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'''''Jane Fonda's Workout''''', also known as '''''Workout Starring Jane Fonda''''', is a 1982 exercise video by actress ], based on an exercise routine developed by Leni Cazden and refined by Cazden and Fonda at Workout, their exercise studio in Beverly Hills. The video release by ] and ] was aimed primarily at women as a way to exercise at home. The video was part of a series of exercise products: ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book'' was released in November 1981, and both ''Jane Fonda's Workout'' video tape and ''Jane Fonda's Workout Record'', published as a double-LP vinyl ], appeared in late April 1982 |
'''''Jane Fonda's Workout''''', also known as '''''Workout Starring Jane Fonda''''', is a 1982 exercise video by actress ], based on an exercise routine developed by Leni Cazden and refined by Cazden and Fonda at Workout, their exercise studio in Beverly Hills. The video release by ] and ] was aimed primarily at women as a way to exercise at home. The video was part of a series of exercise products: ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book'' was released in November 1981, and both ''Jane Fonda's Workout'' video tape and ''Jane Fonda's Workout Record'', published as a double-LP vinyl ], appeared in late April 1982. The ] tape became a bestseller, and Fonda released further videos throughout the 1980s and into 1995. The video also increased the sales of ]. | ||
The original 1982 ''Jane Fonda's Workout'' was the first non-theatrical ] release to top sales charts |
The original 1982 ''Jane Fonda's Workout'' was the first non-theatrical ] release to top sales charts. In total, Fonda sold 17 million videos in the 1982–1995 series, considered an enormous success. Fonda's accomplishment spawned imitators and sparked a boom of women's exercise classes, opening the formerly male-dominated fitness industry to women and establishing the celebrity-as-fitness-instructor model. The ballet-style ] she wore increased the popularity of an ongoing fashion trend, and her encouraging shout, "Feel the burn!", became a common saying, along with the proverb "]." | ||
The success of Fonda's workout series funded her political activism, which was her original goal. |
The success of Fonda's workout series funded her political activism, which was her original goal. Profits from the ''Workout'' franchise supplied money for the ] (PAC) she had been running with her husband, the activist and politician ]. Their PAC, named ], promoted ] such as ] and the ]. In 1984, Fonda used her ''Workout'' money to help pay for a new PAC with ] and ten others forming the ]. | ||
==Exercise studio, book, and LP== | ==Exercise studio, book, and LP== | ||
In 1978, Fonda broke an ] bone while filming '']'', forcing a stop to her ballet exercises. She sought a new exercise regimen that would help her lose weight and stay trim |
In 1978, Fonda broke an ] bone while filming '']'', forcing a stop to her ballet exercises. She sought a new exercise regimen that would help her lose weight and stay trim without stressing her foot. She was referred to Leni Cazden, an exercise instructor in ] who formulated a lengthy exercise sequence to burn calories.<ref name=Rossen2015>{{cite web |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65314/how-jane-fondas-workout-conquered-world |last=Rossen |first=Jake |date=June 19, 2015 |title=How Jane Fonda's Workout Conquered the World |website=] |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> Fonda took classes from Cazden and adopted her style of exercise. Fonda later recalled that women in 1978 had few choices for exercise classes and that most gyms were designed for men. She said, "We weren't supposed to sweat or have muscles. Now, along with forty other women, I found myself moving nonstop for an hour and a half in entirely new ways."<ref name=Doyle>{{cite web |url=https://www.pophistorydig.com/topics/tag/jane-fonda-fitness/ |last=Doyle |first=Jack |date=September 27, 2018 |title=Fonda Fitness Boom: 1980s & Beyond |website=PopHistoryDig.com |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> On location in Utah shooting '']'' in late 1978 and early 1979, Fonda taught her actor colleagues the exercises she had learned from Cazden, and was encouraged by the warm reception.<ref name=Stukin2011/> In May 1979, she partnered with Cazden to open an exercise studio called Workout on ] in ]. The sign above the studio's door read "Jane Fonda's Workout".<ref name=Doyle/><ref name=Arar1992>{{cite news |last=Arar |first=Yardena |date=September 20, 1992 |url= https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1992-09-20-1992264189-story.html|title=Jane Fonda exercises sound business sense with workout tapes |newspaper=] |access-date=September 25, 2020}}</ref> One week of instruction (five one-hour sessions) cost $32.50.<ref name="RCA, June 1982"/> Two to three thousand customers attended per week, likely because Fonda taught some of the early morning classes.<ref name=Doyle/> ] and ] shot segments at the studio to air on their television shows. Famous customers included actresses ], ] and ].<ref name=Krucoff1985/><ref>{{cite book |last=Bosworth |first=Patricia |author-link=Patricia Bosworth |date=2011 |title=Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman |publisher=] |page=460 |isbn=9780547152578}}</ref> The new business was profitable.<ref name=Doyle/> With the concept proved, Fonda added a second studio in ] and a third in ]. She wrote ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book'' to bring the technique to a wider audience. The book was published in November 1981 through Paramount-owned ] and sold 2 million copies.<ref name=Lauretta2020>{{cite magazine |url=https://parade.com/1016125/ashleylauretta/jane-fonda-workout-video/ |date=April 3, 2020 |last=Lauretta |first=Ashley |title=Jane Fonda's 1982 Workout Video Is Available On Amazon—But Does It Stand the Test of Time? |magazine=] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref><ref name=simonschuster>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/28/business/barry-diller-s-latest-starring-role.html|title=Barry Diller's Latest Starring Role|first=Sandra|last=Salmans|work=]|date=August 28, 1983|accessdate=March 15, 2022}}</ref> | ||
In parallel with the exercise book, Fonda released the vinyl LP ''Jane Fonda's Workout Record'' through ] in April 1982,<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=April 24, 1982|title=New LP/Tape Releases|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1982/BB-1982-04-24.pdf|magazine=Billboard| |
In parallel with the exercise book, Fonda released the vinyl LP ''Jane Fonda's Workout Record'' through ] in April 1982,<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=April 24, 1982 |title=New LP/Tape Releases |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1982/BB-1982-04-24.pdf |magazine=] |page=60}}</ref> which sold steadily at $12.98.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=May 22, 1982|title=Top Album Picks|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1982/BB-1982-05-22.pdf|magazine=] |pages=66}}</ref><ref name=Harrington1982>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1982/05/22/in-tone-with-the-music/6dd037c4-156f-49b0-a281-f857554ead8d/ |last=Harrington |first=Richard |date=May 22, 1982 |title=In Tone With the Music |newspaper=] |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> It was ] by the ] in December 1984.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=JANE+FONDA&ti=JANE+FONDA+WORKOUT |title=Gold & Platinum: Jane Fonda Workout |website=] |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> On the album, Fonda speaks as exercise instructor, backed by music. The double album contained songs by ], ], ], ], ], ] and others.<ref name=Grein1985/> A cassette tape version was also sold.<ref name=Doyle/> While preparing the book and audio recording, Fonda was already considering a video.<ref name=Sutherland1982/> | ||
==Video== | ==Video== | ||
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Exercise products had already been selling briskly before Fonda entered the field. Carol Hensel released an aerobic ''Dancercize'' album in 1980, selling 500,000 LPs and starting the 1980s craze for exercise.<ref name=Harrington1982/> Hensel's later ''Dance & Exercise'' videos went Platinum. ] was already producing exercise records; his 1982 ''Reach'' LP was certified Platinum before it shipped, based on advance orders.<ref name=Harrington1982/> | Exercise products had already been selling briskly before Fonda entered the field. Carol Hensel released an aerobic ''Dancercize'' album in 1980, selling 500,000 LPs and starting the 1980s craze for exercise.<ref name=Harrington1982/> Hensel's later ''Dance & Exercise'' videos went Platinum. ] was already producing exercise records; his 1982 ''Reach'' LP was certified Platinum before it shipped, based on advance orders.<ref name=Harrington1982/> | ||
