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Arnold Schwarzenegger on Muscle & Fitness Magazine
Muscle & Fitness Magazine
Arnold Schwarzenegger
July 2007
One of the best covers we have seen in a long time, this special 60 year birthday issue of Arnold has actually five covers starting the magazine, with one of the most creative covers we have seen in a long time. Some magazines have different covers for the same issue, but this one just put them one after the other. This is a collector's issue, and they won't last long.
Muscle & Fitness is considered to be the best of the non-hardcore bodybuilding magazines. It contains lots of information about the principles of fitness & bodybuilding. Each monthly magazine usually contains information about weight training, nutrition, training, bodybuilding and many other topics that are current in the bodybuilding and fitness world. Muscle & Fitness is more of a mainstream bodybuilding magazine, which has excellent articles and pictures. On the cover is Arnold, Arnold, Arnold and Arnold.
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July 2007 - Table of Contents
Volume 68, Number 7
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Cover Stories: Arnold 60th Birthday Special
- Arnold: The First 60 Years
Part one of a two part series begins with 15 year old Arnold feeding the beast in a dank, dungeonlike gym in Graz, Austria, and follows his meteoric rise through the sport of bodybuilding to the doorstep of Hollywood.
- The Complete Arnold
Train like Arnold! We've compiled the best advice on training, intensity and focus from years of the "Ask Arnold" column and condensed it into one explosive feature. You might grow just reading it.
- Full of Life
We went to the men who knew him best - his training partners and fellow competitors - to get this portrait of the greatest bodybuilder on Earth.
- 60 Years of Covers
Follow the evolution of Arnold has we knew him in the muscle mags.
Training & Fitness
- Push, Pull, Grow
The classic push/pull split is a simple and effective routine that ha been around as long as man has been moving rocks. We've tweaked it just enough to give you a no brainer mass building, strength enhancing workout.
- Precision Pecs
Building a bigger, thicker chest with grade-A meat means working the entire pectoral complex. Our workout gets into the nooks and crannies for a complete pec pump.
- Phil of the Future
For a back as big and strong as Phil heath's, follow this routine. But don't be surprised when people begin heaping expectations on it.
- 25 Ways to Improve Your Workouts
Efficiency. Strength. Time. Energy. To get the most of these essential workout qualities and more, take our results driven advice.
Nutrition and Supplements
- Protein Face-Off
We took the four heavyweight proteins - whey, soy, egg white and casein - gloved them up and let them go at it. The last one standing will be the gram for gram champion.
- Catabolic Control
Maximizing muscle growth and minimizing muscle breakdown is pretty much every gym rat's purpose in life. To do it consistently, use these three supplements.
Featured Departments
- Training Notebook
- One-Minute Lesson: Big Foot
- Strength Lab: Revenge of the Smith
- Get it Right: Reverse Grip Bench Press
- Power and Strength: High Bar vs. Low Bar Squat
- Pullout: M&F Personal Trainer: Abs on Assignment
- Kinesiology: Reverse Hamstring Curl
- Nutrition Notebook
- Man Made Meal: Ginger Teriyaki Pork Tenderloin
- Go Nuts: Get Cracking
- Ask the Expert: Eat to get more sleep
- Cow Belly: Milk your Ab Fat
Columns, Etc.
- Editorial: By Peter McGough
- Perspective: By Joe Weider
- Feedback/Success Stories:
- Big Time: Edited by Mark Thorpe
- Gunner's Athletic Department: By Gunnar Peterson
- The Edge: Edited by Jim Stoppani, PhD
- Ask Arnold: By Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
- The Marketplace:
- Next Month:
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Bodybuilding Career
Arnold Schwarzenegger first gained fame as a bodybuilder. One of the first competitions he won was the Junior Mr. Europe contest in 1965. He won Mr. Europe the following year, at age 19. He would go on to compete in and win many bodybuilding, as well as some powerlifting, contests, including five Mr. Universe (4—NABBA (England), 1—IFBB (USA)) wins and seven Mr. Olympia wins, a record which would stand until Lee Haney won his eighth consecutive Mr. Olympia title in 1991.
In 1967 Schwarzenegger competed in the Munich stone-lifting contest, in which a stone weighing 508 German pounds (254 kg/560 lb) is lifted between the legs while standing on two foot rests. He broke the existing record and won the contest. At his "peak" Schwarzenegger has said the following on his size: "During the peak of my career my calves were 20 inches, thighs 28.5 inches, waist 34 inches, chest 57 inches and 22 inch arms."
Mr. Olympia
Schwarzenegger's goal was to become the greatest bodybuilder in the world, which meant becoming Mr. Olympia. His first attempt was in 1969 where he lost to three-time champion Sergio Oliva. However Schwarzenegger came back in 1970 and won the competition.
