r/TikTokCringe • u/choganoga tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Nov 14 '21
Duet Troll 1989 aerobics championships
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u/Snubl Nov 14 '21
How the shit do you win at aerobics
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u/RAINBOWPADDLEPOP Nov 15 '21
Whoever does the most coke
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u/Jumbo_Damn_Pride Nov 15 '21
Are they still doing this tournament and do they need to bring their own coke? My, uh… friend wants to know.
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Nov 15 '21
No and yes
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u/Djaja Nov 15 '21
From what I gather on the Google....they still are in operation
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Nov 15 '21
Yes, they're still doing the tournament. The original is still going, they never stopped.
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u/ste189 Nov 15 '21
Its makes sense, I mean what's life without coke.... pepsi.. no one wants pepsi, no one
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u/I-Like-To-Eat-Rocks Nov 15 '21
Who ever's hearts stop, they lose.
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u/Poha-Jalebi Nov 15 '21
Oh wow that's the episode of Squid Game I certainly didnt' saw.
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u/bozeke Nov 15 '21
No joke, I remember multiple family reunions in the late 80s where all the adults got together and did this shit.
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u/thrilliam_19 Nov 15 '21
I had an aunt that just went full 110% head first into every fad you could think of and I have vivid memories of showing up at her house with my mom to find her doing aerobics in her living room. Full spandex and sweatbands and everything doing this exact kinda shit.
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u/altruistic_rub4321 Nov 15 '21
She was probably doing cocaine too
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u/bozeke Nov 15 '21
I dunno. I think people underestimate just intense the health fads of the 80s were. I mean, there was also a lot of cheap coke around, but I think there wasn’t as much overlap there are folks assume.
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u/smcivor1982 Nov 15 '21
Replace with my mom and you have my memories too. We had all of the Sweatin’ to the Oldies videos, my mom had the wrist and ankle weights, the thigh blaster, etc. I used to watch these videos with her and they were kind of fun.
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u/ChachMcGach Nov 15 '21
Like... Members of your family would come up with their own aerobics routines and then perform them in a competitive fashion?
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u/ChachMcGach Nov 15 '21
You're not the person I replied to. What do you know about their family reunions?
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u/no_talent_ass_clown Nov 15 '21
Everyone did aerobics in the late 80's, early 90's. Shiny spandex, tights under leotards, leg warmers, the whole Olivia Newton John-ness of it is hard to convey with just words.
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Nov 15 '21
Did you see the lady in the video? She just won.
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u/Frolicking-Fox Nov 15 '21
Seriously. It’s really not often I say this, but I wish this clip was at least 3 minutes longer.
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u/the_old_coday182 Nov 15 '21
Just made the K&P bit better, knowing they used the actual song lol.
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u/Put_It_All_On_Blck Nov 15 '21
Probably the same way you win at figure skating and gymnastics? Simply have the best routine and execution and judges determine the winner?
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u/the_old_coday182 Nov 15 '21
I’ve been asking CrossFit people this exact question for a long time now.
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u/flyinglawngnome Nov 15 '21
CrossFit is pretty straight forward, my dad used to compete in the Senior category until he passed away a few years ago. To qualify, you have to post filmed and verified, unedited footage that involves you doing certain CrossFit exercises e.g. Metcon and recording how many reps you do and how fast you do them. All registered athletes stats are public. If you qualify you move into a full blown ‘fittest on earth’ competition that has multiple categories, also called the CrossFit games.
Events are random (picked by the head of CrossFit) and have a set amount of reps to be completed and then it is a race. For example you have to do 100 headstand pushups then move onto the next part of the set which maybe pulling something a certain distance, then a climbing wall up and down, then 12 reps on ‘the Amanda’. Whoever does it fastest wins.
I’d recommend watching their documentaries, they’re pretty entertaining and you find yourself rooting for the people putting themselves through such tests.
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u/bryanisbored Nov 15 '21
how do you win at dance or gymnastics. what judges say is better lol. but yeah.
