Remember your very first workout?

I have that tape too! I ended up giving it to a friend - and warning her about the hoochy coochy outfits!! It was a good overall workout though - that leg routine killed me (the first few times I did it).
 
Guess I'm the only sadist one here who started with Richard Simmons and Sweating to the Oldies (I still have those tapes somewhere!). The funny thing is that there are still songs, 20 year later, than when I hear them, I want to get up and do the moves.


First step workout - Jane Fonda - the one where she shows up at the end to do situps. Oh, I had more fun swearing at Laurel. If she said, "Work your body" one more time I was going to reach through the tv and strangle her.
 
Laura, I'm glad you fessed up. I also did the Cher thing, when I first discovered her. I really had loads of fun so I won't deny her.

But, truthfully, I wonder if there is not a string of us that just love that cardio beating that we get. No one pushes us, no one steers us that way, but Lord, I remember seeking it. Reason is, no one in my family works out or desires to work out, not that some of them look like they need to. I still remember my first-ever run. My lungs were about to burst in the first 3 minutes. Nowadays, 60 minutes is just about routine.;-) I still love it!

Marla
 
Well, the first I can remember is Joannie Greggains on the Morning Stretch show!!! I think we talked about this here a long time ago. I always remember her face exercises....made me laugh so hard I could barely do them...:+ :7 :) ...Carole
 
Oh geez. Y'all probably think I'm a youngun. Well, I guess I sort of am ;) I think I started w/ Jazzercise classes w/ my mom and then the first tape I did was Kathy Smith Timesaver Cardio Fat Burn w/o. I bought the Billy Blanks Tae Bo Advanced Live after that & remember when it kicked my butt. I then graduated to Cathe :)


"you miss 100% of the shots you never take"


Debbie
 
I remember doing a television workout in Chicago called Body Electric. The thing I remember most is the instructor's hair, it was big and puffy. This would make a funny coffee table book "The history of aerobics in "North America". Now, I've got Olivia Newton John music running through my head--good god I hope this doesn't last all day.
Heather
 
I had a Joanie Greggins book and cassette for legwork. My fist video workout was Jane Fonda that I borrowed from the library. First one I bought was Cathy Smith Step, with box tops from Special K.
 
I used to wo to Cynthia Kereluk's TV show on lifetime. The cardio sections only lasted ten minutes, now ten min.s is just the warmup!:)

Linda
 
Mine was some cheesey video with Tamilee Webb before she was the "Tamilee Webb". I was in Jr. High School and my aunt actually had it first and gave it to me, because she didn't want to sweat that much in her new workout leotard...funny huh. I think I'll show her one of Cathe's DVDs at Christmas and see what she thinks of the sweat in this one.
 
>Guess I'm the only sadist one here who started with Richard
>Simmons and Sweating to the Oldies (I still have those tapes
>somewhere!). The funny thing is that there are still songs,
>20 year later, than when I hear them, I want to get up and do
>the moves.
>
>
>First step workout - Jane Fonda - the one where she shows up
>at the end to do situps. Oh, I had more fun swearing at
>Laurel. If she said, "Work your body" one more time I was
>going to reach through the tv and strangle her.

I remember Richard Simmons' TV show, the one where he'd have some 70s/80s celebrity guest? Of course back then I was a wee girl and "doing" exercise meant lying on the couch with a brownie and juice watching my mom huff and puff around with Richard and Kristy McNichol. :D

Sparrow

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow - what a ride!’ — Peter Sage
 
I started with the 20 minute workout. I even bought the vinyl LP that had the workout music on it and I would flail about in my living room LOL! Bess was a trip wasn't she?

I then found the Firm and later Cathe. I guess one way to look at it is that each workout phase was a positive progression to the next. I still do the Firm once in awhile to shake things up a bit, but I am definitely a Catheite now and will always be because I know that Cathe workouts will last me a lifetime. I look forward to the days when I am a granny working out to "jab cross hook upper pop pop duck", and still "aiming for a little cleavage in the backside."


Happy Holidays to you all.....

Deb
 
WOW! I don't remember my VERY first work out...it was a long time ago! I have worked out on and off since right after high school and I'm 33 now.

