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"Other than golf, he considers exercise misguided, arguing that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy," writes Evan Osnos in a piece entitled "How Trump Could Get Fired" that appears in the May 8, edition of the New Yorker. That's far from the first time we've heard that Trump and exercise aren't friends. This, from a February 6 piece in Axios: "The only workout Trump gets is an occasional round of golf. Even then, he mostly travels by cart. On the campaign trail he viewed his rallies as his form of exercise."

In their revelatory book "Trump Revealed," the Washington Post's Mike Kranisch and Marc Fisher wrote more extensively about Trump's "battery" theory of energy:

After college, after Trump mostly gave up his personal athletic interests, he came to view time spent playing sports as time wasted. Trump believed the human body was like a battery, with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depleted. So he didn't work out. When he learned that John O'Donnell, one of his top casino executives, was training for an Ironman triathlon, he admonished him, "You are going to die young because of this."

His counter-intuitive theories don't extend to exercise alone. He once offered this observation about people who drink a certain diet soda.

Despite reportedly being somewhat self-conscious about his weight -- Trump is 6'3" and weighs 236 pounds, as far as we know -- Trump regularly touted his physical fitness, as compared to that of Hillary Clinton, on the campaign trail. "To defeat crime and radical Islamic terrorism in our country, to win trade in our country, you need tremendous physical and mental strength and stamina," he said in August 2016. "Hillary Clinton doesn't have that strength and stamina."

Amid the ongoing Russia investigation, the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the rumors of a major White House staff shakeup, Trump's odd theory of exercise isn't the most pressing issue of the day. But, that doesn't make it any less strange.

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Donald Trump has a very strange theory about exercise - CNN