Move over Schwarzenegger. Barack Obama works out every day. EVERY DAY. (Damn him!)

I get the pool reports of his comings and goings. A sample of his daily routine going to the gym:

From: Helene Cooper Sent: Tue Dec 16 09:13:04 2008 Subject: Pool report 1

PE Obama left his hyde park home at 754 for his morning workout at regents park apts gym. Pool is holding at istria cafe enjoying a nutmeg latte and raisin muffin.

and then returning:

From: Helene Cooper Sent: Tue Dec 16 11:29:20 2008 Subject: Pool 2

PE obama left regents park apts gym at 9:04 am and returned home. At 9:50 his motorcade departed his hyde park home for the 20 minute drive to dodge renaissance academy, where he is to hold a press conference.

His work out discipline has just made me feel terrible about my episodic ventures to any of three Washington, DC gyms to which I belong and rarely go.

I have no idea which U.S. Presidents were in the best shape, but Obama has got to be right up on the very top of the list.

Here is a short roster of the time he has spent at the Regents Club at the Regents Park Luxury Apartments in Chicago -- and this is just a small snapshot of a much longer trend:

BARACK OBAMA'S TIME AT THE GYM: A DAILY ROSTER

16 December -- 70 minutes

15 December -- 71 minutes

14 December -- 148 minutes

13 December -- 80 minutes

12 December -- 76 minutes

11 December -- 77 minutes

10 December -- 72 minutes

9 December -- 78 minutes

8 December -- 91 minutes

7 December -- 108 minutes

6 December -- 94 minutes

5 December -- 70 minutes

4 December -- 65 minutes

3 December -- 86 minutes

and it goes on and on and on. . .

Inspired and irritated by his example, I have started going to the gym every day too -- and I can barely walk and move after the aggravation of muscles I forgot I had. . .

But I'm doing it -- and I bet many other Americans are going to get the Obama gym bug too.

-- Steve Clemons