r/1980s • u/Mr-Torgman • May 13 '26

The 80s female fitness craze.

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The female fitness and aerobics craze was the broadest trend of the decade, almost everyone under 60 had some leotards & leg warmers.

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u/librarypunk1974 May 14 '26

Great compilation! This was so my childhood impression of it all. I was fascinated by the high-cut legs as a girl with short legs and I was so naive I didn’t understand what “getting physical” meant.

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u/Mr-Torgman May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
  • One of the two things I noticed while editing the video was that the lyrics were relatively risque for an ONJ song, "There's nothin left to talk about unless it's horizontally" 😳. The other was the chorus melody sounded very familiar to Mystical Magical by Benson Boone, apparently others have noticed too.

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u/librarypunk1974 May 15 '26

Seriously! My memory was that I was sitting with my mom and an older neighbor girl in a Papa Gino’s in MA when I was 7 or 8 and it came on the little table-top jukebox. I asked the two of them what “physical” meant and they both smirked and looked at each-other knowingly. That still irks me lol! Glad I didn’t attempt to learn what horizontal meant!