''Video Aerobics'', featuring Leslie Lilien and Julie Lavin and available on videotape in 1979, was the first in the home video category of exercise tapes.<ref name=Bowden1983/> The same title appeared in 1982–83 in an updated new shoot.<ref>{{cite web |last=Howe |first=Tom |date=Winter 2001 |url=https://www.cedmagic.com/featured/aerobicise/new-video-aerobics.html |title=New Video Aerobics |website=CED Magic |access-date=September 14, 2020}}</ref> Erotic photographer ] produced the ''Aerobicise'' program which aired on paid cable TV, and in early 1982 he sold a novelty aerobics video tape, ''Aerobicise: The Beautiful Workout'', featuring close-up shots of the exercising women.<ref name=Harrington1982/> Harris's abstract camera work was seen as an application of "art instead of instruction", appealing to men and useless for exercise.<ref name=Bowden1983>{{cite news |last=Bowden |first=Robert |date=May 9, 1983 |title=A review of video exercise tapes |newspaper=Tampa Bay Times |pages=D1–D2}}</ref> | ''Video Aerobics'', featuring Leslie Lilien and Julie Lavin and available on videotape in 1979, was the first in the home video category of exercise tapes.<ref name=Bowden1983/> The same title appeared in 1982–83 in an updated new shoot.<ref>{{cite web |last=Howe |first=Tom |date=Winter 2001 |url=https://www.cedmagic.com/featured/aerobicise/new-video-aerobics.html |title=New Video Aerobics |website=CED Magic |access-date=September 14, 2020}}</ref> Erotic photographer ] produced the ''Aerobicise'' program which aired on paid cable TV, and in early 1982 he sold a novelty aerobics video tape, ''Aerobicise: The Beautiful Workout'', featuring close-up shots of the exercising women.<ref name=Harrington1982/> Harris's abstract camera work was seen as an application of "art instead of instruction", appealing to men and useless for exercise.<ref name=Bowden1983>{{cite news |last=Bowden |first=Robert |date=May 9, 1983 |title=A review of video exercise tapes |newspaper=] |pages=D1–D2}}</ref> | ||
There are two conflicting stories about how Fonda's exercise video project was started. Stuart Karl's version is that he brought the idea to Fonda in late 1981 |
There are two conflicting stories about how Fonda's exercise video project was started. Stuart Karl's version is that he brought the idea to Fonda in late 1981 after the book came out in November, while Richard D. Klinger says he and Karl called Fonda in early 1981 before the book. According to Karl, he was a young entrepreneur in Southern California starting a home video publishing company called ]. His wife, Deborah, saw Fonda's ''Workout'' book promoted in a store window, and remarked that she would rather watch Fonda teach the workout on home video. Seeing an opportunity to bring exercise tapes to the home video market, Karl contacted Fonda's husband, the activist and politician ], to propose the idea as a source of campaign funding. Hayden put Karl in touch with Fonda, but she initially declined;<ref name=Rossen2015/> the home video market was new and unfamiliar to her – she did not know a single person who owned a ] (VCR).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.janefonda.com/2012/04/30th-anniversary-of-my-first-workout-video/ |last=Fonda |first=Jane |author-link=Jane Fonda |date=April 24, 2012 |title=30th Anniversary of My First Workout Video |website=janefonda.com |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> Karl persisted, and Fonda was persuaded by the possibility of extra money for her ] (CED), a ] founded by Hayden and Fonda in 1976 to promote ] and ] issues.<ref name=Rossen2015/> Karl teamed with RCA Video Productions on the project.<ref name="RCA, March 1982"/> Fonda signed with Karl and RCA in early 1982.<ref name=Rossen2015/> | ||
According to Richard D. Klinger, an executive in RCA Records' ] video group, Karl and Klinger contacted Fonda about shooting a video of her Beverly Hills exercise routine in early 1981.<ref name=Sutherland1982>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT5 |page=5 |title=Fonda Puts RCA in Videodisk 'Workout' |date=March 27, 1982 |last=Sutherland |first=Sam |magazine=Billboard |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> At the time, she was still creating ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book'', and she said she should first present the video idea to her book publisher, ]. ] at Simon & Schuster was keen on the proposal, but it was rejected by their affiliate ]. Fonda returned to Klinger and Karl who then entered into a joint production deal in which RCA would make the video discs while Karl would make the video tapes. Klinger was named West Coast director of RCA Video in January 1982.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4 |page=4 |title=Executive Turntable: Related Fields |date=January 30, 1982 |magazine=Billboard |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> Karl Home Video and RCA Video Productions began shooting Fonda's video in early 1982.<ref name=Rossen2015/> Simon & Schuster later regretted their decision, and by 1985 they were shopping for video projects.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17 |pages=16–17 |title=Visions of the future |last=Pratt |first=Charles W. |date=October 1985 |magazine=The Rotarian |publisher=] |volume=147 |number=4 |issn=0035-838X}}</ref> Paramount head ] said in August 1983 that Paramount ignored obtaining publishing rights to business opportunities such as the Fonda workout video because Paramount executives were not familiar with the process. After this prominent failure, Diller said Paramount vigorously pursued the rights to related business ideas.<ref name=simonschuster /> | According to Richard D. Klinger, an executive in RCA Records' ] video group, Karl and Klinger contacted Fonda about shooting a video of her Beverly Hills exercise routine in early 1981.<ref name=Sutherland1982>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wyQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT5 |page=5 |title=Fonda Puts RCA in Videodisk 'Workout' |date=March 27, 1982 |last=Sutherland |first=Sam |magazine=] |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> At the time, she was still creating ''Jane Fonda's Workout Book'', and she said she should first present the video idea to her book publisher, ]. ] at Simon & Schuster was keen on the proposal, but it was rejected by their affiliate ]. Fonda returned to Klinger and Karl who then entered into a joint production deal in which RCA would make the video discs while Karl would make the video tapes. Klinger was named West Coast director of RCA Video in January 1982.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ECUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA4 |page=4 |title=Executive Turntable: Related Fields |date=January 30, 1982 |magazine=] |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> Karl Home Video and RCA Video Productions began shooting Fonda's video in early 1982.<ref name=Rossen2015/> Simon & Schuster later regretted their decision, and by 1985 they were shopping for video projects.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzYEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17 |pages=16–17 |title=Visions of the future |last=Pratt |first=Charles W. |date=October 1985 |magazine=] |publisher=] |volume=147 |number=4 |issn=0035-838X}}</ref> Paramount head ] said in August 1983 that Paramount ignored obtaining publishing rights to business opportunities such as the Fonda workout video because Paramount executives were not familiar with the process. After this prominent failure, Diller said Paramount vigorously pursued the rights to related business ideas.<ref name=simonschuster /> | ||
===Fonda's ''Workout''=== | ===Fonda's ''Workout''=== | ||
