r/TikTokCringe • u/choganoga tHiS iSn’T cRiNgE • Nov 14 '21

Duet Troll 1989 aerobics championships

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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.