Every year, Health Fitness Revolution recognizes politicians who choose to demonstrate healthy lifestyles for themselves, in addition to promoting physical activity within their communities. We recently published our new list of Top 20 Fittest Senators 2020 as part of this effort to promote health and fitness in the U.S.
HFR founder and author of ReSYNC Your Life, Samir Becic intends to use this list to motivate the other United States Senators to be more active and fit in order to be the best ambassadors for their cities as possible. The wealth and prosperity of a nation are dependent on the health and physicality of its people. “Every politician in the United States who is physically fit and promotes a healthy lifestyle in order to improve the future of our nation has my vote, regardless of party. Furthermore, with the COVID-19 pandemic, fitness and a healthy lifestyle should be emphasized more than ever- a healthy body has a robust immune system. While the immune system may not protect you from contracting the virus, it will definitely help with the recovery. Senator Chuck Schumer deserves recognition for being a great ambassador of a healthy lifestyle through example” Becic says.
Congratulations Senator Chuck Schumer on being one of the fittest Senators in America!
Fitness Profile
- Each morning, at 7 a.m., in the Senate gym, Chuck Schumer takes his seat on the stationary bike. He uses the gym for both fitness and to discuss bi-partisan politics
- Kicked around immigration reform ideas with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida during morning workout routines.
- When the government shut down, he and Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee used the gym as a negotiating room to help end the standoff.
- Schumer is known as an expert schmoozer at the gym and elsewhere.
- A couple of years before becoming senator in 1999, however, he was sidelined by persistent knee pain
- His routine now is a mix of weights and a stationary bike.
- Schumer is said to have lost about 30 pounds the past several years, thanks in part to his Senate workouts and regular bike rides in Brooklyn.
