Barack Obama To Get Body-Building Help From Arnold Schwarzenegger

Barack Obama to get body-building help from Arnold Schwarzenegger
By Tom Leonard
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 24/11/2008


Barack Obama: mainly free weights, 50lb overhead dumbbell extensions, 80lb calf rises, 45-minute gym sessions six days a week. Michelle Obama: cross-training, a mix of strength and cardio exercises usually involving weights, treadmill and stair-stepper, 90-minute sessions three times a week.

The President-Elect gyms six times a week

How do we know? Because the intimidating details of the First Couple-Elect's workout schedules have been dug out by an admiring US media and relayed to a similarly impressed nation.

I worry that the consensus among American and European fans about the Obamas' wonderfulness may not survive the increasingly lurid revelations about their devotion to the gym.

In London, such behaviour would generally be regarded as borderline sociopathic. A British politician need only be photographed on a bicycle to denote a man of action.

Over here, a newspaper can report that Obama has a resting pulse of 60 and not feel that it needs to tell readers whether that is good or bad. Few need to be told what such gym-honed body adjectives as "ripped", "pumped" and "buffed" mean either.

And now Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that he and Obama have been talking serious weights and possible job opportunities.

The California governor and former bodybuilding champion's jibes during the campaign about "scrawny" Obama seem to have struck home. Arnie says the President-Elect intends to build a huge gym in the White House and wants his help in "bulking up".

No more skinny Mr Nice Guy, just two ripped dudes with troops to pull out and bad guys still to nail in Afghanistan. The boys on the weights machines may be whooping, but it sounds ominous.

The Secret of Bodybuilding

Body building as all of us know is about building muscles and giving a proper shape to the body. It is about growing the muscles that remain hidden in a man's body. But building these muscles and making them visible needs lot of hard work.

NOT ONLY does body building need pumping of iron but also requires lot of thought into what one eats and how the rest is taken. If a person is opting to do bodybuilding, then there is a lot, which has to be taken care of like the diets, schedule, time of workouts.

The diet is considered to be one one of the most important factor, when it comes to bodybuilding. While professional have a good knowledge about that and knows exactly what diet suits his body, there are many who are oblivious of these facts. Those bodybuilders use a number of ways to maximise the muscle hypertrophy.

The first one is the strength training, in which they train by lifting heavy weights.

The second is the special nutrition, which contains loads of protein content that they should take for maximum muscle building.

The third factor is the adequate rest period, in which the builders should slow down a bit and relax their body so that their body gets a break, which is also very important for continuous processing, which includes adequate sleep and breaks between workouts.

The fourth and the most important is the water factor which comes into play. They take adequate amount of water during and after the workout session to prevent dehydration.

Body building is an activity, which helps one to achieve the highest level of physique. Arnold is one of the famous body builders of the past and was known for his massive body. He won the Mr Olympia title seven times and the title of Mr Universe three times.