Yoga helps me to stay flexible: Paul McCartney

London: Beatles legend Paul McCartney says he feels as fit and healthy as he is 27-year-old because he gives more importance to yoga than hitting a gym.

The 72-year-old guitarist said he does not need any trainer to get the fitness right, reported Daily Mirror.

"I feel pretty fit. I'm not the sort of person who particularly needs a trainer. I'll just watch what the trainers do and then copy them.

"I do a bit of the cross-trainer, a bit of running, a bit of cardio and then I do some weights, some abs on the Swiss ball, before ending up on the mat doing a few stretches. And then standing on my head," he said.

McCartney said yoga helps him to stay flexible.

"That's my big claim to fame! I actually learned it in the 60s, it was a yoga thing, and my argument is I need flexibility not strength.

"But what's cool about it is that I'll be in the gym with all these guys doing really big weights, whilst I'm there doing not big weights, and afterwards, when I've done my headstand for about five minutes, these big guys will come up to me and say, 'That was pretty impressive, man'!," he said.