Quick Workouts: Fitness Anytime, Anywhere
Time-Life Books
1987
Submitter: This book is currently on the shelves at a local public library. Who knew people in the 1980’s were so busy that they had to fit in exercise while waiting for the commuter train or even an elevator? I guess I just assumed that they stayed fit & trim by lifting over-sized mobile phones. While a book on this topic could be useful to our modern day inactive office workers, it would really need updated pictures… it’s hard to take a good stretching technique seriously when the demonstrator is wearing giant should pads or a sleeveless sweater.
Holly: If you need me, I’ll be bench pressing the PDR, or maybe the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. That one’s got a good heft to it too. (After which, I will NOT look anything like these people. I’ll be all sweaty and red-faced.)
Church ladies could pump their bibles while the choir sings.
Mr. Red Vest looks a little like a can-can dancer. If nothing else, these exercised would provide much amusement to one’s fellow workers.
I think Mr. Red Vest is an intern at the Ministry for Silly Walks.
I thought of that too,and in this episode form “the Office”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuVfaH2QoZY
One….Singular Sensation…every little move he makes…(dah dah dah dah dah dah dah…)
😀 Perfect!
Yes! Shoutout to the CRC!
1987 was early for mobile phones, even large ones. Answering machines were just becoming common at that time.
I do remember a sort of “exercise while you work” mini-craze back then, especially with isometrics. In the 1980s, we just gave in to the idea of working ALL the time, and having no other life.
Maybe you meant voicemail? I had an answering machine at least a decade before that.
Yeah, there’s no way doing that in the library workroom would lead to strange looks and smothered giggling; no way at all.
Blonde encounters little spider; office chair dude encounters big spider!
I thought the office chair dude was pretending he was driving a truck or flying a plane…
My workplace just started a healthier living initiative and we’ve actually been looking in to things like this. I almost want to get this because the pictures are so outdated that it would at least be good for a little chuckle.
Our college has a “deskercise” class that is quite popular.
Dig those PC-free offices from the olden days. Even the latest laptop isn’t heavy enough to replace a dictionary as a substitute dumbbell… Another victory for books!