With a budget of $50,000,<ref name=Rossen2015/> $75,000 or $100,000,<ref name=Galanty1985/> Fonda started shooting the video with her friend, director Sid Galanty, a fellow ] known for making political advertisements for television. Fonda suggested that she act out a scripted role but Galanty convinced her to ] and be herself. Galanty proposed shooting outdoors but Fonda insisted on a ] suitable for dancers. Fonda's Beverly Hills studio proved to be incompatible because the mirrored walls reflected lights and cameras. Instead, Galanty built a ] for the video, and the production crew worked out the many technical problems. Filming with music was impractical because the recording of Fonda's voice needed to be as pure as possible, so only the beats, the lowest frequencies of the music were amplified, to be filtered out in the editing. Fonda was unable to simultaneously talk to the viewer and count through her movements, so she took timing cues from hand gestures given by assistants stationed at the camera. Behind Fonda and also barefoot, a group of seven instructors and students from her exercise studios took part in the routine; they, too, watched the timing cues. Every exercise sequence was filmed in one long ], and if Fonda or Galanty saw a problem in playback, they filmed the whole sequence over again, which was physically demanding. Principal photography was done in three days,<ref name=Galanty1985>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT68 |last=Willens |first=Michele |title=Sid Galanty |pages=F-8, F-19 |magazine=Billboard |date=August 31, 1985 |volume=97 |number=35 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref> and editing was finished by mid-March.<ref name="RCA, March 1982"/> | With a budget of $50,000,<ref name=Rossen2015/> $75,000, or $100,000,<ref name=Galanty1985/> Fonda started shooting the video with her friend, director Sid Galanty, a fellow ] known for making political advertisements for television. Fonda suggested that she act out a scripted role but Galanty convinced her to ] and be herself. Galanty proposed shooting outdoors but Fonda insisted on a ] suitable for dancers. Fonda's Beverly Hills studio proved to be incompatible because the mirrored walls reflected lights and cameras. Instead, Galanty built a ] for the video, and the production crew worked out the many technical problems. Filming with music was impractical because the recording of Fonda's voice needed to be as pure as possible, so only the beats, the lowest frequencies of the music were amplified, to be filtered out in the editing. Fonda was unable to simultaneously talk to the viewer and count through her movements, so she took timing cues from hand gestures given by assistants stationed at the camera. Behind Fonda and also barefoot, a group of seven instructors and students from her exercise studios took part in the routine; they, too, watched the timing cues. Every exercise sequence was filmed in one long ], and if Fonda or Galanty saw a problem in playback, they filmed the whole sequence over again, which was physically demanding. Principal photography was done in three days,<ref name=Galanty1985>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT68 |last=Willens |first=Michele |title=Sid Galanty |pages=F-8, F-19 |magazine=] |date=August 31, 1985 |volume=97 |number=35 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref> and editing was finished by mid-March.<ref name="RCA, March 1982"/> | ||
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The ''Workout'' video was released on April 24, 1982,<ref name=History>{{cite web |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jane-fondas-first-workout-video-released |title=Jane Fonda's first workout video released |website=This Day in History: April 24 |publisher=History |
The ''Workout'' video was released on April 24, 1982,<ref name=History>{{cite web |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jane-fondas-first-workout-video-released |title=Jane Fonda's first workout video released |website=This Day in History: April 24 |publisher=] |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> at the price of $59.95 for the video tape, {{Inflation|US|59.95|1982|fmt=eq}}. Karl Home Video released the video tape, and three months later RCA Video Productions issued the workout on ] (CED), a vinyl video format, selling for $24.98; less than half the cost of the tape.<ref name="RCA, June 1982">{{cite web |url=https://www.cedmagic.com/museum/press/release-1982-06-06-3.html |title=Press release by RCA Video Productions |date=June 6, 1982 |website=CED Magic |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> Galanty was listed as producer. Joe Chemay and John Hobbs composed Fonda's original theme music for the video;<ref name="RCA, March 1982">{{cite web |url=https://www.cedmagic.com/museum/press/release-1982-03-17.html |title=Press release by RCA Video Productions |date=March 17, 1982 |website=CED Magic |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> the two had worked together on Chemay's 1981 R&B-pop album ''The Riper the Finer''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/377625183/ |last=Siegel |first=Eric |date=April 5, 1981 |title=Joe Chemay steps out of musical background |newspaper=] |page=52 |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> The ] version of the video offered two audio channels, one with Fonda's verbal instruction, and the other with ] music. The consumer would normally listen to both at once, but after they had memorized the routine, they could listen to the music by itself.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=June 12, 1982 |title=RCA Sets 11 Videodisk Titles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT23 |access-date=September 13, 2020 |magazine=] |page=24}}</ref> Fonda's ''Workout'' appeared on the video sales chart of ] magazine on May 22, 1982, entering at number 23.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=May 22, 1982|title=Videocassette Top 40|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Billboard/80s/1982/BB-1982-05-22.pdf|magazine=]|pages=48}}</ref> The video rose up the chart to the number 4 position on June 19, and from that point, stayed at number 4 and above for three years.<ref name=Grein1985/> During 1982–1985, the video topped the chart for a total of 41 weeks, dipping to number 2 for 75 weeks. At that time, no other video came close to this level of sales performance. ''Workout'' was the first non-theatrical home video release to top sales charts.<ref name="Grein1985" /> | ||
Fonda herself prevented the ''Workout'' video from racking up better chart statistics, as she was competing against it through the home video release of her film '']'' (1981) which was number 1 for 15 weeks in 1982. Three years later, Fonda charted with the home video release of '']'' which she narrated. ''We Are the World'' hit number 1 in August 1985, edging the ''Workout'' video down to number 2. Many of Fonda's later videos in the workout series also charted: in February 1985, three at once were in the Top Ten of ''Billboard''{{'s}} chart.<ref name="Grein1985">{{cite magazine |last=Grein |first=Paul |date=August 31, 1985 |title=Anatomy of a Knockout |magazine=] |page=F-10}}</ref> ''Billboard'' magazine featured Fonda on the cover at the end of August 1985, describing her "video victory" and carrying articles about the actress, the exercise series, and the surprising sales juggernaut.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yCQEAAAAMBAJ |title=Jane Fonda's Video Victory |magazine=] |date=August 31, 1985 |volume=97 |number=35 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref> Many buyers of the exercise video also required a playback device, boosting sales of VCRs.<ref name="Hendricks2018">{{cite book |last=Hendricks |first=Nancy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAVnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA526 |title=Popular Fads and Crazes Through American History |date=2018 |publisher=] |isbn=9781440851834 |page=526}}</ref> These new VCRs contributed to a general surge in home video popularity during the 1980s, extending far beyond Fonda's ''Workout''.<ref name="Doyle" /> By 1985, about one-third of American households owned a VCR, up from 2.5 percent in 1980.<ref>{{cite newspaper |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/01/14/well/move/fitness-evolution-trends-1970s.html |title=1972–1982: The Decade That Changed Fitness Forever |last=Friedman |first=Danielle |date=January 15, 2025 |newspaper=] |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> | |||
⚫ | ] was a television production company known for many hit television shows, such as '']''. Lorimar wanted a share of the profits from Fonda's ''Workout'' series, and so bought out Karl in October 1984 for a reported $3 million, rebranding the company as Karl-Lorimar.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wasser |first=Frederick |date=2009 |title=Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR |page=125 |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=9780292773943 }}</ref> Karl stayed in command of the workout video department, adding more Fonda titles as well as some by Richard Simmons.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/d1475d65c47c9890a5dd1e1607dfb2d2 |title=Stuart Karl, Exercise Video Tycoon, Dies at 38 After Battle with Cancer |date=August 18, 1991 |newspaper=AP News |access-date=September 7, 2020}}</ref> | ||
