Don't remember where I heard it but once someone remarked that if President Obama could make time for an hour a day for exercise, then most people (which is to say, people not buried under their work or facing other difficult challenges) probably can come up with a better excuse than simply not having the time.
The thing is a managerial schedule has a lot of autonomy. The president decides when all the meetings are. Even ambassadors will move their appointments around to see you if you're POTUS.
Similarly for a lot of these tough-guy manager stories, they aren't doing anything that requires deep thinking like debugging TCP stacks.
In a managerial role you can mold your schedule to your life, rather than your life to your schedule.
You can have non-negotiable meetings and shift things around all you want if you have that kind of authority. But a lot of every day folks don't have the kind of work autonomy to have their schedule match their preferences
Even when he works out, he is probably working indirectly, like perhaps he has aides with him, doing, scheduling or what have you.
It's unfair to compare the average Joe to the POTUS. The POTUS has an army of aides to help him in his duties and he is expected to maintain good health.
A better way to approach the problem is to help people identify where there is a waste of time happening and guiding them to reduce that.
Personally I feel that smartphones have robbed us of our free time. They have seriously reduced our attention spans, have been feeding us endless information, most of which is useless and have made us borderline addicts. To maintain a healthier lifestyle and find more time per day, I would seriously consider ditching the smartphone and make do with a feature phone.
