ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: While Obama spent 91 minutes at a campaign event yesterday, the Illinois Senator spent a total of 188 minutes in the gym yesterday – making three separate stops to Chicago gyms over the course of one day.
The presumptive nominee started his Tuesday with a short morning work out at the gym of his friend and longtime aide Mike Signator’s apartment building.
After flying to Indiana for a campaign event, and doing a round of local TV interviews, the Senator returned to his home in Illinois where he spent the afternoon hitting two more local area gyms for the duration of the day. Obama first visited Signator’s gym again, returning home briefly and then going to East Bank Club, a downtown gym which Obama regularly plays basketball.
Senator Obama has been known for his strict work out regimen – rarely missing a day in the gym even with a busy campaign schedule. But for reporters following Senator Obama as he strolled in and out of gyms six times over the course of one day - his multiple visits raised a few eyebrows – with even a campaign aide cracking a smile as the third gym stop of the day was announced.
Obama left the East Bank Club at 9 pm last night. A mere 11 hours later he was back in the gym again on Thursday morning.
Look Obama is my guy and I don't want to cast aspersions on his story here , but I gotta call bullshit!
We all know how little time a candidate has that he can call his own while on the campaign trail, so even though I applaud the fact that Obama seems to be getting his exercise, I simply do not believe he is going into these buildings to workout.
No trainer is going to encourage their client to work out more then once, maybe twice a day. And if they do they are going to suggest that their client do some resistance training in the morning and some cardiovascular later in the day. Or vice a versa. And they would probably not encourage that level of activity every single day. Not unless they were trying to break their client.
Yes I know that Obama is most probably spending more time on the basketball court then on the weight machines, but at his age repeatedly running up and down a court without giving himself sufficient time to recover is going to prove damaging to his joints and exhausting to his muscles.
I believe that these visits are for an entirely different purpose then to keep him fit.
I have absolutely no idea what is really happening, but I would not look to any significant changes in Obama's physique any time soon.
a friend of mine that used to do Secret service- reagon and nixon days- said that candidates go to gyms to shake reporters...reporters are encouraged not photograph or tag along when the Candidate sweats.....
ReplyDeletethere are also resturantes in some of those clubs...so he must have been meeting with people....
( btw bush used to work out with abramoff- that might be why it rubs you wrong...)
I knew i smelled something fishy.
ReplyDeleteI do hope that Obama is getting his exercise, but even I don't go three times a day. And I am the very definition of the "gym rat".
I think he was working on the finer details of his trip abroad....trying to shake McCramps' snoops
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