President challenge first lady on GIMMEFIVE
A video posted on Twitter
by First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday night shows her raining blows
on a punching bag and hoisting a pair of 35-pound dumbbells in response
to her husband’s challenge five days earlier.
President Obama had displayed a much lighter workout in the video he posted to commemorate the fifth anniversary of FLOTUS’ “Let’s Move” campaign.
The fit first lady also lifts a pair of 35-pound dumbbells in the video posted to YouTube by the Let's Move campaign.
“Hey @POTUS! This is how you #GimmeFive, FLOTUS-style,” the fit first lady wrote on Twitter, using her husband’s new handle and referencing the hashtag she used to challenge Americans to name five ways they are living healthily.
A 30-second Twitter video and 2-minute YouTube version shows
Michelle jumping rope, lifting a medicine ball up and down, completing
bench jumps, lifting the dumbbells from an inclined position and donning
boxing gloves for the pugilistic drill.
Cornell McClellan, the first family’s personal trainer and a member of
the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, leads Obama
through the routine she completes in tight black workout pants and a
tank top.
President Obama had goaded his wife with a lighthearted video that
shows him and Vice President Joe Biden running and drinking glasses of
water in a shirt and tie and mentions that the President orders
vegetables and sometimes holds walk-and-talks rather than seated
meetings.
“That’s me,” he says at the end of the video. “What about you?”
His wife’s response may just have upstaged him, with Michelle’s tweet
getting thousands more retweets in a few hours than the president’s
video netted in five days.
“I want to emphasize that you should only do exercises like these with a
coach or a parent around to make sure you’re using the right form,” the
first lady says in her video. “That’s how you can both get active and
stay safe.”
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