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Stephanie Wareham

60-year-old still goes to the gym six times a week - and looks '20 years younger'

Meet the 60-year-old with abs of steel who is regularly mistaken for 40 thanks to his gym-obsession - and says he wants to be just like his idol Arnold Schwarzenegger. Dad-of-seven Perry Higley started hitting the gym in his early 20s - quickly becoming ripped with bulging muscles and rock-hard abs.

He now goes six times a week - training a different muscle group each day and aims to be as toned and chiselled as his "gym-spiration" Arnold Schwarzenegger during his Terminator days. Perry has opted for a "clean diet" - consisting of chicken, steak, sweet potatoes, broccoli and raw eggs - which he has stuck to rigidly for decades.

Perry says people regularly say he looked 20 years younger thanks to his shredded physique and says he has no plans to stop pumping iron in old age. Builder Perry, from Chelmsford, Essex, said: "There's no secret - it's just training and diet.

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