Arnold, the massive muscular body and the American dream

Really?

Later on, after I retired from bodybuilding, drug use became a major problem in the sport…There were instances where bodybuilders died.

Oh, the steroids? Uh-huh. That must not have been important, then. And since then, he's worked to get drugs banned from the sport (65). Is this all? I am lost for words.

He talks about his wife, Maria - but she never really comes alive. I've no idea what women think of Arnold: Do they find him sexy? Is this what they want a man to be? Should men be spending more time at the gym, building up their upper body to the degree that Arnold did?

The courtship, marriage and subsequent children are all covered. And then there is the child he fathered with a housemaid. It's all fairly unemotional. "Yes, I f-ed up".

Arnold is easily dismissed and easily mocked. He's been called all kinds of things; but he's left his detractors in the dust. His success is undoubted. Young males look up to him. He changed bodybuilding's image and made going to the gym acceptable. Perhaps it's part of a general move to make men's bodies more muscular and more visible - the Southern Californication of the male.