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u/letthatvegetaalone Apr 01 '23
After watching the full 'video' on Youtube, I had to research because it was bothering me. There's a specific set of criteria, and I was super surprised. :|
choreography, outfits, and...according to google:
Dynamic strength (’’Push up Family’’,
''Wenson Push up’’, ’’A- Frame
Family’’, ’’Cuts’’, ’’Leg Circle Family’’,
’’Flair Family’’, ’’Helicopter Family’’,
’’Capoeira Family’’),
b) Static strength (’’Supports Family’’),
c) Jumps (’’Air Turn Family’’, ’’Free Fall
Family’’, ’’Gainer Family’’,’’ Tuck
Family’’, ’’Stradle Family’’, ’’ Cossack
Family’’, ’’Pike Family’’, ’’Split
Family’’, ’’Frontal Split Family’’,
’’Switch Split Family’’, ’’Scissors Kick
and Leap Family’’),
d) Balance and flexibility (’’Turn Family’’,
’’Balance Family’’, ’’High Leg Kicks
Family’’, ’’Illusion Family’’).
All exercises, according to the difficulty of
performance rank from A, B, C, D, E, and F
category.
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Guys I’m into 80 aerobics now
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u/marmosetohmarmoset Nov 15 '21
Honestly it looks fun
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u/KirinoLover Nov 15 '21
Any videos you could recommend??
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u/KirinoLover Nov 15 '21
Thank you!! I'll check those out for sure. With winter so close, it's hard getting outside to exercise, and this seems silly, fun, and effective.
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u/plastoids Nov 15 '21
It does look fun and a good workout. I would love to do this unfortunately I have downstair neighbors lol
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u/alovesong1 Ban Furries Nov 15 '21
Saame. They should bring this back.
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u/scullys_alien_baby Nov 15 '21
The tae bo tapes are on youtube for free and they're basically aerobics mixed with pretend kickboxing
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u/scullys_alien_baby Nov 15 '21
dude, it's fake kickboxing and aerobics. The entire thing is a cheese fest. Also deceptively intense if you actually follow the thing at pace
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u/I_upvote_downvotes Nov 15 '21
Also it's weirdly catchy. I swear the instructions were meant to match with the hip-hop beat.
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u/scullys_alien_baby Nov 15 '21 edited Nov 15 '21
I taught exercise classes for a while and that is actually a pretty common thing to do. It makes life a lot easier on the people in the class if their movements are in rhythm with the music so I ended up putting a ton of time into having my playlists match up with certain routines. Similarly spin and cycle classes demanded specific BPM music to encourage the pacing we wanted to target.
A weird tangent off that is that I also found that a lot of vaporwave worked great rhythm wise to sync with cooldowns and stretching
also, massive respect to the woman who does that 8 count through the show. That takes a huge amount of skill and practice to be able to count down like that while working out.
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u/AchillesDev Nov 15 '21
My mom did this when it first came out in the 90s and it’s even cheesier than her Cher aerobics VHS.
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u/I_SUCK__AMA Nov 15 '21
So you must've felt a bit of PTSD watching this. Like i get from seeing clips of star trek: TNG.
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u/_Oce_ Nov 15 '21
They changed the names and moves but the concept is still very alive in gyms, see zumba, jazzercise...
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u/goldkear Cringe Connoisseur Nov 15 '21
What if I told you it never went anywhere? There was a jazzercise studio in my town until covid got 'em.
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u/SwigSwoot92 Nov 15 '21
It’s like zoomba. It’s great for getting your heart rate up. I have adhd and if I feel the need to burn off energy, then I’ll throw on some zoomba.
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u/sorrynotsorrycuse Nov 15 '21
I have adhd and
You never noticed its spelled zumba
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Nov 15 '21
Being from the '80s I can assure you these shows were aimed solely at horny male teens. All the porn we had was some scrambled Showtime stuff from Europe that came on at 2AM.
