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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