Soviet TV morning exercise program (1987)

[flowertrue]

Surely there is a happy medium between a rampantly gay man exhorting fat people to dance and a dystopian vision of professional Russian dancers in dingy clothes whipping their legs over their heads?

[JudasLizard]

Fight capitalism with aerobics.

[Pookatube]

Is this from 3CP television?

[sophiascalpel]

such a great video and so lovely and funny comments below it... you guys made my day!

[Mr99Burns]

Skinny people, American's have alot to learn

[JohnWayneColt45]

In USA You look for party

In Soviet Russia, Party look for YOU.

[JohnnyMidnight1]

@JohnWayneColt45 In California you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, the Party finds you!

[Omegajanari]

the song in the beginning anybody?

[mcpartridgeboy]

@Omegajanari me too we need a title here gentlemnen !!!!

[Omegajanari]

@mcpartridgeboy Found it: CC Catch - I can lose my heart tonight

[mcpartridgeboy]

@Omegajanari thankyou, hahaha i like this version better hahah was funny hearing the whole song though thanbkyou

[kozmon0t]

Are you nuts? I'd rather watch a government calisthenics film from the 1940's than watch Richard Simmons

[Neptuneman07]

I love the Italio Disco songs! But the $50 budget makes Body Electric high-quality in comparison.

[intigfx]

Anyone under 45 is perfectly capable of touching his toes. Come on, comrades!

[fuckutube21]

how they expand their legs looks very soviet,, and In not even joking xD

[mcpartridgeboy]

ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN DOWLOAD THIS MUSIC FROM !!!!!

[Adam0792]

@mcpartridgeboy I got the second song off iTunes - it's Strangers by Night by C.C. Catch.

[Adam0792]

I love the music on this. Textbook 80s Soviet Union-style!

[journeyofdiscovery]

They had the same exact looking thing in America at the time! There were other fitness shows on at the time that were much flashier. Go to "Ritmic Aerobic". Same period of time.  That was a hipper show. "Ritmic" was much better than Richard Simmons! OH YES IT WAS! And Borat is B.S. He is just a Jew from England. He should have made fun of Orthodox Jews.

[pitot1988]

The good old days :)

[TheWarriorchamp]

So this from the government

[MonkeyAtTheTypewrite]

I seriously need to find out what the killer track is...

[dimaobr]

блин, а я помню подобное, только их было много в большом помещении с большими окнами, и сквозь стекла непогода

[olena241927]

@dimaobr Я тоже помню,только где-то на море и пели"День наступил и птицы певчие запели.Солнечный диск в небе.как медаль....."Песню эту В.Лащука нигде не могу найти

[dimaobr]

@olena241927 может здесь ht***tp:/***/r***utracker.org/­for***um/vi***ewto***pic.p***h­p?t=1696***633

[spacehelmetforacow]

I'll take this over Richard Simmons every day.

[yinyuanredline]

Is the first sound track CC Catch's "I Can Lose My Heart Tonight?"

[clouster75]

FUUUUUUUUU. Suddenly i love this electronic music. Where i can get some?

[nicck]

@clouster75 Try some new order. Bizarre love triangle.

[prlad85]

@nicck yeah, bizzare love triangle ON ACID.

[OrangeD00D]

We do some of these in gym. 

[Foxerz]

That tune at 0:40 is rocking. Anyone know what track that is. Its a total ipod hit for me.

[crazyvaclav]

@Foxerz I believe it is "strangers by night" by CC catch 

[yinyuanredline]

@crazyvaclav I checked that video. That song is awesome!! I love 80s music from all over the world :D

[LANBritain1]

i want to watch more - the music is really fun to listen too xD

[JohanOlsson]

looks scary =))))))))))

[tuberALEX]

This is how Soviets stayed in shape, while fat American pigs ate chips and drank cola on the couch.

[RezaShah4]

@tuberALEX while watching this.....

[SMGJohn]

YAY Soviet!

[thecharlotteness]

Lol poor man, looks like Soviet Russian program is exercising on HIM. xD

[Denizzzko]

эротическая передача для военнослужащих срочной службы

[KSTBLUES]

That music at 0:40 seconds reminds me of a Laura Branigan song - lol.

[TheLSDAddikt]

In Soviet Russia weight lose you!!!!!!!!!!

[ukrainesov21]

i remember i liked watching this stuff every Sat `n Sun morning, when I didn't have to go to school. I was 7 or 8 y.o.

Nostaldie...

[jonathanbain14]

fuck, you lived in the soviet union? jesus lol

[ukrainesov21]

Yes, I did. I spent my childhood in the SU and I swear I had wonderful times. I would never have chosen a different place to spend my childhood at if I ever had a chance to. Soviet Union Ruled!

[FreeLanceArizona]

All they need is a picture of Stalin in the background

[ParaskaBabka]

All you need is a dick in your mouth

[nickvth2009]

@ParaskaBabka All you need is have a communists slut with vodka in her mouth washing your dick.

