Showing posts with label fitness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fitness. Show all posts

Monday, February 06, 2012

Michelle Obama's "Let's Move!" program gets the late night treatment.

Courtesy of Obama Foodorama:

Expect some hilarious Let's Move! hijinks on Tuesday night when First Lady Michelle Obama cameos in a video segment on NBC talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The comic visited Mrs. Obama last week at the White House to film the outing, which will air as part of this week's celebration of the second anniversary of the Let's Move! campaign. Among other fitness activities, the First Lady had Fallon running up and down the historic White House stairs, he said when he announced the upcoming cameo. 

"I said to her, this is really amazing, and she said 'well, it is the White House,'" Fallon said while chatting on NBC's Super Bowl pre-game show. 

Mrs. Obama announced in 2010 that she'd given up riding the White House elevator in favor of using the stairs in order to keep fit. The White House has six stories, and it will be revealed on Tuesday how many Fallon and Mrs. Obama ran through.

Like I said before, the Obama's don't just "talk the talk" they also "walk the walk." Even when it includes climbing six flights of stairs.

I am all over this kind of program and think it is a GREAT idea to get kids away from their video games and up and moving around.

When I worked at the elementary school I helped to start a program that was designed to address childhood obesity, and we had some very good success in the two years that I was around for it.

I personally have been a lifelong exercise addict and believe that it has fundamentally changed my life for the better.

I give Mrs. Obama huge props for starting this campaign and keeping it going like she has, and if this segment with Ellen DeGeneres is any indication, she certainly takes her OWN fitness seriously.