Word: workout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...among the first participants in a TV genre still in its infancy: the instructional videocassette. As VCR machines have proliferated, so have how-to cassettes made expressly for the home market. A large chunk of them are exercise and fitness tapes, led by the best-selling Jane Fonda's Workout (which has sold 750,000 worldwide since its 1982 release). But hundreds of other how-to tapes are on the market, covering everything from auto repairs to making love. By plunking a cassette into their home machines, VCR owners can get beauty tips or financial advice, take a course...
...success of Fonda's workout tape--along with sequels like her Prime Time Workout and Workout Challenge--has inspired a horde of other celebrities to try getting Americans in shape via video. In Debbie Reynolds' Do It Debbie's Way, an exercise class sprinkled with familiar faces (Florence Henderson, Teri Garr, Shelley Winters) bends and stretches to big-band music while Debbie cracks jokes and offers encouragement. Considerably more demanding is Raquel Welch's Total Beauty and Fitness. The 44-year-old star folds her body into positions that will leave most of her viewers in awe. The macho Armed...
Some of the newer workout tapes seem interested less in fitness than in showing off their star's physical endowments. Sandahl Bergman's Body, billed as a "video workout combining fitness with the art of dance," is long on arty camera angles and short on guidance. And in the Solid Gold 5 Day Workout, dancers cavort in a series of seemingly random maneuvers that are nearly impossible to follow...
Although a number of workout tapes are selling well, few of the more specialized how-to cassettes have found a large audience. Some industry executives blame video stores, which concentrate on renting movies and other entertainment cassettes and are little disposed to stock or promote instructional tapes (which typically sell for $30 to $60). As a result, some companies are starting to market their how-to cassettes in retail outlets geared to specific audiences: placing tapes on home repair in hardware stores, for example...
...brother and I arrived at the IAB shortly after 6:00 p.m. We displayed our Harvard identification cards to the door monitors and then proceeded upstairs to the weight room. Upon the completion of our workout, we proceeded into the hall leading from the weight room to the stairs. We observed a security officer walking towards us. As we approached the officer, he stopped us and asked whether we had properly identified ourselves upon entering the building. We produced our student identification cards, informed him that we had done so when we arrived, and asked him what the problem...