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You're right - Arnold Schwarzeneggar talks about high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets in his bodybuilding autobiography, which was written in the mid-1970's I believe.

Arnold Schwarzeneggar talks about high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets in his bodybuilding autobiography

Before you start claiming that bodybuilders and Arnold are Atkins people, you should know something about a bodybuilders diet.

Body builders go thru several phases of diet when training for a contest.

It is only in the last phase, 12 weeks from a contest, that carbs are limited. But they are never elimiated.

At the lowest, carbs are dropped to one gram for every pound of weight. So a 200 pound athlete will drop at the lowest to 200 grams of carbs in pre-contest training. But most bodybuilders never even drop to that level. They choose instead to burn the fat off doing cardio.

But in the off-season, the muscle building time of the year, carbs are a HUGE part of a body-bulders diet. A 200 pound man will consume 400 to 600 grams of high quality carbs.

This is nowhere near the Atkins Diet of no carbs. If a body-builder did Atkins he may lose fat for a contest but would also lose muscle, making him so flat that he would not be able to sustain a pump on stage.

This is probably more than you wanted to know about a bodybuilders diet, but it is important to know before anyone believes that Arnold followed an Atkins diet to win the Olympia seven times.

Arnold Schwarzeneggar talks about high-protein, low-carbohydrate diets in his bodybuilding autobiography, which was written in the mid-1970's I believe.

Yesterday Dr. Dean Edell said on the radio that by curent BMI standards Arnold would be considered "obese".

From the pics I have seen he is in the "extraordinarily fit" category.