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    Arnold Schwarzenegger: Biography and the Journey of His Life
    Arnold Schwarzenegger: Biography and the Journey of His Life
    Arnold Schwarzenegger: Biography and the Journey of His Life
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    Arnold Schwarzenegger: Biography and the Journey of His Life

    By Steve Mason

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    Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American bodybuilder, model, actor, businessman, and politician. In September 1968, at the age of 21, Schwarzenegger moved to America where he began training at Gold's Gym in Los Angeles. In 1970, he was awarded his first "Mr. Olympia" title which he would go on to win several more times during his career. After winning Mr. Olympia, Arnold was given his first big break in the film business when he was cast in the feature film "Hercules in New York". Arnold's fame became even more well known in 1977 after the release of the bodybuilding documentary "Pumping Iron". His fame continued to grow with movies like "Conan the Barbarian" but his career didn't really take off until he was cast in the 1984 blockbuster "The Terminator".
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXinXii
    Release dateJun 7, 2014
    ISBN9781304940612
    Arnold Schwarzenegger: Biography and the Journey of His Life

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      Early Years

      Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Austria. Schwarzenegger's childhood was far from ideal. His father, Gustav, was an alcoholic police chief and one-time member of the Nazi Party, who clearly favored Arnold's brother over his gangly, seemingly less athletic younger son.

      Gustav is reported to have beaten and intimidated Arnold and, when he could, pitted his two boys against one another. He also ridiculed Schwarzenegger's early dreams of becoming a body builder. It was a very uptight feeling at home, Schwarzenegger later recalled. So uptight and uncomfortable, in fact, that Schwarzenegger would later refuse to attend the funeral of his father, who died in 1972, or his brother, who was killed in a car crash in 1971.

      As an escape, Arnold turned to the movies, in particular Reg Parker, a body builder and star in B-level Hercules movies. The films also helped propel Schwarzenegger's own obsession with America, and the future he felt awaited him there. Getting to his new country was the issue. Schwarzenegger found his answer in Joe Weider, the man behind the International Federation of Body Building, an organization that sponsored contests such Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia.

      Weider loved Schwarzenegger's bravado, sense of humor, and the potential he saw in the young body builder. Weider's instincts couldn't have been more dead-on. In all, Schwarzenegger would win an unprecedented five Mr. Universe titles and six Mr. Olympia crowns during his bodybuilding career.

      Equally significant, Schwarzenegger, who had immigrated to the United States in 1968, helped propel the sport into the mainstream, culminating in the 1977 documentary, Pumping Iron, which tells the tale of Schwarzenegger's defense of his Mr. Olympia crown.

      Making it in Hollywood

      Since his first foray to the local movie house in his hometown of Graz, Arnold had dreamed of making

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