Meet the fitness guru who keeps Theresa May fit with a regime tougher than Brexit negotiations… and it leaves you feeling SICK
The PM hired Lee Carnaby to put her through his brutal fitness regime and she must have stamina of steel to keep up
FACING 27 EU leaders over Brexit is nothing compared to Theresa May’s latest sparring partner – the Carnabeast.
Fortunately, hunky Lee Carnaby is on her side.
The Prime Minister, 60, has hired the ripped trainer to put her through a regime so brutal it has left participants physically sick.
It is bound to give her the stamina needed for two years of talks with Brussels.
Lee, who calls himself the “Carnabeast” on Instagram, has devised a regime based on the CrossFit strength and conditioning programme popular with A-listers.
CrossFit was originally developed for the US military and police.
The hour-long sessions, normally £45 an hour, can combine weightlifting, gymnastics and cardiovascular exercises with high-intensity interval training.
Hollywood stars including Cameron Diaz, Brad Pitt and Jessica Alba are known to be fans.
A source said: “Theresa sees Lee once a week and loves it. She is incredibly dedicated and sessions are built into her agenda. She refuses to miss them unless she is out of the country.
“Lee is also a CrossFit specialist and incorporates some of this into her workouts, with weights and heavy resistance training. Theresa looks and feels amazing.”
Mrs May is understood to work out near her Berkshire home.
Three years ago she revealed she had Type 1 diabetes.
Speaking about the condition, she said: “It took me a while to come to terms with it.
“The diabetes doesn’t affect how I do the job or what I do. It’s a case of head down and getting on with it.”
Find out how Mrs May’s predecessors kept in shape — or not — during their time in No10
David Cameron
IT was more heffa-rendum for David Cameron after he resigned following defeat at the Brexit polls.
Despite hiring fitness guru Matt Roberts to help stave off his beer gut while in office, it all went belly-up for Cameron on holiday in Corsica last year.
Matt, inset, used to drag the puffing and panting former PM on bi-weekly early morning runs around St James’s Park.
He charged £150 an hour but donated the fee to charity.
Matt once said his client was the first premier “to be so committed to exercise”.
He added: “He is an astonishingly busy man yet finds time to keep in shape.”
Gordon Brown
PILATES was how the one-time Labour leader rid himself of the pains of Parliament, with the help of £50-an-hour fitness trainer Millie Dobie.
The ex-drama student even gatecrashed Mr Brown’s family holiday in Southwold, Suffolk, to make sure there was no slacking.
She put him through his paces with a 30-minute workout before breakfast and another one after lunch. And just in case he was tempted to sneak in an ice-cream with the kids she also had him going on runs.
All that stretching was good for his back but it did little to slim his waistline or improve his co-ordination.
Tony Blair
HOW do you look this good talking half-naked on your phone? Tony Blair’s secret was to do hundreds of press-ups to rock music. It clearly paid off.
His strict gym routine was administered by Steve Agyei, inset, who said his client never went to the gym before 1997 but after a heart scare in 2003 adopted a workout regime and an Atkins-style low-carb diet.
Not everything was quite so smooth for him as PM but at least Blair, according to his trainer, left with “great pecs, arms and abs and a good body fat ratio”.
Blair has since been advised to use lighter weights “now he is in his sixties”.