Sunday, December 12, 2010

Leave the Leg Warmers to the Bolshoi

Pull up your leg warmers, ladies. Squeeze into that 1980's leotard. Jane Fonda is back in the exercise biz.

Remember those rigorous exercise videos? A lithe, ultra-thin actress guiding you through a workout boot camp -- no smiling allowed. Millions of us bought into it -- literally. She went from award winning movie star to fitness guru faster than you could chant the "no pain, no gain" mantra.

Her new DVDs are for seniors and boomers. Age-appropriate exercises for geezers and we geezers in training. Presumably the routines will get me to break a sweat and not any bones, tone muscles that long ago lost their fight with gravity and tighten a core area that's doing one terrific impersonation of Tweedledum.

Sounds great! Of course I have to actually do the routines, not unlike the ten other DVDs in my "jeez I feel like such a cow and am going to do something about it -- no, seriously" collection.

I just pray she doesn't try to make leg warmers retro.

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