Witness History
Witness History
BBC World Service
The Jane Fonda Workout
8 minutes Posted Apr 3, 2017 at 12:50 am.
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In April 1982 the film star Jane Fonda launched her first workout video - encouraging millions of women to "go for the burn". Hear how the idea of home workouts took off, and why she felt such a compulsion to exercise.

Photo: Jane Fonda on the red carpet for the Annual Academy Awards 2013. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images