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SofaGeorge
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This may surprise some of you – but I grew up in a world that didn’t have cardio. We didn’t have a lot of things: computers, cell phones, pocket calculators, VCRs. These are all new things that didn’t exist when I was a kid. It was kind of fun to watch them pop onto the scene and become part of every day life. God, even CD’s didn’t exist when I was a kid. It’s been amazing to watch the different things that have come into our lives that didn’t exist – and how people forget we once never had them.
One of the things that truthfully didn’t exist when I was growing up was cardio. I'm not joking.
It wasn't until the late '70s that the jogging fad started... and aerobics classes were unheard of till the early '80s.
I believe it is pretty much a myth that cardio burns bodyfat, and nobody... I really mean practically NOBODY back then was caught up in the dogma of running on the treadmill or getting on the exercise bike to burn off body fat.
Gyms didn't have stairmasters until the mid-80s. Gyms did have exercise bikes... but they were a rarity... and usually a broken down thing tucked in the corner. Only a couple of us were nutty enough to ride them. You never saw a wall of exercise bikes or bike classes. Hell, you never saw classes. They didn’t exist.
The real hoot too was what we had instead of cardio... gyms would have whole walls dedicated to these belt machines that fit over woman's asses and were supposed to vibrate their fat off. No joke. There were a bunch of wierd ass things like that. You’d see 20 women lined up in the vibrating belts vibrating off their fat… or at least they thought. (It worked about as good as cardio.)
The most interesting thing about this was that people didn't have the concept of doing cardio for cardios sake... not until it became big business. Then some savvy marketers realized they could sell exercise equipment like treadmills and stairmasters... and exercise classes could boost gym memberships. Suddenly "cardio" was big business.
What is lost is what we did have then... the idea of PLAY. Guys would go play tennis, handball, shoot a game of hoops. Going rock climbing, or hiking with your dogs was all considered a good excercise day. People were "activity" oriented... and it was a much more fun and elegant way to do “cardio.”
I was always astounded that marketers were so successful at selling the concept of cardio. They sold it though at a terrible expense... society lost the concept of play.
It's odd because people nowadays don't realize it didn't exist. You will NEVER see a '50s or '60s or even a '70s movie scene where they show an exercise class or an aerobics class. You don't see any scenes in movies of people in the '60s jogging.
It didn’t exist as a concept then.
Cardio is a myth created by the exercise industry around the mid-to late 70s... and it exploded when people realized they could sell aerobics tapes and classes in the '80s.
Coincidentally - aerobics came into being when we got VCRs. We didn't have them in the '70s. When we got them in the '80s exercise tapes became a big industry... and we got aerobics cardio as the miracle that would help us lose weight.
If you had told somebody in the '60s that dancing to music would make them skinny they would have told you you were an idiot.
They would have meant it.
They hadn’t been brainwashed yet to believe cardio would burn off bodyfat.
I grew up in a world that didn’t have cardio. It was a better place.
One of the things that truthfully didn’t exist when I was growing up was cardio. I'm not joking.
It wasn't until the late '70s that the jogging fad started... and aerobics classes were unheard of till the early '80s.
I believe it is pretty much a myth that cardio burns bodyfat, and nobody... I really mean practically NOBODY back then was caught up in the dogma of running on the treadmill or getting on the exercise bike to burn off body fat.
Gyms didn't have stairmasters until the mid-80s. Gyms did have exercise bikes... but they were a rarity... and usually a broken down thing tucked in the corner. Only a couple of us were nutty enough to ride them. You never saw a wall of exercise bikes or bike classes. Hell, you never saw classes. They didn’t exist.
The real hoot too was what we had instead of cardio... gyms would have whole walls dedicated to these belt machines that fit over woman's asses and were supposed to vibrate their fat off. No joke. There were a bunch of wierd ass things like that. You’d see 20 women lined up in the vibrating belts vibrating off their fat… or at least they thought. (It worked about as good as cardio.)
The most interesting thing about this was that people didn't have the concept of doing cardio for cardios sake... not until it became big business. Then some savvy marketers realized they could sell exercise equipment like treadmills and stairmasters... and exercise classes could boost gym memberships. Suddenly "cardio" was big business.
What is lost is what we did have then... the idea of PLAY. Guys would go play tennis, handball, shoot a game of hoops. Going rock climbing, or hiking with your dogs was all considered a good excercise day. People were "activity" oriented... and it was a much more fun and elegant way to do “cardio.”
I was always astounded that marketers were so successful at selling the concept of cardio. They sold it though at a terrible expense... society lost the concept of play.
It's odd because people nowadays don't realize it didn't exist. You will NEVER see a '50s or '60s or even a '70s movie scene where they show an exercise class or an aerobics class. You don't see any scenes in movies of people in the '60s jogging.
It didn’t exist as a concept then.
Cardio is a myth created by the exercise industry around the mid-to late 70s... and it exploded when people realized they could sell aerobics tapes and classes in the '80s.
Coincidentally - aerobics came into being when we got VCRs. We didn't have them in the '70s. When we got them in the '80s exercise tapes became a big industry... and we got aerobics cardio as the miracle that would help us lose weight.
If you had told somebody in the '60s that dancing to music would make them skinny they would have told you you were an idiot.
They would have meant it.
They hadn’t been brainwashed yet to believe cardio would burn off bodyfat.
I grew up in a world that didn’t have cardio. It was a better place.