⚫ | ] was a television production company known for many hit television shows, such as '']''. Lorimar wanted a share of the profits from Fonda's ''Workout'' series, and so bought out Karl in October 1984 for a reported $3 million, rebranding the company as Karl-Lorimar.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wasser |first=Frederick |date=2009 |title=Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR |page=125 |publisher=] |isbn=9780292773943 }}</ref> Karl stayed in command of the workout video department, adding more Fonda titles as well as some by Richard Simmons.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/d1475d65c47c9890a5dd1e1607dfb2d2 |title=Stuart Karl, Exercise Video Tycoon, Dies at 38 After Battle with Cancer |date=August 18, 1991 |newspaper=AP News |access-date=September 7, 2020}}</ref> | ||
The RCA SelectaVision version of the video offered two audio channels, one with Fonda's verbal instruction, and the other with monaural music. The consumer would normally listen to both at once, but after they had memorized the routine, they could listen to the music by itself.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT23 |page=24 |title=RCA Sets 11 Videodisk Titles |magazine=Billboard |date=June 12, 1982 |access-date=September 13, 2020}}</ref> | |||
Fonda told her viewers to "feel the burn", which became a popular catchphrase.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jane-fondas-feel-the-burn-workout-video-turns-32/ |last=Tanglao |first=Leezel |date=April 24, 2014 |title=Jane Fonda’s 'feel the burn' workout video turns 32 |work=] |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> She was criticized for this because ignoring a burning sensation in one's body might lead to injury. Other criticism came from her saying to the viewer, " |
Fonda told her viewers to "feel the burn", which became a popular catchphrase.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jane-fondas-feel-the-burn-workout-video-turns-32/ |last=Tanglao |first=Leezel |date=April 24, 2014 |title=Jane Fonda’s 'feel the burn' workout video turns 32 |work=] |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> She was criticized for this because ignoring a burning sensation in one's body might lead to injury. Other criticism came from her saying to the viewer, "if I can do it, you can do it"; a seemingly impossible task for those who were not as muscular as Fonda. Medical professionals warned that Fonda teaching people jerky movements might lead to muscle injury,<ref name="Krucoff1985">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1985/11/20/fondas-latest-workout-new-encouragement/d99d8613-60cb-479e-b7e0-27b2507f03c4/ |last=Krucoff |first=Carol |date=November 19, 1985 |title=Fonda's Latest Workout: New Encouragement |newspaper=] |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> and that the proverb she repeated, "]", should not be taken literally, especially with regard to sharp pain which may indicate tissue damage. Instead, people who participate in ] were advised to pay attention to the general feeling of discomfort brought on by the formation of ] in the body during extended exertion, showing the limits of one's ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.uclahealth.org/news/publication/no-pain-no-gain-best-approach-exercise |last1=Glazier |first1=Eve |last2=Ko |first2=Elizabeth |date=July 21, 2021 |title=Is no pain, no gain the best approach to exercise? |website=] |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> Fonda grew concerned about reports of some of her customers getting stress fractures or experiencing back pain,<ref>Bosworth 2011, p. 480</ref> so for her next releases, she tempered her style, emphasizing gentle stretching and low-impact movements, and her spoken encouragements became more inclusive, such as "Hang in there, we're almost done!"<ref name="Krucoff1985" /> ] had already been popular with ]s to wear during instruction and stretching, but with Fonda seen sporting them in her exercise books and videos, they were adopted by many more women across the US in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |last=Palumbo |first=Jacqui |date=February 26, 2021 |title=Remember when Jane Fonda revolutionized exercise in a leotard and leg warmers? |url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/jane-fonda-workout-remember-when/index.html |access-date=January 15, 2025 |website=]}}</ref> For years previously, Fonda had worn leg warmers for ballet classes, and was surprised to find that her name was associated with the trend.<ref>{{cite web |last=Fonda |first=Jane |author-link=Jane Fonda |date=November 22, 2015 |title=Leg Warmers!!!! |url=https://www.janefonda.com/2015/11/leg-warmers/ |access-date=January 15, 2025 |website=janefonda.com}}</ref> | ||
As the videos |
As the videos gained popularity, Julie LaFond was hired as the manager of Fonda's ''Workout'' franchise. Fonda and LaFond closed the San Francisco Workout studio in 1983 after two years of operation. The building's other tenants had complained about the noise of the exercises. In 1986, the Encino location was shuttered after posting losses.<ref name="Brooks1986">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-05-05-fi-3439-story.html |title=Jane Fonda Workout Slimming Down; Encino Studio Closing |last=Brooks |first=Nancy Rivera |date=May 5, 1986 |newspaper=] |access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref> In April 1991, Fonda's original Beverly Hills location closed, even though it was still profitable. Fonda said she was concentrating on her core business, which by this time was the video tape series, run by LaFond.<ref name="Arar1992" /><ref name="Citron1991">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-04-03-fi-1696-story.html |last=Citron |first=Alan |date=April 3, 1991 |title=No Sweat: Jane Fonda Closes Her Beverly Hills Aerobics Studio |newspaper=] |access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref> | ||
Fonda signed with Capri Beachwear in June 1983 to produce a line of ''Workout''-branded exercise clothing, designed by Broadway costumer ] and made in the U.S. by ]s.<ref name=Kahn1985>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.inc.com/magazine/19851001/9877.html |title=Starstruck |date=October 1985 |last=Kahn |first=Joseph P. |magazine=Inc. |access-date=September 17, 2020}}</ref> Fonda expected to see gross sales of $30 million with this line.<ref name=Doyle/> The clothing was to be sold at ] and ], but after the line appeared piecemeal and incomplete for a few months, the enterprise folded in 1984. Thoroughgoing supply problems, high retail price tags and market inexperience all contributed to the failure. Capri Beachwear absorbed the losses and shut down, bankrupting owner Ron Mester.<ref name=Kahn1985/> | Fonda signed with Capri Beachwear in June 1983 to produce a line of ''Workout''-branded exercise clothing, designed by Broadway costumer ] and made in the U.S. by ]s.<ref name=Kahn1985>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.inc.com/magazine/19851001/9877.html |title=Starstruck |date=October 1985 |last=Kahn |first=Joseph P. |magazine=] |access-date=September 17, 2020}}</ref> Fonda expected to see gross sales of $30 million with this line.<ref name=Doyle/> The clothing was to be sold at ] and ], but after the line appeared piecemeal and incomplete for a few months, the enterprise folded in 1984. Thoroughgoing supply problems, high retail price tags and market inexperience all contributed to the failure. Capri Beachwear absorbed the losses and shut down, bankrupting owner Ron Mester.<ref name=Kahn1985/> | ||
] had already been popular with ]s to wear during instruction and stretching, but with Fonda seen sporting them in her exercise books and videos, they were adopted by many more women across the US in the 1980s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/style/article/jane-fonda-workout-remember-when/index.html |date=February 26, 2021 |last=Palumbo |first=Jacqui |title=Remember when Jane Fonda revolutionized exercise in a leotard and leg warmers? |website=] |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> For years previously, Fonda had worn leg warmers for ballet classes, and was surprised to find that her name was associated with the trend.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.janefonda.com/2015/11/leg-warmers/ |title=Leg Warmers!!!! |last=Fonda |first=Jane |author-link=Jane Fonda |date=November 22, 2015 |website=Jane Fonda |access-date=January 15, 2025}}</ref> | |||
==Activism== | ==Activism== | ||
