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Do you seriously bench 400? If so, congrats man. I've seen (I recollect) 3 guys being able to bench 500 at my gym and I've been going there 5 years now.

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Does the Govenator know your online name is Jihad...I don't know how well that would blow over...

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He knows. So does Uncle Sam.

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Sweet, I'm part Austrian and a big AS fan. It makes me want to move to Cali.

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wasnt there a (weak) movement to revoke arnold's austrian citizenship because of his stance on the death pentalty? isnt the general consesus that austria is ashamed of him?

bwana

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Please go to the Political forum with that nonsense. It amazes me that there are people out there that fail to comprehend the magnitude of the mans genious and the wonderful things he has done for so many people world wide. Including signing off on Tookie.

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surprisingly, you make a post about a politician in OOT and if people dont praise your republican you scream foul. you may have posted this in the wrong forum unless you just wanted this to turn into some circle jerk on what a great governor arnold supposedly is.

bwana

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Wow after looking at the pics again, your mom looks exactly like my middle school math teacher.

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Sweet, I'm part Austrian and a big AS fan. It makes me want to move to Cali.

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wasnt there a (weak) movement to revoke arnold's austrian citizenship because of his stance on the death pentalty? isnt the general consesus that austria is ashamed of him?

bwana

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That's somewhat true I guess. Basically, when all the publicity about The Tookie Monster got around, the city back there that adopted him threatened to remove his name from a stadium built in his honor. Arnold had his team of lawyers fly to Austria last month and forced the town to remove his name and likeness from all things they had of him in the city (and that was quite a few things). The city offered to revoke their threat of taking his name off the building, Arnold refused and his name is now no longer associated with the city in any way.

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"wow, you're looking very pumped up!"

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It is pretty cool he said this, but I get annoyed when he says this. Unless I'm wrong, this isn't actually an Arnold line. Isn't it from Hanz and Franz on SNL doing a parody of him? He's always got big lines in movies "hasta la vista baby" "you're one ugly motherf%$#@&" etc. He says these lines often as well, but I don't think pump (you) up is actually his line.

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I don't believe it was supposed to be a quote, just a comment. Later on in the day he asked my dad how much I benched and weighed, he actually got both w/n 5 pounds each. He also commented about my shoulders which are way bigger than the rest of my body should allow. Those two comments led me to believe that it was just him still being naturally interested in bodybuilding and lifting. Sorry if that was confusing.

He does play the crowd on occassion. My dad has told me several times where he cut up a very serious meeting/situation with some random appropriate movie quote of his. In fact I forgot how, but Dad has heard him rip the whole Conan quote off.

-Jihad

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Yeah, Arnie is great.

I used to do lotsa weights, and the books he did were good, solid advice.

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Arnie is cool his books are [censored] awful. Some of the worst advice around really.

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Yeah, Arnie is great.

I used to do lotsa weights, and the books he did were good, solid advice.

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Arnie is cool his books are [censored] awful. Some of the worst advice around really.

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Please understand when The Bible was written. It was pretty cutting edge advice in the time frame. It has provided many, MANY, professional bodybuilders with a basic frame of referrence and starting point of their knowledge of working out. Either way, I got my copy signed so its awesome. I'm awesome.

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Yeah, Arnie is great.

I used to do lotsa weights, and the books he did were good, solid advice.

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Arnie is cool his books are [censored] awful. Some of the worst advice around really.

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The basics in the Bible are still solid, I'm sure. And the other books I've read of his are typically cut-downs from the Bible. Maybe you've read others.

It's packed away, and I'm saying this from memory, but it runs through all the basic exercise moves still used today, instructs on warm-up and warm-down, goes through the patterns of reps/sets still used today, so what's to be awful?

What, you think solid weight-training advice is trumped by 7-minute abs and sht like that? Or you need some inspirational horse crap to get them weights moving?

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Translated the Socialist party and Green party are ashamed of him.
On a recent radio show the majority of Austrians who phoned in said that although they did not support the death penalty they still supported Arnold and the fact that he was upholding a court decision.

FREE TOOKIE!
 

OJ DID IT!

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arnold is a stud despite being a shite politician. you are a cracker.

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see i hold nothing against the guy for loving pussy and not being able to control his cock, but when people start looking at these guys as ghandi i find it hilarious.

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Hey, just remember, "eating's not cheating"...

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diebitter and Jihad,

The primary issue with the book is that it recommends way too many sets and movements for the non enhanced athlete. This is of course an understandable problem because Arnold, like ALL competitive bodybuilders was far from a natural.

Outside of that problem, and especially considering the time of release, the book is phenomenal. The vast coverage and pictures make it worth buying even today.

J

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Yeah, possibly, can't remember his suggested routines, so I'll concede. I'm pretty sure I used to do something like a full routine from this book though, even as beginner/intermediate level, so it wasn' THAT hard.

The actual movements described, rep/set structures (assuming 3 or possibly 4 sets, each heavier and less reps than the last), warm-up/warm-down advice is still solid though, huh?

And still make this book worthwhile (as you rightly say).

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diebitter,

Absolutely, considering the time of release and the way the concepts were all put in one place, it was a great book and the advice can still be beneficial.

If you get a chance to dust off your old copy, take a look through the workouts, especially the intermediate and advanced ones.

J