The home workout first emerged in the 1950s, flexed its biceps on videotapes in the 80s and, in the age of global lockdown, still appears on TV today.

Take a neon trip through history and find outexactly when television stopped being just for couch potatoes.

Image: Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

The TV workout craze dates back to 1954, with the release of Jack LaLannes self-titled US fitness show. The San-Franciscan fitness buff also made television appearances until his death in 2011, featuring in The Simpsons and the Addams Family, among others. LaLanne was crowned the Godfather of Fitness in a 2015 documentary.

The 1980s saw an eruption of home aerobics, from Jane Fondas bestselling workout videos to Olivia Newton Johns sacred 1981 tune Physical. The trends unfurled into the realm of fashion and music, and fluro leotards, scrunchies, and leg-warmers were unknowingly fixed as the uniform of the decade.

Shortly afterwards, apassionate fusion of jazz music and aerobics called Jazzercise roared its colourful head.Adopted by The Grinch and seen in Futurama, the catchy name and unique energy gained mass interest and classes still run today. The clip below is a particularly thrilling exhibition of scat-singing and deep squats.

In the 90s came a pumping swarm of energetic instructors with a lifestyle TV edge. Instructors like Richard Simmons, who lunged into the scene with Sweatin to the Oldies and Mr. Motivator, who ran matinee fitness lessons before Power Rangers in the UK, gained global attention.

Simmons and Mr. Motivator made coronavirus comebacks earlier this year with a series of follow-along videos. At 67, the latter is still sporting eye-watering neon spandex and hip-thrusting on the BBC.

Home workouts have seen their fair share of glory on programs for younger audiences. In the early 2000s, Sesame Street broadcasted an exercise video led by Grover, fusing techno-samba beats with synchronized puppet aerobics. Icelandic seriesLazyTowns stars Sportacus, an action-health hero played by the athlete Magns Scheving. That show boasts some serious backbends.

Recent times have seen online broadcasts of Zumba, yoga, and circuit classes rise in popularity with isolation laws keeping the public home-bound.

So how have home workouts held up for so long? If youre still asking, you probably havent tried Jazzercise.

Heres what everyone else has been getting up to in isolation (in-between aerobics classes, of course).

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2. For substantial health benefits, adults should do at least 150 minutes (two hours and 30 minutes) to 300 minutes (5 hours) a week of moderate-intensity, or 75 minutes (one hour and 15 minutes) to 150 minutes (two hours and 30 minutes) a week of vigorous-intensity aerobic physical activity, or an equivalent combination of moderate- and vigorous-intensity aerobic activity. Preferably, aerobic activity should be spread throughout the week (30-90 minutes per day).

3. Additional health benefits are gained by engaging in physical activity beyond the equivalent of 300 minutes (five hours) of moderate-intensity physical activity a week.

4. Adults should also do muscle-strengthening activities of moderate or greater intensity and that involve all major muscle groups on two or more days a week, as these activities provide additional health benefits.

The website http://www.verywellfit.com recommends more than 30 minutes of continuous physical activity daily to lose weight for the following reasons: During the first 30 minutes of exercise, your body is burning sugars stored as fuel. These are used up after about 30 minutes. To keep going, your body releases fat from your fat cells and burns it for fuel. This stored fat is exactly what you want to lose, and it's a good reason to build up your walking endurance so you can walk for more than 30 minutes at a time.

Here are some examples of moderate physical activity recommended in the Physical Activity Guidelines: walking briskly (2.5 miles per hour or faster), recreational swimming, bicycling slower than 10 miles per hour on level terrain, tennis (doubles), active forms of yoga (for example, power yoga), ballroom or line dancing, general yard work and home repair work, and exercise classes like water aerobics.

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The Queen of the Universe, Jane Fonda, is now on TikTok. Which means anyone who doesnt have the app needs to download it ~immediately~ because this is content the world needs right now.

She an incredible actor, a top-class philanthropist and a boss b*tch activist. And now: A TikTok star.

