Posted on 07/17/2008 9:05:21 AM PDT by mojito
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.
All that change requires a very strict physical regimen!
I wanna see him wind-surfing!
I bet he’s getting all pumped up for the convention. We’ll probably see another photo of him running on the beach in his swimsuit.
Creepy?
Jimmy: "You know...Jimmy is pretty sweet on you."< /seinfeld >Elaine: "Aaaaaahhh! He is?!"
Jimmy: "Oh yeah!. Jimmy's been watching you....you're just Jimmy's type."
Elaine: "AAaaaaahhh! Really?"(giggles)
Jimmy: "Jimmy's new in town. Jimmy hem ..doesn't really know anyone."
Elaine: "Oh! well I'd like, like to get to know him."
Jimmy: "Jimmy would like to get to know you."
Elaine: "Ha...."
He might try working out his brain. Start with 1/2 rep.
Na, he just likes all those BIG STRONG MEN at the Gym.
classic Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Manorexic
Ok I get it, he’s younger and more virile than the other guy.
Hey!
Maybe he just likes the smell of sweaty jockstraps!
Sounds like `Stickman’ is bitter about his physique and clinging to his Bowflex.
As a regular, average woman, I don’t get the significance of going to the gym more than once in a day? What am I missing? Why would he feel the need to do this?
He must have watched the new jibjab video where they call him a “wuss.”
Won’t change the fact that he’s anti-American racist Leftie...
“Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.”
P.J.O’Rourke
I don’t want to sit naked in the sauna alone-Kramer
Must be looking for Larry Sinclair or some Steamroom action......
Very Obama like.
Did he get a hunting license between workouts?
The gym (racket club really, but they’ve got a gym) near my house has a full service bar and a nice restaurant that actually serves more than just healthy food. I could go there 3 times a day easy, and get really fat doing it.
Yeah, I think that's exactly the subliminal purpose of this behavior. I just did a google search on "Mike Signator", hoping to find something shady about this friend. Instead, what I found was that this working out story already occupies at least the first four pages of a google search on the guy. Obama pwns google.
The funniest thing not related to the working out story that a quick search could find about Signator was this:
They serenaded the Hyde Park Democrat with chants of "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!" Obama drew such a passionate outpouring from the crowd that even he and his aides were overwhelmed. "At one point, I thought Barack was going to rise up over the people and start saying, 'My children, my children, I have come to free you,' joked his driver and bodyguard, Mike Signator. "It was just incredible."
Hand me the barf bag, willya?
I think it just shows he doesn’t know what he’s doing in there, if you weight train with serious effort you’re not going to have the energy to do more than one training session in a day.
Or he just likes to BS and socialize there and doesn’t do much. I’d love see how he feels after doing 6 sets of heavy deadlifts and several sets of squats. I’ve got a feeling he doesn’t even touch barbbells or dumbbells.
Probably spent 30 minutes working out, and two and a half hours running his mouth.
Geeze. While he does look fairly fit, that is NOT the body of a 46-year-old man who regularly works out in the gym 3 times a day. This story is as phony as the Obamessiah himself.
It makes you wonder if maybe Larry Sinclair might have been on to something - maybe Obama just doesn't have the willpower to resist all those half naked, sweaty, muscle-bound bodies.
Slick Willie certainly couldn't resist the stewardesses on his campaign planes.
Exactly! If he's working out 3 hours in one day, he's doing it wrong...
BS! Being unused to working out regularly, he would be too sore to move if he in fact worked out threew whole hours.
I’m sure I’m not the first to mention...
Going to the gym is code for GAY DATE!
I saw a comment on another website suggesting this man is anorexic.
He is much too thin to be healthy and my guess is that between the cigarettes and the excessive exercising he is not doing himself any favors.
Enough of the inuendo...three times at the gym in one day? How about a couple of minutes with his own children (you know the ones who said in the inteview that all daddy liked to do was eat minty gum and YAP YAP YAP YAP?).
A married man with free time at 9pm on a weeknight should be home spending time reading to or watching tv with his KIDS!!!
Can you spell N-A-R-C-I-C-I-S-T??
Obama likes hanging out at the gym. He really really likes hanging out at the gym. And not just the same gym, but six different gyms in one day. And he doesn't really work out that much, not enough to break a sweat.
I just wonder what is is about gyms that Obama finds so appealing? Hmmmm.
Those who abused cocaine in their youth and smoke could still run the risk of a heart attack. Is his doctor ok with him starting a heavy exercise plan?
I don't know, 1/2 a rep might be to tough for him to start with. I think his brain is beyond saving and he should apply for a brain transplant. I might know of a reputable surgeon who would perform the operation. A chimpanzee brain should improve his cognitive abilities about 300 percent.
No way - even at his age he would be in better shape if he worked out that much.
"NOT that there's anything WRONG with it..." < /seinfeld >
Got me. All I can figure is that he's in there more to rub elbows then workout. The East Bank Club is where many high profile Chicagoans workout.
And remember, every time he's seen entering or leaving a different gym it means that much more chance of “being seen” at the gym. So virile. So g*y.
[... Can you spell narcissist?...]
Nar... Narsick... Narsissy... G - A - Y - ! ! !
Yeah, if it takes more than 1-1.5 hours you aren’t doing it right.
But six sets of squats and six of deads going heavy? Oy vey, that would call for puking.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ROFLMAO
Love it.....”On the Job Training”
He going for the “hoop vote”!!
Well then, perhaps he’s getting all “pumped up” for his trip abroad. You know, Michelle is staying home!
He’s going to bowl a 70 in no time now.
He knows exactly what he is doing- he is getting everyone to talk about him all day again
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