Exercise and Fitness
Disco Body Shaper
Posted By: Paul - Tue Sep 05, 2023 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Advertising, 1970s
Body Exerciser
This looks like an excellent way to wreck your vertebrae.Full patent here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 12, 2023 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Inventions, Patents, 1920s
How To Keep Your Husband Happy
Alas, you will listen in vain for anything risque.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Apr 22, 2023 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Television, Husbands, 1960s
Electro-Stimulation Bicycle
Inventors Young Sam Chun and Hyoung Tae Kim of Korea were recently granted Patent No. 11,458,310 for an "electro-stimulation type indoor bicycle." If I'm reading the patent correctly, it gives you an electric shock if you pedal too slow:
Posted By: Alex - Fri Apr 07, 2023 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Patents
Legs of Tomorrow
In 1939, ice skater Erna Anderson was declared to have the "Legs of Tomorrow" on the theory that "the woman of tomorrow will be more athletic."Arguably this prediction came true. At least, it's common now for women to go to gyms, whereas it wasn't in the 1930s.
Minneapolis Star - June 2, 1939
Erna Anderson. Source: New York Public Library
Posted By: Alex - Mon May 09, 2022 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Exercise and Fitness, 1930s, Legs, Yesterday’s Tomorrows
Electric Chest Weights
Sold by the Electric Exercising Machine Company, circa 1890. It seemed to be like a nineteenth-century version of one of those Tonal machines that are always being advertised on TV, but electrified.Although I'm curious about how it produced electricity, given that the advertisement claimed it used "no chemicals," that "its electricity is permanent," and that "it has no battery."
My guess is that it contained a dynamo which would have been spun when a user pulled on the cords, producing an electric current.
The Wellesley Prelude - May 10, 1890
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 06, 2021 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Advertising, Nineteenth Century
Jazzercise
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 18, 2021 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Fads, Money, Music, 1960s, 1980s
Christina Gregg, “Sex Exercise”
Just one cut from the whole album, as seen here at Discogs.
A little clip of our instructress.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Apr 06, 2021 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Movies, Sexuality, 1970s
Telephone Pole Tossing
1943: St. Louis University introduced a Phys Ed course in "telephone pole tossing".
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Apr 23, 1943
A whole bunch of images of SLU students lifting and tossing poles are archived at the Google Arts and Culture site:
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 23, 2021 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, 1940s
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fripp at Home
Article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 05, 2021 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Human Marvels, Music, United Kingdom
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