Jane posted her first vid of her reviving her notable 80s aerobics workouts, with a PSA at the end.

During this isolation period, we can get right into our glute with Jane OR we can join her Fire Drill Friday that sees the activist stand up to politicians on climate change each week.

Its gotten her arrested a couple times for protesting (hell yeh!), but her efforts in urging US politicians to end fossil fuel consumption has had buzz around the world with many other celebrities have jumped on board.

Even though were stuck at home, 82-year-old Jane is still doing her part to tackle the climate crisis. And so should we.

So, whip out your leg warmers and leotards and get stretching because theres still a battle to be fought as Jane holds her Fire Drill Fridays!

- Tait McGregor

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Do you remember the little Richard Sandrak? Perhaps you remember him better by his nickname Little Hercules. The photos of this child who with just 6 years was able to lift more than 80 kg of weight they went around the world more than 15 years ago and, today, they have become viral.

This was Richard when he was 6 years old.

Richard was born in Ukraine in 1992. His father, Pavel, was a world champion in martial arts, and Lena, his mother, was an aerobics instructor. The family moved to the United States when Richard was just 2 years old.

Started by stretching and exercises aerobics, but before long I was already lifting weight.

The Sandraks hired a coach personalFrank Giardina, so that his son would become the strongest child in the world. And they did it.

Unfortunately, Richard did not have a childhood of which he is proud. His father was very demanding of him, he was never allowed to eat sweets, ice cream or junk food and he lived under the pressure of having to improve every day.

When the little boy turned 11, his father was imprisoned for assaulting his wife. Thats when Richard left bodybuilding.

Now exercises cardiovascular to keep fit and he also has an awesome job. Richard does dubbing in films from action from Universal Studios Hollywood. Still he confesses that he does not regret his past.

We leave you a video of Richard as a child:

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Dance troupe Real Hot Bitches in ancient, pre-coronavirus lockdown times. Photograph: Chloe Pukk

Push back the coffee table and drag the floor-length mirror out of the bedroom. Tonight were going to party like its 1999 or maybe even 1989.

In the absence of IRL carrying on, some community-spirited party sprites have moved their usual dance classes from retro aerobics to primal gyrating to the online sphere, and at a fraction of the price. The pay-off is that by livestreaming from their backyards theyre reaching bigger, further-flung audiences.

There have been some early hiccups such as figuring out how to avoid having your livestream cut off due to not having permission to use the backing track, or not being able to crank out enough juice of the NBN to upload a video. But initial responses from cabin-fevered fans at home have been nothing but enthusiastic, as Guardian Australia found out when your correspondent donned her leotard.

Fierce Brosnan is a spokesperson for Melbournes Real Hot Bitches, a performance troupe that thrives on tiger stripes, big hair and wild makeup. He tells me: As well as the dance livestream, were working on other projects like 80s bitchin makeup routines and how to look after your wig.

Every second Tuesday at 7pm, two of the 40-odd members will take turns hosting a Facebook Live video. When I tune into the debut, its Feminem and Skittle-Bitch, social-distance dancing to Princes Cream. The sets a little basic at this stage, but the choreographys fun, taught line by line. It has to be, since its so literal (reminding me of the difficulty I had trying to choreograph Elton Johns line in Nikita, Eyes like ice on fire, when I was in primary school).

Youve got the horn / So why dont you blow it? Prince croons.

Now, this is open to interpretation, explains Feminem. You could be playing the flute, or saxophone, or its bubble tea. She also offers an alternative, more explicit, suggestion.

Its chaotic, but I flail along as best I can.

Love this hot mess! types Crispy McFly, watching from home. Indeed.

Annas Go Go Academy is something of a Melbourne rocknroll institution. Since 2006, the bouffanted Anna Achia has incorporated deeply kitsch and fun 60s dance routines into fitness workouts.

