‘I tried Pope Leo XIV's fitness routine — he's Mass-fit'
The weights machine that builds your pectorals at the Omega gym next to the Vatican is a tough work-out when you are pulling 25kg with each arm. Do it 40 times (with pauses) as Pope Leo did two or three times a week before his election, and you are in good shape.
'For a man of 69, he was surprisingly fit — you could see he exercised,' said Valerio Masella, an instructor at the gym who put Leo through his paces and offered this week to give me the papal workout — or to put it another way, to show me how to pump iron like a Pope.
Since he was named the world's first American pontiff and took the name Leo XIV, thousands of
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