What do you think of when someone mentions Jazzercise?
Is it the picture of an insanely high-waisted pinkleotard?
Or is it a bleach blonde housewife sporting a voluminous perm?
Jazzercise may be easy to spoof.
Or written off as a hot trend that died at the end of the ’80s.
This was in 1973 after Missett and her family had moved to San Diego.
And spread the craze by taking their Jazzercise skills with them (perSan Diego Union-Tribune).
Let’s explore more of the rich history of Jazzercise.
Missett was a student at Northwestern University in the ’60s.
She believed it was because people were more interested inphysical fitnessthan learning technical dance moves.
We just want to look like them."
Again, it may be easy to push Jazzercise into a dusty corner housing previous fitness fads.
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Missett has tattooed her mark on American culture for decades.
And her love for the original boutique fitness craze feels like genetic.
The company is still showing impressive growth including 8,500 franchises in 25 countries.
In a high waisted leotard?
That, we can’t verify.