Ive been to a few IRL classes at the Bendigo Hotel, so I was curious to see how theyd work online. Im soon jump-and-punching to N Syncs boyband classic Bye Bye Bye, impeccably instructed by Achia in a chintzy front room, in front of paintings of Michael Jackson and Prince.

Pick up the bucket, stop for the hand, shoulder, shoulder, shoulder, out that door bye bye, she directs. And: Imagine youre a terrible burglar and you want to go headfirst through a window.

Through Patreons subscription platform, Achia has managed to monetise her work. $20 a month buys you 10-minute dance breaks to cheer yourself up, while $52 grants access to four prerecorded one-hour classes.

Theyll have exclusive access to those videos and the archive as the classes accumulate over time, Achia says. Its like a digital exercise DVD, I guess!

In the future shell add livestream classes but thats a few weeks off yet. Ill also be adding a kids option mini classes for people to do with small children, Achia says.

Over in Sydney, Shannon Dooley has worked with a small team to bring her thrice-weekly Retrosweat aerobic-dance classes to the internet.

Right now, people need escapism, she tells Guardian Australia. And given her love of Jane Fonda and penchant for high-cut leotards and legwarmers, shes the ideal peddler.

Ive long perved at Retrosweat on Instagram, but Im based in a different state. Finally, I get my chance to do a power-lunge to Deborah Harry and Roxette. Dooley teaches us the choreography in real time, with the kind of forthright direction of Jamie Lee Curtis in Perfect. Shes professionally shot, on a set-built lounge room, steeped in purple light. Given that Retrosweat has had a segment on Channel 7s The Morning Show for the past five years, Dooley is used to assuming that people are choosing to get off the couch.

The first class went well. People used wine or champagne bottles as weights and tagged Dooley in their videos. Theres an optional donation via PayPal, and the most generous donor wins some kind of 80s-style merch chucked in by a small business that in turn gets a plug.

In a way, being forced online using Instagram Live was fortuitous. People have been begging for Retrosweat to be online and Id already been writing the pilot and trying to get funding, Dooley says. I wanted to create something quite cinematic and beautiful, like a variety show. Two phrases keep popping into my mind right now, she says. Necessity is the mother of invention and a problem shared is a problem halved.

Back in Melbourne, the Born to Boogie Dance Connection crew work with more contemporary music. Founder Tennille Chambers runs the class every Friday night at 8pm on Facebook Live. Beforehand youre given a link to a track to acquaint yourself. This week its Dua Lipas Dont Start Now.

Our regular courses cover all genres, says Chambers, listing disco, burlesque, jazz, hip-hop, contemporary, funk, go-go and 80s, which her students incorporate into eventual live shows. We love hair flicks, body rolls, pivots, struts, freestyle, and definitely lots of sass. Anything that gets people to unleash their inner showoff.

Tonight the gang is in formation and dressed in colourful activewear, shooting in a studio against a white backdrop. Its joyously daggy and PG-rated. OK gang! Chambers chirps. She executes a double hand move: Stop corona!

They clock up 2,000 sets of eyeballs before theyre done. Since theyre invisible throughout, participants at home are encouraged to take a 30-second video of themselves and message it to the Facebook page so that Chambers can create a video of everyone dancing together at once.

One happy punter posts: Virtual dancing was so much fun. I learned the dance with my 15-year-old daughter and NO one could see me! I was happy about not being seen and my daughter was happy about not being seen with me. WIN, WIN!

Betty Grumbles mother was three months pregnant with her when she won an aerobics championship, so you might say its in Grumbles blood. The performance artists creator, Emma Maye Gibson, says she uses movement as a way of moving through grief and anger. But in the hands of Grumble who also employs elements of drag and subversive cabaret it brings unbridled joy.

I experience that for myself by tuning into Grumble Boogie, which Gibson is streaming every day at 10am on Instagram Live and Facebook Live.

Filming outside while the sun still shines, Gibson works the brightness further with filters, headbands and high-cut leopard-print leotards, for 30 minutes of heart-pumping cardio, dance and stretch, to disco, house, tribal beats and all sorts of eclectic takes.

