Olympic Gold Medalist Usain Bolt Admits He Now Gets Out of Breath When He Walks Up Stairs Skyler CarusoSeptember 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM 0 Christian Petersen/Getty Usain Bolt Retired sprinter Usain Bolt is opening up about his current fitness level The eighttime Olympic gold medalist shared his workout ...
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Skyler CarusoSeptember 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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Retired sprinter Usain Bolt is opening up about his current fitness level
The eight-time Olympic gold medalist shared his workout routine and daily regimen now that he's no longer training professionally
Bolt announced his retirement from elite running in 2017
Usain Bolt is human after all!
The eight-time Olympic gold medalist, 39, admits that he gets winded after doing a simple, everyday task: walking up stairs.
Bolt shared the revelation while speaking with reporters in Tokyo at the World Athletics Championships, and offered details about his workout routine following his retirement in 2017.
"I mostly do gym workouts," Bolt — who no longer runs since he ruptured his Achilles in a 2024 charity soccer match — said. "I'm not a fan, but I think now that I've been out for a while, I have to actually start running because, when I walk up stairs, I get out of breath."
"I think when I start working on it fully again, I will probably have to do some laps just to get my breathing right," added the former sprinter, who still holds the world records for the 100-meter, 200-meter and 4x100-meter relay.
Since retiring from the world of elite sprinting, the Jamaican athlete's daily routine looks a little different than his former training regimen.
"Normally, I wake up just in time to see the kids off to school, and then it depends on what I have to do," he said. "If I have nothing to do, I just chill out. I might work out sometimes if I'm in a good mood."
"I just watch some series and chill until the kids come home," added Bolt, who shares kids Olympia Lightning, 5, and 4-year-old twins Thunder and Saint with his longtime girlfriend Kasi Bennett.
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Usain Bolt speaks during a press conference in Tokyo.
"I spend some time with them, hang out, until they start annoying me then I leave," he added. "And then afterwards, I just stay at home and watch movies, or I'm into Lego now, so I do Lego."
Since hanging up his cleats eight years ago, the legendary runner hasn't slowed down. He's involved in various projects, between his dad duties and other ventures away from the track.
"It's been good, a lot of work, traveling all over the world," he told PEOPLE exclusively one month after his retirement news was announced. "I think I'm busier now."
Bolt even had a short-lived stint in professional soccer for the Central Coast Mariners in Australia after retiring from his track-and-field career.
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Usain Bolt of Jamaica reacts as he wins the Olympic men's 200-meter final in Beijing, China in August 2008.
Bolt considered his time on the team "a good experience" and "fun while it lasted," telling reporters in January 2019 that he "really enjoyed just being in a team and it was [much] different from track and field."
"I'm just doing many different things … the sports life is over, so I'm now moving into different businesses," he said. "I have a lot of things in the pipeline, so as I say, I'm just dabbling in everything and trying to be a businessman now."
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