Arnold Schwarzenegger shared his excitement with his fans, as he headed out to lunch for the first time on Saturday, following life-saving heart surgery.

The bodybuilding icon-turned-action hero, 70, posted a video online, saying: 'It felt so good to finally be out and not be a prisoner in my home anymore. I love it.'

Arnie underwent open-heart surgery March 29 at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, in an effort to replace his pulmonic valve.

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Out and about: Arnold Schwarzenegger, 70, emerged from R+D Kitchen in Santa Monica, California on Saturday, saying how happy he was to be able to get out of the house following a long sabbatical after heart surgery

He had captioned the post: 'Major update! It feels so good to be back and I remain so, so grateful to all of you for your healing thoughts!'

'Finally, this is the first time I went out after my surgery,' said Arnold, who was clad in a blue T-shirt advertising Elite Orthosport Performance. 'I'm eating at my favorite place R+D [Kitchen], a restaurant in Santa Monica.'

The Kindergarten Cop actor earlier updated his fans about the major surgery via Twitter, with a short, sweet message making clear his positive attitude,

'It’s true: I’m back! I went to sleep expecting to wake up with a small incision and woke up with a big one,' he wrote. 'But guess what? I woke up, and that’s something to be thankful for.'

Vibrant: The former California governor wore sunglasses as he emerged from the eatery

Return of the king: The A-list action hero looked relieved as he got back into his routines

Thankful: The Austrian-born actor said he was relieved to 'not be a prisoner in [his] home anymore'

Last month, he took to Twitter to share his gratitude with fans who flooded him with well wishes in the wake of the critical procedure. He said in a clip posted to the social media site, 'Thank you so much for all your wishes and for all the cards and the phone calls and the emails and the texts and all this kind of stuff that I got from around the world. I really appreciate that very much and you're very kind.'

In the clip, the ex-California governor said that he was 'feeling much better' but 'not great yet.

'Great is at a totally different level, but I'm good. I feel good.'

Accomplished: Arnold has left his fingerprint in a number of fields, including movies, politics and bodybuilding