Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joseph Baena working out Joseph Baena is opening up about the role his father, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has played in his nascent bodybuilding career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n “He pushes me. He makes sure that I don’t slack off in the gym,” Baena told GQ<\/em>. “When the carbs are low and the calories are low and I start getting tired, he pumps me up.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Baena entered his first bodybuilding competition on March 28, won three gold medals, and won another at a separate competition on April 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n The family that lifts together stays together.<\/p>\n Joseph Baena, a rising star in the bodybuilding world, is finally spilling the secret key to success passed to him early on by his dad, Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mere weeks after winning his first bodybuilding competition<\/a> \u2014 Baena earned three gold medals at the NPC Natural Colorado State Championships in March \u2014 the prodigy opened up to GQ<\/em><\/a> on Monday about the role the Terminator <\/em>star has played in his success.<\/p>\n “He’s the best training partner. I don’t know what to say,” Baena gushed. “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.”<\/p>\n Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joseph Baena at the gym together You don’t have to take Baena’s word for it, either. He’s shared ample photographic evidence of Schwarzenegger’s attentive support.<\/p>\n On March 24, four days before his big string of wins at the NPC competition, Baena shared a set of images to his Instagram<\/a> depicting him pumping iron at the famed Gold\u2019s Gym in Venice, Calif. In two of them, Schwarzenegger claps and coaches from the sidelines while Baena strains to curl a heavily weighted bar.<\/p>\n “You have to shock the muscles!” he wrote in the caption, referencing one of Schwarzenegger’s key tenets<\/a> of muscle growth.<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>EW Dispatch newsletter<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Baena further elaborated on Schwarzenegger’s role in his nascent bodybuilding career in the GQ<\/em> interview, noting that his influence took hold early on.<\/p>\n “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,” he explained. After being “really overweight when I was younger,” Baena said he “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.”<\/p>\n Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joseph Baena at the ‘FUBAR’ season 2 premiere in Los Angeles in 2025 That passion led to years of dedicated training that are finally paying off.<\/p>\n Baena didn’t stop winning at the NPC competition in Colorado. He made it a streak the week after, winning another gold medal<\/a> in the classic physique section at the 2026 INBA Iron Gladiator competition in Corona, Calif.<\/p>\n He celebrated his spate of wins shortly after the Iron Gladiator victory on Instagram<\/a>, writing, “Stepping on stage has always been a scary feat for me but creating the goal and actually going for it is one of the best decisions I could have ever made.”<\/p>\n Read the original article on Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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