Some people impress their future in-laws with a home-cooked meal, clean house, maybe a few well-placed compliments or great storytelling skills. I can tell you right now that, even though I'm pretty confident in my fitness level and frequent the gym, that working out would not be my go-to way of getting on my future father-in-law's good side.
But when you're Chris Pratt, and it's the Terminator himself you're looking to blow away, perhaps that's the move.
It worked for Pratt, after all, who married Katherine Schwarzenegger in June of this year. Schwarzenegger, of course, is the eldest daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, journalist and niece of President John F. Kennedy.
Pratt and Katherine had a fairly short courtship, marrying just six months after announcing their engagement -- which was only a year from when they were first seen together publicly -- following Pratt's divorce from actress Anna Faris in August 2017, with whom he shares son Jack.
"Of course the first thing when we met he says, 'Can we have a workout together? I need to have the inside scoop to the pumping iron,''' Schwarzenegger told Kimmel. Requesting a gym audience with the "Pumping Iron" star? Bold.
"Pumping iron was the decision-making factor. We were in the gym, that was it," he said.
Granted, Pratt is no stranger to a workout regimen. I mean...look at the guy.
Pratt's current physique is a far cry from his days as Andy on "Parks and Recreation" -- he dropped 60 pounds in six months in preparation for his role as Peter Quill in "Guardians of the Galaxy," purely from "three or four hours a day of just consistent, *ss-kicking hard work" (and a beer purge), according to Men's Journal.
And, according to Schwarzenegger, Pratt can hold his own up against the Austrian superhuman.
"You know, I really don't know because I haven't bench-pressed for a while because my shoulder is kind of injured, but he's a strong guy, there's no two ways about it, and I'm very proud of him," he said. "And when I watched him make his moves in the gym, the incline press specifically did it. It's why I wanted him to become my son-in-law, was the incline press."
Schwarzenegger, though, made sure to laud other positive things about his son-in-law besides his rock-hard abs: "First of all, I'm really happy that he is such a great guy. Not only a very talented guy and a great actor and a great star and all this stuff, but a really kind man and kind to my daughter, which is the most important thing for me."
He continued, though, "I was blown away when my daughter was telling me that she's going out with him because I said, 'Do you have to be so competitive? You have to have a guy that is taller than me, that is bigger than me, that's done bigger movies than me, and all of this kind of stuff that makes more money than me. What is going on here?'"
A little friendly competition never hurt!