Are you interested in how women's exercise has changed over the past 100 years? Then Benenden Health's 100-second retrospective video '100 years of fitness' is perfect for you. From graceful stretching, because it was unbecoming for a woman to sweat at the beginning of the 20th century, to today's energetic and sweat-filled wiggle.
Video "100 years of fitness" is a retrospective of women's exercise over the past 100 years. It started innocently enough. Between 1910 and 1920, physical exercise was limited to gentle stretching, but when hula hoops became popular in the fifties, exercise also began to be perceived as something fun.
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Well, it didn't really become fun until the 1970s, when Broadway star Judi Sheppard Missett introduced "Jazzercise", a workout that is a combination of aerobics and jazz dance. This opened the door to many other musical genres, which mainly accelerated the rhythm (hip-hop, samba,...) and it also gave birth to zumba, a dance fitness program that young and old are turning to today.
