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What Did Arnold Schwarzenegger Do After Winning Mr. Universe?
David Senra, reading The Education of a Bodybuilder, says Arnold Schwarzenegger won Mr. Universe in 1967 at age 20 and refused to rest on it. Senra quotes Steve Jobs: after you make something wonderful, you do it again. Schwarzenegger set a schedule to train straight through the whole year, in the gym from early morning until late at night, and kept asking what he could do to be special and different.
Once a week he took a training partner into the country with their weights and limited each session to one exercise for one body part. The first day they carried 250 pounds into the forest and did squats for three hours, something like 55 sets each. Their thighs pumped up like balloons. The shock left them unable to walk right for a week. They made the forest sessions a regular thing, built a fire, brought girls to cook, then drank wine and beer and carried on like old-time weightlifters from the 1800s.