Most famous for his work alongside John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in The Beatles, Paul McCartney and his three Liverpool bandmates almost single-handedly changed the face of popular music for a few short years during the 1960s. the turnaround decade sporting gleaming, fancy mops and snazzy suits writing mostly about love and ending it looking like the cast of Scooby-Doo singing about monkey men, yellow submarines, and glass onions.
While we sadly had to say goodbye to Lennon and Harrison All too soon, McCartney has remained as alive and musically relevant as ever. The recently invested octogenarian became the oldest act to headline Glastonbury’s famous Pyramid Stage a few weeks ago. He jumped onstage with the energy of a 21-year-old and sang through a two-hour set while using bass, six-string, ukulele and piano to play emphatic renditions of Beatles classics and a selection of Wings more. recent and solo hits.
As I watched McCartney do his thing onstage, I found it amazing that his voice wasn’t completely changed by the relentless scythe of time and that his limbs could seem so agile and energetic. Even I, in my mid-20s, can feel the weight of time so far and extrapolating another 55 years makes my joints ache and my skin sag.
Naturally, after seeing McCartney take the stage in a thick head of hair, looking 20 years his junior, many of us have been wondering what his secret is. It turns out that the musical legend has a number of strange tricks up his sleeve.
Unsurprisingly, the miracle lies in the dreaded exercise and healthy eating: goodbye chocolate bars and television, hello broccoli and weights. However, McCartney’s exercise regimen involves some pretty strange habits. One of his age-defying hobbies is eye yoga. During an appearance on the podcast. Table Manners in 2021, the former Beatle explained where he first encountered the activity.
“I have learned [it] of a yogi in India,” he said. “He explained that your eyes are muscles while your ears are not, so you can’t exercise your ears. But your eyes, you can.
Fortunately, for those looking to learn from the master, McCartney went on to describe yoga poses for the eyes. “So, keep your head still and then look up as far as you can, one, two, three, back to the middle, then down, one, two, three, then back to the middle. You do three batches of that, then you go left and right. Now you have a cross, up and down, and on the side, now you do the diagonals”. He admitted that he couldn’t be sure that was the secret behind his prevailing eye health, but suggested that “it makes sense.”
Another aspect of McCartney’s exercise regimen was revealed by his daughter, Mary. In an interview with The times in 2021, Mary explained that her father likes to keep fit with an exercise routine every day after waking up. “He has a workout routine every morning and ends it with a five-minute flawless, unsupported headstand,” she explained.
While the image of a McCartney 80 years old Balancing on your head is undoubtedly fun, the pose can do wonders for core strength and therefore prolonged mobility.
On a final note, McCartney often cites his long-lived vegetarian diet as a key contributor to his long-lasting health and vitality. The star first eliminated meat from his diet in 1975, inspired by his wife Linda’s ideology.
Linda was a strong advocate for the personal and planetary benefits of a meatless diet who founded Linda McCartney Foods in 1991. The company specializes in meatless alternatives, which are now readily available in supermarkets around the world. “You can get a lot of vegetarian options these days, so it’s not like the old days when you just got the boiled sprout,” McCartney said in a 2018 interview.
A plant-based diet works wonders in global efforts for agricultural sustainability and the fight against the climate crisis. In recent years, scientific evidence has also suggested that diet can support healthy aging and reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease.
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