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POST TIME: 14 June, 2018 00:00 00 AM
Bend it like Modi
Indian PM trots and treads in fitness video
AFP

Bend it like Modi

This screenshot taken from a video posted on India PM twitter handle, shows Indian PM Modi performing Yoga following a fitness challenge in New Delhi yesterday. AFP PHOTO

NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi, whose supporters boast of his physical prowess and indifference to sleep, has shared the secrets to his morning fitness regimen in a video where the Indian premier thrusts a staff, walks backwards and flexes over a boulder, reports AFP.

Modi spruiked the “refreshing and rejuvenating” benefits of his exercise workout in a video posted online Wednesday that also included a meditative stroll over a special path “inspired” by nature.

It follows a trend of homemade motivational fitness videos from prominent Indians, including adored cricket captain Virat Kohli, trying to tackle obesity and poor health in the country of 1.25 billion. In the latest addition Modi, 67, implores Indians to follow his example in a two minute clip shot in the lush garden of his New Delhi residence. “Apart from yoga, I walk on a track inspired by the Panchtatvas or five elements of nature—Prithvi (earth), Jal (water), Agni (fire), Vayu (air), Aakash (sky),” Modi says in the video viewed nearly 200,000 times within hours of being posted.