Dancing has always been a democratic way of being with each other, Gibson tells me afterwards. I think the dancefloor is a religious experience. Aerobic fitness turns me on because its so goofy and about breath and the heart.

I must admit I didnt feel like dancing this morning, but Gibson still snared my full attention and made me grin. In her Instagram Stories she shares videos from participants as far away as Edinburgh, all intent on doing the Angry Frog.

I believe the classes to be ephemeral beasts and are essentially a free way for people to engage their bodies in a daily ritual, says Gibson. Its great when they can stay online but I have let go of the idea of cataloguing them. I post the playlist I curate for each class on Spotify and have set up a PayPal for people to make donations if they have the means.

Those donations have assisted her in keeping her creative projects going, but she also filters some into the organisations and venues that have supported her.

As a solo journeyer on this mission, it quickly becomes apparent that having a quarantine pal grapevining in the kitchen with you would be preferable, but getting in the zone isnt impossible if youre alone it just requires more dedication. Make sure youre dressed for success in appropriate regalia, and devote the workout your full attention. At least you really can dance like no ones watching.

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Exercise. Eat better. Sleep more. Dont worry about things you cant control.

Those are good tips anytime, but especially during a global pandemic, said Dr. Tyler Tyler Cooper, president and CEO of Cooper Aerobics and a Cooper Clinic physician.

The venerable institution on Preston Road is in its 50th year. It was founded in 1970 by Coopers dad, Father of Aerobics Kenneth H. Cooper, and has grown into a multi-specialty practice focused on preventive health care and backed by extensive research.

In an interview with the Dallas Business Journal, Tyler Cooper shared some tips for executives and others working from home during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Right now, its incredibly important for prevention of disease, for prevention of infection, to focus on those staples that weve been talking about for years, Cooper said.

Here are five areas Cooper emphasized:

Fitness

Regular physical fitness is associated with a decreased risk of the ability to acquire infection, Cooper said.

He encourages his patients, and everybody for that matter, to maintain a regular fitness program that includes at least 30 minutes of exercise five times a week. But dont overexercise, because that weakens resistance, he said.

Nutrition

Does an apple a day keep coronavirus away? It could help, Cooper said.

Now that people are staying home, they have more time to cook and focus on a healthy diet, Cooper said. He recommends a well-balanced diet that follows American Heart Association guidelines.

The Heart Association recommends a variety of fruit and vegetable servings every day. Dark green, deep orange, or yellow fruits and vegetables like spinach, carrots, peaches and berries are especially nutritious.

The recommendations also call for a variety of grain products every day and fish at least twice a week. Oily fish that contain omega-3 fatty acids, like tuna, salmon, mackerel and sardines, are best for heart health.

Sleep

Get your Zzzzs, Cooper says.

Its extremely important to be well-rested in order to fight disease, he said. Even if you were to get the COVID, the better shape you are in, the better chance youll get through it with the least amount of difficulties.

Cooper recommends eight hours of sleep per night and no TV or reading before fading to la-la land.

Certainly during times of stress, it's sometimes difficult to sleep, he said. You lie in bed awake and toss and turn.

To fight against that, sleep in a cool, dark room, and consider trying melatonin if youre having trouble sleeping.

Vitamins

Many people dont get the right amount of vitamin nutrition through their regular diet, so regular supplementation is important, Cooper said.

A multivitamin will help, as will Vitamin D, which is especially good at building immunity, Cooper said. Fish oil is associated with a decrease in inflammation and would be beneficial as well, he added.

Theres not a one size fits all on supplements, but if youre going to try to cover the bases, a well-respected multivitamin is going to be a benefit, he said.

De-stress

To rein in stress, focus on controlling what you can control, Cooper advises.

You want to be aware of whats going on in the country, he said. Certainly with the stimulus act and the growth of the virus, you need to be aware. But you dont need to be obsessing all the time about things you cant change."

