements.

You wonder why am I not making any gains, I have gained some muscle but not like these other people at the gym. “Son of a bitch” you start to get mad and wonder if you are lifting right, and eating right. You finally learn the bitter truth, these people have been lying to you. These people say if you eat right and do this program you will become ripped just like me. The only way you can be as ripped as them is if you put a foreign object in your body. These people are druggies they use steroids, the most common one is trembolone which is designed for farm animals. It hurts that they do this and lie to you. The real crap is that they say that they are all natural. The one person that lights my flame is a bodybuilder named Simeon Panada. This guy is six foot two; weight 235 pounds, has a waist of 34 and a 57 inch chest. He says that he is all natural and that people who question me don’t know how hard I have worked. Really man you say you are natural well let’s compare him to a well-known steroid user “the terminator” Arnold Schwarzenegger. In Arnolds prime he was 6 feet 2 inches; weight 235 pounds, waist size of 34 inches and a chest of 57 inches. Simeon

FFurthermore, to get a naturally muscular body it is essential that you have a solid workout plan, meal plan, and your counting your macros. As I listed above, diet plays a 60% role in your results which makes it worthy of paying attention. Lastly, that’s why I strongly believe and recommend that having a solid workout plan and meal plan can result in a more muscular body; rather, than taking drugs like Steroirds and HGH who potentially has no benefits but more

To start, Arnold thinks very lowly about his outer appearance due to underlying factors such as poverty and his medical conditions. In the beginning of the book, he says that he was born with water on the brain. He feels as if he isn’t fully completed and isn’t satisfied with the way he was made because of this traumatic incident. He simply can’t do anything about his physical defects and displays that the only thing he could do is live with them. Arnold refers to how he looks as a “capital L walking down the road,” whereas he thought that his “skull was enormous” (3). This shows significance because from the very start Arnold isn’t pleased with himself and already is unhealthy for a human being. He began to believe these things even more after

All Robert Young’s life, he has always been an athletic person. It wasn’t until about three years ago that he discovered his favorite sport would be bodybuilding. Initially, he started lifting because he knew it would improve my performance in boxing. Very quickly he began to love not only what it was doing for my body, but also his mind.

Before the basketball re-match the friend that he had to leave behind, Rowdy, Arnold talks to his team’s coach who makes Arnold believe in himself. This is shown when the coach simply utters “You can do it” Repeatedly, and Arnold following suit with a final “I can do it.” This illustrates how Arnold was given support from being accepted into the basketball team, and it brought him the strength to beat Rowdy in the actual match afterwards. Basketball and Arnold’s success within it can be overlooked as trivial, but is actually very important because it was an escape from the tragedies that was going in his life, such as the deaths of his grandmother, Eugene and his sister. To find comfort from the support of his team and family to help him succeed may very well have saved his sanity, and in turn his life. Arnold was described as weak, but through the support, he became strong, and lasted through many pains and even does well in many aspects, and not just basketball from the acceptance he

The image of body building and fitness was changed. After handling the people aspect of change, Weider used Schwarzenegger’s new image to change the strategy of