Oldest swinger in town... Mick Jagger takes up aerial yoga at 73!
IT IS said that he covers the equivalent of 12 miles strutting and dancing on stage during every live performance.
So small wonder Mick Jagger has been able to maintain his trim 28in waist for more than half a century. But now the 7 -year-old has another rather more acrobatic way of shedding the pounds – antigravity aerial yoga.
The Rolling Stone has taken up the demanding practice which sees devotees strung up in a hammock or harness suspended in the air, using their own bodyweight to perform gymnastic exercises.
Our mock-up image shows how he might look during a workout. Not for the fainthearted, aerial yoga requires some serious strength – and those unable to keep up often risk injury crashing to the floor. But fans claim it increases both muscular flexibility and joint mobility, and boosts levels of the feel-good hormones serotonin and dopamine.
In an exercise regime not out of line with that of an Olympic athlete, Jagger trains six days a week. The star also performs ballet, weight-training, pilates, jogging and dynamic stretching, ensuring he maintains maximum flexibility.
Nuno Campos, a leading antigravity yoga teacher-trainer at Virgin Active, said: ‘Although it is a tough workout, afterwards you feel amazing due to the release of all the so-called “happy hormones”.’
Of course, the rocker has another incentive to stay young: the forthcoming arrival of his latest progeny. His most recent girlfriend, 29-yearold ballerina Melanie Hamrick, is pregnant with his eighth child. However, rumours of a new romance with Russian model Masha Rudenko have been strenuously denied by Jagger’s camp.
A spokesman said: ‘This model is using social media to try and up her career profile, and using Mick as a way to get coverage…He’s victim of being stalked by a Russian model.’