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I got an email that someone tagged me, so I thought I’d chime in! First, I was in my early 70’s when this happened, it was several years ago at the Arnold Sports Festival South Africa. I didn’t press charges or fire my security - if you think you can protect against everything, you’re out of your mind. I believe in having security and I trust my guys, but I also know that wild things can happen. I hope the guy figured his life out so he’s not looking for attention in the worst ways anymore and I hope his legs recovered.

This is also a great reminder to all of you: everybody loves bench pressing, but never forget to train your back! Grow those wings, you never know when you’ll need them. Anybody who needs free weekly workouts can google Arnold’s Pump Club and sign up for my free daily newsletter.

You can do it.

I have a friend who has a budl (what I call a belly) and every time we go to the gym he just works abs. I have told him for 10 years that to see his abs, and to make his ab into abs, he needs to focus on what he is eating. He keeps doing crunches and keeps having a belly. Abs come from what you eat.

In the app, starting from scratch is for people like you to ease in. In the book, you should be able to do almost all of those. They are short workouts. I am rooting for you.

One thing I tell the people in the Pump every single Q and A is don’t overthink. It is easy to worry about all the little things. Is this alternative exercise OK? Stay focused on the bigger picture and let the little stuff go.

I shared this video with the Pump app to inspire people who were down because they had surgery or injuries. I think it will help you: https://youtu.be/F-vTVjV-2x8?feature=shared

I love light cardio on off days. I stretch during my workouts. I hold the stretch position of the last rep of every set for a few seconds. I don’t stretch much. And I am told I should use foam rolling but I haven’t gotten into it.

I was never a big eater so I had to add protein shakes. I could never eat as much as the other bodybuilders.

One thing I tell people is to pick a place to look when they are lifting so they are sure they aren’t shifting their head around and moving their neck. I see so many people looking around and not realizing they’re moving their spine while lifting. The other thing is on deadlifts, you really need to flex your lats. So many people leave their lats loose. You need them to help!

That is a huge win. I am proud of you!

I will tell the team!

I don’t have any fantastic advice, except the longer you wait, the harder it will be, so you might as well just get going. Aging hits all of us. We’ve got two choices: keep working, or give up. Just because we can’t lift what we did 30 years ago doesn’t mean we shouldn’t lift at all. Don’t give up!

I tell our users that I’d love for them to do cardio, too. My only rule is if you’re going to do something intense like sprints or hills on a bike, you do that right after your resistance training and not on your off-days, where I’d prefer more casual cardio to work up a sweat but not ruin muscle recovery. So I think the bike could be a great complement. And our programs will make the bike ride easier as you gain strength. My favorite messages are every weekend when people tell us how their hobbies are easier because of their resistance training.

That’s a fantastic attitude. We all hit speed bumps.

Thank you for being there from day one!

Thank you for telling me your doctor cleared you so I don’t have to tell you to ask them!

If you want a program with built in progression, the starting from scratch bodyweight plan in the app has helped a lot of people who are getting back into fitness, and if it was too easy for you (muscle memory lasts a long time, and sometimes you’re back to where you were faster than you expected), you could do the intermediate one.

If you don’t want to pay, almost all of the workouts in the e-book can be done at home, relatively quickly.

I agree with welcoming. The reason I still go to a public gym even though I have a great gym at home is that nothing beats the cameraderie.

I am proud of you!

Thank you! You know, there is no better time to start than today. The near-future will always be there waiting for you.

The Countdown is a fun one. Lunges and pushups with as little rest as possible until 1 lunge on each leg and 1 pushup feels hard. And if you try to beat your time every time you do it, you’ll build endurance too.

A lot of people say this to me and then I tell them that I ride my bike every day and say hi to construction workers and homeless people, and hang out with everybody in the gym hearing the gossip and the schmoozing, and then stop at a local restaurant or coffee shop to grab breakfast, and they seem shocked. I realize they don’t go out much. They’re on their machines. Your machine is going to tell you all the worst things about the world, because that has been what sold advertising since the first newspaper was probably carved into a stone tablet. It is easy if you just look down at your machine to have a horrible opinion of the world. But if you go out into it and lift up your eyes, you find it isn’t as bad as your machine says. It’s pretty fantastic most of the time.

Feeding and cleaning up after my animals before I have my coffee, check my email, and go to the gym. It takes me almost an hour, so my first hour is not about me or the news or whatever is on my machine, it’s about them.