The barbell doesn't fall far from the rack — or however the saying goes.
Arnold Schwarzeneggerappears to have become his son's biggest cheerleader, as he follows in his famous dad's footsteps. No, not Patrick Schwarzenegger, whose acting bug bite has led to memorable roles in series likeThe White Lotus.
A set of photosposted to TikTokon Tuesday by Schwarzenegger's son Joseph Baena shows theTerminatorstar on the sidelines at Gold's Gym in Venice, Calif., coaching Baena through some heavy-looking lifts.
Schwarzenegger appears in two of the four photos, both times locked in on Baena, who shows off ripped biceps as he reps a weighted bar. In one shot, Schwarzenegger and another gym-goer appear to shout instructions or encouragement at Baena as he trains his physique.
"You have to shock the muscles!" Baena wrote in the caption of the post, a reference to one of his father'soft-repeatedbodybuilding philosophies.
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Baena, 28, is Schwarzenegger's youngest son. His parentage was not a matter of public record until until 2011, when he was 13. News broke then that Schwarzenegger hadfathered two childrenby two different women just five days apart in 1997: Christopher, his youngest child with ex-wife Maria Shriver, and Baena, whose mother is Mildred Patricia "Patty" Baena, a former domestic employee of Schwarzenegger and Shriver.
Both Schwarzenegger and Patty claimed it tookseveral years to discoverBaena's true provenance.
"It was as Joseph grew and I started to see the resemblance that I wondered — but it became more apparent as time went on," Patty shared a month after the 2011 revelation.
Schwarzenegger opened up about thefallout from the ordealin his 2023 Netflix docuseriesArnold: "I think that I have caused enough pain for my family because of my f---up. Everyone had to suffer: Maria had to suffer, the kids had to suffer, Joseph, his mother — everyone."
For his part, Baena has said relatively little about the public scandal, though he did reflect toMen's Healthin 2022, "[Patty] was really the only person I had, and I was really the only person that she had... No one knew, and everyone wanted the details. We had each other's backs."
Schwarzenegger now appears a constant presence in Baena's life,inviting himto big events like the 2025 season 2 premiere of his action-packed seriesFubar.
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