About this episode

Carolina A. Miranda discusses her exploration of 1980s exercise videos and their cultural significance with host Sebastian Langdell.

In this month’s episode of Rest Day Radio, award-winning arts writer Carolina A. Miranda joins Sebastian to discuss her recent tour of 1980s exercise videos, including Buns of Steel and Jane Fonda’s Workouts.  She details the history of those franchises and analyses what drove their aesthetics versus the starker aesthetics more common today.  She also goes into how she became an arts writer and how it changed the way she sees the world, and she and Sebastian share their admiration for author Álvaro Enrigue.  Plus, she makes the case against the word “protein.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Sebastian Langdell

Guest: Carolina A. Miranda

Topics covered

• 1980s exercise videos
• aesthetics in fitness
• arts writing
• cultural analysis
• personal transformation

Keywords

• exercise videos
• Buns of Steel
• Jane Fonda
• aesthetics
• arts writing
• cultural analysis
• protein

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Buns of Steel, Jane Fonda’s Workouts

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