Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger whom we mainly know as Arnold is the kind of person that we can say is not known for bodybuilding instead bodybuilding is known for him, and this is what makes him completely different than other bodybuilders. He was born in a small village in Austrian from 30 to July 1947. He had to face poverty at that time for the2nd world war. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger Biography

As both of his parents were police, his childhood passed through rules and regulations. But then he had become the victim of child abuse. 

He used to be a mediocre student but as his sense of humor was outstanding, he started earning from the age of 13. His main weapon was his self-confidence. His father always wanted his son to be a police officer like him. 

But he used to dream about becoming something else. He used to dream to go to America from the age of 10. But he had no idea how he would fulfill his dream. Arnold used to love playing football. His mentor took them to the local gym one day, and it was there that today's world-famous bodybuilder Arnold began his bodybuilding career. He became addicted to bodybuilding quickly.

But his father didn't like this thing at all as there was no value in bodybuilding in Austria at that time. But watching his son's enthusiasm his father gave him permission to go to the gym only 3 days a week. But Arnold wasn't that type of boy who would stop there. 

He brought that gym equipment into his home and started gyming 3 days in his home and the remaining 3 days in the gym center. Sometimes he used to force to open the gym even on Sundays. He said that if a gym session was missed by him on any day, he couldn't stand to look at his face in front of the mirror on that day.

Arnold had to go to military training when he was 18 years old because it was a tradition in Austria that any boy under the age of 18 had to go through a year of mandatory military training. During military training, he came to know about Mr. Europe's junior-level contest. But to participate in that competition he had just one way left at that time and that was to escape from the military camp. 

He knew that he would be punished severely for that, but his love for bodybuilding was so intense that the fear of being punished wasn't able to lock him up in the camp. He did escape from the military camp to participate in the competition. Even he didn't have the proper clothes which he needed to participate in that competition. After arriving, he borrowed some clothes from a friend and entered the competition.

And in this way, he won the first bodybuilding competition of his life. After that, when he returned to the camp, he had to face humiliations as well as criticism for his recklessness. As he had broken the rule, he had to spend7 days in jail. But for his boldness, he got the designation of "best build man". And from this point, he started to become famous in Europe. 

But his dreams were not limited to only bodybuilding. Besides bodybuilding, he also loved watching movies and his dream was to act in Hollywood movies. But when he gave an audition for that, he was rejected several times for his extra muscular body as bodybuilding was not that popular in Hollywood at that time. Arnold became frustrated getting rejections again and again. At that time, he used to consider Reg Park, Steve Reeves as his inspiration. They were established stars in Hollywood in spite of being bodybuilders. 

He noticed that they became superstars though they were bodybuilders. So why couldn't he become a superstar? In 1966 at the age of 19, Arnold decided to participate in the Mr. Universe competition. So he went to London soon. 

He became second in that competition and from that competition he got noticed by Charles Bennett who was a judge in that competition. Charles liked him because of his excellent body at that young age and for his endless enthusiasm regarding bodybuilding. As a result, Charles took him to his home and started to train him personally. 

At that time during his training, Arnold met his idol, Reg Park, there. After 1 year, Arnold again participated in Mr. The universe and finally, he won the amateur level competition. For becoming Mr. Universe at that young age, his identity spread throughout the world. Arnold started to become famous as one of the greatest bodybuilders. Though he had fulfilled his dream to become a bodybuilder, he wasn't able to fulfill his dream to become a superstar even then. 

After this, he again started giving auditions for Hollywood movies. But this time he again got rejected as he couldn't speak English fluently. His mother tongue was German and so he used a german accent in many English pronunciations. He again became upset for being rejected so many times. 

But he never accepted defeat and so he started getting help from magazines and books and started to practice speaking in English. Besides these, he made a world record at that time by becoming the youngest Mr. Olymia at the age of 23. In 1973, he got his first chance to work in a Hollywood movie named "The Long Goodbye". Though he acted in this movie, he had no dialogue. 

But for making his accent better day by day he finally got chances to act in various Hollywood movies. In 1984, the character played by him in the movie "the terminator" was loved by everyone so much that his fame spread worldwide and the movie also became very much popular in a very short time. After that, he became governor of California in 2003. In 2011, a museum dedicated to his life and his childhood home opened in his honour. 

If someone is really passionate about bodybuilding, then according to me Arnold is the biggest inspiration for that person.