''Jane Fonda's Workout'', also known as ''Workout Starring Jane Fonda'', is a 1982 exercise video by actress
Jane Fonda
Jane Seymour Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, activist, and former fashion model. Recognized as a film icon, Fonda is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, sev ...
, based on an exercise routine developed by Leni Cazden and refined by Cazden and Fonda at Workout, their exercise studio in Beverly Hills. The video release by
Karl Home Video and
RCA Video Productions was aimed primarily at women as a way to exercise at home. The video was part of a series of exercise products: ''
Jane Fonda's Workout Book'' was released in November 1981, and both ''Jane Fonda's Workout'' video tape and ''Jane Fonda's Workout Record'', published as a double-LP vinyl
album
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, appeared in late April 1982. In July 1982, Fonda's exercise video was released on
RCA SelectaVision videodisc. The
VHS tape became a bestseller, and Fonda released further videos throughout the 1980s and into 1995. The video also increased the sales of video playback units.
[
The original 1982 ''Jane Fonda's Workout'' was the first non-theatrical ]home video
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release to top sales charts,[ and it was the top-selling VHS tape for six years.][ In total, Fonda sold 17 million videos in the 1982–1995 series, considered an enormous success.] Fonda's accomplishment spawned imitators and sparked a boom of women's exercise classes, opening the formerly male-dominated fitness industry to women, and establishing the celebrity-as-fitness-instructor model.[ 1984 interview between Fonda and Maura Moynihan.] The ballet-style leg warmers
Leg warmers are coverings for the lower legs, similar to socks but thicker and generally footless. Leg warmers are worn to keep the lower legs warm in colder weather. They can be tubular sleeves, long fabric wrappings, or simple pieces of fur or ...
she wore increased the popularity of an ongoing fashion trend, and her encouraging shout, "Feel the burn!", became a common saying, along with the proverb, "No pain, no gain
No pain, no gain (or "No gain without pain") is a proverb, used since the 1980s as an exercise motto that promises greater value rewards for the price of hard and even painful work. Under this conception competitive professionals, such as athletes ...
."
The success of Fonda's workout series funded her political activism, which was her original goal.[
In 2010, Fonda resumed the series, focused on exercises for women over 50. She sold ]DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any kind ...
s and later posted exercise videos online for streaming or downloading. In 2020, she referred back to her video series with a brief home video clip showing her doing leg lifts at age 82.
Exercise studio, book, and LP
In 1978, Fonda broke an ankle
The ankle, or the talocrural region, or the jumping bone (informal) is the area where the foot and the leg meet. The ankle includes three joints: the ankle joint proper or talocrural joint, the subtalar joint, and the inferior tibiofibular join ...
bone while filming ''The China Syndrome
''The China Syndrome'' is a 1979 American disaster thriller film directed by James Bridges and written by Bridges, Mike Gray, and T. S. Cook. The film stars Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas (who also produced), Scott Brady, James ...
'', forcing a stop to her ballet exercises. She sought a new exercise regimen that would help her lose weight and stay trim, without stressing her foot. She was referred to Leni Cazden, an exercise instructor in Century City
Century City is a 176-acre (71.2 ha) neighborhood and business district in Los Angeles, California. Located on the Westside to the south of Santa Monica Boulevard around 10 miles (16 km) west of Downtown Los Angeles, Century City is one of ...
who formulated a lengthy exercise sequence to burn calories. Fonda took classes from Cazden, and adopted her style of exercise. Fonda later recalled that women in 1978 had few choices for exercise classes, that most gyms were designed for men. She said, "We weren’t supposed to sweat or have muscles. Now, along with forty other women, I found myself moving nonstop for an hour and a half in entirely new ways". On location in Utah shooting ''The Electric Horseman
''The Electric Horseman'' is a 1979 American western comedy-drama film starring Robert Redford and Jane Fonda and directed by Sydney Pollack. The film is about a former rodeo champion who is hired by a cereal company to become its spokesperson a ...
'' in late 1978 and early 1979, Fonda taught her actor colleagues the exercises she had learned from Cazden, and was encouraged by the warm reception.[ In May 1979, she partnered with Cazden to open an exercise studio called Workout,] the sign over the door stating "Jane Fonda’s Workout", located on Robertson Boulevard
Robertson Boulevard is a street in Los Angeles, in the U.S. state of California, that also passes through the incorporated cities of West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Culver City.
