Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Prancercise: 1980s workout revived with hilarious YouTube video

Prancercise, a little known 1980s workout by Joanna Rohrback that mimics a horse's gait, is suddenly getting attention thanks to a YouTube video


Move over thigh master, sauna suits and pole dancing, there’s a new wacky workout galloping to attention.
Prancercise, according to its Florida creator Joanna Rohrback, is “a springy, rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse’s gait and is ideally induced by elation.”
As a workout fad, though, it’s pretty slow burning. Rohrback came up with this workout in 1989 — even wrote a book on it — but it has taken her more recently posted YouTube video to get much attention.
Looking like an ’80s aerobics instructor half-dressed for lunch with the girls with white tights and leg weights on the bottom and a pink tailored jacket and big jewelry up top, Rohrback takes people through the prancercise basics in a five-minute video.
She starts off with warm-up prancing — dainty steps and sweeping arms — and then goes on to “really let loose” with the prancercise gallop. She finishes off with the shadowbox prance, stating that it’s “better to be punching into space than in your face.”
Anyone who has dreamed of galloping across the meadows may be thankful that Rohrback took a timeout from being a social worker and realtor to create prancercise many years ago. Those looking to, well, break a sweat, perhaps not.

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