Arnold Schwarzenegger 'pushes' his bodybuilder son Joseph Baena in the gym
Hollywood veteran Arnold Schwarzenegger "pushes" his bodybuilder son Joseph Baena in the gym and makes sure he doesn't "slack off".
Arnold Schwarzenegger "pushes" his bodybuilder son Joseph Baena in the gym and makes sure he doesn't "slack off".
The former Mr. Universe's 28-year-old son - who he fathered with his former housekeeper Mildred Patricia Baena - has followed his father into the world of bodybuilding and he recently won his first competition - and Joseph has now revealed his famous dad is a huge help during training.
In an interview with GQ , Joseph explained: "He’s the best training partner. I don’t know what to say ... He pushes me. He makes sure that I don’t slack off in the gym. When the carbs are low and the calories are low and I start getting tired, he pumps me up."
Joseph also revealed his dad inspired him to get involved in bodybuilding while he was at college, saying: "My dad gave me the bodybuilding encyclopedia.
"I was flipping through that, trying to learn how to grow the biceps, and I fell in love with weightlifting.
"I fell in love with eating healthy. I fell in love with learning about the body and how it reacts to training, and I became very passionate about it."
Joseph recently gained his first taste of success on the competitive bodybuilding circuit by clinching first place in a number of categories at the NPC Natural Colorado State competition last month.
The Terminator star Arnold began his career as a bodybuilder and won Mr. Olympia title seven times and Mr. Universe five times, but gave up competing in 1980.
Joseph hasn't always been in good shape and previously admitted he was dropped from his high school sports teams because he couldn't "keep up" with his peers.
In a post on Instagram in July, he wrote: “People sometimes forget that I used to be chubby in high school. I got cut from my basketball and soccer team because I couldn’t keep up with the other kids.
"Swim didn’t have tryouts thankfully and completely changed my life forever. That was my introduction to Fitness and training."
Joseph has also previously told how he was bullied because of his weight when he was young.
He told People magazine back in 2022: "I was bullied when I was a kid, elementary, middle school, and not really in high school, but I just felt like an outsider in high school at the beginning.
"I was really overweight from the end of elementary school into the beginning of high school.
"It was my closest friends that were the ones that bullied me the most and made fun of me for being overweight and all these kind of things.
"So, that was really a big struggle for me in finding myself and figuring out and creating that ambition to change my weight and my physique."
