Get Your Punk Ass in Shape

Forget salsa workouts or striptease exercises - it looks like Punk Rock Aerobics is the latest exercise trend to come to a gym (or your own living room) near you. A Daily News reporter tries out the workout's moves which were made up by Maura Jasper and Hilken Mancini when they listened to punk rock while watching Richard Simmons. Well, genius has to strike somewhere. It doesn't seem like there are breaks for cigarettes, drinking, or all-around hell-rasing, but since it's Punk Rock Aerobics, Gothamist assumes you can do whatever the hell you want. The definition of PRA (click image at right) does ring true with Gothamist because if there's one thing Gothamist does hate, it's the women who wear full-on make-up when they work up - it just doesn't make sense!

Punk Rock Aerobics comes to NY on May 6 at the Virgin Megastore in Union Square. In the meantime, there is the book that shows J Mascis doing the "Face Down Butt Lift" and has interviews with many rockers, such as Hugo Burnham of Gang of Four.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on March 30, 2004 9:24 AM

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sar

hi@you people are assholes. How is it not a good idea? If it gets people who wouldn't normally get off their asses and work out.. then it is a good thing..

cheap_trick

I think PRA is the best idea ever

cinetrix

Hey, I've been doing PRA for more than a year, and it still kicks my ass. But now I can do 20 Puss-ups and more than 100 crunches on the sticky floor of a club--when I'm still hung over. Think ripped Iggy rolling around in broken glass. That's punk rock aerobics.

Ronnie Jotten

Commenters who use "like" and "totally," similar to California valley girls, are not punk rock.

Meg

I hate the VPL...what's so bad about wearing a thong to a work out?

Jen

Aw, thanks, guys, that's why Gothamist has readers like you! So we know not only when we misspell, but find out about things that are passe! All the same, I'm not sorry that we're slow to the uptake - Bubb Rubb is still golden.