Location
Robertson Boulevard is a major north–south thoroughfa ...
in Beverly Hills
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.[ One week of instruction (five one-hour sessions) cost $32.50.] Two to three thousand customers attended per week, likely because Fonda taught some of the morning classes. The new business was profitable.[ With the concept proved, she added a second studio in Encino and a third in ]San Francisco
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. She wrote ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book'' to bring the technique to a wider audience. The book was published through Paramount-owned Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publ ...
and sold 2 million copies.
In parallel with the exercise book, Fonda released the vinyl LP ''Jane Fonda's Workout Record'' through Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...
in April 1982, which sold steadily at $12.98. It was certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America
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in December 1984. On the album, Fonda speaks as exercise instructor, backed by music. The double album contained songs by the Jacksons
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, the Brothers Johnson
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, Boz Scaggs
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, REO Speedwagon
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, Sylvester, Quincy Jones
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and others.[ A cassette tape version was also sold.][ While preparing the book and audio recording, Fonda was already considering a video.][
]
Video
Exercise industry
Exercise products had already been selling briskly before Fonda entered the field. Carol Hensel released an aerobic ''Dancercize'' album in 1980, selling 500,000 LPs and starting the 1980s craze for exercise.[ Hensel's later ''Dance & Exercise'' videos went Platinum. ]Richard Simmons
Milton Teagle "Richard" Simmons (born July 12, 1948) is an American fitness personality and public figure, known for his eccentric, flamboyant, and energetic personality. He has promoted weight-loss programs, most prominently through his ''Swe ...
was already producing exercise records; his 1982 ''Reach'' LP was certified Platinum before it shipped, based on advance orders.[
A cheaply made exercise video was the first in the ]home video
Home video is prerecorded media sold or rented for home viewing. The term originates from the VHS and Betamax era, when the predominant medium was videotapes, but has carried over to optical disc formats such as DVD, Blu-ray and streaming me ...
category: ''Video Aerobics'' featuring Leslie Lilien and Julie Lavin, available on videotape in 1979.[ The same title appeared in 1982–83 in an updated new shoot. Erotic photographer Ron Harris produced the ''Aerobicise'' program which aired on paid cable TV, and in early 1982 he sold a novelty aerobics video tape, ''Aerobicise: The Beautiful Workout'', featuring close-up shots of the exercising women.][ Harris's abstract camera work was seen as an application of "art instead of instruction", appealing to men, useless for exercise.]
There are two conflicting stories about how Fonda's exercise video project was started. Stuart Karl's version is that he brought the idea to Fonda in late 1981, after the book came out in November, while Richard D. Klinger says he and Karl called Fonda in early 1981 before the book. The first version is as follows: Karl was a young entrepreneur in Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and Cultural area, cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most po ...
, starting a magazine company and shifting to home video publishing: Karl Home Video. His wife, Deborah, saw Fonda's ''Workout'' book promoted in a store window, and remarked that she would rather watch Fonda teach the workout on home video. Seeing that the exercise video category had just opened, Karl contacted Fonda's husband, activist and politician Tom Hayden
Thomas Emmet Hayden (December 11, 1939October 23, 2016) was an American social and political activist, author, and politician. Hayden was best known for his role as an anti-war, civil rights, and intellectual activist in the 1960s, authoring th ...
, to propose the idea as a source of campaign funding. Hayden put Karl in touch with Fonda, but she initially declined;[ the home video market was new and unfamiliar to her – she did not know a single person who owned a videocassette recorder (VCR). Karl persisted, and Fonda was persuaded by the possibility of extra money for her ]Campaign for Economic Democracy
Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED) was a California-based political action committee founded by activist and politician Tom Hayden along with his wife, actress and activist Jane Fonda. The CED was formed to promote New Left issues such as rent c ...
(CED), a political action committee founded by Hayden and Fonda in 1976 to promote liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
and progressive issues.[ Karl teamed with RCA Video Productions on the project.] Fonda signed with Karl and RCA in early 1982.[
The second version is told by corporate attorney Richard D. Klinger of ]RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label currently owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records; also A ...
, an executive in the company's SelectaVision video group. In early 1981, Karl and Klinger contacted Fonda about shooting a video of her Beverly Hills exercise routine. At the time, she was still creating ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book'', and she said she should first present the video idea to her book publisher, Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster () is an American publishing company and a subsidiary of Paramount Global. It was founded in New York City on January 2, 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster. As of 2016, Simon & Schuster was the third largest publ ...
