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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s look-alike son, Joseph Baena, is continuing his bodybuilding title dominance.
The 28-year-old fittingness guru came successful first spot astatine nan International Natural Bodybuilding Association’s (INBA) Iron Gladiator competition in Corona, California, complete nan weekend.
“Your caller INBA Iron Gladiator Classic Physique Champion!” Baena captioned his Instagram post aft winning nan competition.
In nan photos, Baena could beryllium seen posing connected shape arsenic he held up a beard and helmet, pinch his shiny caller badge draped astir his neck.
Before nan Iron Gladiator competition, Baena explained successful an interview why he decided to participate nan INBA.
“[It’s] my 2nd title ever. Excited to beryllium here. We’re fresh for nan debut and excited to get things going,” he exclaimed.
“They [the INBA] conscionable look for illustration nan astir reputable earthy federation, and truthful I wanted to beryllium a portion of thing for illustration that. I wanted to trial them out.”
In another interview, Baena explained that he was an avid swimmer earlier he sewage into weightlifting during his inferior twelvemonth of college.
“I started lifting weights and fell successful emotion pinch bodybuilding, seeing nan improvement, nan musculus gain, nan spot summation and I fell successful emotion pinch nan sport, moreover watching,” he shared.
“This twelvemonth was nan twelvemonth that I said, ‘Enough being afraid. Enough overthinking. It’s clip to commit.’”
Baena besides precocious won first place successful aggregate categories at nan NPC Natural Colorado State title connected March 28.
He dominated successful nan Men’s Open Bodybuilding Heavy Weight Class, Men’s Classic Physique True Novice and Men’s Classic Physique Novice categories.
Beforehand, Baena shared photos of his 78-year-old father helping him activity retired astatine Gold’s Gym successful Venice Beach, California.
Schwarzenegger, 1 of nan astir celebrated bodybuilders successful history, won 7 Mr. Olympia titles and 5 Mr. Universe titles.
The “Terminator” character secretly welcomed Baena with his housekeeper, Mildred Baena, during his 25-year matrimony to Maria Shriver.
The journalist filed for divorce from Schwarzenegger aft learning of his affair. The exes stock 4 children: sons Patrick, 32, and Christopher, 28, and daughters Katherine, 36, and Christina, 34.
In 2023, Schwarzenegger told People that his infidelity is his “f–k-up.”
“We ever made it very clear that nan kids should not suffer because of [my affair],” he added.
Despite Baena spending astir of his puerility being raised by his mom, he has developed a person narration pinch his dada complete time, moreover pursuing successful his footsteps arsenic a bodybuilder.
“He’s an astonishing father. He’s a awesome personification to look up to and he’s nan smartest man I know,” Baena told “Entertainment Tonight” successful 2023. “It’s been a awesome travel and he’s ever been truthful supportive of immoderate I do. So, I’m conscionable really grateful to person a dada for illustration him.”
Baena besides paid tribute to his begetter while competing connected “Dancing With nan Stars.” Back successful October 2022, he performed a “Hercules”-themed Charleston successful nan ballroom, stepping into nan characteristic his begetter famously portrayed decades agone successful nan 1970 movie “Hercules successful New York.”
The truth that he played that movie, it was conscionable truthful nosy to get that connection. We talked astir it, we laughed astir it,” Baena exclusively told Page Six. “It was 1 of his first movies and astir apt not 1 of his favorites. But this was 1 of my favourite dances, truthful I was really excited astir it.”
