‘Lula’s a gym rat’: Brazil president livestreams workouts in campaign for historic fourth term
Octogenarian incumbent contrasts his health with challenger Flávio Bolsonaro, who fainted during a TV debate The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is seeking to lunge and leg press his way to a historic fourth term, as the octogenarian politician uses a flurry of workout videos to convince voters he is fighting fit ahead of October’s crunch election. Lula looks set to face off against a senator almost half his age in what will be the leftist’s seventh presidential campaign since he
President contrasts his health with challenger Flávio Bolsonaro, who fainted during a TV debate
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is seeking to lunge and leg press his way to a historic fourth term, as the octogenarian politician uses a flurry of workout videos to convince voters he is fighting fit ahead of October’s crunch election.
Lula looks set to face off against a senator almost half his age in what will be the leftist’s seventh presidential campaign since he first sought Brazil’s top job in 1989, when he was 44.
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- ‘Lula’s a gym rat’: Brazil president livestreams workouts in campaign for historic fourth termGuardian - World · Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro · Apr 13, 2026, 12:35 PM
- Brazil’s Lula, 80, livestreams workouts before election against rival half his ageGuardian - World · Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro · Apr 13, 2026, 12:35 PM
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