Paul McCartney's tips for staying fit in his 70s - and it's not what you'd think
The Beatles legend is still nimble as a ballerina and is as fit and healthy as ever - but what's his secret?
Nimble as a ballerina, with the skin of a particularly soft baby thanks to his wife’s moisturiser, Sir Paul McCartney is 72 going on 27.
He’s a father of five and grandfather of eight and has five decades in the business behind him. But this icon of rock royalty feels as fit and healthy as ever.
As well as dumping the dope he famously smoked for years, he has also adopted a punishing daily gym regime.
And so it is that a pair of denim-clad legs and a Beatle bottom are wobbling precariously before me.
One of the planet’s most famous men is demonstrating his headstand technique – “my secret claim to fame” – in the backstage dressing room before his triumphant homecoming show in Liverpool.
It is quite possibly the most surreal moment of my career. Like Macca circa 1967, I think I might even be hallucinating.
“I feel pretty fit,” he says, still upside down with his back towards me. “I’m not the sort of person who particularly needs a trainer. I’ll just watch what the trainers do and then copy them.
“I do a bit of the cross-trainer, a bit of running, a bit of cardio and then I do some weights, some abs on the Swiss ball, before ending up on the mat doing a few stretches. And then standing on my head.
“That’s my big claim to fame! I actually learned it in the 60s, it was a yoga thing, and my argument is I need flexibility not strength.
By: Clemmie Moodie
Source: The Mirror