. David Obst at Simon & Schuster was keen on the proposal, but it was rejected by their affiliate Paramount Home Video
Paramount Home Entertainment (formerly Paramount Home Media Distribution, and originally Paramount Home Video) is the home video distribution arm of Paramount Pictures, a division of Paramount Global.
The division oversees PPC's home entertainme ...
. Fonda returned to Klinger and Karl who then entered into a joint production deal such that RCA would make the video discs while Karl would make the video tapes. Klinger, the husband of singer Janis Hansen, was named West Coast director of RCA Video in January 1982. Karl Home Video and RCA Video Productions began shooting Fonda's video in early 1982.[ Simon & Schuster later regretted their decision, and by 1985 they were shopping for video projects. Paramount head ]Barry Diller
Barry Charles Diller (born February 2, 1942) is an American businessman. He is Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC and Expedia Group and founded the Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. Diller was inducted into the Television Hall of ...
said in August 1983 that Paramount ignored obtaining publishing rights to business opportunities such as the Fonda workout video because "nobody" at Paramount was familiar with the process. After this prominent failure, Diller said Paramount vigorously pursued the rights to related business ideas.
Fonda's Workout
With a budget of $50,000[ $75,000 or $100,000,][ Fonda started shooting the video with her friend, director Sid Galanty, a fellow ]Democrat
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*A proponent of democracy, or democratic government; a form of government involving rule by the people.
*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
**Democratic ...
known for making political advertisements for television. Fonda suggested that she act out a scripted role but Galanty convinced her to ad-lib
In music and other performing arts, the phrase (; from Latin for 'at one's pleasure' or 'as you desire'), often shortened to "ad lib" (as an adjective or adverb) or "ad-lib" (as a verb or noun), refers to various forms of improvisation.
The r ...
and be herself. Galanty proposed shooting outdoors but Fonda insisted on a sprung floor
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suitable for dancers. Fonda's Beverly Hills studio proved to be incompatible because the mirrored walls reflected lights and cameras. Instead, Galanty built a theatrical set for the video, and the production crew worked out the many technical problems. Filming with music was impractical because the recording of Fonda's voice needed to be as pure as possible, so only the beats, the lowest frequencies of the music were amplified, to be filtered out in the editing. Fonda was unable to simultaneously talk to the viewer and count through her movements, so she took timing cues from hand gestures given by assistants stationed at the camera. Behind Fonda and likewise barefoot, a group of seven instructors and students from her exercise studios took part in the routine; they, too, watched the timing cues. Every exercise sequence was filmed in one long take
A take is a single continuous recorded performance. The term is used in film and music to denote and track the stages of production.
Film
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, and if Fonda or Galanty saw a problem in playback, they filmed the whole sequence over again, which was physically demanding. Principal photography was done in three days, and editing was finished by mid-March.
The ''Workout'' video was released on April 24, 1982, at the price of $59.95 for the video tape, . Karl Home Video brought out the video tape, and three months later RCA Video Productions issued the workout on Capacitance Electronic Disc
The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video, analog video disc playback system developed by RCA, in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and high-density groove system similar to phonograph re ...
(CED), a vinyl video format, selling for $24.98; less than half the cost of the tape. Galanty was listed as producer. Joe Chemay and John Hobbs composed Fonda's original theme music for the video; the two had worked together on Chemay's 1981 R&B-pop album ''The Riper the Finer''. Fonda's ''Workout'' appeared on the video sales chart of ''Billboard'' magazine on May 22, 1982, entering at number 23. The video rose up the chart to the number 4 position on June 19, and from that point, stayed at number 4 and above for three years.[ During 1982–85, the video topped the chart for a total of 41 weeks, dipping to number 2 for 75 weeks. At that time, no other video came close to this level of sales performance. Fonda herself prevented the ''Workout'' video from racking up better chart statistics, as she was competing against it through the home video release of her film '' On Golden Pond'' (1981) which was number 1 for 15 weeks in 1982. Three years later, Fonda charted with the home video release of '' We Are the World: The Video Event'' which she narrated. ''We Are the World'' hit number 1 in August 1985, edging the ''Workout'' video down to number 2. Many of Fonda's later videos in the workout series also charted: in February 1985, three at once were in the Top Ten of ''Billboard'' chart.] ''Billboard'' magazine featured Fonda on the cover at the end of August 1985, describing her "Video Victory" and carrying articles about the actress, the exercise series, and the surprising sales juggernaut.
