Is this the hammer she is using?
Posted on 09/08/2009 9:38:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Michelle Obama's longtime trainer is breaking his silence, spilling the workout secrets that keep the First Lady fit for her favorite sleeveless outfits.
"She's truly committed herself to the importance of health and fitness," Cornell McClellan tells Women's Health magazine.
McClellan, who began training Obama in 1997, said her sculpted arms are mostly the result of tricep pushdowns and hammer curls.
The trainer, who owns the Naturally Fit fitness center in Chicago, reveals the First Lady usually does an intense calorie-burning cardio workout.
Once she gets the blood flowing and the muscles pumping, she tops it off with "arm-shaping supersets" on a machine and with free weights, he said.
Using a straight bar attached to the high pulley of a cable station, she'll do as many tricep pushdowns as she can without resting. The exercise also works her now-famous deltoids.
She'll follow that with a set of hammer curls using dumbbells to work her biceps, McClellan said.
She'll do up to three sets of tricep pushdowns and hammer curls per workout, he said.
Obama told Children's Health that she's trying to set a good example for her daughters, Sasha and Malia, by working out and keeping a healthful diet.
While her husband is known to seek out hamburgers every now and then, the First Lady said she has eliminated most processed foods from the First Family diet and has added more fresh fruits and vegetables.
"But health and fitness and how we eat and thinking about it has become part of our lives, because of our kids," she told the magazine.
"We are their primary role models. And if they see me exercising and thinking about what I'm eating, if they see their father, as busy as he is, getting to the gym and playing sports, when they grow up they'll understand that this is a natural part of being an adult," the First Lady said.
That caboose is going to take a little more work. On second thought, a LOT more work.
To keep their necks from getting too fat, they sweat show horses by wrapping their necks in plastic and running them on treadmills, maybe she can wrap her arms in garbage bags
and sorry...it's no big secret that if you want to add some definition to your arms you do tricep press-downs.
Is this the hammer she is using?
Really? Then she should spend a bit less time on her arms, and a little more on unloading the junk in the trunk.
Please, dear Gawd, no pics...
I have a question...
Who cares?
As long as she keeps eating those pizza’s and lobster dinners at public expense, she’ll have to continue her workouts. Probably won’t do much good though.
Oh no she is not wearing those shorts again!
And a crack smoking gay whore.
Working out for vanity rather than health.
She is nearly 6 ft. tall and has a ‘pear’ shape. It is quite common for this body type to have a slim upper body.
One of her thighs on the other hand is as big as her husband’s girth!
I thought it was because she can bench-press her husband.
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