The Retro Fitness Babes Instagram and Reddit accounts offer a nostalgic trip down memory lane for all ‘80s and ‘90s kids who grew up during the television and VHS heyday of watching impossibly hot babes with perfectly toned bodies working out in thongs and pantyhose* while looking into the camera and seducing us with their sultry eyes and mesmerizing body thrusts and gyrations. Fitness and aerobics instructors like Jennifer Carman, Carissa Foster, Nancy Tucker and scads more took to the airwaves and appeared on our VCRs in thong leotards and pantyhose to help us sweat off the extra pounds and, for the fellas in the room, become hard as a rock, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. It was pure softcore porn for kids without access to the real stuff before the internet. Obviously, the producers knew that a sizable portion of their audience consisted of horny males, so mirrors were installed on many of the sets, allowing for maximum exposure of the fitness babes’ best assets, front and back.
Because our reach always exceeds our grasp around here, let’s tentatively commit to sharing at least a few of these amazing retro fitness babes every now and then. If you’re looking to get in shape for 2025, these ladies might actually be more of a hindrance than a help because ain’t no way you’ll be able to concentrate on working out while drooling over these hard bodies in motion.
All of the images in this post come from the Retro Fitness Babes social media accounts, and thus all credit goes to the unknown proprietor of those pages. Whoever it is, they’re doing the Lord’s Work by archiving the important history of the ‘80s and ‘90s fitness craze.
*I can imagine kids today asking, incredulously, “Why on earth did these women wear thongs and pantyhose to workout in??” Well, both items of clothing helped further streamline the contours of these ladies’ already spectacular bodies, thus enhancing their toned physiques and highlighting their jaw dropping sex appeal. Women and men shared a common attraction to these fitness babes, sometimes for different reasons. Women wanted to be them, and men wanted to do them. It was that simple. Thongs and hose ratcheted up the sex quotient, which is always a great motivating factor for people looking to get fit, and for people looking to get with a fit woman.
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While I’ve never heard of this particular VHS exercise beauties, I’m very familiar with secretly fantasizing about ladies like them during puberty. We only had one workout tape in the house when I was a kid, and it was Jane Fonda’s first video from the 80’s, which I still wonder if women actually benefited from trying. Later on, it was with Denise Austin that I got a real appreciation for feminine muscularity. I’m sure all these other women succeeded in getting many women into better and healthier shape, all while being exotic as well.
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