--- title: Barack Obama's Workout Video Raises Security Questions description: During a trip to Poland, President Obama decided to take some advice from the First Lady and get in a workout at the Warsaw Marriott gym canonical: https://time.com/2827761/obama-workout-gym-video/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-05T19:14:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:26.427Z og:title: Obama’s Workout Vid Raises Security Questions og:description: During a trip to Poland, President Obama decided to take some advice from the first lady and get in a workout at the Warsaw Marriott gym. og:url: https://time.com/2827761/obama-workout-gym-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f3b32b54db28b97/69869671d0b6f22701304bd4/barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Barack Obama Ukraine og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama’s Workout Vid Raises Security Questions twitter:description: During a trip to Poland, President Obama decided to take some advice from the first lady and get in a workout at the Warsaw Marriott gym. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f3b32b54db28b97/69869671d0b6f22701304bd4/barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Obama’s Workout Video Raises Security Questions by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 5, 2014 7:14 PM UTC  US President Barack Obama and President-elect Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine shake hands during a meeting in Warsaw on June 4, 2014. US President Barack Obama and President-elect Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine shake hands during a meeting in Warsaw on June 4, 2014.Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 5, 2014 7:14 PM UTC President Barack Obama, while on a trip to Poland this week, decided to take some advice from the First Lady and get in a workout at the Warsaw Marriott gym. However, someone recorded Obama’s gym session, prompting jokes and security questions. A Secret Service spokesman [told](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/208239-secret-service-says-obama-was-safe-in-gym) _The Hill_ that the situation at the gym was under control despite the video. “\[This was\] no different than if the President visited a restaurant off the record and other diners took pictures of him,” the spokesperson said. Everyone was reportedly screened before entering the gym. Barack Obama's Workout Video Raises Security Questions ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2827761/obama-workout-gym-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2827761/obama-workout-gym-video/"},"headline":"Obama’s Workout Video Raises Security Questions","datePublished":"2014-06-05T19:14:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:26.427Z","description":"During a trip to Poland, President Obama decided to take some advice from the First Lady and get in a workout at the Warsaw Marriott gym","url":"https://time.com/2827761/obama-workout-gym-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f3b32b54db28b97/69869671d0b6f22701304bd4/barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2f3b32b54db28b97/69869671d0b6f22701304bd4/barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Barack Obama Ukraine","caption":"Barack Obama Ukraine","creditText":"Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2827761/obama-workout-gym-video/","name":"Obama’s Workout Video Raises Security Questions"}}]}] ```