power walking in the 80s

[zorra_chiflada]

did your mum/mom do it?
i know mine did. in her pink and green parachute suit around the cricket oval. all someone has to do now is say "power walking" and i'm ROFLing.

[iceygirl]

if im not sitting down or drunk im power walking

[zorra_chiflada]

if im not sitting down or drunk im power walking

hehehe.

do you have shoulder pads, a bouffy fringe and stirrup pants as well?
my mum did.

[iceygirl]

do you have shoulder pads, a bouffy fringe and stirrup pants as well?
my mum did.

every day. bouffy fringe with a bannana clip even.

[adam_f]

I see people do that in the mall and the only thing I can think is how much I wish I had a gremlin for a pet.

[zorra_chiflada]

every day. bouffy fringe with a bannana clip even.

awesome. we rock.
power walking 4lyfe.

it's actually an olympic sport too. the people doing it look like the biggest wankers ever. EVER.

[monkey]

my mom thought power walkers were idiots, walking no-where. but she and jane fonda spend too much time together.

p.s: the olympic walking is one of the hardest sports EVER. the technicalities and all the form and the speed... it's fucking crazy. i did a 3-miler like that once. i couldnt walk normally afterwads.

[zorra_chiflada]

i'm gonna get some black leggings and an oversized sweater.

[iceygirl]

it's actually an olympic sport too. the people doing it look like the biggest wankers ever. EVER.

i didnt know that. i could be a contender.....

[Lindsey_1535]

my mom stilll does it, not in ugly clothes thoughh

[zorra_chiflada]

my mom stilll does it, not in ugly clothes thoughh

no, probably what's in fashion now for fitness conscious moms. i don't know.

[enree erzweglle]

I didn't do it and I didn't know anyone who did.

A woman at my gym might have been a power walker in the 80s because she still wears pseudo-80s exercise clothes and when she's walking on the treadmill, she has this weird gait and does odd things with her arms.

[Lindsey_1535]

She wears sweat shorts and a t shirt, not very fashionable but also not ugly buglyyyy

[zorra_chiflada]

80s exercise and fitness is quite possibly one of the funniest things ever.
along with cossack dancing and christian rock bands.

[enree erzweglle]

80s exercise and fitness is quite possibly one of the funniest things ever.
along with cossack dancing and christian rock bands.The one-piece leotards with undies on the outside, cut way, way high on the sides. And headbands. :eek: And perms. :eek: :eek:

[monkey]

The one-piece leotards with undies on the outside, cut way, way high on the sides. And headbands. :eek: And perms. :eek: :eek:

:( you just described a picture of me and my mom in 1988.

[zorra_chiflada]

The one-piece leotards with undies on the outside, cut way, way high on the sides. And headbands. :eek: And perms. :eek: :eek:

i remember when i was a little one, i used to dress up as an 80s fitness person. bike shorts, and my technicolour bathing suit over the top. i probably had my hair in a topknot as well. i used to do all the moves along to "aerobics ozstyle"
i was the fucking shit man.

[TAL]

:( you just described a picture of me and my mom in 1988.
Where is this picture now?

[enree erzweglle]

At this gym that I belonged to in the mid-to-late 80s, people used to wear nude unitards with thong undie bottoms or thong bathing-suits. Both thong thingies were worn on the outside.

Assy guys wore stuff like this (http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/dammedance.gif).

I guess in the 90s, it was biker shorts.

70s, it was very short and very tight shorts for guys with racer stripes.

What about today's exercise clothes will we be laughing at in 20 years. Maybe yoga pants.

[monkey]

but.. why put the undies outside???? i dont unnerstand!!!!

i like shorty shorts and ultra strength sports bras and big shirts. isnt comfort supposed to be the key to exercise clothes? anything too tight or intricate just kills the comfort.

[enree erzweglle]

but.. why put the undies outside???? i dont unnerstand!!!!

i like shorty shorts and ultra strength sports bras and big shirts. isnt comfort supposed to be the key to exercise clothes? anything too tight or intricate just kills the comfort.I don't (and didn't) understand it either. The leotards were skin-tight so maybe people felt that the underwear, which was often shiny, held them together more, kept the jiggling down? I have no clue. It was very odd.

There are women at my gym who wear biker shorts with exercise bras. No shirt. I don't understand that look either.

I don't like the way sports bras fit, but I wear them because anything else usually has clasps that rub with friction and those regular bras usually don't support enough.

[monkey]

i actually like the uniboob feel. i mean, i rather they move as one rather than two entities jumping up and down. i guess its personal preference. ive been wearing sports bras since i started wearing bras.

[enree erzweglle]

I remember when I first found a really good running bra--it was just a good day--like, finally, someone understands this problem. Support without clasps.

I wear high quality running bras--they are worth the extra money. (Training for my first marathon, fuck, I have a scar from the metal clasp on the running bras that I was using and those bras were state-of-the, made just for running.)

[monkey]

^^

thats so awesome. you know which bras have been really good to me... adidas. they have amazing support and ive never experienced chafing from them. how are your thighs doing? most of the people i know that have trained for a marathon complain about the thigh bumps that seem to develop the moment you start running over 12 miles.

[monkey]

fuckinsiofdngalhgfa;shdf

[enree erzweglle]

^^

thats so awesome. you know which bras have been really good to me... adidas. they have amazing support and ive never experienced chafing from them. how are your thighs doing? most of the people i know that have trained for a marathon complain about the thigh bumps that seem to develop the moment you start running over 12 miles.I don't get chafing there...just usually related to my bra--right in the front, center. Vaseline helps. I have never worn an Adidas bra. I want one now. :mad:

This one marathon, my dad travelled with me and he was all the hell all over the course with supplies and shit for me. He loves to do that. So for this race, I did a dumb thing and changed running bra techniques a few days before the marathon. I doubled up on bras (rather than wearing one sturdier one, I wore a mid-line sturdy one with a skimpier one on top). They were both were normal running bras--patterned and at the time, people wore just those bras alone (without a shirt). I had a sleeveless shirt on on top although most women in my part of the pack didn't/don't wear shirts, just the bra. That change in bra system: awful because the two bras together started rubbing and bunching and were just wrong together. So by the mid-way point or so, I was uncomfortable there and I looked ahead and saw my dad and I started to get my shirt off and then I yelled up to him as I was running, "Dad, help me get this bra off" and he did. :o

We laugh about that now. I mean, I had another bra on underneath and all but he didn't think--he just did exactly what I asked him to do. So funny in retrospect but damn, every time since then when I run a race, he'll say, do you have, you know, all of that stuff figured out this time? and he makes this face when he says "stuff." :p

[faz]

And bum bags. Dont forget about bum bags.

[enree erzweglle]

And bum bags. Dont forget about bum bags.It took me awhile to figure out what that meant. Fannie packs. Belly bags. God. Such a great combination with ultra-high-waisted jeans.

[avignon]

I used to wear leg warmers with everything
:o