Arnold Schwarzenegger, how to stay healthy at the age of 50, 60 and beyond

Arnold Schwarzenegger was difficult to defeat in the film. But in real life, the actor and former governor of California had his share of health problems that require operations and spare parts. Through all of this he continues – a daily regime that contains a bike for an hour and 45 minutes with weights – and Schwarzenegger says that movement is the key to staying healthy in the 50s, 60s and beyond.

“Do something,” said Schwarzenegger on Monday evening in Arizona on the CNBC CEO Council Summit. “It doesn't matter to me if you play tennis when you go skiing when you play football or when you lift weights … but do something.”

It seems easy, but he says it is a big problem in a world in which hundreds of millions of people suffer from arthritic diseases that may require operations, physiotherapy or replacement for the body part, or a combination with all three. And according to Schwarzenegger, too many people are afraid of taking the necessary steps, including the replacement of parts of the body, since it ages, even though medical science has put a long way.

The alternative to monitoring the fear of technology is one that Schwarzenegger has invested in Terminator -like terms: “If you stop the movement, this is the first step towards death,” he said. “If you rest, you rust” Room biomet last year.

According to Ivan Tornos Ivan Tornos, CEO von Zimmer, who, in addition to Schwarzenegger at the CNBC event for CEOs, lived 600 million people all over the world, and that was a main reason why he was looking for the role of creating stronger awareness of the progress in the areas of medical devices. Rooms that were founded in 1927 are now moving into areas that go far beyond “plastic and metal”, said Tornos, and health monitoring technology such as Apple and Microsoft, AI, Mixed Reality and Robotics Solutions and 50 products that come onto the market in the next 36 months, and 50 products, he said.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor (R) California & Ivan Tornos, CEO von Zimmer Biomet, member of the CNBC CEO council member on May 19, 2025 at the event of the CNBC CEO Council in Arizona.

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According to the room CEO, between 10,000 and 12,000 people in the USA are 65 years old every day, and Tornos announced CNBC last November that many of these people are “waiting for the sidelines” or are afraid to treat themselves. Of the 600 million people in the world with arthritis, Tornos estimated that only 5% do something about it. The joint replacement survival life was eight to ten years ago three decades and is now 25 to 30 years or higher, he said.

Bringing the room's board, supporting the leadership role for Schwarzenegger as Messenger, how much medicine has changed, from surgery to therapy and body parts replacement, was initially not easy. Tornos remembered that he told the board: “I want to bring the terminator as a spokesman for the company and they wanted to send myself to get drugs. Some went so far that it would never happen, he will never listen to them.”

But the message was included in Schwarzenegger, who provides medical science available to humans as part of his wider “movement” philosophy.

“My business is to move people,” he said. “Go around the world and to pump them together and to say that you can train every day.”

Even people who know about the replacement technology of the part of the body are afraid, he said.

“I see it first -hand in the gym,” said Schwarzenegger. “People come up to me and say: 'I can no longer do this elevator, hurts my shoulder and my surgeon no longer wants to operate, now do shoulder replacement, but I'm afraid of it.' I hear all of these stories, “he said. “We have to convince people to do this,” he said. “I had replaced my hip. I let valves be replaced in my heart. … all these people who complain about problems in knees, hips and shoulders, they stop moving,” he added.

Tornos said there are now millions of people who are involved in the campaign every day, the Schwarzenegger for rooms – called “they are back” – an idea he said was Arnold's. “I wanted to” call it “today and he said that this is a stupid idea. It's not about you. It's about her, “recalled Tornos.

The former governor, who is active in various efforts such as environmental policy and recently wrote the book “Useful: Seven Tools for Life”, combined his message about life in pain with the current political moment.

“I have no patience when people come to me with excuses,” said Schwarzenegger. “I think the environment always changes. The most important thing is to understand that there is a defense for every attack. And instead of whining, you have to think that they have to go forward.

Misunderstandings that we keep our body healthy when we get older, and the replacement for the body part, in particular, are a different kind of error that he wants to repair. “It is extremely important not to move if you are only 50 to 60 because of common problems,” he said.

Schwarzenegger emphasized that surgery should never be the first choice if the therapy can be effective and the replacement for the body part may not be necessary. But the message that is too often missed is that today the technology exists that enables people to “go out” hip surgery, he said. “When I did it, I had to stay in the hospital for days and had months of therapy,” he said. “I want to let people know and give them the courage to repair these things and get in motion.”

“Don't let anything get in the way,” he said. “Movement, movement, movement.”

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