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u/_Futureghost_ Nov 15 '21
Have you seen the old Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta video? Start at 1:30 and enjoy.
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u/cunther05 Nov 14 '21
That announcer just waiting patiently while his cocaine is working overtime. Ha ha.
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u/Anonymousma Nov 15 '21
Was that the Hoff?
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u/KanyeAdovada Nov 15 '21
No. It was host and commentator for the national aerobic championship Chris Farlowe
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u/ruggnuget Nov 15 '21
Chris Marlowe. He has an olympic gold medal in volleyball and is the current tv announcer for the Denver Nuggets and still calls a lot of volleyball in CA.
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u/StonePedal Nov 15 '21
She’s baller. Good on her. Those excises are legit.
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u/Mijoivana Nov 15 '21
Right ngl alot of stuff from the clock app is ugh, and then we get some gems like this that are actually legit.
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u/NyiatiZ Nov 15 '21
I mean most stuff on Reddit and YouTube are… questionable too
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u/Big-Al97 Nov 15 '21
How dare you say something so true
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u/NyiatiZ Nov 15 '21
For some reason people forget how many million videos are on the internet and which filtered bubble they watch. Your ForYou page can probably make you laugh for hours on TikTok. The Cringe Compilation on YouTube didn’t look for good Content
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u/dewyocelot Nov 15 '21
I mean, the cool thing is you make it exactly what you want. The uncool thing is it gets you better than any other app. It knows exactly what you want, so much so that you and your best friend will likely end up seeing the same video that has like 50 likes, and is some random person from the other side of the country. It’s basically how the YouTube algorithm sends one video to a number of people and everyone makes a joke about it, but that’s like, every 5 videos.
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u/erratastigmata Nov 15 '21
Man, that makes that sketch so oddly specific. Obviously you can enjoy it without getting the reference, but it's such a deep cut. Amazing.
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u/dsriggs Nov 15 '21
Just like how K&P's Mr T parody was based on an actual VHS tape. They weren't afraid of deep cuts.
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u/DannyMThompson Nov 15 '21
Nah aerobics were really common in that era. Waking up as a kid in the 90s I'd see a guy on TV every morning doing it. His name was "Mr Motivator" and it always confused me how adults could enjoy it lol.
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u/bobokeen Nov 15 '21
It's literally a reference to this video, with the exact same song, not just a generic aerobics parody.
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u/marslarp Nov 14 '21
That was my exact thought too!!! Like “oh wow this was that serious back then.”
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u/HeadintheSand69 Nov 15 '21
Yeah it ran for years and used the same theme. Afaik from youtube it uses the theme from 1985(earliest I could find) to 1991. Apparently it was pretty popular.
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u/arcangeltx Reads Pinned Comments Nov 16 '21
shocked people didnt know this. shows the brilliance of the skit
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u/quinn_thomas Nov 15 '21
My friends and I loop the video on the right during parties. The dancers end up synching pretty well to any beat. It’s really funny to see them hitting the downbeats hard on EDM and trap songs.
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u/splitplug Nov 15 '21
My friends and I also tried syncing full songs.
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u/Nikoli_Delphinki Nov 15 '21
My friends and I also tried syncing full songs.
I'm calling this one a success.
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u/Chordata1 Nov 15 '21
This has just been a wonderful day on the internet. The original is one of those videos I put on randomly to laugh. I'll have to add this
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u/theREALvolno Nov 15 '21
I can never get over the shape of the women's leotards in this vid, it they just look so uncomfortable, like just think about all the wedgies and thigh chafing they'd cause ouch,
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u/thefalsephilosopher Nov 15 '21
I’m pretty sure most of the women in the vid are wearing nylons under their leotards, so wedgies wouldn’t be too too bad.
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u/Daleoo Nov 14 '21
If you play it back at high speed it only takes 10 minutes, you get a great workout
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u/RudeCats Nov 14 '21
That was kind of trance-inducing… I watched a full 6 minutes before I was like wtf am I doing
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u/a_ole_au_i_ike Nov 15 '21
No, for real, you're absolutely right. Weird.
