Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke about working on action films and still getting "picked up and thrashed around" in a recent interview. 

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The Sunday Mail reported about the actor's fitness on action film sets on April 15. It is a wonder with the 66-year-old actor is still taking on heavyweight action films like Sabotage and now gearing up to reprise his role as the iconic cyborg in Terminator 5, for which filming begins next month.

While promoting his film Sabotage, Schwarzenegger joked about working on set and how he did crave for the occasional nap to get some rest.

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"Yeah, I sometimes take a nap in the afternoon," he said. "I sometimes take them when I feel sleepy and I am at home, then I have the luxury of lying down for a hour."

He went on to talk about roughing it out while working and still taking the punches with delight.

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"I still get picked up and thrashed around and that's just the way it is, and if you don't like that, then you are in the wrong business," he said. "The advantage is to be in shape, you can do all of those things and you do feel the same way you did 20 years ago."

But he is not superhuman and did acknowledge the fact that his body felt the strain as compared to when he was younger.

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"But the body does not recuperate the same, as fast," he said. "It's like if you do something unusual and you are tired, the next day your body doesn't come back as quickly as when you were 30 years old."

The actor also shared his current training regimen that helped him prep for action films like Sabotage.

"I always have an hour in the morning of cardiovascular and then 45 minutes to an hour at night with the weights," he said. 

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