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Steroids are used in all sports.
For me winning isn`t surprising at all
That's a good weight...for a small woman
I started training bodybuilding in 1983.
During weight cutting your mind plays tricks on you.
Back in the 80s we were very cautious about steroids.
I wanted to set a new standard for competitive bodybuilding.
I don't have ambitions to be a movie star or multi-millionaire.
What I like is the journey, the year-round struggle to improve.
I purposely kept covered up because I didn't like people looking at me.
I'm not one of those guys who has to drop ten pounds in the week before a contest.
I never started bodybuilding because I thought I'm not big enough, I'm not strong enough.
If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!
If you undermine people's confidence, they turn up at the contest trying to get second place.
As an early teen, soccer is the number one thing that you do - and I wasn't very good at that.
Protein is crucial to supplying muscle tissue with the building blocks it needs for its growth.
Every single workout counted when I trained, I didn't miss any meals and made sure I got my sleep.
Back when I was competing in the Olympia I think you saw a lot of guys who were in really good shape.
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting
Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique.
If you are in business and you can do something to get ahead of your rival business, you are going to do it.
It's very painful for me to sit back and watch people get sick and die due to preventable lifestyle choices.
All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.
Your schedule really gets thrown off when you are traveling. And a schedule is very important when you're training.
The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.
Splitting your meals up into smaller, more frequent portions will enable food absorption and utilization of nutrients.
I am more interested in health, quality of life, longevity and how training and nutrition affects that as you get older.
I was a pretty fit and physical kid, and my first interest was in martial arts and kung fu with all the Bruce Lee movies.
When I was a teenager, you were either a punk, a skinhead or a mod, or you weren't on the scene. Me and my mates were skinheads.
Whey protein is taken very quickly into the bloodstream and there is a lot of waste, so it is not ideal on its own in most cases.
I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training and competing.
Before, I could lift 600lbs in squats and all incredible stuff in the gym, but if I walked a couple of miles I'd probably get out of breath.
You are hungry all the time for the last two months before a competition. Every survival thing on your body is telling you that you must eat.
I've no wish to run into a contest and make a fool of myself, leaving my career in a cul-de-sac. I want to be a success in the sport of bodybuilding.
I never see bodybuilding on the sports page and it is not considered to be a sport because of the drug question, because of steroids, let's be honest.
Exercise and fitness will always be part of my life but it does not have to be lifting huge weights; I like yoga, cycling, walking swimming, anything.
Each workout is like a brick in a building, and every time you go in there and do a half-ass workout, you're not laying a brick down. Somebody else is.
I had only been training for a year and half when I did the World Games. Then the next year I did the British championship as a heavyweight and won that.
When I was getting ready for a contest I was not thinking size, I was thinking I want to come in shredded, so shredded that people are going to be shocked.
My first Mr. Olympia was 1991 and that was in Florida against the great Lee Haney, who became Mr. Olympia in 1984, and I started training properly in 1983.
I was not going to be distracted by anything - a fight with my wife, a bump in the car, whatever it may be. I refused to let anything interfere with my workouts.
Everyone gets the impression that bodybuilders are narcissistic, and we look at ourselves in mirrors all the time. But that side of the sport doesn't appeal to me.
In every sport, at the competitive level, there's always a danger of injury. But there are considerably less chances in body building comparatively, than say in soccer.
If I were to organize somebody's diet I would first of all ensure they were getting enough protein, make sure it is the right quality with first class proteins primarily.
I would like to get some points across about my sport and hopefully people can understand it a bit more and appreciate what goes into it, instead of being monkey in a cage.
If your body produces more blood glucose than the muscle needs, it gets converted into fat. So always choose low-GI carbs like green vegetables and low-GI rice like basmati.
It took me nine years to get to the level of being Mr. Olympia, and it's pretty much a 24-hour-a-day job every day of the year, really, if you want to compete on that level.
At the end of the day it's not a weight contest, it's a visual contest. And it doesn't matter what you say you weigh, if you don't look that big then you don't look that big.
We're different people. Politics and films were an ambition for Arnold, but never for me. But I would say that his contribution in broad-basing the sport can hardly be matched.
The failure rate for gym owners and personal trainers is very high because it is very difficult for them to work on their business when they are busy working in their business.