[MrAitron]

Шо ржете, суки? Самим бы гимнастика не помешала.. Весь мир обожрали..

[betomiyazaki]

не мешало гимнастику?

[AUTubeN22]

yea do as your told in the morning russians otherwise you get goos marched to siberia

[rhinoceros9]

now russia is nothing but neo nazi punks

[CamaradaGabriel]

jajajajja i want to see grannies doing this kind of exercise

[revolct]

Sometimes I miss the cold war :)

[JustShoveJayOhBe]

i wish they had this for free in the US... instead you have to pay $X a month for cable and maybe have a channel where can watch this along with 20 minutes of dan marino nutrasystem commercials.

[GraspingReality]

that woman in the red has had too much vodka

[Andrew20a09]

Your mother need more abortations

[prlad85]

She seems pissed. Everyone else appears to be happy as hell.

Have a great day, a great night, a great week, a great month, a great autumn and a very happy and enchanting halloween! Puerto Rican Love from New York City!

[hondacattttttttttttt]

It reminds me of a locally made exercise show maybe that is because that is what it is.

[TuboCatodico84]

this reminds "1984" by george orwell

[GraspingReality]

the music is scary

[Ifuckingh8you]

I thought only americans and europeans listened to cheesy 80´s techno pop.

the USSR seemed obsessed with it going by some of the videos of that time on youtube.

[mishalo]

lol. this is CC Catch - Strangers by night, was very popular in American gay clubs back the the day...

[alHalwima]

We Soviets learned about your decadent, capitalist music and decided to reduce quality even further for ourselves to suit our communist glory. Too bad country collapsed not long afterwards. Then music got REALLY bad.

[Barndancer61]

..."Eees next: gym veear! ....verrry nice, ten qeew!"

[langreat]

I CAME!

[electroveter]

in Russian:

Ритмика и пластика,

Молодость навек

Новая гимнастика

Ритмы дискотек

Музыка, музыка, музыка

Ты отдохнуть не спеши

Это не просто гимнастика

Это зарядка души!

[electroveter]

Every issue of this program began with the song

(my rough translation from Russian into English):

Rhythm and plastic

and eternal youth

New gymnastics

Disco rhythms

Music, Music, Music...

Don't hurry to rest

This is not just a gym

It may inspire your soul

[electroveter]

I love it!

I want to find any issues of the program named "rhythic gymnastics" that was in the air of the soviet TV from 1984 to 1988.

[tsartodd]

how many of these chicks ended up getting knocked up by Russian mobsters?!?

[666j1]

The only thing missing is borat.

[Pup1234567]

borat no need excercise video he win gold medal for hitting gypsy with rock at 80 meters!!!!

lol i love that movie....

[dabilopez]

The name of the woman is LARISA PATRIK (ЛАРИСА ПЕТРИК) and she was a former USSR olympic gymnastic athlete

[dabilopez]

cool music and cool sportwear

[mtZhenya11]

cc catch

[fluffypaine]

In Soviet Russia, muscles work YOU out.

[4CaHeK]

@fluffypaine In capitalist america, bank robs YOU!

[fikdulia]

hahaha!!

[RezaShah4]

Cool Music

[privateworldofwarft]

Listen, you stupid drunk russian. You have no idea whats going on in the fucking world. You are very ignorant on what america is doing. There is a green revulation here in the united states. We are making cars that are made for green feul and batterys. WOw i am speachless on how ignorant you are. In united states our goal for the next decade is stop ziping oil and start zipping peanut oil or batterys. There been great advancments in alteritive feuls. I hop eyou enjoy your deprrsion.

[peremeesz]

I'm afraid you're right. The Russians are totally ignorant of things green, recycling, saving energy, domestic waste management, everything. I'm Finnish myself and it pisses me off how they expect others to help process their waste they're pouring into the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea which are dying because of they either just don't get it or just don't care which of course is even worse.

[privateworldofwarft]

Yea glad you agree

[patrikasLTL]

i simply cannot believe how dumb and sheepish people are, dont take this personally. as a man who knows chemistry decently i say its fuckin retarded. alcohol, vegetable oil and gasoline are aalllll carbohydrates/carbon based. when they burn they emmit CO2 no matter what (except for hydrogen). lead and other shit is minor.

PS: USA produces a third of the world's greenhouse gasses. USA consumes 40% of world's gross domestic product and only creates 20%. WHO'S ACCOUNT IS USA LIVING ON????

[privateworldofwarft]

Its still a lot cleaner then pokin a hole in the earth.

[somedudeinva]

How can it consume 2x the GDP it makes?

Where the hell are you getting these numbers?

[patrikasLTL]

have you heard about the federal reserve system- central bank in USA? founded in 1906. it's owned by private persons and has the LEGAL right to print dollars. imagine if you were the owner of THE dollar- you're definately not a saint, you would overprint.

but the key thing about it is that 1971 the number of dollars and the USA's gold deposits have been LEGALY UNLINKED. since 1971 those people can print as much dollars as they want and USA can own anything. do reseach people, fight the machine.

