Obama- Trainer-in-Chief

Posted by: Curt | Under: General Fitness | (0) Comments

There is a good article on MSNBC about Obama’s dedication to working out every day and his views on self-discipline. With the state of health declining in America due to heart disease, diabetes and all the other ailments that come with our high calorie, low exercise lifestyle, we may get a little help from the President being “Trainer in Chief”.

I can totally empathize with his need to hit the gym every day. Even when I was fighting off the cold I’ve had for the past few days, I went to the gym for a few minutes- just to get the blood flowing. One thing you might notice about Obama’s training routine is that the schedule is simple- everyday. The discipline of going to the gym every day is something that will carry over into other parts of your life as well.

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The more Obama’s life intensifies, friends said, the more he relies on the gym — which is why he might be taking office in the best shape of his life. The gym is where he releases stress, maintains a routine and thinks without interruption. He sometimes wears headphones and barricades the outside world.

…It’s a schedule he started as a 22-year-old student at Columbia University in New York, and it immediately transformed him. In his 1995 autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama said he was a casual drug user and an underachiever until he decided to start running three miles each day. He stopped staying out late, fasted on Sundays and became a voracious reader, spending most of his time alone in his apartment reading classic literature and philosophical texts.

Physical fitness yielded mental fitness, Obama decided, and the two concepts have been married in his mind ever since.

“It’s always been a priority in his daily routine,” said Christopher Lu, a marathon runner who worked as Obama’s legislative director in the Senate and was named Cabinet secretary last week. “I think it’s an example of how disciplined he is. It’s one of the things that really keeps him balanced.”