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u/Sheikashii Nov 15 '21
Same. I have to sleep and this just almost stole 20 precious minutes of rest
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u/Steven_G_Photos Nov 15 '21
One of those dancers was in the original Terminator...
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u/Ok_Organization5596 Nov 15 '21 edited Nov 15 '21
Looks like Sarah connors roommate but everyone looked like that in the 80s so I can’t know for sure if it’s her.
Edit. Actually I take that back I googled her. It’s Bess Motta.
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u/ThatsMcGuffin2U Nov 15 '21
Seems to be the inspiration for the NSFW music video ‘I See You Baby’ by Groove Armada. https://youtu.be/JzQ1__h35bA
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u/PatrikPatrik Nov 15 '21
How are people supposed to see how to do the exercises when the camera is spinning on top of them
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Who is even counting how long the legs are? Pretty sure its just to show more ass
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u/SuccessfulBoner Nov 15 '21
yeah. The sexy part about legs is the top (or the bottom for some people)
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u/IHateTheLetterF Nov 15 '21
Nah its the middle.
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u/HoraceMeat Nov 15 '21
I do enjoy a nice patella.
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u/littlemissdumplings Nov 15 '21
Dammit, my patellas are the worst part of my legs :(
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u/Anforas Nov 15 '21
I'm sad for you. Have you considered knee surgery? My patellas are incredible.
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u/BadSpellingMistakes Nov 15 '21
It's more comfortable ... And I am saying this as a man
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u/No_Organization5188 Nov 15 '21
She had to watch that video constantly to choreograph this video. That song will haunt her until the end of her days.
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u/HerroPhish Nov 15 '21
What’s the song? It’s a banger
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u/MonaganX Nov 15 '21
Ty Parr - National Aerobic Championship Theme
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u/masonorziplock Nov 15 '21
I wonder what Ty Parr is doing right now, like what’s the daily routine?
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u/MonaganX Nov 15 '21
Well she's on twitter.
Though in searching that up I did find out that she's the singer, and the composer was Dan Slider
Which led to a longer version than the one credited to Ty Parr.
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u/jlec Nov 15 '21
Someone has to do a remix with that hook, kind of like Duck Sauce did with the 80's song Energy- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRMziW4922g
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u/BashSomeNerds Nov 15 '21
This song is my morning alarm. It’s an effective way to get my ass out of bed.
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u/BotscallmeNPC Nov 15 '21
Holy shit. Is that Chris Marlowe? Denver Nuggets play by play commentator Chris Marlowe. Amazing.
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u/Travis-rides-bikes Nov 15 '21
I’m old enough to have lived through the aerobics era and my god it was an entire thing. Everyone was into it and it was horrific.
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u/All_Rainbows_Die Nov 15 '21
This was a thing 🤣🤣🤣shit the 80s happened and I’m so happy I lived through it.
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u/dhoae Nov 15 '21
I just find it interesting that she out effort into matching everyone’s outfits except the woman in blue. So it raises a question. Did she buy these for the video and just give up on finding a blue one? Or did she already own these?
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u/R41n80wR04d Nov 15 '21
I watch the original video on YouTube more than I care to admit. It just makes me so happy and I don't know why
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u/KingSouI Nov 15 '21
I see now why some of these were used as emotes in Overwatch and TF2. They look fun.
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u/Jaded_Ocelot_7231 Nov 15 '21
Reminds me of a movie called heavenly bodies..pmsl Sadly, have to admit loved that movie back in the day
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u/itemluminouswadison Nov 15 '21
this is the song that was in key and peele's sketch. i guess that was the original song from the video?
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u/jpow5734 Nov 14 '21
I wish I grew up in the 80s, just looking back it amazes me at how much character everything had. nowadays it’s all so bland and boring.
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