Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger born July 30, (1947) is an Austrian-American actor, film producer, businessman, former bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. As of 2022, he is the most recent Republican governor of California.
Schwarzenegger began lifting weights at the age of 15 and went on to win the Mr. Universe title at age 20, subsequently winning the Mr. Olympia contest seven times; he remains a prominent figure in bodybuilding, and has written many books and articles on it. The Arnold Sports Festival, considered the second-most important bodybuilding event after Mr. Olympia, is named after him. He appeared in the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron (1977). Schwarzenegger retired from bodybuilding and gained worldwide fame as a Hollywood action star, with his breakthrough the sword and sorcery epic Conan the Barbarian (1982), a box-office hit with a sequel in 1984.
After playing the title character in the science fiction film The Terminator (1984), he starred in the sequels Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019). His other successful action films included Commando (1985), The Running Man (1987), Predator (1987), Red Heat (1988), Total Recall (1990), and True Lies (1994), in addition to comedy films such as Twins (1988), Kindergarten Cop (1990), Junior (1994), and Jingle All the Way (1996). He is the founder of the film production company Oak Productions. At school, Schwarzenegger was reportedly academically average, but stood out for his “cheerful, good-natured and exuberant” personality. Money was a problem in their household; Schwarzenegger recalled that one of the highlights of his youth was when the family bought a refrigerator. Schwarzenegger’s father Gustav was an athlete and wanted his sons to become Bavarian curling champions. Influenced by his father, Schwarzenegger played several sports as a child.
Schwarzenegger began strength training in 1960 when his football coach took his team to the local gym. At the age of 14, he chose bodybuilding over football as a career. He later said, “I actually started weight training when I was 15, but I’ve been involved in sports like football for many years, so I felt that even though I’m lean, I’m well developed. at least enough so that I can start going to the gym and start weightlifting.” However, his official website biography states that “at 14, he began an intense training program with Dan Farmer, studied psychology at 15 (to learn more about the power of the mind over the body), and at 17 officially began his athletic career.” . During a speech in 2001, he said: “My own plan was formed when I was 14 years old. My father wanted me to be a police officer, just like him. My mother wanted me to go to trade school.
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