Today the internet is flooded with workout opportunities at your fingertips, offering up sweat sessions anytime and anywhere. If you’ve only been on this earth a couple decades you might not know that exercising at home back in the day often required setting the VCR, unless of course you wanted your session to be interrupted by commercial breaks. The only way we could work out “on demand” was to make sure the video tape was rewound after it was last used. The only thing even close to Pinterest infographics were the instructional booklets that accompanied workout LP’s.
Because there were fewer choices, the workouts we did enjoy got lots of play and we tend to remember our favorite shows and videos vividly, even 20-30 years later. Let’s step sweat back in time and test our memories with some retro fitness trivia…
Please do brag if you get them all correct!
1. Green Valley Health Spa in St. George Utah was stage for this tv show with multiple hosts…
2. Launched in 1986, the early sets for these VHS workouts were adorned with a classical motif and the instructor stood on a decorative carpet…
3. These oceanfront workouts aired on ESPN, Fox Sports, The Health Network, and then Discovery Fit & Health…
4. Hosted by a former MTV’s Real World cast member, these video workouts were inspired by an MTV dance show with the same name…
5. Coining the term “trimnastics,” this host’s exercise show had a 34-year run…
6. The first of its kind, this video featured participants on a stage lit from underneath and an instructor who voiced her cues via a series of monitors that could be seen in the foreground…
7. Among her large resumé of home workouts were 3 vinyls: “Aerobic Shape Up” volumes I, II & III as well as a VHS, “High Energy Aerobics.” What was the name of her early morning tv show she hosted from 1982 to 1995?
8. “Tonin’ Uptown,” “Tonin’ Downtown” and “Dance your pants off” were just 3 of the many titles that followed the release of this popular late 80’s low impact aerobics dance series…
9. The early videos in this on-going program were shot at the host’s own training center and featured a “live” class (his daughter often among them) that was usually encouraged to count each rep out loud…
10. This wildly popular series began in 1987 and the title became intertwined in pop culture rhetoric. The first video was led by a male before the reigns were handed over to female instructors…
If you got them all correct you’ve certainly earned your retro home workout stripes! If you have friends who might rock this quiz, challenge ’em to a duel of fitness wits!