"You cant control the spread of the virus beyond yourself, you cant change the economy, you cant change whats happening in the world," he added. "But what you can change is focusing on making yourself stronger.

Keep a positive attitude and look for the silver linings in this time of crisis, Cooper said.

Its so seldom ever in our life that youre going to have this much downtime, he said. Do something advantageous. Do that home project that you never did, or call that friend you havent called in a long time.

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Chef Mo Major exercises with his children in Mount Vernon, New York. Photograph: John Moore/Getty Images

We are living in extraordinary times and coronavirus has meant that for many life as we know it has changed exponentially in a matter of weeks. Things may never be quite the same again. Change is being felt in all areas of our lives, from what we eat to who we socialise with and how we spend our time.

What is the biggest lifestyle change that you have made as a result of the Covid-19 epidemic and how is it impacting on your daily life? Perhaps you have given up smoking as a result of health advice; taken up running or 80s aerobics routines because of limitations to exercise; changed your diet for the better; started volunteering in your neighbourhood and made new friends along the way.

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They wound up with participants who either were or were not obese and, separately, were sedentary or active, completing aerobic exercise, weight training, or both types of exercise on a regular basis.

Then they compared exercise habits and obesity and noted an interesting pattern. The incidence of obesity, especially extreme obesity, was much lower among active people than the sedentary, whether their activity was aerobic or resistance-oriented.

But those men and women who reported completing both types of exercise who jogged and lifted or walked and downward dogged, for instance were about 50 percent less likely to be obese than inactive people and about 20 percent less likely than people who participated in aerobic exercise or weight training alone.

In other words, it appears that doing either aerobic or muscle-strengthening exercise is good for a healthy weight, but doing both is better, says Jason Bennie, a senior research fellow in physical activity epidemiology at the University of Southern Queensland, who led the new study.

This study relied on participants remembrances of exercise, though, which can be unreliable, and asked about them at only one point in peoples lives. So, it cannot show whether exercising now necessarily thwarts obesity in the future. It also cannot establish whether, in some cases, being obese prevented people from being active, meaning that their weight determined their workout routines and not the other way around.

Perhaps most important, it does not tell us how augmenting walks or other aerobic activities with weight training might help us to avoid obesity. Dr. Bennie and his colleagues speculate that aerobic and resistance exercise produce differing effects on our metabolisms, hormones, appetites and even the structures of our brains that, synergistically, remodel our bodies and minds in ways that reduce the likelihood we will gain weight.

More study is needed, of course. But in the meantime, those of us hoping to keep our weight under control might want to consider cycling or walking to the gym, where we might want to pick up some weights.

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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. While it can be a struggle, most people can agree: eating healthy and staying active is key to a long and vibrant life.

If you question that statement, let Del Crowe be an example.

At 97 years old, Crowe credits his good health to the water aerobics.

Three times a week, he wakes up and heads over to water aerobics class at Clark Retirement Center. Crowe never misses a class.

"I like to do it, thats the number one thing," said Crowe. "I can do it without any great exertion on my legs or any other part of my body. So its good for me to do that."

Crowe says he also returns to "check on the ladies," but also because of the community atmosphere.

"I definitely think that hes an inspiration for other residents who see him coming into the pool every day," said Kensey Maurer, wellness specialist at Clark Retirement. "It shows hes very dedicated and passionate about coming to swimming."

Maurer says there are several fitness classes for residents to take. However for Crowe, water aerobics has been going just swimmingly.

"In Dels case, he was complaining about arthritis in his knees, so we try to do a lot of walking, we try to do a lot of leg strengthening exercise to alleviate some of that pressure off of his knees," said Maurer. "So its nice to be able to cater to each of the individual residents needs during class time."

So, whether you are 97 or 27, or anywhere in between, let Crowe be your dose of inspiration to get up and get moving.

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An analysis of all that data revealed the incidence of obesity was much lower among active people than sedentary ones even if their exercise routine included only aerobics or only muscle-strengthening activities.

