SKIP BAYLESS hates commercial breaks—especially right now. He’s two minutes into a five-minute plank, the final exercise in his workout, and he needs something to distract him from the burn.
Most mornings, that means there’s a prerecorded sports game on his iPhone—except that game has just cut to commercial. So Bayless refocuses himself by remembering his reason for working out in the first place. He’s in the gym at Fox Studios in Los Angeles at 5:30 today not just to build muscle. At the Fox Sports debate show he cohosts every weekday morning.