# Did Arnold Shwarzenegger use steroids?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-shwarzenegger-use-steroids/287337
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [January 29, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-shwarzenegger-use-steroids/287337 "2005-01-29T23:31:41Z")
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### Author: ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-shwarzenegger-use-steroids/287337/1 "2005-01-29T23:31:41Z")

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He’s been a good governor as far as I’m concerned, but if he was a steroid user, I could support him if he admitted doing it, I’d want to recall him if he denied it when there was evidence he did it, and I’d be ashamed and will go away if the question never came up.

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### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2005, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-shwarzenegger-use-steroids/287337/2 "2005-01-29T23:32:58Z")

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I heard that he did take them, but I think he did admit to it.

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### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-shwarzenegger-use-steroids/287337/3 "2005-01-29T23:34:02Z")

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P.S. R.E. your doper name - Is it named after the Beach in Calif?

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### Author: ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-shwarzenegger-use-steroids/287337/4 "2005-01-29T23:35:58Z")

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> [@Lobsang](#):
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> P.S. R.E. your doper name - Is it named after the Beach in Calif?

It’s after the neil young album. I just thought it sounded cool. Now I wonder whether the album was named after the beach.

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### Author: ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-shwarzenegger-use-steroids/287337/5 "2005-01-30T00:11:24Z")

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[Yep.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger)

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> Schwarzenegger has admitted to using performance-enhancing anabolic steroids, writing in 1977 that “[steroids] were helpful to me in maintaining muscle size while on a strict diet in preparation for a contest. I did not use them for muscle growth, but rather for muscle maintenance when cutting up.”

but…

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> According to a spokesman, Schwarzenegger has not used anabolic steroids since 1990 when they were made illegal.

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### Author: ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-arnold-shwarzenegger-use-steroids/287337/6 "2005-01-30T00:11:46Z")

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> [@zuma](#):
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> It’s after the neil young album. I just thought it sounded cool. Now I wonder whether the album was named after the beach.

If it is, would that make you a son of a beach?

Just kidding. Schwarzenegger was almost certainly doping; he has the slightly oversized jawline. Does it matter?