DENNIS QUAID IS 72 years old, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at him. Quaid’s toned physique (and enviously full head of hair) give him the appearance of a much younger man. That can be put down to how he has always prioritised looking after his health and fitness.
Quaid has never been known as an action star, but he has always trained like one. He’s managed to stay in shape in his seventies with a routine built around cycling, weight-lifting and yoga. He’s also adapted to lower-impact exercise to ease the stress on his body.
This is everything we know about Dennis Quaid’s fitness regimen.
How Dennis Quaid stays fit at 72
Quaid previously told Men’s Health that his approach to fitness was shaped by an older man who once frequented the same gym as him. “I used to box when I was in my twenties,” Quaid said. “There was this guy at the time at the Hollywood Y, who was in incredible shape in his fifties. I asked him that same question. ‘How do you do that?’ He told me, ‘You take care of yourself in your 20s and 30s and the rest will take care of itself.’”
That advice became a guiding light for Quaid, who decided that consistency mattered more than anything when it comes to fitness. “He was right,” Quaid continued. “It doesn’t mean you have to be there every day, but you do have to live your life with that in mind. Because if you let it go, every time it gets a little harder to get back. So I’ve always stayed with it.”
According to Quaid, the key at his age is a mixture of consistency and adaptability. “I genuinely enjoy it,” he said of exercising. “I was a runner for about 35 years, but that gets hard on the knees and the joints. At least for me. So I turned to cycling, which I’m currently doing. That and yoga. Along with that, you got to still get into the gym and lift. Do the sit-ups.”
Above all, Quaid’s advice is to not go quietly into old age. “My advice would be to do something every day that is proactive,” Quaid said. “There’s always something you can do. Be proactive.”