I CAN tell you though that the first day I worked out that started me on a LASTING program was May 28th 2002. I didn't start keeping a journal until October 13th 2002 though...the first work out in my journal is 1/2 of great abs garunteed, 1/2 of great buns garunteed and 1/2 of great arms garunteed with 3 pounds!:+

I did that plus Leslie Sansone into February of 2003 and then I added in the Slim in Six program but that didn't last long because I HATED it! lol I finally started the Firm with the Body Sculpting System 2 on June 11, 2003 and took off with them for a year and a half until I did my first Cathe w/o on THIS DAY last year as you already know!:+

I am VERY proud of how far I have come as well!:) :) :)

ETA: Through the many years of my exercise starts and stops I have done Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons, Kathy Smith, Tamilee Webb, Jazzercise classes (thanks for reminding me Debbie!;)) and more which I can't recall at the moment.... :7 I also joined and quit atleast 3-4 gyms over the years.
 
>Oh geez. Y'all probably think I'm a youngun. Well, I guess
>I sort of am ;) I think I started w/ Jazzercise classes w/ my
>mom and then the first tape I did was Kathy Smith Timesaver
>Cardio Fat Burn w/o. I bought the Billy Blanks Tae Bo
>Advanced Live after that & remember when it kicked my butt. I
>then graduated to Cathe :)
>
>
>"you miss 100% of the shots you never take"
>
>
>Debbie


OH Debbie, thank you for reminding me!!!! I took Jazzercise with MY mom too for about a year when I was in my early 20's!!! It was sooo much fun!!!!:+ :7 :+
 
My very first workout was that 20 minute workout show that used to play on tv.

:)

Then came the Jane Fonda workouts that belonged to my mom.

My very first video I ever owned was Cindy Crawford's Shape Your Body. I still love that one. I have it on DVD now.
 
>
>First step workout - Jane Fonda - the one where she shows up
>at the end to do situps. Oh, I had more fun swearing at
>Laurel. If she said, "Work your body" one more time I was
>going to reach through the tv and strangle her.

OMG Christine - me too! I loved the tape, but something about Laurel used to rile me. And she would make those little "huh, huh" noises with it. I had a few of those Jane Fondue (as well called her). My husband had a "thing" for Michele, the shorter girl in the tape with the hat.

I had 2 of those tapes - I think they were called Step and Strech and the other one may have been Step and Abdominals. I knew every single word to them.

When I got the Jane Fondue Pregnancy video when I got pregnant I couldn't do it. Laurel was pregnant on it and looking at her all cute and perky just made me feel too fat.


Melissa

Keep your head in line. Your butt will follow.

http://www.picturetrail.com/pellmel
 
These are too funny. I remember when the Cher workout came out and she was on one of those morning shows, and she said, "This was my first time ever doing this routine" - aren't they supposed to at least pretend that's how they got into shape??

My very first workout video was one from the Cosmopolitan series. 20 minutes of hip-swaying and some lunges later, hardly anyone's hair had moved. Hehe.

My first SERIOUS workout with weights was Joyce Vedral - one of her books, not a taped workout. I remember doing so many calf raises on my step, with my brand new bar, and thinking they were so easy and I could barely feel them. Of course, my muscles were so tight that I couldn't bend my legs or walk for three days afterwards!!! My ex-husband still talks about that!

Cheers,
Marie
 
>Well, the first I can remember is Joannie Greggains on the
>Morning Stretch show!!! I think we talked about this here a
>long time ago. I always remember her face exercises....made me
>laugh so hard I could barely do them...:+ :7 :) ...Carole


OMG! I had forgotten all about Joannie Greggains. I used to look forward to her show. I wonder what ever became of her!?

Michele
 
My first workout video was an 80's Denise Austin video-- it had floor aerobics and conditioning. She wore a shiny turquoise leotard with turquoise tights, hot pink legwarmers and a hot pink headband. And, of course, the dear-in-the-headlights facial expression:D

I went on to her later workouts, then the Firm (I was addicted to Volume 1), and then Cathe. There's no going back;)

Kelly
 
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