[somedudeinva]

Oh btw making ethanol from corn is uneconomical. Industrial ethanol is much cheaper to make from hydration of ethylene which is made in a cracking system.

Signed,

A REAL chemist.

[privateworldofwarft]

I can promise you one thing we won't be importing oil from outside the country will be the result.

[privateworldofwarft]

Really? Did you know we still have the largest grossing GDP? Did you know europe and america will be making there own fual. So russia oil will be worthless. which means russia will sink deeper. Did you know that the Russian army is shit and hire out there soldiers to male prostitution.

[GTXMAN]

Why do you hate russia so much bro?

Russia had so much shit going on,collapse of the soviet union,tzars etc.

[privateworldofwarft]

How can anything from Russia be better then the niggas in da ghetto. All there shit is censored.

[nefandix]

must of you dont know, but in a subliminal sense, this video was made for recruiting soldiers for afganistan.

[nefandix]

soviet asses

[boogiman738]

to nefandix

you asses

[MetallicaRepublic]

retarded

[mubd1234]

Wake up, comrades AND EXERCISE BEFORE YOU GO TO YOUR METAL WORKING FACTORIES OR ELSE WE WILL SEND YOU TO THE GULAG!

[ccm98]

иногда лучше жевать, чем говорить

[mubd1234]

HEIL STALIN

[SonOfJeice]

I can't read or speak russian, but:

сколько лент советского телевидения существует в архивах?

[hndaman2000]

I find this strangely.......arousing must make more soviet babies.

[sside30]

Advantage US my arse !

[betomiyazaki]

to wake up to the comrades xD

[sside30]

Has to be the best video on YouTube - love it, especially the music.

[DCussen]

Wrong - the American workout videos had the skimpy outfits with the leg warmers with much better looking ladies. Advantage: US (again)

[AmersfoortTristan]

Fact is- it doesn't look any different from western tv in the 1980's.

(which is quite a surprise for a westerner like me that was still raised with awkward feelings for the Eastern Bloc)

[subwayminder]

Its a cool beats in begining =)))

Like modern Electrohouse))

Good music!

(hello from Russia)

[Jibbie49]

This looks more like what Jack LaLanne was teaching us in the 50-60's as Richard Simmons NEVER did exercises like this. Jack is now 93 and is in fantastic health and works out two hours every single morning. He has lived what he taught.

[AmersfoortTristan]

Raz, dva, tri, chetyre

Raz, dva, tri, chetyre

Raz, dva, tri, chetyre

"Tovarishi"

[lpoursoi]

this must have been around the time when gorby tried to get the soviet people to stop drinking and get into shape. unfortunately for USSR, the restrictions on the sale of alcohol meant a tremendous lost of revenue for the USSR budget! perhaps a contributing factor in its decline as well...

[noel0083]

glasnost kicked ass!

[TeamSTALKERS]

Raz, dva, tri, chetyre

Raz, dva, tri, chetyre

Raz, dva, tri, chetyre

[SBTelevision]

You are 100% right!

THANK YOU!

Now...only if iTunes carried her music.

[foxxyloxx]

iTunes doesn't carry her music, but Limewire might. Check it out.

[mmoscowguy]

but check on youtube

there are lots of videos of C.C.Catch and these songs as well

[kbyk0v]

damn, i remember hungry soviet 80's :) these girls never shaved their legs and other places.

[Biffbradford]

Great toe pointing. Former gymnast??

[BrezhnevIsMyCoPilot]

I suspect they are ballerinas--just look at the shoes...

[Hoooyeeeaaah321]

rofl

[Stevenup7004]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­!1!11!11!11!! :(, wake up comrades, get fit or die >:(

[Alexgeo4975]

I really don't understand the "whistling" sound in the music in the first part of the video...

[mmoscowguy]

hehehhe

its the pieces of songs of C.C.Catch... they used it in these aerobics

you can try to find her songs on youtube

these extracts taken from "I Can Lose My Heart Tonight" and "Strangers By Night" by C.C.Catch

[subwayminder]

C.C.Catch is cool

[Mobius4077]

its like the fitness show from hell.

[KeisanJ]

it's good exercise i will try it~~

[SBTelevision]

A cyclorama set is pretty much a seamless wall/floor used for television or stage productions. You can't really tell where the wall ends and the floor/stage begins.

They are fun to run up on...I had one in our television studio in college, and one in my high school drama class (I think)

[Trabantino]

We want more kitsch programs like that! Ah...the 80's...

[patmix]

gr8 ussr vintage

yeah i like that

[fidis]

ever wondered why russian women are so thin?...

[mistarcraw]

trippy...

[JollyRoger1969]

In Soviet Russia We work you out !

lol

[ProductionX]

Still, probably no different to what I was seeing done on local PBS channels in my youth (the music's pretty good and I like the cyclorama set).

[lfholtz]

I´m sorry, but what is "Cyclorama Set"?

Many thanks