Featured Image Credit: Pumping Iron/ White Mountain Films
Topics: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Aisha Nozari
A newly-resurfaced clip of 1970s-era Arnold Schwarzenegger is doing the rounds on the internet, and it’s truly a sight to behold.
In his meathead prime and packing pecs perky enough to make Hercules weep, Arnie – whose body fat percentage is seemingly subzero – can be seen offering a budding bodybuilder some of his best posing tips.
The snippet is taken from George Butler and Robert Fiore’s 1977 docudrama Pumping Iron, which explored the high stakes (and very oily) world of professional bodybuilding.
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If ever a synopsis alone deserved an Academy Award, it was Pumping Iron’s. The flick’s official release poster read: “This movie has heart, soul, blood, guts, perspiration and plenty of muscle,” which sounds like a one-way ticket to fun.
In the short clip, Arnie can be seen with his sculpted torso draped in bright yellow Gold’s Gym tank as he guides a fellow bodybuilder’s bulging biceps towards the sky while saying: “Make one line. Always remember you have to have a line. And look where you point.”
Offering up a hot tip for looking as ripped as humanly possible, Arnie added: “Remember one thing when you pose, a lot of little guys, they hide away when they pose.
“A big guy will come right up with his arm. Never hide away. Show them the whole thing, make the move.”
Schwarzenegger was king of the bodybuilding circuit back in the '70s before becoming the king of cheesy (read: gnarly as hell) one-liners in the '80s.
Come 2003, Schwarzenegger was elected Republican governor of California, and these days he’s best known for sticking it to Putin and sharing adorable videos of his pet donkey.
Speaking in March, Schwarzenegger shared a powerful message comparing the lies of Putin's propaganda to the lies his father was fed by the German Nazi government, and urged ordinary Russian soldiers to wake up to the horrors of the war in Ukraine.
Schwarzengger's father Gustav was a member of the Nazi's paramilitary section, the SA. He was also part of the Germany army during the siege of Leningrad (modern day St Petersburg).
In a video message shared from his home in California, Schwarzenegger said: “When my father arrived in Leningrad, he was all pumped up on the lies of his government. When he left Leningrad, he was broken – physically and mentally.
“He lived the rest of his life in pain. Pain from a broken back, pain from the shrapnel that always reminded him of those terrible years. And pain from the guilt that he felt.”
He added: "To the Russian soldiers listening to this broadcast, you already know much of the truth that I’m speaking. You’ve seen it in your own eyes. I don’t want you to be broken like my father.
“That is why I hope that you will let me tell you the truth about the war in Ukraine and what is happening there.
"No one likes to hear something critical of their government, I understand that. But as a longtime friend of the Russian people, I hope that you will hear what I have to say.”
He then spoke directly to the Russian president, saying: "To President Putin, I say: You started this war. You are leading this war. You can stop this war."
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