Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.

Recently someone in the pump app asked me whether I think today's actors are 100% natural.

It's a question I'm asked a lot.

Listen, I can't tell you whether different actors are natural or not,

but I can tell you that judging yourself against them is crazy no matter what, and your best move is always going to be to compete

with yourself and make sure you're improving every day to avoid getting sucked into a trap of

comparison. We can assume that people take stuff because

sometimes actors have to gain weight quickly for the role. But I don't know how the

information helps you.

You never ever want to compare yourself to what you see on the screen.

We never know what movie magic is being used.

We know in movies like 300 bodies were enhanced digitally. In other movies,

they age people and many times actors have used body doubles. The stunts are done by experts and more and

more the sets are green screens. It isn't reality. So why would you compare yourself to the movie world? It's not even worth worrying about what they took.

They get paid to work out and eat well. They might have a chef and a trainer from the studio and that doesn't include the extremes.

Some people will dehydrate themselves.

They get a tan, they have mega people to spray them with oil to make their muscles pop.

They have dumbbells and bands to get a pump right before they go on camera.

It is a ton of movie magic. With all of these things you can look at it two ways.

One I think is the more negative way. It's to say they can't be like that naturally. Well, duh, it is movie

magic. The other is to be inspired because even though they have benefits you don't, it

still took a shitload of work and like that they share

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