Of course the real reason that getting to the gym is important is my baseline health; diet and exercise are the keys to feeling better and living longer. There's no one in the Western world who doesn't know this; everyone I know wants to get to the gym more often but they're too busy at work to do so. The fact that I've built a working life that allows me to break that cycle and exercise almost every day of the working week (during the day when there are no crowds) creates a virtuous circle.
Things like 'gym time' figure highly in most people's fantasies about self-employment and when people tell me that I'm looking well it acts as positive reinforcement of my decision to work for myself.
