Arnold Schwarzenegger, 78, undergoing brutal gym prep for ‘Conan the Barbarian’ sequel

I hope they're not just toying with our hearts! 

He better punch a camel

i am waiting since the ending credits frame of the last one

I hear they're just going to redo the original Barbarian, to play it safe. Jake Gyllenhaal is growing his hair and will play Conan, while Arnie will reprise in Max von Sydow's old role as the king who lost his daughter. Ice Cube will play Thulsa Doom. Millie Bobby Brown is in talks about being Valeria. You heard it here first!

I hope Flula Borg has a role.

"slams"

Are you sure? Because I don't think the multimillionaire, seven-time Mr. Olympia with decades of knowledge and experience in bodybuilding and strength training, who has access to the absolute best health care money can buy as well access to the absolute best coaches, trainers and facilities has *any* idea what he's doing.

Well, it would be brutal for us mere mortals. For Arnie, that's a Tuesday.

Yeah I’m not sure a bunch of Reddit posters are qualified to give advice to literally the world’s most famous fitness man. 

It's the NY post. Hot trash.

The NY Post is a tabloid. This is not a reputable source, exaggerating is their business.

[hijacking the top comment to make sure that everyone who hasn't read this yet has a chance to see it](https://old.reddit.com/r/gainit/comments/2zfjmf/bad_day_at_the_gym_completely_demoralized/cpksp8e/) The man is a legend and knows *exactly* what it means to find success in the gym. I'm sure he'll be fine. EDIT: [also this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-vTVjV-2x8)

It'd be brutal for your average redditor

He’s also been talking about this movie for a long time and a core concept is basically Conan having to fight and move through the world differently because of his age.

headline exaggerating? what do you mean? redditors soaking in the clickbait title and then claiming to know more about arnold's health than the multiple doctors/physicians/nutritionist he has likely surrounded himself with? what does this all mean??

For real. Navigating on mobile is a nightmare. Just trying to scroll and I accidentally clicked a butt-plug advertisement.

The NYPost is famously not a good newspaper. In fact, it's surprisingly often propaganda.

Rupert Murdoch is the CEO of a larger, multi ring, circus of horrors of which NY Post is just one ring.

It's the NY f****** Post, what do you expect? Integrity? GTFOH

F*** the nypost, its a rag

What do you expect if that f****** rag of a paper?

He was 56 in T3. 50s is still middle aged. I agree he looked incredible and literally spent from his teens to his 50s looking like a statue sculpted by Michelangelo. But now he’s nearly 80.

Oh goody, the exact comment I was looking for!

Conan the Octogenarian.

Arnold has never stopped training. Even now at his age he still trains daily. If you have his workout app. Which is great he gives you his exact training program to follow daily. Because of his age it's mostly machines now. So the headline is mostly marketing. His big issue is at his age and with multiple heart valve replacements he can't go extremely heavy so he focuses on lighter weights with higher reps and shorter rest periods. He also likes to release his meal prepared he's doing so I'm sure his two guys that are his assistants will upload his diets at some point. I've been using his app for two years and it works and has a great community that's uplifting and helpful. They like to call it the most positive place on the Internet and it is. Arnold knows what he is doing and has probably some of the best medical advice at his disposal.

Maybe but I think he can do it. He won't look like he used to, of course. But my da (now 86) was still very fit in his late 70s and I saw him pick up a f****** log and throw it on his sawmill, a tree he had chopped down himself. It isn't that much of a stretch to think that a man who has taken care of himself and been fit his whole life could work out a bit to bring it back to movie star level of visibility, even if it won't be very useful in a physical sense. Edit: To those concerned about his heart, he was born with that heart defect. He eventually needed his valve repaired. It wasn't the first time, he had surgery in 1997 as well. This is not going to affect his ability to work out.

He's talked about how his training hasn't been anything like it was for long time now because it isn't wise as you get older. So while no doubt he'll work hard to get a decent physique for this I think he'll be sensible about it. And I'm sure Arnold's version of sensible training is still going to end up with him looking ripped enough to play an older Conan given he still looks pretty muscular as it is.

He’s had heart issues in the past already… Hopefully he’s not taking any….”*supplements*”…but otherwise putting much muscle on at 78 is virtually impossible.

This is almost certainly mostly a publicity thing. Arnold has never stopped working out, and he knows that he can’t do too hard anymore because of his heart - he’s said as much in the past. He’s probably just not skipping sessions and has cleaned his diet up a bit. He won’t be rocking 20 inch arms when he gets on screen.

This is the same man that at 55 spent months working out to become a brick shithouse, and all for a minute of screentime as naked t-800 at the start of t3. And he was even bigger than his t2 self. If Vince Mcmahon can pull it off Arnie's got this effortlessly.

It's really funny honestly. Arnold has been working out all his life. It's not even really "training for the role" when you've never stopped training. The concerns for his health are laughable. Working out _is_ healthy. i understand the steroid concerns, but do they really believe that he's going to run a heavy steroid cycle at 78? Come on. Arnold isn't stupid.

There was a time when in order to be the world record holder for the 100m in the 100+ class you didn't have to do much more than be over 100 and make it 100 meters. That day passed a couple decades ago.

Exactly lol Reddit has the most self proclaimed experts on seemingly every topic you could possibly think of.

Telling Arnie of all people about exercise lol.

Reddit has the most dysgenic median user out of any social media platform and its not even close. People on here "can't do anything" or however the twitter screenshot goes.

It's funnier that it's in a way that's trying to inform Arnold about it, as if he isn't aware of it himself. His entire life has been about fitness lmao.

“Why’d they have to phrase it like that?!”

Dude same my heart sank for a second there

Me too

his back shouldn’t be bearing nearly as much load as his heart

He has worked out basically every single day since 1961, I think he’ll be fine.

I kinda trust him of all people to know how to not overdo it lol

They probably won't build a real Wheel of Pain this time or have barely trained wolfdogs chase him.

Exactly. He’s playing an aged but still Legendary King, and a minimal amount of prep on what he looked like in FUBAR is perfectly fine for that role.

He has had only valve procedures from what I can see. He had a Ross procedure in '97 and then the follow up aortic replacement in '20. Apparently he required a separate pulmonic replacement too. So 3 times in the chest. That's uncommon but can restore full function if successful which it would seem is the case

amongst a myriad of other things. you dont walk away with that much muscle. most of the bodybuilders from that era did not age well. he looks amazing compared to say ron coleman

He’ll definitely be 80 by the time this is released

King Conan. If so he’ll be the older narrator and someone else will play Conan when younger.

LET THE MAN GET JACKED. HE HAS LOVE FOR THE GAME.

he was the governor of California 20 years ago. 

20 years ago, Christopher McQuarrie wouldn't have been able to get it made. A few excellent Mission: Impossibles later, he can. As long as Arnie knows his limits, it will be fine.