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Here are quotes that should be read before you train:

“ That was when I realized that pain could become pleasure. We were benefiting from pain. We were breaking through the pain barrier and shocking the muscles. I looked at this pain as a positive thing, because I grew.

It was a fantastic feeling to gain size from pain. All of a sudden I was looking forward to it as something pleasurable. The whole idea of pain became a pleasure trip. I couldn’t tell anybody about it then, because I knew they would say I was weird. Which wasn’t true, I had just converted the pain into pleasure - not for its own sake but because it meant growing. We bragged to each other about how much our workouts hurt. “ --- Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you want to be a champion you cannot have any outside negative force come in and defect you. Lets say before a contest I get emotionally involved with a girl. That can have a negative effect on my mind and therefore destroy my workouts. So therefore I have to cut my emotions off and become kind of cold in a way. If somebody stills my car outside right now, I don’t care, because I can't be bothered with that. The only thing that I will do is call my insurance agent and have a laugh about it. I trained myself to be totally cold and to not have things go into my mind that could negatively effect me. ----- Arnold Quote

My life revolved around my training program. No more evenings killing time at the movies. No partying with friends. What a fantastic outlet for my adolescent fury! Lifting weights taught me physical awareness. It forced me to respect the sanctity of my body. I would never do anything that would even remotely hinder the development of my body!

---- Lee Haney / 8 Time Mr. Olympia

The body isn’t used to the 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th rep. But that’s what makes it grow! Going through that pain barrier, experiencing the muscular pain, aching, and continuing to go on and go on. That’s what divides a champion from everyone else. If you can go through this pain barrier, then you may get to be a champion, if you can’t go threw it, then forget it. And that’s what most people lack. Having the guts to go threw, the guts to go in and say I don’t care what happens! If it aches, or I fall during a workout, I don’t care. I know it could happen, but I have no fear of fainting in the gym. I've thrown up many times while I was training, but it doesn’t matter, because its all worth it.

all quotes gathered from abcbodybuilding.com
 

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I thought that clip with Arnold saying he was 'coming' everywhere was pretty funny. You ever seen it?

"Evleevere Eye go Eye Ham Cahming!"

But yeah, I guess in a larger sense the whole "pleasure from pain" principle is one of the tennants of masculinity.
 

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Originally posted by icepick
I thought that clip with Arnold saying he was 'coming' everywhere was pretty funny. You ever seen it?

"Evleevere Eye go Eye Ham Cahming!"

But yeah, I guess in a larger sense the whole "pleasure from pain" principle is one of the tennants of masculinity.
Yeah, that's from the documentary "Pumping Iron".. .. a lot of that movie was staged for dramatic purposes... Arnold later admitted that he played up this hardcore "Germanic training machine" for the cameras... the movie is fukkin' hilarious.... the best scene in the movie is when Ferrigno is military pressing 245 for reps (a serious feat for a man 6'5") and his boy is calling him out and he starts screaming "Arnold!" as he pumps out the reps!

I also love how they tried to create this "NY v. Cali" rivalry by contrasting Arnold and Franco in the chilled-out Venice Beach Gold's vs. the dark dungeon Lou Ferrigno was using back in Brooklyn. The reality is that for most of that year Ferrigno trained out at Gold's Venice WITH Arnold! Ferrigno returned to Brooklyn to shoot scenes for the "documentary" !!
 
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