Italian PT trained a man with “excellent physical condition”. After all, it was the Pope

Pope Leo XIV goes to the gym three times a week. However, his personal trainer (PT) only discovered that Robert Francis Prevost was Cardinal when he saw him on television on the porch of St. Peter’s Basilica after being elected Pope.

Valerio Masella Treinasince 2023, three times a week, Robert Francis Prevost.

The coach describes the 69-year-old American as a “very reserved but always very friendly and smiling man… always lovely, he was never nervous or annoyed. truly serene and balanced person“.

So reserved that Valerio never suspected that Prevost was cardinal.

“I thought it was a teacheran academic, or something like that. Certainly, a person who spent hours to the secretary, although his physical parameters were very good, ”he said in an interview with.

The PT said he only discovered the Prevost profession, when he saw him appear on the porch of St. Peter’s Basilica to be announced as the next Pope last week.

“I only found out when he was elected Pope to see him on television. I recognized it immediately. I didn’t even want to believe it. Basically, I trained the future pontiff, ”reflected the coach.

“Here at the gym, No one knew he was a cardinalnor did I train him, ”he added, revealing that even his clothes even denounced him:” Always in informal clothes. “

Physically is like ‘a lion’

“It’s amazing, but for me, he was a client like any other, and behaved like all customers of this gym,” he added, detailing that the new Pontiff of the Catholic Church has an excellent physical condition.

“For a man of his age, he has an exceptional physical condition, typical of someone who has never stopped sports, with an excellent relationship between muscle mass, bone mass and fat mass (…) in short, very respectable parameters. has a lot of physical resistance“The coach pointed out.

Prevost said he had done a lot of sports in a child and was in love with various modalities. “I imagined that he was a very busy man, although he didn’t know exactly what his work was,” said Valerio.

According to The messenger26-year-old Valerio Masella was continuing in the gym attached to the Vatican frequented by his former cardeal since 2023, when he was called by Francis to Rome as the head of the dicker for the bishops.