![]() ![]() Cazden’s workout was a killer, and Fonda was quickly hooked. “That’s L-e-n-i C-a-z-d-e-n,” says Fonda, spelling the name on the phone to make sure I get it right. In 1978, Fonda signed up for a dance-and-calisthenics class in Century City taught by Leni Cazden. Just before her 82nd birthday, in December 2019, Fonda was arrested for civil disobedience on Capitol Hill during a rally she organized to highlight climate change. “ set the tone for everything that came after her.” Calpito, like Fonda, turns his class into a charitable machine, raising more than $1.5 million for No Kid Hungry by soliciting donations from his regulars. “I’m a child and a student of Jane Fonda,” says Calpito. Isaac “Boots” Calpito leads the class on Instagram Live, and much of it-the leg lifts, crunches, V-sits, bridges-comes right out of the Jane Fonda playbook. One class, Torch’d by Isaac, was my lifeline during the pandemic lockdown. (“Give me some Jane Fonda!” calls instructor Ally Love during a Peloton barre session.) Over the years, it spawned imitators and acolytes, and is even experiencing a revival today on a multitude of streaming classes. Jane Fonda’s Workout went on to become one of the best-selling VHS tapes of all time, and Fonda followed the original with 21 variations. It sparked the exercise boom, the exercise-video boom, and its subset, the Hollywood Squares–style exercise-video boom (Raquel Welch, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Jenner, Debbie Reynolds). ![]() What started as a way to get fit for a bikini scene and raise money for the Campaign for Economic Democracy, a political action committee run by Fonda and her then husband, Tom Hayden, became a movement in itself. Jane Fonda’s Workout turns 40 years old this year Jane turns 85. I calmly clasped his wrist and told him to get out of there. A few months after starting both, as I charged through Grand Central Terminal to pick up lunch for my boss, a man shoved his hand into my bag and grabbed my wallet. My introduction to working out coincided with my introduction to working at my first real job. That sweet, girlie workout had a steely center, like Fonda herself. She was energetic and cheerful, and never once breathless. ![]() Jane had fluffy hair, a belted leotard, and scrunchy leg warmers. ![]()
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