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

Today, I want to discuss something I haven't talked about. Before we started our daily newsletter

and this podcast, I told Daniel and Adam that if we were going to be effective, we had to be real.

Yes, this is a health and fitness email and I could just

preach to you from a podium as the former bodybuilding champion and fitness crusader for five decades.

I can give fantastic advice about training and motivation while only talking about

my successes, but that would be fake. If we really want you to buy in, I have to talk about

my struggles and the lessons I learned from them. Because many times it's our failures and

stumbles and challenges that teach us the most, no matter how successful, wealthy or accomplished we

all of us will have struggles in life and part of health and fitness is finding a way to keep

moving forward when things get challenging. Today, I'm going to be honest with you.

I just finished recording my audiobook for Be Useful. I finished writing the book a few months

ago, but this recording was something totally new for me. The publisher told me that since the

last time I wrote a book, audiobooks have grown and grown and people would expect me to read the

whole book for them. In the past, I read a little bit in a professional handled the rest that

wouldn't be enough this time. I could tell you it was a fantastic new experience for me reading

my own book, but that would be a lie. Here's my secret, a terrible reader that didn't talk about

learning disabilities in Austria in the 1950s. So most of the time when I was asked to read out

loud in class, it was just a disaster and I got smacked with a ruler. But now I know that I'm

dyslexic. I have found ways to make sure it doesn't hold me back. It's why when I prepare for a movie,

I read the script over and over in the months before until every line is memorized. And when I give

a speech, I do at least 20 practice reps so I can get my brain around the words, reps save me

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