{"id":419705,"date":"2026-02-11T10:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419705\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T10:17:19","slug":"at-73-liam-neeson-still-trains-5-days-a-week-these-short-workouts-keep-him-action-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/419705\/","title":{"rendered":"At 73, Liam Neeson Still Trains 5 Days a Week \u2013\u00a0These Short Workouts Keep Him Action-Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liam Neeson has a very particular set of skills and is no stranger to physically demanding, high-energy roles. Throughout his career, he\u2019s made a point of staying fit enough to meet those demands, training<\/a> consistently alongside filming. That said, he\u2019s always been clear that fitness doesn\u2019t dominate his life.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Film Inside<\/a> during filming for The Commuter, Neeson explained: \u2018I keep very fit in life. You have to doing these sorts of films, you know.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Balance, he stresses, is key. \u2018I don\u2019t get obsessed about it, but I keep fit,\u2019 he said. \u2018And certainly for The Commuter I was setting the alarm clock for 5:15 every morning, going to the gym for 45 minutes, getting picked up, going to the studio and shooting.\u2019<\/p>\n

The days didn\u2019t end there. \u2018I would take like a 20-minute doze, a little sleep, and then go and join the stunt guys to rehearse some more for the fights,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n

Despite the long hours, Neeson describes the period fondly. \u2018They were long days, but beautiful. They were great days.\u2019<\/p>\n

When asked how often he trains, he\u2019s refreshingly flexible. Neeson says he works out around five days a week, but the sessions vary depending on how he\u2019s feeling. \u2018Sometimes I\u2019ll do maybe just 20 minutes. Next day I might do an hour. Next day I might do 15 minutes. You know, you have to keep in reasonable shape<\/a>.\u2019<\/p>\n

Across interviews over the years, Neeson has consistently downplayed strict routines and punishing schedules. Instead, he favours regular movement through short gym sessions, boxing work, power walking<\/a> and fight rehearsals, allowing him to stay physically capable and stunt-ready well into his 60s and 70s.
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Kate is a fitness writer for Men\u2019s Health UK where she contributes regular workouts, training tips and nutrition guides. She has a post graduate diploma in Sports Performance Nutrition and before joining Men\u2019s Health she was a nutritionist, fitness writer and personal trainer with over 5k hours coaching on the gym floor. Kate has a keen interest in volunteering for animal shelters and when she isn\u2019t lifting weights in her garden, she can be found walking her rescue dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liam Neeson has a very particular set of skills and is no stranger to physically demanding, high-energy roles.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[154835,148505,379,154837,381,6647,102,1156,154836,154834,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-419705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-154835","tag-collection-fit-for-life","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-c516fe90-372f-4b34-a4f3-8d2e040195ad","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-locale-gb","tag-shares-515am-workout-routine","tag-shorttitle-liam-neeson","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}