Reps of what? In the Gym?
Gym, track, competition, bedroom… wherever you get your reps, I suppose.
Then yes, but I won’t specify which.
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So the consensus is Jones is a liar?
Arnold prescribed beginners do bodyweight exercises as he did originally. Does he reference his army days as I assume the push-ups, dips, pull ups and inverted rows were part of his army training?
Did Arnold actually do 5x5 as I’ve read Reg Park himself didn’t always do 5x5.
When did he do Olympic lifting as the only prescribed Olympic lift was Clean and Press
there’s only one person who knows for sure what Arnie did, and he’s too busy making (awful now, amazing then) movies and having extra-marital sex to tell you.
There’s so much legend and rumour about what Arnie did or didn’t do. Spend 5 minutes online and you’ll find ten thousand different people all claiming to know his routines, diets, drug use, measurements, etc., and often to try and sell a product, program or ideology.
Fact is Arnie was just a badass who probably trained every way it was possible to train at some point in his career. It’s impossible not to, really, if you spend enough time in a gym, which Arnie certainly did.
And it’s not like if you ever even knew for sure what he did that it’d benefit you in any way. If you knew with 100% certainty he did Reg Park’s routine or whatever, it’s not like doing Reg Park’s routine yourself would turn you into The Oak.
It is fun to think about all the cool shit Arnie did to make him what he was, but if you’re really keen to find a definite answer about it all then you’re not going to have much luck.
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This is honestly what blows me away with the Arthur Jones HIT story about Arnold.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of the most genetically gifted individuals in the world, who could grow muscle no matter HOW he trained, couldn’t make HIT work.
Jesus Christ, if Arnie can’t make HIT work, what chance do us mere mortals have?
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I think that’s actually the point. Humanizing someone who is thought of as a god makes people feel better about their own limitations.
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Right, but I mean, if you’re trying to sell a method, it just seems backwards.
“HIT can’t even put muscle on Arnold Schwarzenegger…it’s BOUND to work for you!”
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I hate to break it to you, but you’re smarter than most. 
It’s marketed as, “this program is so intense, The Great Austrian Oak, Arnie couldn’t handle it.”
Doesn’t that just make you want to try it?
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haha, it’s like these adverts for the army we had in the UK. The slogan was something like “99% need not apply.” I was always pretty sure that ruled me out.
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