‘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 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/03/flavio-is-surname-dropping-son-downplaying-bolsonaro-connection">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.