He didn't have to work all that hard. A lot of his accomplishments were given to him. There were plenty of body builders with much better physiques when he became famous. He was already famous in Germany and Austria when he came here. He's been a member of "that club" since his teen yrs, when he first started getting press. He's an asshat. Never really liked him, either. The only thing he was ever really good at was picking things up, and putting them down.