Posted on 12/26/2008 10:34:19 AM PST by FocusNexus
Being elected president forces a man to take inventory of his life, so Barack Obama has trimmed his schedule to the bare essentials.
But one habit endures: Obama has gone to the gym, for about 90 minutes a day, for at least 48 days in a row. He always has treated exercise less as recreation than requirement, but his devotion has intensified during the past few months. Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.
Once, on July 17, Obama visited a gym three times within 16 hours. Other days -- often before primary election nights -- he flew in half a dozen friends to play a few hours of pickup basketball.
On Friday, Obama rushed to the gym before boarding a plane for his 12-day stay in Hawaii. He woke up the next morning on vacation, went to a gym and exited 45 minutes later in a sweat-soaked gray shirt.
Obama still suffers from one vice -- smoking -- although he has worked hard to quit since he started the presidential campaign. He's down from three or four cigarettes each day to what he terms the occasional "slip."
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No no no. Haven’t you heard? Sarah is a MORON. She’s the worst possible human being on the planet. Barely fit to hold a driver’s license, much less high office.
Now, that Joe Biden - he’s a STAR!
Why doesn’t he do something about those man boobs?
Yeah, why she named her kids Trig and Bristol. Idiot.
Not as clever as Malia or Sasha or Beau.
My God! What, the transition? God help us if he's 'weighed down' now...
And that’s probably the only “faith” this clown has.
Still smoking i bet but the media gotta kiss his ummm butts
“The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals ...”
WTF?!
I have no faith in his fitness to serve.
I guess that is so he can run away from all the problems.
El presidente-electo: Cough, cough, weeze.....yeah I.....sigh, weeze, cough.....work out to relieve ssstress....cough, cough, hock, hock.....yeah America loves me......hock, cough, cough, weeze.....hope-n-change.....huge hock & spit.....yeah I’m uh-um all about hooope....sigh, cough, spit......n-change, sort or where’s me down.....hock, hock, cough, cough, weeze........
or maybe he just wants to get away from Michelle. You know how domineering those black women can be!
That’s it just keep working out and letting them take your picture with your shirt off, etc. I can’t wait for all these sycophantic interns (male or female) to be throwing themselves at Norbit. Watching the First Biatch’s reaction will be classic! We’ll need extra large boxes of popcorn!!
You are right it is not an eating disorder.
But if "exercise" is obsessive and compulsive, it is an addiction. This isn't necessarily bad, but for a family man, too much time in the gym can be selfish with regard to the wife and children.
On the disorder subject, couldn't excessive exercise to allow eating things you shouldn't be similar to Bulimia, where you simply purge the food after "enjoying it"?
‘’...instead they called me a beanpole and some said I had a case of the “goneass”.’
Exactly! I don’t know Oboma’s measurments but at 17 I was 6ft tall and 177LBS on the dot. At the 25 year reunion classmates laughed at how “skinny” I was.
You were beefy! I had my Navy enlistment physical shortly before my eighteenth birthday. They listed me as six feet three and one half inches tall and 169 pounds! After nine weeks of boot camp I weighed 193 and people thought I was huge! I now tip the scales at 280 or so with light clothing and I don’t have a lot of fat but I am bigger through the midsection than my chest measurement was back then. My actual chest measurement is nearly 14 inches larger than when I went into boot camp and that was forty six and one half years ago. I could throw Obama over one shoulder and walk off with him right now.
He’s got to be the skinniest guy with man boobs I’ve ever seen.
I’m not sure I’d call something that all humans would do normally (without our technology) as either obsessive or compulsive. I consider it a part of life to include exercise in my daily routine for both myself and my family.
Exercise improves just about every aspect of your life and allows you to spend quality time with your children (not sitting in front of the TV). The side benefit is that you may increase your consumption of carbohydrates without all the disastrous side effects on your health.
Bulimia is not a normal function for humans (maybe for flies) and does not equate to exercising in any way.
Exercise is normal, hours in front of the TV or at the computer is not. We only get one round on this marble and we should not waste it. If anyone can’t reserve a hour of time to improving their health then they should question how they are spending their time. Get up earlier, go to bed later, watch less TV, work harder/smarter, etc.
Just my 2 cents
Is he ready to do a centerfold for Playgirl yet?
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