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c H A p T E R 4 The Gym WHEN YOU ARE a bodybuilder, the gym is your office. Its where you take care of business. You can easily end up spending three or four hours in a gym, which means it should have the kind of equipment you need, the kind of people training around you that add energy to your workouts, and an overall atmosphere that will motivate you to achieve your personal goals. THE GYM EXPLOSION When I began serious bodybuilding training it was hard to find adequate training facilities. Good gyms were few and far between. For example, when I was working out in Austria as a young man we had no standard in- cline bench, the kind you lie back on. Instead, there was a standing incline bench, which was quite a different piece of equipment. In order to do in- cline barbell presses, rather than being able to lift the bar off a rack we had to pick it up off the floor, clean it up to shoulder height, and then fall back against the bench before being able to do a set. That, I can tell you, is do- ing it the hard way. When I later went to live in Munich, I had the advantage of being able to train at my good friend Albert Buseks gym, which was very advanced for the time and provided all the equipment I needed to train to become Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia. In California, I trained at Joe Golds gym, which had equipment like no other because most of it was designed and fabricated by Joe himself. Today, it is relatively easy to find a well-equipped gym. World Gym, for example, has franchises all over the United States and the world. Golds Gym and Powerhouse both have numerous franchises