Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has spent years perfecting his physique and his hobby of bodybuilding. Much like the wrestler turned actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger was also the bodybuilding champion back in his day.
Known for his action movies and his muscular body, Arnold Schwarzenegger had to eat an ungodly amount of meat and proteins to maintain his diet. Revealing his dietary composition in a day, the actor stated that he had to eat a whopping 250 grams of protein every day!
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Diet Was Ungodly
With a body to maintain and movies to star in, Arnold Schwarzenegger had to work on his diet and maintain it regularly. Alongside maintaining his body for the camera, the actor was also a professional bodybuilder with seven Mr. Olympias to his name.
To maintain that physique, the actor had quite a large appetite and a higher protein intake than an average human. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, the actor recalled that he ate an insane amount of eggs throughout the day.
“I ate 10-15 eggs a day and had my 250 grams of protein a day because I weighed 250 pounds.”
The actor further added,
“I adopted cardiovascular training when my career in Hollywood took off. I didn’t have that much time to train anymore and I used cardio so as not to take on a lot of weight. And I ate a lot of protein, with eggs as the main source, because they are easy and versatile to cook,”
While maintaining his physique, Arnold Schwarzenegger also convinced visionary director James Cameron to cast him in the lead role of the 1984 movie The Terminator instead of any other actor.
How Arnold Schwarzenegger Convinced James Cameron
In an interview, the Predator actor talked about how he saw the role of Terminator better than any other actor. Recalling how he was a machine and not a human, Schwarzenegger revealed that he had some suggestions on how to make a scene look perfect which made James Cameron choose him.
“Everything was kind of off because he was not like a human being, there was something wrong here, but you couldn’t identify exactly what it was.” Arnold was fascinated by Brenner’s mechanical movements and told Cameron that whoever played Terminator had to be trained to act like a machine. “He cannot go and look down and have the magazine be put into the gun… This has to be done like a machine, therefore he has to be trained blindfolded.”
With iconic roles and 15 eggs a day, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Terminator is available to stream on Max.
Source: Men’s Health
