Obama's Workouts Are Inspiring KILLING Me The Washington Note by Steve Clemons

Steve Clemons - December 16, 2008

Move over Schwarzenegger. Barack Obama works out every day. EVERY DAY. (Damn him!)
I get the pool reports of his comings and goings. A sample of his daily routine going to the gym:

From: Helene Cooper
Sent: Tue Dec 16 09:13:04 2008
Subject: Pool report 1
PE Obama left his hyde park home at 754 for his morning workout at regents park apts gym. Pool is holding at istria cafe enjoying a nutmeg latte and raisin muffin.

and then returning:

From: Helene Cooper
Sent: Tue Dec 16 11:29:20 2008
Subject: Pool 2
PE obama left regents park apts gym at 9:04 am and returned home. At 9:50 his motorcade departed his hyde park home for the 20 minute drive to dodge renaissance academy, where he is to hold a press conference.

His work out discipline has just made me feel terrible about my episodic ventures to any of three Washington, DC gyms to which I belong and rarely go.
I have no idea which U.S. Presidents were in the best shape, but Obama has got to be right up on the very top of the list.
Here is a short roster of the time he has spent at the Regents Club at the Regents Park Luxury Apartments in Chicago — and this is just a small snapshot of a much longer trend:

BARACK OBAMA’S TIME AT THE GYM: A DAILY ROSTER
16 December — 70 minutes
15 December — 71 minutes
14 December — 148 minutes
13 December — 80 minutes
12 December — 76 minutes
11 December — 77 minutes
10 December — 72 minutes
9 December — 78 minutes
8 December — 91 minutes
7 December — 108 minutes
6 December — 94 minutes
5 December — 70 minutes
4 December — 65 minutes
3 December — 86 minutes
and it goes on and on and on. . .

Inspired and irritated by his example, I have started going to the gym every day too — and I can barely walk and move after the aggravation of muscles I forgot I had. . .
But I’m doing it — and I bet many other Americans are going to get the Obama gym bug too.
— Steve Clemons