10 He Saved A Man’s Life
Back in 2004, Arnie and friends were enjoying a pleasant day at the beach while vacationing in Hawaii when suddenly things took a wrong turn. According to reports, a nearby man began to struggle in the deep water and told the closest man to him he was cramping up. Lucky for him, the closest man to him happened to be the man who defeated the predator. Schwarzenegger wasted no time and scooped up the man AND his boogie board and pulled them 100 yards to the Maui shore. That’s the length of a football field. I would bet most people reading this, hell even the man writing this, couldn’t run the length of a football field let alone swim it while hauling a full grown man and his favorite pool toy. That’s why it’s important to stay fit people, you never know when you’re going to have to save a life in an exotic location.
9 He Was Too Muscular To Be Put On Film
You don’t become Mr. Olympia by being some run of the mill pipsqueak off the street. Oh no, you take home that trophy only if you’ve put in enough iron-pumping hours to make your muscles so big no manmade device can contain them, even movie cameras. Turns out back in 1982 when Schwarzenegger was filming what would be his big break, Conan the Barbarian, he was forced to tone down his workout because his ginormous biceps made it nearly impossible for him to wield a sword properly. And he was required to perform his own stunts (as he was on many other projects) because the studio couldn’t find a stunt double remotely close to his size and stature, an issue that actually deterred him from getting many acting jobs at the start of his career.
8 His Physique Isn’t Just Good… It’s Perfect
Physical perfection is a heavily sought-after dream for many people around the globe, and if you want to know what that might look like, you don’t have to look any further than Arnold Schwarzenegger, who the Guinness Book of World Records called “the most perfectly developed man in the history of the world.” Wow. Now, that’s a title with a hefty bag of bragging rights stapled onto it. According to a website I just found, there have been approximately 107,602,707,791 humans born on planet earth to date, and not one of them has had a better body than the Austrian Oak. Ever. He could travel back in time to any period throughout history and hairy dudes with clubs would stop hunting and be like, “Nice pecs.”
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