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Fonda used her ''Workout'' profits, including the studios, the book, the audio recording and the videos, to fund her political activism.<ref name=Stukin2011/><ref name="Ferrise2018">{{cite magazine |last=Ferrise |first=Jennifer |date=September 18, 2018 |title=Jane Fonda on Her Biggest Regret – and How She Got Past It |url=https://www.instyle.com/news/jane-fonda-activism-biggest-regret |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020175158/https://www.instyle.com/news/jane-fonda-activism-biggest-regret |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |access-date=September 6, 2020 |magazine=]}}</ref><ref name="Stillwell2019">{{cite magazine |last=Stillwell |first=Jadie |date=November 13, 2019 |title=That Time Jane Fonda Sculpted Abs to Save the Planet |url=https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/that-time-jane-fonda-sculpted-abs-to-save-the-planet |access-date=September 6, 2020 |magazine=]}} 1984 interview between Fonda and Maura Moynihan.</ref> The ] PAC which she founded in 1976 with her husband ] owned all of her ''Workout'' assets, such that the video profits went directly to the PAC treasury.<ref name=Anderson1990/> Buoyed by ''Workout'' money, the CED PAC successfully supported Hayden's campaign in 1982 running for the ], and it pursued various ] and ] issues such as advocating for ], the reduction of ], investing in ] and protesting against ], championing ], ], and various ]. In early 1984, Fonda pulled some of the ''Workout'' assets away from the CED PAC so she could follow her own interests separate from Hayden's. In this manner she promoted ] and worked ].<ref name="Ross2011">{{cite book |last=Ross |first=Steven J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JNma11zsi6MC&pg=PA260 |title=Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics |date=2011 |publisher=] |isbn=9780195181722 |page=260}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JNma11zsi6MC&pg=PA260 |page=260 |last=Ross |first=Steven J. |date=2011 |title=Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics |publisher=] |isbn=9780195181722}}</ref> In August 1984, ], Fonda, and ten other women formed the ] (HWPC).<ref name=Balzar1987>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-09-me-8380-story.html |title=Party Power : 'Proudly Liberal' Hollywood Women's Political Committee Backs Up Its Message With Money and Muscle |date=March 9, 1987 |last=Balzar |first=John |newspaper=] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref> Though she was not directly active in the day-to-day decisions of the HWPC, its political goals were many of the same ones Fonda had promoted with Hayden through the CED PAC. In 1987, Fonda bought her ''Workout'' franchise from CED to control it herself.<ref name=Arar1992/> By 1988, Fonda had donated about $10 million to political causes; mainly drawn from her workout video series.<ref name=Anderson1990>{{cite news |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19900726&slug=1084353 |last=Anderson |first=Christopher |date=July 26, 1990 |title=Before The Breakup, Tom And Jane Were Political Royalty |newspaper=] |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> | ||
Similarly to Fonda, Karl funneled some of his ''Workout'' video distribution profits into political donations, especially to the ] candidate ]. Hart had been the frontrunner in polls in April 1987, and the favored candidate of Fonda and Hayden, but he resigned from the race in May after news reports showed him to be unfaithful to his wife. In December 1987 he declared a second run, and Karl broke federal campaign guidelines to fund Hart's new effort. These irregularities were revealed by the '']'' at the beginning of 1988.<ref name=Blumenthal1988>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/01/22/star-88/85bd2a61-f895-4afe-bb60-be533c996553/ |last=Blumenthal |first=Sidney |date=January 22, 1988 |title=Star '88 |newspaper=] |access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref> Hart resigned a second and final time in March.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/03/12/upbeat-hart-withdraws-from-race/ac4b7663-3fbd-49c3-8040-a74c2ad20da6/ |last=Reid |first=T.R. |date=March 12, 1988 |title=Upbeat Hart Withdraws from Race |newspaper=] |access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref> In federal court, Karl pleaded guilty to hiding $185,000 in political donations through reimbursed third parties, and was hit with a fine of $60,000 and a sentence of probation for three years. Faced with business losses and conflict-of-interest lawsuits, in July 1989 he declared bankruptcy; he died of skin cancer in 1991 at the age of 38.<ref name=Rivera1991>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-17-me-528-story.html |last=Rivera |first=Carla |date=August 17, 1991 |title=Stuart Karl, Video Boy Wonder Hit by Scandal, Dies at 38 |newspaper=] |access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/07/business/troubled-entrepreneur-stuart-karl-from-fonda-and-hart-to-flops-and-hot-water.html |last=Stevenson |first=Richard W. |date=February 7, 1988 |title=Troubled Entrepreneur: Stuart Karl; From Fonda and Hart To Flops and Hot Water |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=September 12, 2020}}</ref> | |||
==Legacy== | ==Legacy== | ||
Fonda reshaped the ] industry by selling 17 million videos from 1982 to 1995; far more than any other non-theatrical title in that period.<ref name=Hendricks2018/><ref name=Grein1985/><ref name=Garcia2018> The fitness industry traces a large measure of its success to Fonda's ''Workout'' series. ]'s National Director Carol Espel said about Fonda, "She opened the door for us who were either dancers or interested in fitness to become professionals and create an industry... She helped legitimize fitness as a viable business."<ref name=Stukin2011/> Many dance and fitness instructors of the late 1970s and early 1980s rode the wave created by ''Workout'', expanding their businesses dramatically. Richard Simmons embraced the new video format with 1985's ''Get Started''. ] was already an established exercise studio in the ] San Diego area, releasing a popular LP, but after Fonda the company grew very quickly, releasing aerobics videos and opening many franchise studios.<ref name=History/> In 1985, fitness teacher ] shifted from LPs to video with ''Total Shape Up'', and in 1987, personal trainer ] followed suit by releasing ''Starting Out'' for beginners.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-02-05-8803280304-story.html |last=Stevens |first=Mary |date=February 5, 1988 |title=Throw Away the Excuses, Turn on the VCR and Shape up |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> ] of ''Body by Jake'' fame delivered the ''Energize Yourself'' video in 1986.<ref name=Wilkinson1987/> On the other hand, aerobics dance pioneer ] watched her large organization reduce in size through the 1980s, partly because of competition.<ref name=Black2020>{{cite book |last=Black |first=Jonathan |date=2020 |title=Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History |pages=111–113 |publisher= |
Fonda reshaped the ] industry by selling 17 million videos from 1982 to 1995; far more than any other non-theatrical title in that period.<ref name=Hendricks2018/><ref name=Grein1985/><ref name="Garcia2018">{{cite magazine |last=Garcia |first=Patricia |date=July 7, 2018 |title=Jane Fonda's 1982 Workout Routine Is Still the Best Exercise Class Out There |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/jane-fonda-workout-videos-health-aerobics-yoga-class-pass |access-date=September 5, 2020 |magazine=]}}</ref> The fitness industry traces a large measure of its success to Fonda's ''Workout'' series. ]'s National Director Carol Espel said about Fonda, "She opened the door for us who were either dancers or interested in fitness to become professionals and create an industry... She helped legitimize fitness as a viable business."<ref name=Stukin2011/> Many dance and fitness instructors of the late 1970s and early 1980s rode the wave created by ''Workout'', expanding their businesses dramatically. Richard Simmons embraced the new video format with 1985's ''Get Started''. ] was already an established exercise studio in the ] San Diego area, releasing a popular LP, but after Fonda the company grew very quickly, releasing aerobics videos and opening many franchise studios.<ref name=History/> In 1985, fitness teacher ] shifted from LPs to video with ''Total Shape Up'', and in 1987, personal trainer ] followed suit by releasing ''Starting Out'' for beginners.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-02-05-8803280304-story.html |last=Stevens |first=Mary |date=February 5, 1988 |title=Throw Away the Excuses, Turn on the VCR and Shape up |newspaper=] |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> ] of ''Body by Jake'' fame delivered the ''Energize Yourself'' video in 1986.<ref name=Wilkinson1987/> On the other hand, aerobics dance pioneer ] watched her large organization reduce in size through the 1980s, partly because of competition.<ref name=Black2020>{{cite book |last=Black |first=Jonathan |date=2020 |title=Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History |pages=111–113 |publisher=] |isbn=9781496209504 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBbaDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT111}}</ref> | ||
