LONDON (AFP) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown is "doing very well" on a regimen of fitness exercises and pilates while on holiday, his personal instructor said in an interview published Thursday.
Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Millie Dobie said the 57-year-old -- who played rugby while in school in his native Scotland -- was putting himself through a "safe and effective programme" that was suitable for his age.
"We don't dive through hoops, we don't leap over trees, he has a very safe and effective programme, something suitable for his age and fitness," she told the paper.
"He is doing very well. I'm very pleased with him. It's a combination of fitness and pilates."
Pilates is a combination of exercises that focus on training abdominal and back muscles to better support the torso, and is aimed at relieving stress, improving posture, circulation and coordination, and easing back pain.
Dobie has been working with the prime minister daily for the past 10 days, the Telegraph reported, while he has been on holiday from his day-to-day duties in Suffolk.
A spokesman for his Downing Street office declined to comment on whether Brown had any weight-loss or personal fitness goals, when contacted by the newspaper.
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