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Thursday, January 31, 2002
Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke to Paul Fischer in Los Angeles the other day to
set the record straight on his health and his stogie smoking habits.
"First of all, the heart surgery was four and a half years ago. In April
itıs five years. Number 2, I think it was very clear that when you get your
valve replaced you don't have to change your life. Especially if you have
the right doctor. And he [the doctor] always said to me, "I'm gonna fix it
so that you can continue doing your action movies." And I was like, "Then
you are the doctor who is gonna do it." So when I heard that, you know,
others would say you have to do this or you have to change that or you canıt
smoke your Stogie any moreS I said "Thank you very much, but no thank you.²
So I finally found the right guy. And the fact of the matter is nothing did
change. I am on no medication. I didnıt have to alter my life. The only
thing that he suggested was that instead of pushing heavy weights and doing
10 reps, why donıt you use half the weight and do 20 reps in weight
training. So thatıs the only thing that I changed. Everything else, all my
other activities stayed exactly the same."
"I smoke not only because of the heart, but when you get older I think it
is better to slow down so I smoke one cigar a day now, where I used to
smoke three. Then I cut it down to two, then I cut it down to one. Maybe
eventually I cut it down more or make them smaller. But other than that, I
do the action the same way, in the movies. I prepare for it the same way and
the things that I feel I canıt do or that might be too dangerous to do I let
someone else do it. It's the same rule I always had."
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