A handful of celebrities capitalized on the exercise video concept, including ], ], ], ], ] and ].<ref name=Wilkinson1987>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-03-vw-26493-story.html |last=Wilkinson |first=Jack E. |date=December 3, 1987 |title=Health and Fitness: Exercise Video Sales Outstretch Movies |agency=] |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> While Fonda encouraged her viewers to get in shape so that they could go out and change the world, the message in Welch's yoga-oriented video was to get in shape to change the inner self.<ref name=Finke1987>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-12-vw-20528-story.html |last=Finke |first=Nikki |date=November 12, 1987 |title=All Sides Get Worked Up Over Study of Aerobics Videos |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> These stars enjoyed limited sales, never matching Fonda's reach.<ref name=Hendricks2018/><ref name="Kagan, Morse 1988">{{cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1145896 |last1=Kagan |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Morse |first2=Margaret |date=Winter 1988 |title=The Body Electronic: Aerobic Exercise on Video: Women's Search for Empowerment and Self-Transformation |journal=TDR |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=164–180 |doi=10.2307/1145896 |jstor=1145896 }}</ref> | A handful of celebrities capitalized on the exercise video concept, including ], ], ], ], ] and ].<ref name=Wilkinson1987>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-12-03-vw-26493-story.html |last=Wilkinson |first=Jack E. |date=December 3, 1987 |title=Health and Fitness: Exercise Video Sales Outstretch Movies |agency=] |newspaper=] |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> While Fonda encouraged her viewers to get in shape so that they could go out and change the world, the message in Welch's yoga-oriented video was to get in shape to change the inner self.<ref name=Finke1987>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-11-12-vw-20528-story.html |last=Finke |first=Nikki |date=November 12, 1987 |title=All Sides Get Worked Up Over Study of Aerobics Videos |newspaper=] |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref> These stars enjoyed limited sales, never matching Fonda's reach.<ref name=Hendricks2018/><ref name="Kagan, Morse 1988">{{cite journal |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1145896 |last1=Kagan |first1=Elizabeth |last2=Morse |first2=Margaret |date=Winter 1988 |title=The Body Electronic: Aerobic Exercise on Video: Women's Search for Empowerment and Self-Transformation |journal=] |volume=32 |issue=4 |pages=164–180 |doi=10.2307/1145896 |jstor=1145896 }}</ref> | ||
In 2010, Fonda released the first of three videos in her new series titled Prime Time, aimed at users 50 years and older.<ref name=Stukin2011>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jan-17-la-he-0117-jane-fonda-20110117-story.html |title=Jane Fonda wants you to feel the burn – again |date=January 17, 2011 |last=Stukin |first=Stacie |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref><ref name=Lauretta2020/> In 2014 after many requests, she re-released five of her original 1980s videos on DVD and digital download, followed in 2018 by the re-release of another two of her videos from the early 1990s.<ref name=Angle2014>{{cite news |url=https://www.shape.com/fitness/trends/jane-fondas-workout-videos-be-released-dvd |title=Jane Fonda's Workout Videos to Be Released on DVD |date=December 29, 2014 |last=Angle |first=Sara |work=] |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125115448/https://www.shape.com/fitness/trends/jane-fondas-workout-videos-be-released-dvd |archive-date=November 25, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Shields2018>{{cite news |url=https://thehollywoodtimes.today/jane-fonda-workout-video-2-new-ones-to-be-released-dec-18-just-in-time-for-the-holidays |title=Jane Fonda Workout Video-2 New ones to be Released Dec. 18-Just in time for the Holidays! |date=December 3, 2018 |last=Shields |first=Judy |work=The Hollywood Times |access-date=January 25, 2022}}</ref> In 2020 during the ], Fonda recorded a brief exercise sequence at age 82, sympathizing with people who exercise at home while quarantined. Combining her political activism with 1980s-era video scenes and recently shot footage, Fonda gained views on ] and ].<ref name=Lauretta2020/><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a32111020/jane-fonda-workout/ |last=Matthews |first=Melissa |date=April 12, 2020 |title='Jane Fonda's Workout Is The Bright Spot In My Self-Isolation' |magazine=] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref> | In 2010, Fonda released the first of three videos in her new series titled Prime Time, aimed at users 50 years and older.<ref name=Stukin2011>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-jan-17-la-he-0117-jane-fonda-20110117-story.html |title=Jane Fonda wants you to feel the burn – again |date=January 17, 2011 |last=Stukin |first=Stacie |newspaper=] |access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref><ref name=Lauretta2020/> In 2014 after many requests, she re-released five of her original 1980s videos on DVD and digital download, followed in 2018 by the re-release of another two of her videos from the early 1990s.<ref name=Angle2014>{{cite news |url=https://www.shape.com/fitness/trends/jane-fondas-workout-videos-be-released-dvd |title=Jane Fonda's Workout Videos to Be Released on DVD |date=December 29, 2014 |last=Angle |first=Sara |work=] |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181125115448/https://www.shape.com/fitness/trends/jane-fondas-workout-videos-be-released-dvd |archive-date=November 25, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Shields2018>{{cite news |url=https://thehollywoodtimes.today/jane-fonda-workout-video-2-new-ones-to-be-released-dec-18-just-in-time-for-the-holidays |title=Jane Fonda Workout Video-2 New ones to be Released Dec. 18-Just in time for the Holidays! |date=December 3, 2018 |last=Shields |first=Judy |work=The Hollywood Times |access-date=January 25, 2022}}</ref> In 2020 during the ], Fonda recorded a brief exercise sequence at age 82, sympathizing with people who exercise at home while quarantined. Combining her political activism with 1980s-era video scenes and recently shot footage, Fonda gained views on ] and ].<ref name=Lauretta2020/><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.womenshealthmag.com/fitness/a32111020/jane-fonda-workout/ |last=Matthews |first=Melissa |date=April 12, 2020 |title='Jane Fonda's Workout Is The Bright Spot In My Self-Isolation' |magazine=] |access-date=September 5, 2020}}</ref> | ||
==See also== | ==See also== |
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Exercise video by Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda's Workout, also known as Workout Starring Jane Fonda, is a 1982 exercise video by actress Jane Fonda, based on an exercise routine developed by Leni Cazden and refined by Cazden and Fonda at Workout, their exercise studio in Beverly Hills. The video release by Karl Home Video and RCA Video Productions was aimed primarily at women as a way to exercise at home. The video was part of a series of exercise products: Jane Fonda's Workout Book was released in November 1981, and both Jane Fonda's Workout video tape and Jane Fonda's Workout Record, published as a double-LP vinyl album, appeared in late April 1982. The VHS tape became a bestseller, and Fonda released further videos throughout the 1980s and into 1995. The video also increased the sales of VCRs.
The original 1982 Jane Fonda's Workout was the first non-theatrical home video release to top sales charts. In total, Fonda sold 17 million videos in the 1982–1995 series, considered an enormous success. Fonda's accomplishment spawned imitators and sparked a boom of women's exercise classes, opening the formerly male-dominated fitness industry to women and establishing the celebrity-as-fitness-instructor model. The ballet-style leg warmers she wore increased the popularity of an ongoing fashion trend, and her encouraging shout, "Feel the burn!", became a common saying, along with the proverb "no pain, no gain."
