Vintage fitness

Discover vintage fitness ideas to add a touch of nostalgia to your workout routine. Revive the past while staying active and healthy with these unique and fun ideas.

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Vintage Bodybuilder Women

Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton...1940s

Aw! This mother-son team wins the 1959 Home Olympics.

You know, back before color was around.

Seventeen Magazine 1977

Old School Women's Gym

Maybe it's just me, but when I think about women's fitness in the 1940s, I tend to imagine this: And not so much this:

The Evolution of Weightlifting

What do you envision when you here the phrase "weight lifting"? Do you perhaps picture an olympic lifter performing a feat of strength in a copiously proportioned bar of iron, or perhaps a bodybuilder practicing his bicep curls in front of a mirror?...

via fabulon

such a fun image via: www.planetfabulon.com/2009/02/no-its-not.html

Wooden treadmills and a terrifying fat wobbler: The 1920s exercise machines better suited to a torture chamber than the gym

Here FEMAIL unearth a selection of fascinating photographs of gym gear from the Gatsby era that remind us how thankful we should be for Technogym and Lycra.

40 Vintage Ladies in Ye Olde Workout Gear

Get inspired by ladies sweating in pantaloons.

Jogging was a fab fitness fad in the 60s, 70s & 80s - Click Americana

Everybody's doing it. Swingers, congressmen, housewives, businessmen, engaged couples, secretaries and kids. They're all out there jogging.

Leadenhall Market

Old school kettlebells

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Vintage fitness

Vintage Bodybuilder Women

Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton...1940s

Aw! This mother-son team wins the 1959 Home Olympics.

You know, back before color was around.

Seventeen Magazine 1977

Old School Women's Gym

Maybe it's just me, but when I think about women's fitness in the 1940s, I tend to imagine this: And not so much this:

The Evolution of Weightlifting

What do you envision when you here the phrase "weight lifting"? Do you perhaps picture an olympic lifter performing a feat of strength in a copiously proportioned bar of iron, or perhaps a bodybuilder practicing his bicep curls in front of a mirror?...

via fabulon

such a fun image via: www.planetfabulon.com/2009/02/no-its-not.html

Wooden treadmills and a terrifying fat wobbler: The 1920s exercise machines better suited to a torture chamber than the gym

Here FEMAIL unearth a selection of fascinating photographs of gym gear from the Gatsby era that remind us how thankful we should be for Technogym and Lycra.

40 Vintage Ladies in Ye Olde Workout Gear

Get inspired by ladies sweating in pantaloons.

Jogging was a fab fitness fad in the 60s, 70s & 80s - Click Americana

Everybody's doing it. Swingers, congressmen, housewives, businessmen, engaged couples, secretaries and kids. They're all out there jogging.

Leadenhall Market

Old school kettlebells