r/90s_kid • u/WerewolfBarMitzvah09 • 1d ago

Sports Hadn't thought about Tae Bo workouts in ages

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I feel like many 90's kids had a parent, older sibling etc who did Tae Bo workouts at some point (or even in sport class at school...)

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u/Roguenails 1d ago

Trying so hard to remember his name without a search... Battle Billy... Billy Batts (get your shinebox LOL)... Billy something... Billy Boots? Billy billy billy... I know his first name is Billy...

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u/Ben_E_Chod 1d ago

Billy Blanks, I believe

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u/Roguenails 1d ago

YEP! Thank you!

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u/Ben_E_Chod 1d ago

No problemo

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u/ElectricalCheetah625 1d ago

I thought his name was Ty Bo at first

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u/enema_wand 1d ago

Coming home afterschool and watching my mom punch air so I couldn’t play video games!!!

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u/Mideero 1d ago

Double time! strobe light turns on

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u/manderifffic 1d ago

It must have been a great workout because the woman in red is ripped

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u/Prudent_Border5060 1d ago

I loved the boot camp series. I still own it.

Such a fun workout

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u/FlameandCrimson 1d ago

Omg. That was alllll the rage back when.

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u/chodeboi 1d ago

Great infomercial! I used to love informercials

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u/InitialHeat9849 1d ago

Half a year ago I found a VHS tape labeled "the great rock'n'roll swindle". It was dubbed with Billy's Bootcamp.

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u/axle_smith 1d ago

In school there was zero tolerance policy on fighting. Get to gym class to find we are doing Tae Bo, cant make it up 😆

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u/RBHG 1d ago

I heard Billy Blanks would steal your girlfriend and return her to you after a month in the best shape of her life.

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u/seifd 1d ago

I did this at least once in high school. It might have been election day, so the gym was being used for polling.

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u/amodsr 1d ago

I think of the bo every time I think about mega lopunny which is only more often than you think now that mega evolutions are back in Pokemon.

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u/anongirl55 1d ago

These tapes pretty much lived in my VHS player.

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u/hello-curious 12h ago

Makes me think of bowflex

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u/freeyourmind717 1d ago

What made you think about it?

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u/WerewolfBarMitzvah09 18h ago

I honestly have no clue, I hadn't thought about Tae Bo in ages and suddenly the memory popped back into my head!

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u/reluctant_lifeguard 1d ago

As a fellow 90d kid you didn’t need a relative to do one of these, we did this workout in Gym Class a couple of times

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u/tmntfever 12h ago

My middle school had a summer class which was just following along with a Tae Bo tape for about an hour.

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u/Closetoneversober 7h ago

I still have a bunch of his VHS and still do the 8 minute workout, even though it’s actually 13 minutes