![]() ![]() You know, we had the jeans, the boots, the flannel shirts, the headbands. “We pulled up together on a motorcycle the first day and people stared at us as if we were Martians. In May of 1979, after encouragement from one of Gold’s Gym’s new owners, pro bodybuilder Pete Grymkowski (whom they met at a New York bodybuilding contest), the duo moved across the country to the opposite coast to Los Angeles, to follow in the footsteps of rising star Arnold Schwarzenegger and TV’s Incredible Hulk, Lou Ferrigno. Though not identical, it was tough to tell them apart, and all the more so as they both developed very similar bodybuilder physiques. Saturday, people would come by our apartment, and we’d be doing neck exercises at 12 o’clock at night.” ![]() “Vacation times, like Christmas, we didn’t go home all we did was train,” Peter remembered. David once said, “The mirrors all came from men’s rooms at the University of Rhode Island.” They drew attention from the local police, largely for all their driving violations, and from local bodybuilders for their workout intensity and strength. The Pauls bounced in and out of colleges, and then, in 1977, opened a gym, P & D’s House of Iron, in Narragansett, Rhode Island. David was bench pressing 300 pounds when only 15. But what they really loved was pumping iron. In high school, David (always a little bigger than his twin) excelled in football, and they both made All-New England as wrestlers. They later discovered he and Peter were severely dyslectic. David, especially, was teased for being “dumb” and constantly fighting. Their older brother and sister had grown up peacefully, but the twins were regularly finding trouble. Fraternal twins David and Peter Paul were born on March 8, 1957, in Hartford, Connecticut.
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