Arnold Schwarzenegger has always prioritized fitness, from his early days as “the Austrian Oak” with 13 bodybuilding championships under his belt to his current role as Netflix’s Chief Action Officer. After all, nobody knows action like the Governator.

But Schwarzenegger has taken his mental and physical well-being to new heights at 75 years old. He performs his own stunts in the upcoming action-comedy series FUBAR and dispenses wellness advice in his digital Pump Club newsletter to help “busy people stay healthy.” In one of the most recent daily posts, Schwarzenegger’s Pump Club advised that finding “your tribe of people” can be a life-changer and make you feel less alone in the world. Schwarzenegger says that’s exactly the spirit of FUBAR, which features a chosen family of secret agents and Schwarzenegger’s character as their father figure. “That’s what the whole thing is all about, creating a community.”

That team-oriented mentality is not new for Schwarzenegger — he created a community at Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach when he first arrived in Los Angeles in 1968. There, as Schwarzenegger shares in his documentary series Arnold, he became a world-renowned bodybuilder that took the sport to new levels: “Being a bodybuilder is like being an artist or a sculptor like Rodin or Michelangelo, because you have to have a sense of symmetry and beauty,” he says in the docuseries. “If you don’t have that, the whole thing together looks like a waste of time.”

And Schwarzenegger would be the first to tell you that he’s many things, but a self-made man isn’t one of them. “The only thing that is ‘self’ is my motivation and my visualization,” he says in Arnold. “There were endless amounts of people that were there helping me. You can call me Arnie, you can call me Schnitzel, you can call me Kraut, but don’t ever call me a self-made man because I’m not.”

In FUBAR, Schwarzenegger stars as seasoned CIA agent Luke Brunner, who comes to learn that daughter Emma (Monica Barbaro) is also a secret agent. And unsurprisingly, Schwarzenegger was right in the thick of the action. He hangs upside down aboard trains, shoots guns and leads high-speed chases. “What I always do is become friends with the stunt team because they’re going to save your ass there,” he tells Tudum. “They’re going to really make sure that you look good, that you can do the stunts really well and that you’re staying safe.”

To prepare to star in his first TV series ever, Schwarzenegger did what he always does before any movie or project: He got together with the stunt team and then started training on the various stunts they’d collaborate on. “I believe in reps, so I do as many reps as possible, and we go through it as many times as possible so it becomes second nature,” he says. “Because the idea of it is when we do our action, we don’t really have to think much. It’s just all instinct.” 

But whether he’s acting like the “dad” of a cast or not, Schwarzenegger’s workout routine always includes doing his daily bike rides and training, whether it’s back at Gold’s Gym or at his home. He also makes sure to make himself useful, every day. “Some people take seminars [on] how to feel better about yourself, but I always tell people: Stay busy, be useful,” he says in Arnold. A useful routine he partakes in every day is to take care of his animals in the morning, as we see in the doc series. He lets them out to eat and play and cleans up after them. “So for an hour and a half, I cannot think about anything else but that. There’s a mission.”

Another daily habit that’s been “very, very helpful” for the Terminator since the 1970s is meditation, a practice both he and his FUBAR co-star Barbaro embrace to re-center themselves when they’re feeling stressed. “I started doing it back when I felt like too many things came together and I was overwhelmed and frantic,” he explains. “I realized that in meditation, you have to really focus on not thinking about anything. It helps you put the blinds on and not to see anything and not to pay attention to anything, except one thing at a time.”

So what did Schwarzenegger start doing? Dealing with things one at a time. And that doesn’t mean you can’t do five things in one day — just not all at once. For instance, take a day in the life of the Last Action Hero today: Right now, he has to sign 10,000 signatures for his new book, Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, which is coming out in October. “And so I sign them, then I send them to the publisher, then they bind them into the book, so the first 10,000 have the signatures in there,” he says. “So while I do a few hundred every day, I just think about that.”

“Then I take my iPad and go on a teleprompter, and I start practicing my speech for the environmental conference next week in Vienna,” he says. “I go through that three, four times, then I close that and then I go through my emails, and then I go and play a game of chess. Then I focus totally on the chess game again.”

Let’s simplify it even further, through the lens of one of Schwarzenegger’s bike rides: “When I go down with my bike on Venice Boardwalk on Sunday, it’s crowded, and I look down there and I say, ‘There’s no way we can get through that with the bikes here because everyone is walking.’ But that’s because you’re looking at the whole mass of people. Then when you ride the bike, you go around person by person, you take one at a time and you go around this group and this group, and you make it down without banging into anybody. So you have to take one at a time, and then you don’t get overwhelmed with the whole thing.”

Put that in the next issue of Pump Club. 

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