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Man Poll Number 1:

If you had to choose a
woman to sleep with other
than your wife or girlfriend,
who would it be?

Top Choices (So far):

Jessica Alba        56%
Eva Mendez        16%
Jessica Biehl        10%
Beyonce                9%
Rihanna                8%


Man Poll Number 2:

Should Eliot Spitzer Have
Resigned for Sleeping With
Prostitutes?

No        64%
Yes        36%




Man Poll Number 3:

Is Barack Obama manly
enough to be
Commander-In-Chief

No                73%
Yes                  26%
Jessica Alba Leads Man Poll of the
Month--
56% of You Choose to  Sleep With
Her If You Had to Sleep with Someone
Other Than Your Wife or Girlfriend
Obama 's  Core Work-Out

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December 26, 2008

By Michael P. Delhomme, Contributing Columnist

As many photos of  have shown, Barack Obama is in great shape for a 47-
year old man.  What is his workout?  Mangoboss has culled facts from all
available public sources (eye witnesses of reporters, statements of friends
and published interviews)  to ascertain what the incoming President’s
workout looks like.  

Frequency
Obama works out  six days a week.  His workouts usually starts early in the
mornings . Self-described as naturally  "a skinny kid ", Obama nonetheless
has become a devotee of personal fitness, faithfully attending to his
personal fitness before he hits the paperwork.

How He Divides Up Cardio and Weights
He works out for 90 minutes, both cardio and strength training.  He spends
half his time on weights and half his time on cardio. He warms up and
cools down also.

His Gear

He uses standard gear—gray tee shirt, black running pants, Asics
sneakers, white head phones.



























Weights

For weights, when he’s in Chicago, he uses about 12 machines at a private
gym at Regents Park, a luxury condominium where his friend Michael
Signator has an apartment on the 18th Floor overlooking Lake Michigan.
Sweet.

The machines he uses have not been fully reported but he uses free
weights of 40 pounds for tricep presses. He also does 80 pound calf
raises, stepping up on the high bench.

He does a heavy set rotation of shoulder presses and dumbbell extensions
.

He works his triceps hard, using standing weighted tricep pulls. He does
standing tricep push downs, elbows tight to his hips, 40 pound weights. He
does lying dumbbell presses, 15 pound weights. The man identified by
People magazine as his trainer, Reggie Love, is a former Duke University
basketball player and is almost always at his side.  

Once when he worked out at the Dupont Circle Washington Sports Club, he
was observed by reporter David Paul Kuhns, speaking to another trainer, an
African American male, who told Obama his father would be poroud of him.
Obama nodded, smile and said “I wish I had time for a trainer”. When
Obama works out he follows a prescribed workout on a piece of white
paper, which Reggie holds.


Cardio

For cardio,  Obama hits the stationary bicycle,elliptical machine treadmill
and he plays basketball.  He works at an intensity that produces a heavy
sweat.  

Even Obama's closest friends said they marvel at how he has maintained
his commitment. He went to Regents Park at 9 a.m. the day after his victory
rally in Grant Park, on Thanksgiving Day and hours before traveling to
Washington for his first tour of the White House. On Friday, Obama rushed
to the gym before boarding a plane for his 12-day stay in Hawaii. He woke
up the next morning on vacation, went to a gym and exited 45 minutes later
in a sweat-soaked gray shirt.

When he moves into the White House, Obama plans to use the basketball
court, and may even expand the facilities, according to published sources.
Sweet.

The results are clearly worth it. His chest and abs appear far more chiseled
in December (the top photo where he is wearing shades) than they did just
4 months earlier in August in the smaller photo. The bigger question
reporters were asking is how some one got that close to snap a photo of
the incoming President. "In our parlance, we would say he gave it up. That's
the expression in the business. That he gave up the picture," said Frank
Griffin, of Bauer Griffin LLC, the photo agency that snapped the pictures.



Sources:
ABCNews, People Magazine, Washington Post, politico.com
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