Lorimar Productions
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was a television production company known for many hit TV shows including the immensely popular ''Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
''. Lorimar wanted a share of the profits from Fonda's ''Workout'' series, and so bought out Karl in October 1984 for a reported $3 million, rebranding the company as Karl-Lorimar. Karl stayed in command of the workout video department adding more Fonda titles as well as some by Richard Simmons.
The RCA SelectaVision version of the video offered two audio channels, one with Fonda's verbal instruction, and the other with monaural music. The consumer would normally listen to both at once, but after they had memorized the routine, they could listen to the music by itself. List price of a stereo CED player was $450, .
As the videos took off, Julie LaFond was hired as the manager of Fonda's Workout franchise. Fonda and LaFond closed the San Francisco Workout studio in 1983 after two years of operation. The noise of the exercising was being conveyed through the building structure to other tenants who were complaining. In 1986, the Encino location was shuttered after posting losses. In April 1991, Fonda's original Beverly Hills location closed, even though it was still profitable. Fonda said she was concentrating on her core business which by this time was the video tape series, run by LaFond.
Fonda contracted with Capri Beachwear in June 1983 to produce a line of Workout-branded exercise clothing, designed by Broadway costumer Theoni V. Aldredge
Theoni V. Aldredge (August 22, 1922 – January 21, 2011) was a Greek-American stage and screen costume designer.
Biography
Born Theoni Athanasiou Vachliotis in Thessaloniki in 1922, Aldredge received her training at the American School in Athe ...
, and made in the U.S. by union shop
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s. The clothing was to be sold at Macy's
Macy's (originally R. H. Macy & Co.) is an American chain of high-end department stores founded in 1858 by Rowland Hussey Macy. It became a division of the Cincinnati-based Federated Department Stores in 1994, through which it is affiliated wi ...
and Saks Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue (originally Saks & Company; Colloquialism, colloquially Saks) is an American Luxury goods, luxury department store chain headquartered in New York City and founded by Andrew Saks. The original store opened in the F Street and ...
, but after the line appeared piecemeal and incomplete for a few months, the enterprise folded in 1984. Thoroughgoing supply problems, high retail price tags and market inexperience all contributed to the failure. Capri Beachwear absorbed the losses and shut down, bankrupting owner Ron Mester.
Activism
Fonda used her workout profits to fund her political activism.[ The entire Workout franchise contributed, including the studios, the book, the audio recording and the videos.][ In early 1984, Fonda withdrew funding from the ]Campaign for Economic Democracy
Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED) was a California-based political action committee founded by activist and politician Tom Hayden along with his wife, actress and activist Jane Fonda. The CED was formed to promote New Left issues such as rent c ...
to pursue her own interests separate from Hayden's. A few months later, Barbra Streisand
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand (; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress and director. With a career spanning over six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment, and is among the few performers List ...
, Fonda, and ten other women formed the Hollywood Women's Political Committee (HWPC). Though she was not directly active in the day-to-day decisions of the HWPC, its political goals were many of the same ones Fonda had promoted with Hayden through the CED PAC. In 1987, Fonda bought her Workout franchise back from CED.[ By 1988, Fonda had donated about $10 million to political causes; all drawn from her workout video series.]
Karl emulated Fonda by putting some of his ''Workout'' video distribution profits into political donations, but his naïveté led him to give many thousands illegally to various politicians, especially to the 1988 campaign of Democratic presidential primary candidate Gary Hart. Hart had been the frontrunner in polls in April 1987, and the favored candidate of Fonda and Hayden, but he resigned from the race in May after news reports showed him to be unfaithful to his wife. In December 1987 he declared a second run, and Karl broke federal campaign guidelines to fund Hart's new effort. The shady dealings were revealed by the ''Miami Herald
The ''Miami Herald'' is an American daily newspaper owned by the McClatchy Company and headquartered in Doral, Florida, a List of communities in Miami-Dade County, Florida, city in western Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County and the M ...
'' at the beginning of 1988. Hart resigned a second and final time in March. In federal court, Karl pleaded guilty to hiding $185,000 in political donations through reimbursed third parties, and was hit with a fine of $60,000 and a sentence of probation for three years. Faced with business losses and conflict-of-interest lawsuits, in July 1989 he declared bankruptcy, and died in 1991 of skin cancer at the age of 38.