People who engage regularly in either aerobic or muscle-strengthening exercises are less likely to become obese than people who are sedentary, but doing both types of exercise is more likely to keep excess pounds off than doing one or the other, according to new research.

Interestingly, women appear to benefit even more than men by combining aerobic physical activity with muscle-strengthening exercises.

The study, which was conducted by Australian researchers using U.S. data, appears in the February issue of the journal Obesity.

Until now most population-level evidence on physical activity for reducing the risk of, or preventing obesity is based on aerobic exercise, such as walking, cycling and jogging, but few studies have previously examined the associations between combining aerobic exercise and muscle-strengthening activities with obesity, said Jason Bennie, the studys lead author and a senior research fellow at the University of Southern Queensland, in a released statement.

From the data we analyzed, its great news for people who find it hard to get out and exercise, but can potentially do some strength training at home, he added.

In the United States, about 40 percent of adults more than 93 million individuals have obesity, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The condition increases the risk of many chronic diseases, including heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, osteoarthritis, breast and colon cancer, and dementia.

Reducing illness and early death related to obesity has been a major U.S. public health priority for more than a decade.

For the current study, Bennie and his co-authors analyzed data from almost 1.7 million U.S. adults who participated in the CDCs Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) telephone surveys between 2011 and 2017. More than a quarter (27 percent) of the participants were 65 or older and slightly more than half (51.6 percent) were women. Most (65.4 percent) were white, followed by Hispanics (13.5 percent), blacks (11.1 percent), multiracial (5.1 percent) and other (4.9 percent).

As part of the survey, the participants were asked about the types of physical activity they had engaged in during the past month, both aerobic (such as running, calisthenics, golf, gardening or walking) and muscle-strengthening (like yoga, sit-ups or push-ups and those using weight machines, free weights, or elastic bands). They were also asked how often they did those activities.

The researchers grouped the participants into four categories:

Forty percent of the participants met neither guideline, 30.5 percent met only the aerobic activity guidelines, 9.5 percent met only the muscle-strengthening guidelines, and 20.2 percent met both guidelines.

Using height and weight information from the surveys, the researchers calculated the participants body mass index (BMI). Those (35.6 percent of the respondents) who had a BMI of 18.5-24.9 were categorized as having a healthy weight, and those (28.9 percent) with a BMI of 30 or higher were categorized as obese.

An analysis of all that data revealed the incidence of obesity was much lower among active people than sedentary ones even if their exercise routine included only aerobics or only muscle-strengthening activities.

But the incidence of obesity was lowest significantly so among people who regularly combined muscle-strengthening exercises with aerobics. Not only were they 50 percent less likely to have obesity than sedentary people, they were also 20 percent less likely to have obesity than those who did just aerobics or just muscle-strengthening.

These associations were stronger among women than among men. This suggests, write Bennie and his colleagues, that public health physical activity interventions focusing on women could be the most effective for obesity prevention, particularly since other research has shown that women are currently less likely to do both aerobics and muscle-strengthening exercises.

The studys findings are observational, so they cant prove a causal relationship between exercise and the risk of having obesity. Still, as the researchers point out in their paper, there is some clinical evidence suggesting that [muscle-strengthening exercises] combined with [aerobic exercise] may increase lean body mass, more than either activity alone, thus resulting in an increased metabolic rate and/or total energy expenditure among those who engage in both physical activity modes.

Bennie said he hopes the studys findings will encourage people to not only exercise more, but to also broaden their current routine.

Making some changes to your daily routine can make a big difference, like body weight exercises such as squats, sit-ups, or push-ups at home; or join a gym to do weights, he said.

But physical activity doesnt need to be complicated or time-consuming, he added.Doing any physical activity is better than none.

For more information: You can read the study in full on the Obesity website.

Susan Perry writes Second Opinion for MinnPost, covering consumer health. She has written several health-related books, and her articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications.

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