by If you think of old rockers like Sir Rod Stewart, you probably don’t connect them to a balanced lifestyle “sex, drugs and rock’n’roll”.
And yet 80-year-old Maggie May Singer was the image of health when he appeared live on the Pyramid stage in Glastonbury 2025 on Sunday.
While the reviews were mixed (the Guardian said that he was like a “lustful, long -legged muppet”, and the independent wrote that it felt like he “turned out the Dregs of a career” – eye), the fans of the festival and the spectators at home as “true entertainer” and claim to be his appearance. “
Here we take a look at Rod Stewart’s health trip in recent years – and what he said about the fact that he will stay fit later in life.
Rod Stewarts fitness routine
SAS techniques
Stewart spoke to People Magazine in 2023 and said that he not only worked “in detail” and he was “generally very fit”, but also played football all his life. He also said he didn’t smoke.
In addition, he told the publication about his intensive water training, inspired by SAS training techniques. “You have a large rubber bar and have to swim over the length of the pool and press it onto the bottom of the pool,” he says. “It’s really wonderful. Well, sometimes it’s not wonderful because I don’t want to do it, but I would say it is fun,” he said.
Four days a week
In the same interview, Stewart found how he did a training or training between the shows four days a week. “It’s funny – critics keep saying on this tour [Global Hits]”Oh, he went off the stage to rest.” No I haven’t! I went off the stage because I wet wring. I am so bloody that you won’t believe it, “he called.
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When I found the change in the transport mode from his earlier days (“In the old days we all drove the length and broad Great Britain in the back of an old van. I don’t travel now. I travel with a private jet and stay in the best hotels. So it is much easier than before.”)
He said: “I’m a little more boy on a Friday and Saturday evening. I have to rest on Sunday. I enjoy a glass of wine every evening and I just had liver examined, and that’s all fine.”
100-meter sprints
Before his set of Glastonbury, Sir Rod told the Aarp magazine from the Juni cover star War- that he had recorded 100 meter sprints. He fully used his own private running route (Yup) and said: “I reduced it to 19 seconds by learning how to be deported. I will try to make 17 seconds, which in my opinion is a world record for an 80-year-old.”
A personal trainer
PT Gary O’Connor has been trained with Stewart for many years. The 65-year-old fitness teacher announced with the Times this weekend that he had exposed the singer “extensive physical warm-up ups” before his Glastonbury legend slot.
“I give him an invigorating massage for half an hour [a handheld device to help muscle recovery] and manual massage. Then we make the mobility in which I move his arms and legs and have all the joints loosened, “he said.
O’Connor said that he then made Stewart jump on a practice wheel to warm up the muscles: “We will perhaps turn three to five one -minute pushing out of the saddle to pump up your thighs so that you feel ready.”
His health trip
Over the years, Stewart has shared various health concerns with fans.
In 2000, thyroid cancer was diagnosed with the singer, which he described in an interview with Piers Morgan as a “Weck call” and added: “I was in the hospital within 24 hours.” Oh, you fought for cancer “-I was not very lucky.” After his operation, he recovered fully.
Years later, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and in 2019 he said he was “clear”.
During the pandemic, he also tested positively for Covid-19 and, what prompted him to cancel three shows in the United States.
Before his introductory tour, which began at the beginning of this year, the sailing hit maker said to the fans: “This will be the end of big world tours for me, but I don’t feel like retirement. I love what I do, and I do what I love.
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