Prototypical Purposeful Primitive
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Back before he went into politics, back before he was a movie star, back before he married a Kennedy, back before he won the Olympia seven times, back before he won the Universe, back before he came to America, Arnold spent his time engaging in primordial pursuits and purposefully primitive pastimes. I suspect he longs for these carefree times nowadays: simple times, simple days, simple mindless hedonistic pleasure. Not a care or a worry in the worldheres how he described his formative years in the Austrian Alps
I finally arrived at the idea of shocking the muscles. If you do ten sets of bench presses or any other exercises regularly the muscles gradually gets used to the idea of doing ten sets of bench presses and growth slows down. So once a week I took a training partner and drove up to the mountains with the weights. We limited ourselves to one exercise for a particular body part. I remember the first day we carried 250 pounds out into the forest and did squats for three hours straight. I began by doing twenty repetitions with 250 pounds; then my partner did whatever he could. Then it was my turn again. We ended up doing something like fifty-five sets of squats each. The last hour seemed endless. But it worked. Our thighs pumped up like balloons. That first day we gave our thigh muscles such a shock that we couldnt walk right for a week. We could barely crawl. Our legs had never experienced anything as tough as those fifty-five sets of squats. Each of us put like a quarter or half-inch on our thighs: they just blew up; they had no choice except to grow. We made it {going to the woods} a regular thing. We bought girls out to cook. We made a fire outdoors and turned the whole thing into a contest. We worked hard but had a good time. After the muscle-shocking sessions we drank wine and beer and got drunk and carried on like old-time strongmen back in the 1800s and early 1900s. Sometimes it became pure insanity. Wed grab up the weights again, but we were weaker because of the beer and the weights would fall back over our heads. Or wed get them down on our chest and wouldnt be able to press them up. It was a great time. We cooked shish kabob, sat around the fire and made love to the girls. We would swim naked in the lake. We got into the whole trip; we were gladiators, we ate like animals, made love like animals and got off on it so much it became a weekly routine eating fresh meat, drinking wine, making love, exercisingIts important that you like what you do and we loved it. We had fun but we also had astonishing workoutsevery weekend we would do the same thing; bench presses, rowing, flyes - bombing our bodies, giving the muscles something different from the usual everyday routine. The theory was to surprise the body. Dont always do what it expects.
I bet there are a lot of days nowadays when the Governor remembers with longing those simpler times chock full of simple moronic hedonistic pleasure.
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