I just picked up a second hand copy of Jane Fonda's Workout Book.
I'll admit that I gravitated to the orange cover with gold embossed spine. It also satisfied my eighties dance wear fascination...time to get the leg warmers out!
I particularly love the section on what music Jane recommends for the work out: "When I travel and can't carry records or there's no stereo, I just bring my tape and a small tape recorder and I'm all set".
Ohhhh I am starting to reminisce about tape decks and winding the tape back through the holes with a ball point pen when it would get stuck.
At the beginning of each chapter Jane has a song list for each section and the music is classic early 80s fodder: Donna Summer, Irene Cara (Fame!), Box Scaggs... even the London Symphony Orchestra's "Theme from Star Wars"...
The nice thing though is discovering music I have never heard of - songs by Kara Bonoff and Judy Collins. I have a particular soft spot for this album cover of Kara Bonoff's from lyricspond.com.
It's all very Kate Bush meets Sarah Moon - particularly feeling the hair comb too.
