Move over, Jane Fonda!
Uganda’s 75-year-old president, Yoweri Museveni, released a home workout video Thursday on Twitter to show Ugandans how to stay fit in confined spaces during the country’s coronavirus lockdown.
The video showed the septuagenarian, dressed in a gray Nike tracksuit, running back and forth in his mansion before dropping down to perform push-ups on a white towel.
“It’s good to go outside, outdoors when there’s no problem,” Museveni, a former soldier, said at the beginning of the video. “But when there’s a need, you can go indoors.”
The video came after Museveni complained about too many Ugandans exercising outdoors in crowded cities.
So far, Uganda has recorded 53 cases of COVID-19 but no deaths.
Oil-rich Uganda, according to Reuters, has imposed some of the harshest restrictions in Africa to slow the spread of the infection, including a dusk-to-dawn curfew, shuttering non-essential businesses and banning all transportation — private and public — without official permission.
Museveni has ruled Uganda since 1986, although anger in the nation has erupted recently over corruption, nepotism and crumbling public services. In 2010, shortly before an election, he released a rap song dubbed “you want another rap,” aimed at younger voters.