He continued his winning streak in the 1971–1974 competitions. In 1975, Schwarzenegger was once again in top form and won the title for the sixth consecutive time, beating Lou Ferrigno. After the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest, Schwarzenegger announced his retirement from professional bodybuilding.
Months before the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest, film-makers George Butler and Robert Fiore persuaded Schwarzenegger to compete in order to film his training in the bodybuilding documentary called Pumping Iron. Schwarzenegger had only three months to prepare for the competition after losing significant weight to appear in the film Stay Hungry with Jeff Bridges. Ferrigno proved not to be a threat, and a lighter than usual Schwarzenegger convincingly won the 1975 Mr. Olympia. After being declared Mr. Olympia for a sixth consecutive time Schwarzenegger retired from competition.
Schwarzenegger came out of retirement to compete in the 1980 Mr. Olympia. Schwarzenegger was training for his role in Conan when he got into such good shape because of the running, horseback riding, and sword training that he decided he wanted to win the Mr. Olympia contest one last time. He kept this plan secret in the event that a training accident prevented his entry and caused him a loss of face. Schwarzenegger had been hired to provide color commentary for network television when he announced at the eleventh hour that while he was there; "Why not compete?" Schwarzenegger ended up winning the event with only eight weeks of preparation. At the time, this led to some controversy, some claiming that the Mr. Olympia contest had become a "popularity contest" rather than an objectively judged competition.
Schwarzenegger is considered among the most important figures in the history of bodybuilding, and his legacy is commemorated in the Arnold Classic annual bodybuilding competition. Schwarzenegger has remained a prominent face in the bodybuilding sport long after his retirement, in part due to his ownership of gyms and fitness magazines. He has presided over numerous contests and awards shows. For many years he wrote a monthly column for the bodybuilding magazines Muscle & Fitness and Flex. Shortly after being elected Governor, he was appointed executive editor of both magazines in a largely symbolic capacity. The magazines agreed to donate $250,000 a year to the Governor's various physical fitness initiatives. The magazine MuscleMag International has a monthly two page article on him and refers to him as "The King."
Anabolic Steroid use
He has admitted to using performance-enhancing anabolic steroids while they were legal, writing in 1977 that "steroids were helpful to me in maintaining muscle size while on a strict diet in preparation for a contest. I did not use them for muscle growth, but rather for muscle maintenance when cutting up." Schwarzenegger has called the drugs "tissue building." It has been alleged that Schwarzenegger won his first of seven Mr. Olympia titles in 1970 with the help of Dianabol and testosterone propionate.
In 1999, Schwarzenegger sued Dr. Willi Heepe, a German doctor who publicly predicted an early death for the bodybuilder, based on a link between steroid use and later heart problems. Because the doctor had never examined him personally, Schwarzenegger collected a DM 20,000 ($12,000 USD) libel judgment against him in a German court. In 1999 Schwarzenegger also sued and settled with The Globe, a U.S. tabloid which had made similar predictions about the bodybuilder's future health. As late as 1996, a year before open heart surgery to replace an aortic valve with a human homograft valve, Schwarzenegger publicly defended his use of anabolic steroids during his bodybuilding career.
Schwarzenegger was born with a bicuspid aortic valve, an aortic valve with only two leaflets (a normal aorta has three leaflets). According to a spokesperson, Schwarzenegger has not used steroids since 1990 when they were made illegal.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Ripped Muscle Unleashed
by Vince Gironda
Vince Gironda was the original "Iron Guru". The bodybuilders who trained at Vince's Gym included "Body by" Jake Steinman, Lou "The Incredible Hulk" Ferrigno, and even Arnold "The Terminator" Schwarzenegger. Vince also whipped the movie stars of the day into shape (he could get an out of shape actor looking like a stud in under four weeks time); he trained the likes of Clint Eastwood, James Garner and Denzel Washington. In fact, Vince's methods produced more champion bodybuilding stars than any other gym in the world; unfortunately, however, Vince's mind-blowing muscle building system - now known as the Gironda Method, was believed to be permanently lost - that is until now. In this letter, I'll tell you about Vince Gironda and his fascinating, powerful and highly secretive "Gironda Method." And, I'll let you know how you can learn to use Vince's mind-blowing, muscle-building methods yourself to build your own physique of a champion - safely and in record time. If you're looking to get massive, ripped, and shredded, then this may be the most important letter you ever read. Read on...
Vince Gironda was truly ahead of his time, unveiling a physique in the 1950's that was both ripped and symmetrical - decades before those words even became part of bodybuilding's vocabulary. Add to that his radical training methods - he wouldn’t allow a squat rack in his gym - and his celebrated prickly "What the hell do ya want" manner and you have a bodybuilding personality who was known as the Iron Guru long before the word "guru" became chronically overused.
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