Not thrilled to be back at work after a long holiday weekend?
No problem-- let's extend Presidents' Day by considering how replica balenciaga handbags important a role the president plays in setting the health-and- fitness tone for our country.
All shapes and sizes of men have resided in the White House, but in the modern era, only the fit and athletic need apply. And since Bill Clinton's election in 1992, our commanders in chief have all been Boomers.
Here's a quick recap of their fitness habits and athletic abilities:
Barack Obama: By all accounts, he follows a healthful diet-- eating to live rather than living to eat. But he also admits to being an "occasional" smoker (what does that mean? Three cigarettes a day ... a week? Who knows?).
Nevertheless, Obama works out daily before sunrise and, though his bowling and baseball throwing leave much to be desired, he still possesses plenty of game in his regular full-court basketball runs. Lean, lithe and with a smooth outside stroke, Obama is our first bona fide baller-in-chief.
George Bush: A marathoner long before he took office in 2001 (and our only president to have completed the 26.2-mile distance), Bush, a smoker and partier in his youth, was a White House workout fiend.
Even in his 50s, he'd dart through 3- to 5-mile runs at a 7- minute-per-mile clip. Only the fittest of Secret Service agents could accompany him. When balky knees forced him to forgo running in favor of mountain biking, he'd tear through those trails like the world's oldest X Gamer.
And, of course, his perfectly delivered batting-practice fastball- - whilst "first-pitching" at the 2001 World Series-- gave goosebumps to all who saw it.
Bill Clinton: Our first-- and least conditioned-- Boomer president, Clinton, as we all know, was a man of prodigious appetites-- except when it came to exercise. Oh, he'd gamely slog through a few miles of roadwork, but I always got the feeling he did his choppy, little duck-footed trot to mitigate the Chanel Replica Handbags effects of the Big Macs and bear claws he planned to consume later.
(Subsequent open-heart surgery after leaving office, and his recent heart-related hospitalization, appear to confirm my suspicions.)
Nevertheless, the New Balance--clad Clinton, who was (and is) a pretty respectable golfer, shall forever hold a special place in my heart. Here's why...
June 1994
Before I moved up here a decade ago, I lived in Surfside-- a small, oceanside residential community tucked between Miami Beach and Bal Harbour. I ran on the hard-packed section of beach every day.
One sunny Monday morning in late June 1994, I entered the beach at my usual spot and immediately noticed Secret Service agents (black suits, white shirts, dark ties, earpieces) posted every few hundred yards along my route.
I then recalled that the Bal Harbour Sheraton was hosting a conference of Latin American finance leaders that afternoon and that Clinton was scheduled to attend. I assumed the Secret Service was setting up its perimeter and would soon shoo me off the beach.
But they never did.
replica bag wholesale Twenty minutes later, I reached my turn-around point and headed south. Lost in thought, I had stopped paying attention to the agents.
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