The Natural Way to Keep in Shape
Voak
1973
Exercise books are so much fun! This one cracked me up. I could hardly gather the kind of exercise from the pictures and the fashion just about made me laugh out loud. I don’t know what is funnier, trying to exercise in the bath or the ultra cool leg warmers. I also think the guy on the cover has a serious posture problem. Pretty snazzy stuff for 1973!
Mary
Crotch shots, nude women in the tub…yeah, that’s 1973 all right.
How big is that tub? I could do these exercises in my tub, but it’s 6 feet long, I can’t imagine doing them in a 5 foot tub. Maybe I’m just too tall.
The guy on the cover? TOTALLY thinks he’s Bob Fosse.
“Swish your ass around in the bathtub” is an exercise?
Maybe the guy on the cover with the bad posture is suffering from “dowager’s hump.” Also, I think those leg warmers are actually extremely tall socks. And why are all the women in their underpants?
Aren’t exercise programmes from the seventies totally discredited? I seem to remember hear that they contain a lot of exercises that are actually quite damaging.
Loving those hideous stripey tights!!
I would kill for those leg warmers!
Dig the shag carpet! Far out!
Note that this comes from the publisher of GOLDEN HANDS — please, somebody, find us a copy of that classic!
Golden Hands is that the sequel to Golden Throats?
@Ro – I thought it was the 80s with things like Buns Of Steel where they found that people were seriously injuring themselves.
OMDG – I used to have this book, and I loved it!
My mother had this book while I was growing up — I remember finding it when I was about eleven and, between being scandalized by the crotch shots and naked ladies in the tub, being introduced to this crazy thing called “yoga.” Now, sixteen years later, I’m a yoga teacher. I’m still thankful this otherwise terrible book gave me a first taste of something that has since changed my life!
“How to make those bulges disappear” is probably not appealing the men who may be reading this.
Love how the women are half-naked and the man is fully dressed.