The success of Fonda's workout series funded her political activism, which was her original goal. Profits from the Workout franchise supplied money for the political action committee (PAC) she had been running with her husband, the activist and politician Tom Hayden. Their PAC, named Campaign for Economic Democracy, promoted left-wing political issues such as women's rights and the anti-war movement. In 1984, Fonda used her Workout money to help pay for a new PAC with Barbra Streisand and ten others forming the Hollywood Women's Political Committee.
Exercise studio, book, and LP
In 1978, Fonda broke an ankle bone while filming The China Syndrome, forcing a stop to her ballet exercises. She sought a new exercise regimen that would help her lose weight and stay trim without stressing her foot. She was referred to Leni Cazden, an exercise instructor in Century City who formulated a lengthy exercise sequence to burn calories. Fonda took classes from Cazden and adopted her style of exercise. Fonda later recalled that women in 1978 had few choices for exercise classes and that most gyms were designed for men. She said, "We weren't supposed to sweat or have muscles. Now, along with forty other women, I found myself moving nonstop for an hour and a half in entirely new ways." On location in Utah shooting The Electric Horseman in late 1978 and early 1979, Fonda taught her actor colleagues the exercises she had learned from Cazden, and was encouraged by the warm reception. In May 1979, she partnered with Cazden to open an exercise studio called Workout on Robertson Boulevard in Beverly Hills. The sign above the studio's door read "Jane Fonda's Workout". One week of instruction (five one-hour sessions) cost $32.50. Two to three thousand customers attended per week, likely because Fonda taught some of the early morning classes. Merv Griffin and Barbara Walters shot segments at the studio to air on their television shows. Famous customers included actresses Ali MacGraw, Tina Louise and Peggy Lipton. The new business was profitable. With the concept proved, Fonda added a second studio in Encino and a third in San Francisco. She wrote Jane Fonda's Workout Book to bring the technique to a wider audience. The book was published in November 1981 through Paramount-owned Simon & Schuster and sold 2 million copies.
In parallel with the exercise book, Fonda released the vinyl LP Jane Fonda's Workout Record through Columbia Records in April 1982, which sold steadily at $12.98. It was certified double Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in December 1984. On the album, Fonda speaks as exercise instructor, backed by music. The double album contained songs by the Jacksons, the Brothers Johnson, Boz Scaggs, REO Speedwagon, Sylvester, Quincy Jones and others. A cassette tape version was also sold. While preparing the book and audio recording, Fonda was already considering a video.
Video
Exercise industry
Exercise products had already been selling briskly before Fonda entered the field. Carol Hensel released an aerobic Dancercize album in 1980, selling 500,000 LPs and starting the 1980s craze for exercise. Hensel's later Dance & Exercise videos went Platinum. Richard Simmons was already producing exercise records; his 1982 Reach LP was certified Platinum before it shipped, based on advance orders.
Video Aerobics, featuring Leslie Lilien and Julie Lavin and available on videotape in 1979, was the first in the home video category of exercise tapes. The same title appeared in 1982–83 in an updated new shoot. Erotic photographer Ron Harris produced the Aerobicise program which aired on paid cable TV, and in early 1982 he sold a novelty aerobics video tape, Aerobicise: The Beautiful Workout, featuring close-up shots of the exercising women. Harris's abstract camera work was seen as an application of "art instead of instruction", appealing to men and useless for exercise.
There are two conflicting stories about how Fonda's exercise video project was started. Stuart Karl's version is that he brought the idea to Fonda in late 1981 after the book came out in November, while Richard D. Klinger says he and Karl called Fonda in early 1981 before the book. According to Karl, he was a young entrepreneur in Southern California starting a home video publishing company called Karl Home Video. His wife, Deborah, saw Fonda's Workout book promoted in a store window, and remarked that she would rather watch Fonda teach the workout on home video. Seeing an opportunity to bring exercise tapes to the home video market, Karl contacted Fonda's husband, the activist and politician Tom Hayden, to propose the idea as a source of campaign funding. Hayden put Karl in touch with Fonda, but she initially declined; the home video market was new and unfamiliar to her – she did not know a single person who owned a videocassette recorder (VCR). Karl persisted, and Fonda was persuaded by the possibility of extra money for her Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED), a political action committee founded by Hayden and Fonda in 1976 to promote liberal and progressive issues. Karl teamed with RCA Video Productions on the project. Fonda signed with Karl and RCA in early 1982.
According to Richard D. Klinger, an executive in RCA Records' SelectaVision video group, Karl and Klinger contacted Fonda about shooting a video of her Beverly Hills exercise routine in early 1981. At the time, she was still creating Jane Fonda's Workout Book, and she said she should first present the video idea to her book publisher, Simon & Schuster. David Obst at Simon & Schuster was keen on the proposal, but it was rejected by their affiliate Paramount Home Video. Fonda returned to Klinger and Karl who then entered into a joint production deal in which RCA would make the video discs while Karl would make the video tapes. Klinger was named West Coast director of RCA Video in January 1982. Karl Home Video and RCA Video Productions began shooting Fonda's video in early 1982. Simon & Schuster later regretted their decision, and by 1985 they were shopping for video projects. Paramount head Barry Diller said in August 1983 that Paramount ignored obtaining publishing rights to business opportunities such as the Fonda workout video because Paramount executives were not familiar with the process. After this prominent failure, Diller said Paramount vigorously pursued the rights to related business ideas.
Fonda's Workout
With a budget of $50,000, $75,000, or $100,000, Fonda started shooting the video with her friend, director Sid Galanty, a fellow Democrat known for making political advertisements for television. Fonda suggested that she act out a scripted role but Galanty convinced her to ad-lib and be herself. Galanty proposed shooting outdoors but Fonda insisted on a sprung floor suitable for dancers. Fonda's Beverly Hills studio proved to be incompatible because the mirrored walls reflected lights and cameras. Instead, Galanty built a theatrical set for the video, and the production crew worked out the many technical problems. Filming with music was impractical because the recording of Fonda's voice needed to be as pure as possible, so only the beats, the lowest frequencies of the music were amplified, to be filtered out in the editing. Fonda was unable to simultaneously talk to the viewer and count through her movements, so she took timing cues from hand gestures given by assistants stationed at the camera. Behind Fonda and also barefoot, a group of seven instructors and students from her exercise studios took part in the routine; they, too, watched the timing cues. Every exercise sequence was filmed in one long take, and if Fonda or Galanty saw a problem in playback, they filmed the whole sequence over again, which was physically demanding. Principal photography was done in three days, and editing was finished by mid-March.
The Workout video was released on April 24, 1982, at the price of $59.95 for the video tape, equivalent to $189 in 2023. Karl Home Video released the video tape, and three months later RCA Video Productions issued the workout on Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED), a vinyl video format, selling for $24.98; less than half the cost of the tape. Galanty was listed as producer. Joe Chemay and John Hobbs composed Fonda's original theme music for the video; the two had worked together on Chemay's 1981 R&B-pop album The Riper the Finer. The RCA SelectaVision version of the video offered two audio channels, one with Fonda's verbal instruction, and the other with monaural music. The consumer would normally listen to both at once, but after they had memorized the routine, they could listen to the music by itself. Fonda's Workout appeared on the video sales chart of Billboard magazine on May 22, 1982, entering at number 23. The video rose up the chart to the number 4 position on June 19, and from that point, stayed at number 4 and above for three years. During 1982–1985, the video topped the chart for a total of 41 weeks, dipping to number 2 for 75 weeks. At that time, no other video came close to this level of sales performance. Workout was the first non-theatrical home video release to top sales charts.
