Putting on some extra pounds at home this year? Most of us are. With the majority of gyms being closed around the country and people socially staying away from each other, many people have come up with alternatives to working out. Personally, my wife and I have a treadmill because it’s way too hot to be walking outside in Arizona. Besides, if I can walk and watch Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Munster’s, chances are I will walk longer.
To do my part in this struggle for health consciousness I have put together a fee options for my friends looking for at-home workout solutions. These audio and video instructional clips below are the possible answer to all your fitness needs and quite frankly, are awesome.
First, we have Mr. Universe himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger, better known in the late seventies while his career was getting started as Arnold Strong. He released a workout cassette titled Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Body Workout. The he album features songs such as The Weather Girls It’s Raining Men and Gladys Knight & The Pips track Save The Overtime For Me. Arnold’s heavy Austrian accident, especially in 1983 when this was released, counting repetitions over these feel good jams is pretty amazing. After the total workout you will not only feel the pump, but you may know the riddle of steel.
Some people are more visual and need to workout while having someone show them the instructions. I turn to Youtube for everything instructional. Well, I have the recommendation for you: Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout. That’s right, horror icon Linnea Quigley starred in a workout film back in 1989 which features zombie’s doing aerobics by the pool, awesome metal lip syncing and a girl’s night pajama party workout that ends in bloodshed.
The workout itself doesn’t even start until almost eight minutes into the video. She spends some time showing clips of her movie roles and most of it is not safe for work. I’m just putting that out there. Linnea does a lot of horror and movie conventions around the country and you can purchase this on dvd from her. I think she sells it on her website as well. It doesn’t get more iconic than this video!
Now if you are not as fit as you would like to be, and doing pushups or aerobics with zombies is a little tough for you, you can always join the great Richard Simmons while you are Sweating to the Oldies. He put out a gang of these back in the 80s and 90s and I always found them hilarious. I’m a big fan of the Stern Show and I cannot hear him talk without hearing in my mind Richard yelling, “Gary! Gary Where are you?!” I had one of these on VHS I grabbed at a garage sale years ago and I used to play it at peoples houses when I showed up for a party. Yea, I’m that guy!
Unfortunately, since I personally cannot get past Richard Simmons yelling without laughing, I needed to find a different aerobics workout to get my cardio in action. I do not know a whole lot about this video, but I can tell you the music is not only sensational, but the video is memorizing. It will have you shaking your buns around your living room quicker than Al Pacino starts his over the top yelling in every movie he is in these days!
Last, but not least, I watched this video the other day and I couldn’t stop watching. These dudes, all super jacked and fired the fuck up, are doing some crazy jail workouts in a wash in California. Once you get a minute into it after watching them scoop some sort of powder probably intended to be mixed into a liquid, this shit gets buck wild. BUCK WILD!
These scary fellas go by the name The Strength Cartel and they should have a television show. It was like seeing Wu Tang Clan live with everyone just yelling nonsense mixed in with a Strongman competition. I loved it. But, they do show you some at home, or in places people are intended to not go, self-workouts you can do with your giant buddies.
