Calum Von Moger: Unbroken

Once again, this is jet south flight J2678...

...now boarding at gate launch number 42. Thank you.

Ladies and gentlemen, the seatbelt sign has now been switched off

and you are free to move about the cabin.

-We direct... -

- Dude! - Dude.

Fuck! He's massive, man! Look at his legs!

I think Calum is very genuine,

even with all this exposure, fame.

It's never gotten to him.

He's always been very humble.

You got to do the front double bars, all right?

Yeah. Let's have you put them up there, man.

- Hold on. - Yeah!

What the fuck?

You're the best, Calum.

Love you, Calum.

-Yeah, Team Von Moger! -Fuck Bradley!

This is the...

You expect me to jump, right?

All through the way.

I gotta do what?

You'll hit bottom with all that muscle.

No look.

Get up.

I hear you brought a friend to the gym.

Oh yeah. This is my buddy Chris.

- Chris Bumstead. -New friends.

How is the pump coming along?

As the shirt says?

Filthy. Very Filthy.

And if it's not filthy, I'll just go outside, grab some dirt and just rub it.

So it looks filthy.

So what's the plan here?

I don't even really know. You know?

You hear about the crazy Calum and his adventures,

and first thing we do, he wants me to--

he wants to try and curl like four hundred pounds or something.

But I'm open to try anything once.

So, we're going to put some plates on the bar and see where it goes.

Do you feel confident?

Yeah.

You got eight plates on this bloody thing.

That was not very confident.

-Are you confident? Yeah. -Yeah.

We'll give it a try.

So we each go... we go, we go up?

I'm going to go one, two, three...

On three?

On three: one, two and then three, lift.

Three lift, okay.

-Ready? One, two, okay. -Yeah.

-And get back swing, too. -Yeah.

One, two, three.

Try once more. One, two...

-Did you feel that? - No. You good? Are you good?

No.

Injury from the game.

-Breathe. Breathe. -I'll catch you later.

See ya bicep.

-Yeah, it's game over. - Need some ice?

Yeah, I felt it. It felt like it popped.

Sounded like a pop and a jolt. It's like .

It hurts all the way up here.

Can you do like this?

No, it hurts, man.

Are you calling slate?

Everybody set?

Yes.

All right. Calum, how much weight you think you lost

from these injuries overall, you think?

Uh, about up to like 40, 50 pounds, muscles.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This year was the most challenging, the most difficult.

I got these terrible injuries, the house, the fires,

so many things that are trying to unsettle me and knock me off my feet.

But...

it's either gonna make you or break you.

Yeah.

There's like two girls in the rooms as well.

They're asleep, fast asleep. Yeah.

I got approached by Steve Jones who is a producer making a movie

based off the lives of the Weider brothers, Joe and Ben Weider.

So he asked me to play young Arnold.

So I decided to take that on and that's due to start filming in November.

Yeah, it's just-- I gotta do the voice lessons

and get my lines down and see how we go.

Look at this.

I haven't really had a chance to practice 'cause I've just had

heaps of stuff going on

and people over and I haven't even had a chance to look at the script yet.

So we'll see.

I wish I could have done zoology and university

but I wasn't really academic at school. Didn't study enough.

So I just went into the workforce and just started picking up jobs.

And when I was working with the outdoor adventure tour guide,

all the kids and stuff used to call me like "Arnie" or "Buffman,"

"Terminator," and all these different nicknames.

You and I were both not fit to drive home

so James was nominated as the driver to take us home.

I had a friend walk into the GNC I was working at.

He had this idea of making a little motivational YouTube video.

That kind of blew up and then all of a sudden

I had a lot of interest from supplement companies in the U.S.

reaching out to me and even wanting to manage me and things like that.

So I just went with everything.

They actually flew me out to the States

to negotiate contracts and all that sort of stuff.

I had no idea what I was doing. I had no idea how to look at a contract.

But, you know, I walked the tight rope and just figured it out.

Ended up getting a visa and the sponsorship and started.

Coming over here was a shock at the start.

Getting a car, getting an apartment, living around other people.

I had to, like, kind of slow down talking.

Americans don't pick up all the lingo straight up.

The slang's a bit different, but it was exciting and fun.

But I think Australia is a more beautiful place.

From where I grew up, the beaches and stuff was nicer than here, I think.

Oh, my turn.

-Fifty back. -He cut ya.

-He cut ya. -He cut me, he did, too.

- Yeah. - Ow!

It's the right card, you idiot.

As a child, uncomplicated.

You were just easy-going and you'd follow your brothers and follow the animals.

Animals were always a part of Calum's life.

- Yeah. - Always.

I was born in Castlemaine in Central Victoria.

And I lived there on a little farm for the first nine years, eight years of my life.

Growing up was just, you know, the usual stuff.

Catching chickens in the backyard.

You know, going over to my mate's place, jumping these dams.

All the outdoorsy type of stuff.

We had a very strict routine growing up.

You know, we had to wake up and polish our shoes, comb our hair over to the side,

and, you know, we all would sit down and have breakfast together.

Mom would make our lunches.

You know, we'd go to school.

We have to wear a little tie... and a uniform.

Went to a very small school.

It was just three other kids in my E level at that school.

And the school was an old church.

So, it wasn't much, you know, to begin with.

And then we moved to the coast.

Moved out to Anglesea when I was about eight years old.

And growing up down there was awesome.

With my mates when I was older

we'd go to the beach every weekend or after school, run down to the beach,

go to the surf club, go to the gym, do our little workouts,

run down to the shops, eat heaps of food.

It was just a great kind of a place to grow up.

There's a lot of coastline to do a lot of, you know, fishing and swimming

and stuff like that.

So we would always find ways to entertain ourselves, you know.

Most of it revolved around jumping off piers into water.

Had a pretty kind of rascally childhood.

Were you like at Daredevil when you were little?

Like, you know, do like stunts and stuff like that?

Um, not so much of a Daredevil,

just trying to keep up with my older brothers or my friends or,

you know, just getting, kind of, doing dares I guess a little bit. Yeah.

Were your parents strict when you were growing up?

Yeah. Yeah. I would say they were pretty strict.

They disciplined us all if we stepped out of line.

You know, there's six of us so there's not a lot of patience.

I got one little sister and I got four brothers.

And my oldest brother is six years older than me.

He was kind of quieter.

He wasn't too much of a troublemaker.

That's Marlon. Then Harley's a year younger than Marlon

and then Alex is about two years older than me.

So I used to kick around trying to keep up with him.

So a lot of stuff that he got into, I'd get into.

You know, boxing, bodybuilding.

And then there's my little brother and my little sister.

Eddie's like five years younger than me.

So he was, you know, he'd try and keep up with us boys as well.

Oh my gosh.

Walter. He was dad's favorite son.

My brother taught me about that word when I was younger, integrity.

I remember having a lesson in the garage.

And he taught me what that word meant at a young age, which was useful,

and it's helped me all the way through up until now.

My brand is my name and myself.

My merchandise line, it's mostly just training gear, training apparel.

It's a really cool, unique way to connect with the fans and the followers.

It's all got kind of a meaning behind it.

It's not just anything. It's like it will be catchphrases or things that I say.

Or things that relate with me or my background or anything like that.

There's so many different parts to it.

There's like the supplements, there's the clothing, there's the competitions,

there's social media.

You know, expos, it's hard to see where they're going.

I remember when they were huge.

When I first started going to them, they were a lot of fun.

But how many times do people go to expos?

I guess, you know, there's always gonna be younger generations upcoming...

The very first one I remember.

I remember just having a little line,