Ice age and GM

After the army, in 1966 he moved to Munich, where he worked in a fitness club. During this period, he lives in poverty, for some time he has to sleep in the gym, until he managed to rent an apartment. As Arnold himself recalls in his autobiography, at this time he behaved extremely aggressively, fighting almost every day and collecting fines for violating traffic rules, "I was like a bull walking its meat." It should be noted that one of the side effects of steroid use is increased aggression.
After a while, he begins to manage the gym himself, but even then he will have a lot of debt.
In 1966, Arnold took second place in the "Mr. Universe" competition in London, losing to American Shet Yorton. This result was a surprise to him; Arnold initially thought he would take no more than sixth or seventh place. In 1967 he won the title.

"I made great progress in the initial stages of my training, when I served in the Austrian army and had a lot of things to do. When we took part in maneuvers along the Czechoslovak border for six weeks, I had to steer a tank for fifteen hours a day, pump fuel with a hand pump, "fight" huge fuel barrels, and repair. We slept in trenches or under tanks and had to wake up at six o'clock in the morning. However, my friend and I woke up at five o'clock, climbed into the tank tool compartment, where we kept our bars, and trained for an hour before the general ascent. After the day's training, we trained for another hour. I can't imagine more difficult conditions for training and therefore I emphasize that finding time and energy for training is a matter of motivation and interest.
A real athlete will always find time and place for training in any situation.

A year later, Gustav Schwarzenegger died of a stroke, and Arnold did not appear at his funeral. As Arnold himself later said, “the system of raising children in Austria and Germany was very different from the American one, the main thing in it was to bring up discipline. I have always been a nonconformist, and I was often punished, beaten with a belt, and put in a corner. The way my father treated me can be called child abuse. ”

Under the influence of his father, Arnold began training to play football, but at the age of 14 he preferred a career as a bodybuilder. He was inspired by bodybuilding idols such as Reg Park, Steve Reeves and Johnny Weissmuller, whom he often saw in the movies.
He goes to the gym every day, and although the club did not work on Saturdays and Sundays, Arnold still trained on the weekends; he climbed a ladder through the window. [2]
In 1971, Arnold's brother Mainhard died in a car accident, at the time of the accident he was drunk. Arnold does not appear at the funeral. Mainhard was married to Erica Knapp and left a three-year-old son, Patrick.

The Schwarzenegger family was Catholic and attended church every Sunday. After the German Anschluss of Austria in 1938, Gustav Schwarzenegger joined the N**i Party of Austria and the SA. During the war, he served in the military police (gendarmerie), where he received the rank of Hauptfeldfebel (senior sergeant).
After the war, he was allowed to work as a local police chief because there was no evidence that he had committed war crimes. The family lived in poverty, one of the brightest memories of youth Arnold calls the purchase of a refrigerator

In early February 2021, President Zelensky invited Virastyuk to run for parliament in the by-elections in Prykarpattia. On February 11, at the congress of the pro-government party Servant of the People, Virastyuk was nominated as a candidate in the by-elections for the 87th constituency of Ivano-Frankivsk region, where Marusya Zvirobiy had previously been nominated as a candidate from the EU party.
The vote took place on March 28. According to the Chesno movement, there were no falsifications during the voting and counting of votes at the polling stations that would affect the election results [8]. But one of Virastyuk's rivals, Ruslan Koshulynsky, declared "numerous violations" on March 30 and demanded that "the election results be declared invalid and a re-election declared." The European Solidarity Party also demanded a repeat election. Police have launched 17 criminal proceedings: 12 of them - related to violations of election law, another 5 - related to the election process itself

In 2007 he won the competition in Seoul (South Korea) and won the title of IFSA World Extreme Power Champion. In September of that year, the "strongman" remarried. His wife Inna is an employee of the German pharmaceutical company Bayer in Ukraine [1]. On March 19, 2008, Vasily had a second son, the baby was named Oleg.
He starred in the films How Cossacks… (2009) and Ivan Sila (2013)
On November 9, 2015, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine announced that Vasyl Virastyuk had become a Border Guard Inspector (serving his term at Lviv Airport) [2]. As a result, it turned out that Vasyl became the hero of the TV project "Western Border", produced by the Lviv regional TV channel NTA.

From 1984 to 2000 he was involved in athletics - shot put. He was a member of the national team of Ukraine in athletics.
In 1995 he fulfilled the standards of a master of sports.
In 1998 he fulfilled the standards of a master of sports of international class.
Since 2000 he has been involved in STRONGESTMAN power all-around.
In 2002 he became the third in the competition for the title of "Strongest in Central Europe" and won the Grand Prix of the international tournament in Salzburg (Austria). He was sixth in the IFSA (International Federation of the World's Strongest Athletes) superseries.
In 2003, he won third place at the Strongmen World Championships in Zambia.
In 2004, he won the World's Strongest Man Championship in the Bahamas. But he took sixth place in the most prestigious competitions in power sports "Arnold Classic". In the same year, Vasyl took part in the TV show "Fort Boyer", where he was captain of the team of Heroes.

He was born on April 22, 1974 in Ivano-Frankivsk in the family of a truck driver. Brother Roman Virastyuk (April 21, 1968 - July 27, 2019), who became a bronze medalist of the European Championship in shot put in 1994.
At the age of 10 he started doing athletics, pushing nuclei. At the age of 13 he got behind the wheel of a truck for the first time and immediately drove 25 kilometers.
1981 - went to the first class of Ivano-Frankivsk secondary school № 4. 1989 - finished the 8th grade and entered the College of Physical Culture of his hometown.
1992 - after graduating from technical school he served in the military for 2 years.
In 1994-2000 he worked as an athletics coach at the Ukraine Sports Association.
Since 2000 he has lived in Lviv and worked as a security guard at Concern Galnaftogaz.

Vasyl Yaroslavovych Virastyuk (born April 22, 1974 in Ivano-Frankivsk) is a Ukrainian actor, strongman, People's Deputy, Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine and holder of the titles "Strongest Man of Ukraine" (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005) and "Strongest Man". of the world ”(2004). Member of the national team of Ukraine, which won the title of "Strongest Nation in the World" in 2003 and 2004.