Fonda herself prevented the Workout video from racking up better chart statistics, as she was competing against it through the home video release of her film On Golden Pond (1981) which was number 1 for 15 weeks in 1982. Three years later, Fonda charted with the home video release of We Are the World: The Video Event which she narrated. We Are the World hit number 1 in August 1985, edging the Workout video down to number 2. Many of Fonda's later videos in the workout series also charted: in February 1985, three at once were in the Top Ten of Billboard's chart. Billboard magazine featured Fonda on the cover at the end of August 1985, describing her "video victory" and carrying articles about the actress, the exercise series, and the surprising sales juggernaut. Many buyers of the exercise video also required a playback device, boosting sales of VCRs. These new VCRs contributed to a general surge in home video popularity during the 1980s, extending far beyond Fonda's Workout. By 1985, about one-third of American households owned a VCR, up from 2.5 percent in 1980.
Lorimar Productions was a television production company known for many hit television shows, such as Dallas. Lorimar wanted a share of the profits from Fonda's Workout series, and so bought out Karl in October 1984 for a reported $3 million, rebranding the company as Karl-Lorimar. Karl stayed in command of the workout video department, adding more Fonda titles as well as some by Richard Simmons.
Fonda told her viewers to "feel the burn", which became a popular catchphrase. She was criticized for this because ignoring a burning sensation in one's body might lead to injury. Other criticism came from her saying to the viewer, "if I can do it, you can do it"; a seemingly impossible task for those who were not as muscular as Fonda. Medical professionals warned that Fonda teaching people jerky movements might lead to muscle injury, and that the proverb she repeated, "no pain, no gain", should not be taken literally, especially with regard to sharp pain which may indicate tissue damage. Instead, people who participate in aerobic exercise were advised to pay attention to the general feeling of discomfort brought on by the formation of lactic acid in the body during extended exertion, showing the limits of one's cardiorespiratory fitness. Fonda grew concerned about reports of some of her customers getting stress fractures or experiencing back pain, so for her next releases, she tempered her style, emphasizing gentle stretching and low-impact movements, and her spoken encouragements became more inclusive, such as "Hang in there, we're almost done!" Leg warmers had already been popular with ballet dancers to wear during instruction and stretching, but with Fonda seen sporting them in her exercise books and videos, they were adopted by many more women across the US in the 1980s. For years previously, Fonda had worn leg warmers for ballet classes, and was surprised to find that her name was associated with the trend.
As the videos gained popularity, Julie LaFond was hired as the manager of Fonda's Workout franchise. Fonda and LaFond closed the San Francisco Workout studio in 1983 after two years of operation. The building's other tenants had complained about the noise of the exercises. In 1986, the Encino location was shuttered after posting losses. In April 1991, Fonda's original Beverly Hills location closed, even though it was still profitable. Fonda said she was concentrating on her core business, which by this time was the video tape series, run by LaFond.
Fonda signed with Capri Beachwear in June 1983 to produce a line of Workout-branded exercise clothing, designed by Broadway costumer Theoni V. Aldredge and made in the U.S. by union shops. Fonda expected to see gross sales of $30 million with this line. The clothing was to be sold at Macy's and Saks Fifth Avenue, but after the line appeared piecemeal and incomplete for a few months, the enterprise folded in 1984. Thoroughgoing supply problems, high retail price tags and market inexperience all contributed to the failure. Capri Beachwear absorbed the losses and shut down, bankrupting owner Ron Mester.
Activism
Fonda used her Workout profits, including the studios, the book, the audio recording and the videos, to fund her political activism. The Campaign for Economic Democracy PAC which she founded in 1976 with her husband Tom Hayden owned all of her Workout assets, such that the video profits went directly to the PAC treasury. Buoyed by Workout money, the CED PAC successfully supported Hayden's campaign in 1982 running for the California State Assembly, and it pursued various liberal and New Left issues such as advocating for rent control, the reduction of water pollution, investing in solar power and protesting against nuclear power, championing labor rights, women's rights, and various anti-war initiatives. In early 1984, Fonda pulled some of the Workout assets away from the CED PAC so she could follow her own interests separate from Hayden's. In this manner she promoted abortion rights and worked against apartheid in South Africa. In August 1984, Barbra Streisand, Fonda, and ten other women formed the Hollywood Women's Political Committee (HWPC). Though she was not directly active in the day-to-day decisions of the HWPC, its political goals were many of the same ones Fonda had promoted with Hayden through the CED PAC. In 1987, Fonda bought her Workout franchise from CED to control it herself. By 1988, Fonda had donated about $10 million to political causes; mainly drawn from her workout video series.
Similarly to Fonda, Karl funneled some of his Workout video distribution profits into political donations, especially to the 1988 campaign of Democratic presidential primary candidate Gary Hart. Hart had been the frontrunner in polls in April 1987, and the favored candidate of Fonda and Hayden, but he resigned from the race in May after news reports showed him to be unfaithful to his wife. In December 1987 he declared a second run, and Karl broke federal campaign guidelines to fund Hart's new effort. These irregularities were revealed by the Miami Herald at the beginning of 1988. Hart resigned a second and final time in March. In federal court, Karl pleaded guilty to hiding $185,000 in political donations through reimbursed third parties, and was hit with a fine of $60,000 and a sentence of probation for three years. Faced with business losses and conflict-of-interest lawsuits, in July 1989 he declared bankruptcy; he died of skin cancer in 1991 at the age of 38.
Legacy
Fonda reshaped the home video industry by selling 17 million videos from 1982 to 1995; far more than any other non-theatrical title in that period. The fitness industry traces a large measure of its success to Fonda's Workout series. Equinox Group's National Director Carol Espel said about Fonda, "She opened the door for us who were either dancers or interested in fitness to become professionals and create an industry... She helped legitimize fitness as a viable business." Many dance and fitness instructors of the late 1970s and early 1980s rode the wave created by Workout, expanding their businesses dramatically. Richard Simmons embraced the new video format with 1985's Get Started. Jazzercise was already an established exercise studio in the North County San Diego area, releasing a popular LP, but after Fonda the company grew very quickly, releasing aerobics videos and opening many franchise studios. In 1985, fitness teacher Joanie Greggains shifted from LPs to video with Total Shape Up, and in 1987, personal trainer Kathy Smith followed suit by releasing Starting Out for beginners. Jake Steinfeld of Body by Jake fame delivered the Energize Yourself video in 1986. On the other hand, aerobics dance pioneer Jacki Sorensen watched her large organization reduce in size through the 1980s, partly because of competition.
A handful of celebrities capitalized on the exercise video concept, including Cher, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Caitlyn Jenner, Pat Boone, Debbie Reynolds and Raquel Welch. While Fonda encouraged her viewers to get in shape so that they could go out and change the world, the message in Welch's yoga-oriented video was to get in shape to change the inner self. These stars enjoyed limited sales, never matching Fonda's reach.
In 2010, Fonda released the first of three videos in her new series titled Prime Time, aimed at users 50 years and older. In 2014 after many requests, she re-released five of her original 1980s videos on DVD and digital download, followed in 2018 by the re-release of another two of her videos from the early 1990s. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Fonda recorded a brief exercise sequence at age 82, sympathizing with people who exercise at home while quarantined. Combining her political activism with 1980s-era video scenes and recently shot footage, Fonda gained views on Instagram and TikTok.
See also
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External links
- Jane Fonda's Original Workout website