Arnold Schwarzenegger (left) and Joseph Baena (right) in June 2025, Joseph Baena in March 2026. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son, Joseph Baena, won first place in multiple categories at the NPC Natural Colorado State competition this weekend<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n \u201cMission Accomplished!\u201d Baena wrote on Instagram, sharing photos of himself flexing onstage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n The actor and bodybuilder\u2019s victory came a few days after he was spotted training with his dad at Gold\u2019s Gym in Venice Beach<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>\u2019s son, Joseph Baena<\/a>, is officially a bodybuilding champion.<\/p>\n On Saturday, March 28, Baena, 28, shared a post on Instagram<\/a>, revealing that he won first place in multiple categories at the NPC Natural Colorado State competition \u2014 including the Men\u2019s Open Body Heavy Weight Class, Men\u2019s Classic Physique True Novice and Men\u2019s Class Physique Novice.<\/p>\n \u201cMission Accomplished! \ud83e\udd47,\u201d he wrote alongside several photos of himself flexing onstage during his bodybuilding debut.<\/p>\n Joseph Baena (left) working out with dad Arnold Schwarzenegger (right). Baena, whose mom is Mildred Patricia Baena<\/a>, celebrated his first victory just days after he spent some time training and receiving tips from his dad at Gold\u2019s Gym in Venice Beach, Calif.<\/p>\n The Terminator<\/em><\/a> star, 78, started training at the same gym after moving to the United States in the 1960s.<\/p>\n From there, Schwarzenegger has been widely considered one of the greatest bodybuilders of all time, having won the Mr. Olympia title seven times and Mr. Universe five times, before he stopped competing in 1980.<\/p>\n While Baena is following in his father\u2019s footsteps, he opened up about how he didn\u2019t always have the most toned physique<\/a> in a July Instagram<\/a> post.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople sometimes forget that I used to be chubby in high school,\u201d the Gunner<\/em> actor explained in his caption. \u201cI got cut from my basketball and soccer team because I couldn\u2019t keep up with the other kids.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for PEOPLE’s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n Joseph Baena. \u201cSwim didn\u2019t have tryouts thankfully and completely changed my life forever,\u201d he added. \u201cThat was my introduction to Fitness and training.\u201d<\/p>\n Baena previously told PEOPLE in 2022 that he used to be harassed by his classmates for his weight<\/a> \u2014 even the ones he\u2019d considered friends.<\/p>\n “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,” he said at the time, further explaining that he was “really overweight from the end of elementary school into the beginning of high school.”<\/p>\n “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,” Baena continued. “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.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the original article on People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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