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18th Jun 2015

Arnold Schwarzenegger explains how he piled on the size for Terminator Genisys

Ben Kenyon

If anyone is going to get in shape for a film role, it’s Arnold Schwarzenegger.

His big screen blockbuster career was built on that muscle-bound body – who could forget the shape he was in for the original Terminator movie in 1984?

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The 67-year-old obviously won’t be getting back in the same condition that made him a seven-time Mr Olympia bodybuilding champion.

But he’s still got a trick or two up his sleeve.

Arnie says he always keeps himself in goof nick – at least seven out of 10 shape. But for his new Terminator: Genisys film he wanted to be the same size as he was in the ’84 incarnation.

On top of his classic bodybuilding split, the Austrian actor had been cranking up the calories and gulping down two protein shakes a day to get him back up to his original 228lb weight.

Well, he did say he’d be back…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QHMfICTNv0

H/T Muscle Pharm