Where The Work Out DVD Came From

By Beth Prager

What the heck is a work out DVD in the first place?

Before I can even share with you the best work out DVD exercises I have tried, I must share with you how they have even come about to begin with!

Now, you will ask me what the heck a work out DVD is.

I won't ask you to raise your hands, but I already know which of you folks are as old as me to remember those fitness shows on television. You know, the daily or weekly syndicated shows on KDOC with a pair of body fitness instructors clad in spandex from head to toe. Whether they were in neon or in leopard print, they were there on TV equipped with a happy attitude to show you how to do some fitness exercises.

You might remember all of the happy tunes jingling in the background while simple images of stars and single-colored graphics in between each of the different exercise routines. You also might remember how those exercises were so easy. But, you still broke some kind of sweat. But, why weren't the instructors on TV?

Secretly, I would stare in awe at these TV exercise personalities' fitness attire and wonder where I could get myself a nice leotard like theirs.

Now, you know you remember those shows! No one will judge you if you admit to sweating to the oldies with Richard Simmons, or if you were body buddies on KDOC. You had to get your work out on somehow, and at that time it was whenever the show was on.

Well, eventually the advent of the VCR came to life, and we realized the power of recording a work out routines onto videotapes. They could mass produce this and mass distribute the work outs to people all over the country (and all over the world), so people like you and me could tone our muscles in the comfort of our own home at any time we wanted to.

With the luxury of having a television set (with a VCR) in our homes, we could collect those work out videos, pop our favorite one into the VCR, and exercise away.

Fast forward to today, where we have multitudes of DVD players, where the physical sizes were so much less than the size of a video tape, a laserdisc and a vinyl record. They would hold at least four times more information.

It is definitely an improvement in the course of our home fitness. These work out DVDs allure us with the entire surface covered with images of bodybuilders and fitness models so we can strive towards having similar-looking bodies. - 31525

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