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I started way back as a weightlifter. I always liked the idea of lifting weights and being a bodybuilder. From the first moment when I gripped a barbell and held it around the bar and lifted the steel above my head, I felt this exhilaration, and I knew then that this is something that I'm going to do; that I was in love with that, and this is going to be something that I'm going to do. I'm going to pursue the sport of weightlifting and bodybuilding.
我出道時是個舉重運動員。我一直都喜歡舉重運動，渴望能成為一名健美運動員。自從第一次抓緊杠鈴、將其高高舉過頭頂之際，我就為此感到異常興奮。那時我知道，我迷上了這項運動，這將是我要做的事情，我將從事舉重和健美運動。
Now, I remember the first real workout that I had. It was eight miles away from my home village in Austria there was a gymnasium, and I rode to that gymnasium with a bicycle. And there I trained for half an hour, because they said that after half an hour you should stop because otherwise your body will get really sore. But after half an hour I looked at my body, and nothing had happened. So I said, "I'd better work out for another half hour." So I lifted some more. My strength didn't improve, I didn't see the muscles pop out or anything like that, so I trained for another half an hour. And then after another half hour I trained another half hour, and all together I trained two and a half hours.
我還記得最初那次真正的訓練。當時我騎著自行車前往一家健身房，那兒離我在奧地利一個小村莊里的家有八英里之遙。在那里我訓練了半個鐘頭，因為他們告訴我，訓練必須半小時一停，否則你會全身酸痛。但半小時之后，我看看自己的身體，一點變化也沒有！于是我說，“最好再練半小時吧。”就又多舉了幾下。可是我的力氣并未因此增強，也不見肌肉鼓起來。然后我又練了半小時，再加半小時……結果總共練了兩個半小時。
Well, let me tell you something. After two and a half hours--I left the gymnasium, even though they told me that I shouldn't train that much or I would get really sore--I rode my bicycle home. And after the first mile I got numb, and I couldn't feel anymore the handle of the bicycle, and I fell off the bike and I fell into the ditch on the side of the road. So I got up again and I tried it again. Another few yards, I felt off the bicycle again. And I tried it three, four more times, and I just couldn't ride my bicycle because my body was so numb and my legs felt like noodles.
讓我告訴你們，盡管他們告訴我不能練那么久，否則會渾身酸痛，但我訓練了兩個半小時，然后我離開健身房騎車回家。剛走一英里，我頓覺四肢麻木，連車把都感覺不到了，結果整個人從車上摔下來，掉進了路邊的水溝里。我站起來，又試了一次，但沒騎多遠又摔了下來。接下來我又試了三四次，但依舊不行，因為我全身異常酸麻，感覺腿就像面條一樣軟弱無力。
