Arnold Schwarzenegger candidly discussed his sex life, aging in the public eye and gave an insight into his grueling workout regime in a candid new interview with Men’s Health.

The action icon, 75, who has continued to showcase a chiseled physique into his senior years, showed off his workout regime at the legendary Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach and said he hits the weights to ‘protect himself and stay alive’ after several heart and knee surgeries.

The Terminator star, who is in a long-term romance with Heather Milligan, 48, also made a racy comment about his intimate life into his seventies.

When asked on his euphemism for sex, he joked: ‘Why would you use a code word? At my age, sex is becoming a four-letter word. Help!’

Arnold first carved out his career in the world of bodybuilding and revealed he often feels emotional when he reflects back on his competitive days

Icon: Arnold Schwarzenegger candidly discussed his sex life, aging in the public eye and gave an insight into his grueling workout regime in a candid new interview with Men’s Health 

Hunk: The action icon, 75, who has continued to showcase a chiseled physique into his senior years, showed off his workout regime at the legendary Gold’s Gym in Venice Beach and said he hits the weights to ‘protect himself and stay alive’ after several heart and knee surgeries

When asked whether he still hits classic bodybuilding poses, he said: ‘Yes, but only in the bathroom, because sometimes it makes me cry.

He also said 1974 was the year he attained his best physique when he was 237lbs and crowned Mr Olympia.

Opening up about his workout motivation, he said: ‘I protect my body and do therapy training at the same time. I do faster, lighter but correct exercises and I try to stay young.

‘I train to stay alive, to be able to do my movies. I come in here and 25-30 sets in a half an hour.’  

‘When you train, it is not just that your body gets pumped up and gets stimulated with blood, it’s also your mind. And you have a much more positive kind of outlook on the day and life when you have already had a pump behind you, or a bicycle ride, or a run, or a tennis match, or whatever sport you do.

‘My body and bodybuilding gave me everything. I don’t know, if I wouldn’t have gotten into bodybuilding, if I would’ve gotten the clear vision of where I want to go in life. I don’t know if I would’ve gotten the message that you have to work your *ss off in order to get anywhere, in order to be successful.”

His workout routine includes  five sets of machine preacher curls designed to warm up his ‘vulnerable’ elbows, five sets of machine dips, and five sets of overhead presses to work his shoulders – ending each set with a five second iso-hold squeeze.

Elsewhere in the wide-ranging interview the Conan The Barbarian star opened up about his past steroid use –  revealing he took ‘One hundred milligrams a week, and then three Dianabol a day, so that was 15 milligrams a day.’

Banter: The Terminator star, who is in a long-term romance with Heather Milligan, 48, also made a racy comment about his intimate life into his seventies (pictured January 2023)

The Terminator is back: His workout routine includes five sets of machine preacher curls designed to warm up his ‘vulnerable’ elbows, five sets of machine dips, and five sets of overhead presses to work his shoulders – ending each set with a five second iso-hold squeeze

Chiseled: Arnold first carved out his career in the world of bodybuilding and revealed he often feels emotional when he reflects back on his competitive days

 This usage was not illegal until Congress passed the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990.

He said: ‘Bodybuilding always, always was considered a safe sport. But now it’s not. Now people are dying—they’re dying because of overdoses of drugs and they don’t know what the f**k they’re doing. They’re listening to charlatans. If I want to get medical advice from a doctor, I go to UCLA or I go to the Cleveland Clinic.”

‘Yes, we are at a time now where we always look for the easy way to make money, the fast way to get rich, the easy way to be an influencer. Anytime you abuse the body, you’re going to regret it. So I just want young people to know that I have seen people getting kidney transplants and suffering tremendously from it.’

On Monday it was revealed the True Lies star – who was at the Cannes Film Festival last week – has been named the Chief Action Officer at the streaming media company Netflix.

The high-profile star of blockbusters such as The Terminator has been named Netflix’s Chief Action Officer. 

He has already appeared in a video to explain his new role. ‘No one loves action as much as I do,’ Arnold shared as he was seen in an army tank. 

‘That’s why I’ve accepted a big new job as Netflix’s Chief Action Officer.’ 

Arnold then listed off some of the new action movies coming from Netflix.

They include the thriller Heart Of Stone with Gal Gadot, Extraction 2, starring Chris Hemsworth, more of the series The Witcher with Henry Cavill.  

Happier times: Schwarzenegger’s 25-year marriage to Shriver, 67, imploded in 2011 when it emerged he had fathered a son – Joseph Baena, now 25 – with a household employee, Mildred Baena (the couple pictured in 2003)

Proud of co-parenting: Maria and Arnold married in 1986. They have four children together: Katherine, 32, Christina, 30, Patrick, 28, and Christopher, 24

Son: The star is pictured with son Joseph, who he fathered while married to Maria

‘Nobody knows action like I do. And nobody hits like Netflix,’ he said.

On Instagram his caption reads: ‘Nobody knows action like Arnold. And nobody hits like Netflix. Don’t miss FUBAR only on May 25.’

Arnold is even starring in a new Netflix series.

He can be seen in his first TV series, FUBAR, which comes out on May 25. FUBAR is a military term for ‘f***ed up beyond any recognition.’ 

In FUBAR, Arnold plays the dad to Monica Barbaro’s character. She is best known for her work in Top Gun: Maverick.

 At some point they learn they are both employed at the CIA, which makes it challenging for them to work undercover.