Decades After Losing Against Two Legendary Bodybuilders, Arnold Schwarzenegger Claims They Weren’t His Main Competition: “Was Battling What I Saw in…”

Very few have left an impact on their respective sport in a manner that, on the rare occasion they did lose a match, people remembered those matches as an anomaly. Be it the 5 losses of boxing, the great Muhammad Ali, or, in this case, the only ‘three’ times that Arnold Schwarzenegger ever lost a bodybuilding competition. The man from Austria won 14 World championships and 7 Mr. Olympia titles among many others, but it’s the losses that haunt the memory. However, he learned his lesson then, and in his latest newsletter, he explains why.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has only lost to 3 people, including any and every bodybuilding contest. They are Sergio Oliva, Frank Zane, and Chester Yorton. In the latest edition of his latest newsletter, Schwarzenegger reasoned that the main competition was himself and not them.

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It’s Monday and Arnold Schwarzenegger is back with his daily newsletter ‘Arnold’s Pump Club’, this time as part of his Monday Motivation. Schwarzenegger shared a cartoon to justify a point about how social media fitness influencers may not be showing the complete truth all the time. And this might do more harm to people who follow them than good.

Schwarzenegger intended to prove it by citing examples of the only times he did not succeed in his bodybuilding career. He wrote in the newsletter, “You have to compete with yourself. Even back in my competition days, Sergio Oliva or Frank Zane wasn’t my main competition: I was. I knew I was competing against them at the main show. But in training, I was battling what I saw in the mirror”.

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While Frank Zane beat Schwarzenegger in 1968 and Chester Yorton defeated him 2 years prior to that at the 1966 NABBA Mr. Universe competition, Sergio Oliva remains the only one to defeat him at the Mr. Olympia competition in 1969. Schwarzenegger remembered all of them and realized if only he had won the competition with himself, i.e. improving his physical flaws, he wouldn’t have had to worry about them.

The biggest battle is always with oneself

Recognizing his flaws, Arnold Schwarzenegger continued, “The calves that needed to grow? Not my competitors. Mine. The definition that needed to increase? Not theirs. Mine”. Having lost, he could identify the areas in his body straightaway that needed improvement. This also shows the zeal and hunger of Schwarzenegger to win, that at any cost, he needed to improve. He finally said, “For 364 days of the year, my competition wasn’t the people I would face on stage. It was me. And if I couldn’t win that competition, nothing else mattered”.

But Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn’t just all talk and no action. He knew to put money where his mouth was and improved himself. The result – Arnold Schwarzenegger never lost another bodybuilding contest ever again after that. In another instance of how Schwarzenegger is changing lives with his newsletter, he ensured people look to rectify their own flaws. The rest will take care of themselves.

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