Exclusive | Tony Hawk reveals the health trend he finds more torturous than helpful it makes him compete with his wife

Legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk is on top of his health at 58.He skates as much as he can, and depending on the season, he’s on the water surfing and on the slopes snowboarding.But tracking one aspect of his health is a hurdle for him.“I do track my sleep, but… OK.

To be honest, it’s just more torturous than helpful in some ways,” he told The Post, holding up his smart ring.“It’s helpful information as to like, why am I having such a hard time snapping out of it today? It’s like, Oh, cause you didn’t … get enough sleep last night.”The athlete, who was the first in the world to land a “900” — two-and-a-half revolutions in the air — loves to fit in a siesta nowadays.“Naps are glorious.”There’s a lovable menace disrupting Hawk and his wife’s precious shut eye: his grandson, who’s almost 2 and often stays with them.“My wife and I, sometimes we compete, [one of us may say] ‘Well, I only got six hours.’ ‘Well, I got four and a half.'”The little one, Robin Walker Cobain Hawk, is the son of Hawk’s son Riley, who’s also a pro skateboarder, and Frances Bean Cobain — the daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.Hawk says he and his wife, Catherine Goodman, are often chasing Robin around.

“That is a lot of movement — more than I anticipated when I was told we were having a grandchild.”Aside from sleep tracking, Hawk says he’s only interested in cutting edge health tech in relation to injuries and recoveries.“It’s not lost on me how lucky I am to have access to new technologies,” he said.In March, he tore all three of his major glute muscles while skateboarding.To address it, he didn’t want to do surgery.“Usually the only way to recovery from that is to actually have your glute muscles sewn back together, which is a very long recovery,” he said.

On TikTok, he questioned why he’d choose to go through that: “To get back to 100? 100% is unattainable at my age, compounded with all the decades of ot...