Describe your silliest workout outfit ever!

TarHeelMom

TarHeelMom

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Hi y'all! I just posted a note to Wanda over at the thread about Susan Harris ("Old School FIRM fans...") and it inspired me to start this thread, which I hope we'll all have a little fun with.

Ladies and gentlemen, please describe for us in honest, brutal detail the SILLIEST workout outfit you ever bought and wore. :)

Okay, I'll go first. To get the whole picture, you have to visualize my body type -- I'm 5'4" and boyishly shaped, by which I mean that I am and always will be a rectangle, no matter how much oblique work I do. :) I have no fanny, no waist, and a small ... well, what my son used to call "chestal area." I'm also short-waisted, long-armed and long-legged.

Now. I once had a gift certificate to a dance store given to me by a sister-in-law, and I used it to purchase the following, which I (surely having what must have been a Cathe "outer body experience" ;-)) chose to wear repeatedly to do my FIRM videos. Picture this ensemble, if you will, on my little geometric body.

White white BLINDING white footless tights.
Black leg warmers.
Capezio low-rise white dance shoes (a la Susan Harris, FIRM Vol. I) which HAD to be worn with footie socks.
THONG-style leotard (and mind you, I cannot abide thongs) with wide straps, scoop neck and a very low back (as in, the waistband of the tights wanted to show).
Pattern on the leotard was LEOPARD SPOTS ON TURQUOISE BACKGROUND.
AND -- are you ready, folks? -- I topped this get-up off with a 3-inch wide WHITE elastic "fitness belt." :eek:

Okay, who can admit to something MORE humiliating than this?????

http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/sport/sport-smiley-003.gif Kathy S. http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/spezial/spudniks/spudniklifter.gif
 
This is fun!! LOL!! I'm going to have to dig way back in my memory ... but here goes ...

I had one of those "bikini" tops in hot pink with a black leopard print running through it, matching bikini bottoms that went over black leotards. Oh, and the matching bottom was a thong, of course! My leg warmers were hot pink, and I can't remember the shoes, but they were probably just standard white Reeboks or Avias or something. I always wore good shoes. Oh, and let's not forget the headband in hot pink, of course!! LOL!!

Carol
:)
 
LOL!! Kathy, I think we shopped at the same store. :D

My 80's nightmare workout outfit was a fluorescent green thong leotard with the high cut thigh. Also a scoop neck in the front and very low back. That was worn over a pair of knee length black tights, and topped of with the pink elastic belt.

Let's just say, it was not "good" slutty. }( }(
 
I had a metallic dark silver leotard, high cut which I wore with different pastel tights...pink, blue, etc. Had matching leg warmers (matching the tights). Don't think I ever had the headbands, but I did try wrist bands. Ugh.
 
RE: Uh-oh, I forgot about the headbands!

omg!!! You guys are funny! Fortunately I've always worked out at home...in my exercise bra and undies. Not that that is any better site since they never matched and also threw me into a panic everytime someone knocked at the door while I was working out in my underwear!

Oops, forgot to add that now that my kids are older I now still wear the exercise bra uncovered but now I wear the skimpy runners shorts OVER my undies and everyone is happy!
 
You guys were daring and very happenin'!! I wish I could've worn those tres sexy "Perfect" (aka Jamie Lee Curtis) high-cut body suits.

But no! Picture me - a stocky, 5-ft munchkin with re-fried, i.e. over-permed, hair. I wore these big, big!, hot-pink cotton ballooning trousers with an oversized long bright turquoise T-short that came to my knees. Then topped that off with a hot-pink cotton sash that matched the pants. It was a wonder I wasn't tripping over all this material. Plus, I looked like Krusty the Clown at a fat farm!

Now, it's just an Elita black bra that doubles as a regular sports bra (I don't need much support) and black shorts. KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid!)

Patricia

P.S. Disco rocks!
 
Oh man! I forgot about the wrist bands! LOL!! I remember my forearms getting numb everytime I picked up a dumbell with those things on!!

Carol
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Oh my gosh Patricia, you are really cracking me up! Krusty the Clown!!!! Okay, confession time:

I wore one of those leotards like the wrestlers wear now-a-days with the loooong straps but there is no material between the chest and waist. I then wore a crop top under that so my whole stomach area was exposed!!!! And, to think I am in better shape now then I was then! YIKES! I also wore a coordinating wide belt and matching leg warmers. Sometimes, I even had a Scrunchi (is that what they were called?) pulling half my hair up. Of course, it matched too! :7 I had BIG hair back then, bangs & all. Shoes were just your typical Nikes. Oh, the nails were always polished too. Couldn't go to class without full make-up and nails done. Hmm, I still do that!

Patricia-KISS is definitely the better choice!

Your-Friend-In-Fitness, DebbieH http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmilies.de/wavey.gif[/img] If You Get The Choice To Sit It Out Or Dance...I Hope You DANCE!!!
 
>I wore these big, big!, hot-pink
>cotton ballooning trousers with an oversized long bright
>turquoise T-short that came to my knees.

Patricia - My uncle used to tease me and refer to these pants as "fart pants", claiming that if one farted while wearing them, they'd balloon up. Aah...the memories. :) :)
 
Hey girls!

When we do our Cathe road trip (and we WILL someday), I think we ought to be required to bring and wear ONE 80's style ensemble like what we're describing. I'll have to hit the Danskin store since I've given all my stuff away. :) Wouldn't it be a hoot, though? And dare we REQUIRE our wee fearless leader to wear one of those lovely ensembles from the days of Fit 'n Firm? }( OO LA LA!!!

http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/sport/sport-smiley-003.gif Kathy S. http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung0903/spezial/spudniks/spudniklifter.gif
 
RE: Hey girls!

Kathy:

yes definitely bribe Cathe to do this and post piccies up here for all of us to hoot at!!!

Some of your outfits are hilarious!

I never had any money for "outfits", just old gym shorts, old T shirt and BABY PINK LEG WARMERS, didn't everyone have those?

Clare
 
I was 22 in 1980, so I felt authorized to wear whatever I felt like, but the outfits you described seemed so ghastly at the time, that I could not go to any classes where people wore them. I was just too macho. I took kung fu and wore silly black pants, and counted my punches in Chinese, but that was manly!

I worked out in shorts, sports bras, t-shirts, footie socks with little pompoms in the back and primitive Adidas shoes. I played racquetball, went swimming, running, biking, cross-country skiing, but noooooo aerobics classes. Those outfits were terrifying.
 
RE: Hey girls!

Oh that would be TOO much fun!! Count me in!!

Carol
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How about working out in the buff and New Balance crosstrainers?! I did that this morning.

I only worked abs!!!!
 
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