#195: Arnold Says This Trend Is Holding You Back

Arnold's Pump Club

Health & Fitness, Fitness

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🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

When you’ve been trying to get the world healthy and fit for as long as Arnold has, you see a lot of trends come and go.

After five decades of traveling the world on a fitness crusade, Arnold has also seen what has improved and what is getting worse. In this episode, Arnold shares the problem that is not only holding back your fitness progress but could also limit your happiness in life.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Arnold's Pump Club.
0:04.1	Today, I want to talk to all of you about focus and follow through.
0:10.2	Like a lot of my lessons, this one starts in the gym, but it applies to everything in life.
0:18.1	When you've been trying to get the world healthy and fit for as long as I
0:23.1	have, you get to hear from millions of people about all of their challenges getting fit.
0:29.2	It's not a burden. It's an opportunity. In five decades of traveling the world on a fitness
0:36.5	crusade,
0:37.6	I've been able to hear so much that I know all the common things that hold people back.
0:44.1	One of the biggest barriers, without any doubt, is a lack of focus and follow through.
0:51.1	I've seen this for years, but I believe it's only getting worse. People will start a
0:56.5	fitness plan, and then a few weeks later, they read an article or see a social media post
1:03.0	about another trend and switch their plan. They are constantly switching to the new shiny thing.
1:10.7	They are not focusing and following through.
1:13.8	I've been training for 63 years.
1:16.9	And that time, it might shock you to learn that I can count the number of programs I've
1:21.8	used on one hand.
1:23.7	There was my early training with the Weightlifting club, which focused on the basics with
1:29.8	bodybuilding exercises as a reward for sticking to the classic compound movements.
1:34.7	Then there was my famous bodybuilding split.
1:38.5	The Arnold double split was the two-a-day program that everyone knows. I still focused on the basics but split my
1:47.6	training by body parts to hit everything as much as possible throughout the week, chest and back,
1:53.8	shoulders and arms, legs and abs, over and over. And there was my program after I retired from competing.
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