Pumping Iron
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How long have you been the top?
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I've not been beaten for the last seven years.
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And...
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I won the Mr. Olympia contest
five years now.

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This is now the sixth year.
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- They score on points?
- Yeah, on points.

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It's like judging the body
by muscularity, and by proportion...

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symmetry, the whole thing.
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Do you visualize yourself
as a piece of sculpture?

:08:23
Yeah, definitely.
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Good bodybuilders have the same mind...
:08:29
when it comes to sculpting,
than a sculptor has.

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If you analyze it,
you look in the mirror and you say:

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"I need more deltoids, more shoulders,"
so you get the proportions right.

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So what you do is you exercise...
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and put those deltoids on.
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Whereas an artist
would just slap on some clay on each side.

:08:47
Does it, maybe, the easier way.
We go through a harder way...

:08:50
because you have to do it on a human body.
:08:52
I mean, obviously a lot
of people look at you...

:08:54
and they think it's kind of strange,
what you're doing.

:08:57
But those are the people
who don't know much about it.

:09:00
As soon as you find out
what the whole thing is about...

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then it's just like another thing.
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It's not any stranger as going into a car...
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and trying to go in a quarter mile,
five seconds.

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I mean, that's, for me, strange.
:09:38
The greatest feeling you can get in a gym...
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or the most satisfying feeling
you can get in a gym, is the pump.

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Let's say you train your biceps.
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Blood is rushing into your muscles,
and that's what we call the pump.

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Your muscles get a really tight feeling...
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like your skin is going to explode
any minute.

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It's really tight, it's like somebody
blowing air into your muscle.

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It just blows up and it feels different.
It feels fantastic.


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