Legacy
The fitness industry traces a large measure of its success to Fonda's ''Workout'' series. Equinox Group
Equinox Group is an American luxury fitness company which operates several lifestyle brands: Equinox, Equinox Hotels, Precision Run, Project by Equinox, Equinox Explore, Equinox Media, Furthermore, PURE Yoga, Blink Fitness, and SoulCycle. Withi ...
's National Director Carol Espel said about Fonda, "She opened the door for us who were either dancers or interested in fitness to become professionals and create an industry... She helped legitimize fitness as a viable business."[ Many dance and fitness instructors of the late 1970s and early 1980s rode the wave created by ''Workout'', expanding their businesses dramatically. Richard Simmons embraced the new video format with 1985's ''Get Started''. ]Jazzercise
Jazzercise is a fitness franchising, franchise company founded by Judi Sheppard Missett in 1968 and headquartered in Carlsbad, California, Carlsbad, California, United States. The franchise's name is a portmanteau of "jazz" and "exercise".
Jaz ...
was already an established exercise studio in the North County
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San Diego area, releasing a popular LP, but after Fonda the company grew very quickly, releasing aerobics videos and opening many franchise studios.[ In 1985, fitness teacher ]Joanie Greggains
Joanie Greggains (1944–2022) was an American fitness instructor.
Greggains was the radio host of ''The Joanie Greggains Show'', a weekend health and fitness program on KSRO Radio, Santa Rosa, California. She was also known for her long-running ...
shifted from LPs to video with ''Total Shape Up'', and in 1987, personal trainer Kathy Smith followed suit by releasing ''Starting Out'' for beginners. Jake Steinfeld
Jake Steinfeld (born February 21, 1958) is an American actor, fitness personality, entrepreneur, and producer. He develops businesses through the "Body by Jake" brand.
Early life
Born in the Sea Gate neighborhood of Brooklyn, Steinfeld was rais ...
of ''Body by Jake'' fame delivered the ''Energize Yourself'' video in 1986.[ On the other hand, aerobics dance pioneer ]Jacki Sorensen
Jacki Sorensen (born Jacqueline Faye Mills; December 10, 1942) is the American originator of aerobic dancing, popularly known as aerobics. Inspired by Dr. Kenneth H. Cooper's 1968 book on aerobic exercise, she created for women an aerobic dance ...
watched her large organization reduce in size through the 1980s, partly because of competition.
A handful of celebrities capitalized on the exercise video concept, including Cher
Cher (; born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer, actress and television personality. Often referred to by the media as the Honorific nicknames in popular music, "Goddess of Pop", she has been described as embodying female ...
, Arnold Schwarzenegger
Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947) is an Austrian and American actor, film producer, businessman, retired professional bodybuilder and politician who served as the 38th governor of California between 2003 and 2011. ''Time'' ...
, Caitlyn Jenner, Pat Boone
Patrick Charles Eugene Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer and actor. He was a successful pop singer in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. He sold more than 45 million records, had 38 Top 40 hits, and appeared in mo ...
, Debbie Reynolds
Mary Frances "Debbie" Reynolds (April 1, 1932 – December 28, 2016) was an American actress, singer, and businesswoman. Her career spanned almost 70 years. She was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer for her portra ...
and Raquel Welch
Jo Raquel Welch ( Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress.
She first won attention for her role in ''Fantastic Voyage'' (1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They lent her contract to the British studio Hammer ...
. While Fonda encouraged her viewers to get in shape so that they could go out and change the world, the message in Welch's yoga-oriented video was to get in shape to change the inner self. These stars enjoyed limited sales, never matching Fonda's reach.
In 2010, Fonda released the first of three videos in her new series titled Prime Time, aimed at users 50 years and older.[ In 2014 after many requests, she re-released five of her original 1980s videos on DVD and digital download, followed in 2018 by the re-release of another two of her videos from the early 1990s.] In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic
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, Fonda recorded a brief exercise sequence at age 82, sympathizing with people who exercise at home while quarantined. Combining her political activism with 1980s-era video scenes and recently shot footage, Fonda gained views on Instagram
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and TikTok
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TikTok is an international version ...
.
Exercise videos
See also
*20th century women's fitness culture
The 20th century saw multiple trends and changes in women's fitness culture.
1900 to 1920
During the 19th century women participated in many forms of recreational fitness. Specific activities depended largely on the culture and social class, ...
References
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External links
Jane Fonda's Original Workout
website
Aerobic exercise
Exercise-related trademarks
Home video releases
1982 works