{"id":100827,"date":"2014-11-10T17:53:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=100827"},"modified":"2014-11-10T23:24:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:24:28","slug":"taylor-swifts-shake-it-off-and-1988-aerobics-championship-is-the-best-music-workout-video-ever-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/taylor-swifts-shake-it-off-and-1988-aerobics-championship-is-the-best-music-workout-video-ever-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift&#8217;s Shake It Off and 1988 Aerobics Championship is the Best Music-Workout Video Ever Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/111227574\" height=\"278\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thank you to whomever is responsible for this incredible video mash-up because it&#8217;s basically the only thing we want to watch or listen to right now!<\/p>\n<p>You guys, this is a real thing that happened: the 1988 Crystal Light National Aerobic Championship Opening. It&#8217;s fabulous. It&#8217;s everything we tried to block out about the 80s and yet it&#8217;s everything we wish could still exist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100828\" alt=\"1988-Crystal-Light-National-Aerobic-Championship-Opening\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-Crystal-Light-National-Aerobic-Championship-Opening.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-Crystal-Light-National-Aerobic-Championship-Opening.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-Crystal-Light-National-Aerobic-Championship-Opening-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over that video that someone salvaged from a dark, cold place where old aerobics go to die &#8212; Taylor Swift. That <em>sick beat <\/em>from her explosive new hit <em>Shake It Off\u00a0<\/em>was seemingly written precisely for this aerobics routine nearly 30 years late.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s some Back to the Future time warp stuff we&#8217;re trying to wrap our heads around.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100829\" alt=\"taylor-swift-shake-cheerleader\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/taylor-swift-shake-cheerleader.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/taylor-swift-shake-cheerleader.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/taylor-swift-shake-cheerleader-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s perfect. Dozens of spandex leotard-clad women and men prance out on to the stage to perform their choreographed aerobics-dance off routine. No idea what electronic beats would have been playing in this video, but the way <em>Shake It Off <\/em>syncs makes this a better music video than<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM\" target=\"_blank\">the official one<\/a> <\/strong>T. Swift likely paid millions to produce.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100830\" alt=\"1988-aerobics-men\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-aerobics-men.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-aerobics-men.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-aerobics-men-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-100831\" alt=\"1988-aerobics-women\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-aerobics-women.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-aerobics-women.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/1988-aerobics-women-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care what your personal feelings are toward aerobics and\/or Taylor Swift&#8230; even a hater&#8217;s gonna love this clip. And if your workout doesn&#8217;t have nearly as much pizzazz as these national champion-level aerobics practitioners, <em>Shake It Off <\/em>has 160 beats per minute. That&#8217;s a serious runner or indoor cycling class rhythm for you to sweat-sweat-sweat sweat it off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"all about that bass review\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/you-can-be-all-about-that-bass-and-the-treble-too\/\">You Can be All About That Bass (and the Treble, too)! <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"food and fitness puns\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/17-most-lol-food-and-fitness-puns-featuring-michelle-obama\/\">17 Most LOL Food &amp; Fitness Puns &#8212; Featuring Michelle Obama<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"body image power songs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/3-body-image-power-songs-every-woman-needs-to-hear-and-believe-right-now\/\">3 Body Image Power Songs Every Woman Needs to Hear<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/111227574\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift &#8211; &#8220;Shake it Off&#8221; to 1989 Aerobic Championship dancing<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user22159933\" target=\"_blank\">moreClaremore<\/a> on Vimeo.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you to whomever is responsible for this incredible video mash-up because it&#8217;s basically the only thing we want to watch or listen to right now! You guys, this is a real thing that happened: the 1988 Crystal Light National &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/taylor-swifts-shake-it-off-and-1988-aerobics-championship-is-the-best-music-workout-video-ever-made\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,58],"tags":[439,26,1903,8440,247,9529],"class_list":["post-100827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","category-womens-health","tag-aerobics","tag-celebrities","tag-crystal-light","tag-homepage","tag-music","tag-taylor-swift"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100827"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100833,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100827\/revisions\/100833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}