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Like father, like son, and a bodybuilding legacy is within the making.
Arnold Schwarzenegger was noticed stepping again into coach mode as he educated his son, Joseph Baena, forward of his first bodybuilding competition, signaling the following technology could also be prepared to hold the torch.
The seven-time Mr. Olympia winner, 78, labored intently with Baena, 28, contained in the Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach, California, the place the bodybuilding legend as soon as constructed his empire.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger helps his son, Joseph Baena, pose at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach, Calif., March 17, 2026. (SWNS)
But this time, Schwarzenegger wasn’t the one posing below stress. He was fine-tuning each element from the sidelines.
In a video obtained by Fox News Digital, the “Terminator” star fastidiously adjusted Baena’s positioning, making certain every muscle hit just right.
Professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger posing on the prime of his kind in October 1976. (Jack Mitchell/Getty Images)
After a session of pumping iron, Baena went shirtless to point out off his more and more sculpted physique, flexing his biceps as his father corrected his angles and kind, even serving to him lock in considered one of Schwarzenegger’s signature poses.
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Schwarzenegger, dressed casually in a black T-shirt, shorts and knee-high socks, watched intently as he coached his son.
Joseph Baena beforehand took to Instagram to point out off his comparable seems to legendary father Arnold Schwarzenegger. (Instagram/Getty Images)
Onlookers shortly gathered because the pair moved by means of every pose with precision, drawing a crowd contained in the fitness center famously dubbed “the mecca of bodybuilding.”
The “Dancing with the Stars” alum has not too long ago proven off his match physique and health routines in behind-the-scenes coaching movies on his social media.
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Baena has been carving out his personal path — from appearing roles, together with the 2024 motion thriller “Gunner,” to touchdown a Men’s Health cowl — whereas navigating inevitable comparisons to his father.
“It’s been a huge growth year of me finding out who I am and really being secure … confident … no matter what the challenges are, what the comparisons are,” Baena beforehand advised Fox News Digital.
Arnold Schwarzenegger helped son Joseph Baena practice and pose as he follows in his father’s bodybuilding footsteps. (Jeff Kravitz)
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Still, he’s acknowledged the pressure that comes with the name.
“The message that I wanted to get across was, there’s a lot of people out there with very accomplished parents … and it’s scary. It’s scary to get compared to these giants and to have the feeling like you need to live up to these expectations.”
