Tony Hawk, 56, reveals health wake-up call that lead him to feeling more energized than when he was younger

Skateboarding legend Tony Hawk might person retired from competition, astatine property 31, backmost successful 1999 but he's inactive regularly shredding monolithic half-pipes 3 to 4 times a week acknowledgment to a wellness wake-up call.

'I would accidental 10 to 15 years ago, I would skate until I was conscionable exhausted and benignant of sick. And now, I skate astatine slightest [as] overmuch arsenic I utilized to, and I consciousness energized,' the 56-year-old pro-skater told People connected Tuesday.

'I conscionable was going non-stop and taking immoderate opportunities arose and taking red-eyes to events. I felt the effects of that greatly, but thought I was invincible.'

Tony noted: 'I had precocious cholesterin and precocious humor unit for my age.'

Hawk's begetter Frank passed away, astatine property 72, successful 1995 from lung cancer but helium was besides plagued with 'severe bosom problems done his life.'

'He had 2 bosom attacks by the clip helium was 55. He had different 1 portion I was a teenager, and helium conscionable didn't instrumentality attraction of himself,' the 6ft3in jock explained.

'And I realized that I benignant of had the aforesaid DNA constitution arsenic I got older.'

Tony's skating endurance 'dramatically changed for the better' erstwhile helium began taking attraction of his assemblage much and exercising 3 times a week.

'I devour well. I devour overmuch amended than I utilized to, and conscionable benignant of ticker my intake and I don't indulge successful thing that is atrocious for me,' Hawk noted.

The San Diego autochthonal besides began taking the bosom supplement Qunol Ultra CoQ10 and wearing a ringing that measures his bosom complaint and fittingness (like an Oura Ring).

'According to the app, my cardiovascular wellness is 7 years younger than my existent age. So… I'll judge those steps,' Tony boasted.

'And arsenic I get older, bosom wellness is ace important, my associated health. I went done immoderate injuries a fewer years agone and I consciousness similar I'm connected a trajectory present that is mode antithetic than I've been connected for a decade. Getting older, I consciousness truly bully astir skating these days.'

Hawk's biggest inducement to surviving a longer healthier beingness is his family, having fathered 4 children with 3 ex-wives and helium has 2 stepchildren done his matrimony to 4th woman Catherine Goodman.

'Birdman' is present a proud, doting grandpa to four-month-old grandson Ronin from his eldest lad Riley's matrimony to Frances Bean Cobain.

'I volition decidedly spoil him and [be the] 1 who is consenting to driblet everything to get immoderate clip with him astatine immoderate turn,' Tony gushed to The Pinnacle Gazette connected Tuesday.

'Let's accidental I brought him connected a skateboard, sitting down connected it. [Catherine] said, "You can't basal up. That's the lone rule." Because I person to permission it for my lad to bash with him first.'

Hawk - whose bio reads 'Old AF and inactive skating' - was a kid prodigy with an IQ of 144 and helium began skateboarding astatine the tender property of nine.

By 14, the Birdhouse Projects CEO turned pro.

By 16, Tony was wide regarded to beryllium the champion competitory skateboarder successful the world.

And by 17, Hawk bought his archetypal location acknowledgment to lucrative sponsorships with Powell Peralta, Tracker, Sundek, Vans, and SIO.

The Hawk V Wolf podcaster - who was the archetypal idiosyncratic to maestro the 900-degree leap - teamed up with Activision to make the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video crippled franchise successful 1999.