Arnold Schwarzenegger: Moment I knew Dolph Lundgren would be a star

you guys are going to movies you can get in the movies this has to be on the screen we're a Gold's Gym a Mecca bodybuilding so what would a typical workout here entail back in the day and what about now back in the day would be 30 sets of back with Lou Ferrigno [Music] so when you were my age what were you lifting how old are you 36 A Lot 36 that's 1990 you're a universal Soldier around that time yeah yeah I mean I've never been really a guy who could lift a lot of waste because my arms are too long you have to be short with short arms okay you're gonna do a lot of lip bench press I mean I was a fighter so it's more like you know torque punches kicks kind of thing [Music] so back in the day when you were here training for movies yeah who's in here and what's the environment well Arnold used to be here with his crew a couple of his friends [Music] I don't know it's gonna be two more come on now you can do it one more and hold it and hold it no no no I'll be holding it down there remember the old days yeah you always held it then the last rep ly I know when you get older things are not as easy anymore yes your turn my friend need to set here I'm struggling here this is elderly abuse oh yeah nice stretch you know I just thought about something though yes this month yeah is our 40th anniversary because we met in 1983 yes now it's 2023. think about that yeah we've been training together for 40 years crazy so you don't even think about this kind of very special moments you didn't even send me a 40 anniversary cake there were no case it's coming later no flying I'm worried about your eyes not even a note it's delightful worrying about that no flowers no nothing all right I'll give you an Austrian cake later I've heard the feelings sorry man [Music] yeah I had to work out with this guy finally I got a good work up on you you guys remember uh when you first met on the center yeah so let me tell you some Grace Jones asked me just remind you I have a friend here visiting and he would like to work out in the morning can you can he work out a message of absolutely no problem so if he came in we worked out we saw him kicking in boxing and hitting the bags and the dead headphones and the knee thing in the business that notice so after like a month doing that I said to myself this is very fantastic Mrs can I try something I said try what hold on a second he went into this can [Music] we didn't have them ahead so what is this about and then wow it kicks the can of my head and never touched my head do you remember this first of all he would never even say that I don't know because he's one of those guys you know that what happens in the gym stays in the gym type of thing but I was so impressed we all were kind of thing you got to go in the movies you can do in the movies this has to be on the screen I mean there's no one that can do kicks like that this is like really wild and he was also doing serious weights yeah so I mean this is how we met and then when I was so happy when Sly I think was the first one to kind of rediscovered different movies yeah he tried it for Rocky and the rest is history The Man became a star one of the 80s Stars right that propelled the action movies with the front and the other side I mean this was the man so I don't know if you remember this but uh you were training for Rocky IV I think you're uh because you're training you're staying in the guest house it braces parties going on and you get a knock on the door yeah I was trying to catch some sleep because that the train was Sly and Grace had a big party and I had a knock on the door and like I'm trying to sleep and I heard this voice it's your trainer I'm here to check your ABS I open the door this man was there with a big cigar and a big smile and Charming as usual I smoked them out of his room exactly the role this place has played in both of your lives could be what well he's the creation of the gym I'm a creation of the gym but not only physically because it's the obvious but also psychologically this is the best place to reset your mind straight because you can come here and we talked about this many times the 200 pounds that you pour down is for a poor guy just as heavy as is for a rich guy so here you become equal it doesn't matter if you're a woman or if you're a man if you're black or you're white in the middle with your religion the 200 pounds is 200 pounds and that's what's great about this place and it's as a community we all kind of help each other I have sometimes problems it's professional or personal and those guys are there to support me and he has a problem and goes down and feels down and out then we are there to help him of his life and damn him we all help each other you remember what the early days were like here uh yeah it was it was a little more severe you know because there weren't a lot of you know sort of normal people it was mostly heavy hard hardcore bodybuilders that came here I don't think we should give him any more information you know we gave him five percent of what we know maybe they didn't now can conquer the world

Channel: Graham Bensinger

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Length: 6min 27sec (387 seconds)

Published: Wed May 10 2023