Arnold Schwarzenegger is the fittest septuagenarian actor. And there’s no doubt in that. The credit goes to his strong workout routine, which includes daily bike rides and heavy training. Even injuries and surgeries won’t stop him from achieving his daily workout goals.
Schwarzenegger was born with a congenital heart defect for which he has undergone heart surgery three times. But still, he snapped back soon to film the action movies.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger answered a fan’s concern about his recovery in his daily newsletter, Arnold’s Pump Club. He wanted to know how the Terminator star balanced his routine and recovery after sustaining the serious injury. Schwarzenegger revealed his philosophy behind training during injury. He admitted:
“I treated my PT the same way I treated my workouts. I marked it off, did my tally marks even in the hospital on the dry erase board after my heart surgery.”
The Austrian Oak has set periodical goals to achieve. As he said, “The key is that we still have a goal in front of us!”
Injuries can throw a wrench in the progress of these goals. So, the former bodybuilder chose to fight. He treated his physiotherapy as a daily workout. And through that, he was able to heal from his serious open-hurt surgery.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Positive Attitude Made Him Overcome Scary Open-Heart Surgery
Arnold Schwarzenegger remembered a scary moment while he was recovering from the open-heart surgery that left him “really freaking out.”
In a YouTube video posted by The Pump, the Hollywood actor told how doctors told him, “We made a mistake.” It’s because the surgery that was meant to be non-invasive turned into an intensive procedure. And this caused internal bleeding, so doctors had to “open me up very quickly to save my life,” as he said.
The former governor of California asserted that at that time, he was set to begin filming 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate in a few short months after the surgery. So his goal was to figure out how he could get out of the hospital and bounce back to shoot.
Schwarzenegger was able to do it and made a full recovery. He gave credit to his “positive attitude” and “whole support system” for helping him to recover. “By the time I started shooting ‘Terminator 6,’ I was all back together again,” he said in the video with a smile.
In 2018, Schwarzenegger had open-heart surgery to replace a pulmonary valve replacement. It was followed by a previous pulmonary valve replacement in 1997. The Austria native underwent surgery again in 2020 to replace an aortic valve.
