{"id":97156,"date":"2014-03-28T20:27:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T01:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=97156"},"modified":"2014-03-28T20:40:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T01:40:09","slug":"humans-and-poodles-make-the-absolute-most-bizarre-workout-video-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/humans-and-poodles-make-the-absolute-most-bizarre-workout-video-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans and Poodles Make the Absolute Most Bizarre Workout Video Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vdX_OBUeHb4\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Truly, we&#8217;ve never seen anything like this. And after you take a moment to question whether or not it&#8217;s real, you&#8217;ll get <strong><a title=\"summer abs workout\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/sexy-summer-abs-circuit-workout\/circuit-training-for-summer-abs\/\">a serious ab workout<\/a> <\/strong>from the belly-wrenching laughter.<\/p>\n<p>According to the description on this surreal three-minute clip, it&#8217;s a &#8220;word-for-word parody of Susan Powter&#8217;s first workout video.&#8221; You remember her, the early-90s fitness star who coined the term <em>Stop the Insanity!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The actress, Mariko Takahashi, is quite convincing as having the most outrageous plastic surgery of all time, until you realize it&#8217;s a body suit modeled after the poof-balls on a well-groomed poodle.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"poodle human workout\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/humans-and-poodles-make-the-absolute-most-bizarre-workout-video-ever\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-97157\" alt=\"poodle human workout\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/poodle-human-workout.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/poodle-human-workout.jpg 610w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/poodle-human-workout-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her back-up exercisers, essential to any quality workout video, are humans in dog suits. (Spoiler Alert!) Live dog heads have been superimposed over the costume heads; just for added freak-show drama!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariko_Takahashi%27s_Fitness_Video_for_Being_Appraised_as_an_%22Ex-fat_Girl%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Poodle Exercise video<\/a><\/strong> was part of a 10-film series created for Panasonic and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, what else is there to say? It&#8217;s so insane that it really just speaks for itself.<\/p>\n<p>Kind of like this little gem of animal-inspired fitness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QitgZ5gnK-o\" height=\"338\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"prancercise video\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/prancercise-is-the-harlem-shake-for-fitness-buffs-and-horses\/\">Prancercise: A Fitness Workout Inspired by Horses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><a title=\"best jillian michaels dvd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/the-top-5-jillian-michaels-workouts-of-all-time\/\">5 Best Jillian Michaels DVDs<\/a><\/strong> combined aren&#8217;t even half as entertaining as the first thirty seconds of Poodles <em>or<\/em> Prancercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truly, we&#8217;ve never seen anything like this. And after you take a moment to question whether or not it&#8217;s real, you&#8217;ll get a serious ab workout from the belly-wrenching laughter. According to the description on this surreal three-minute clip, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/03\/humans-and-poodles-make-the-absolute-most-bizarre-workout-video-ever\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5588,8440,35,3438],"class_list":["post-97156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-dog","tag-homepage","tag-olympics","tag-workout-dvds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97156","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97159,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97156\/revisions\/97159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}