One Girl’s Workout, Another’s Joke

This morning my friend, the Trainer Momma, put up an old-school jazzercise video on her blog.  It was meant as a joke, the bad 80′s hair and outfits, the bizarro “dance” moves.  It’s pretty funny.

Funny, but also very very real.

My mom owned this Jazzercise tape.  This very one.  We dressed in our 80′s gear – me in a tumbling unitard and side ponytail, mom in an over sized t-shirt with a plastic ring tying it off to one side.

And we jazzercised.  We shook our hips, we raised our arms, we rotated our pelvises, and we bounced our knees.

It made me feel like a big girl somehow – girls play, but women jazzercise.

I should also mention that I thought that the brunette on the right in the video was beautiful and I wanted to be like her when I grew up.  I now note that she’s sporting a mullet – sure it’s a very full, very bouncy mullet, but a mullet all the same.

I’m glad that times have changed.

My favorite part in the workout was the opening credits when the group of ladies jazzercise past a couple of elephants who also shake it.

However, I was scared of both the segments that featured men as both men had facial hair (something that I did not trust at all as a girl) and since their legs seemed to move independently from their bodies.

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