Barack Obama Opens Up About Staying Fit In His 60s, Admits Wife Michelle ‘Is Way Ahead of Me’

Barack Obama has opened up about how he looks after his body as he gets older.

In a Thursday, June 25 interview with People alongside his wife, Michelle Obama, the former president, who turns 65 in August, said: “I feel good, I mean look, I don’t look as good as her.”

“Of course you do,” Michelle, 62, said, then noted, “It’s because you don’t dye your hair. You could have made the choice.”

But Barack admitted it would be “too much trouble” to get to the salon so often, but noted, “I feel great.”

He also talked about playing basketball at his new Home Court gym, which is located at his Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, but he doesn’t have plans for any pickup games at his beloved venue.

“Now I will take folks on for a game of H-O-R-S-E,” he explained to the outlet. “We can have some shooting contests. I am not running up and down that court because I want to protect my knees and my Achilles. I don’t want to be in a boot.”

“I’m in good shape if I’m just running north-south,” he added. “You start getting me sideways and I start worrying about something kind of going [wrong].”

He’s also taking cues from his wife.

“Michelle, obviously she looks spectacular, but she is way ahead of me on the whole stretching and flexibility tip,” he admits. “And that is my next stage.”

The former first lady has taken up tennis, he said, and has “gotten very good.”

But Michelle cautioned that Barack, who used to play that sport, has “got to stretch out those calves or he’s going to pop something,” she told People.

“Don’t want to do that,” agreed her husband. “I don’t want to pop nothing.”