Are you a woman of a certain age – say in your mid-30s or 10 to 20 years older or more – who likes to exercise to keep fit and manage your PCOS weight?
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But do you feel uncomfortable when put through your paces in the company of others by a perky, hard-bodied, super-fit female in her 20s?
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If your answer is yes to both questions, you’re in good company. Research by the exercise industry shows that many women over 35 prefer to exercise in private with a DVD instructor who’s closer to same age as they are.
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The average buyer of an exercise home video is a 45-year-old woman. Now a new trend reflecting this age group has emerged, namely a demand for older on-screen female instructors whose ages include those in their 50s.
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Ever since Jane Fonda released her first, age-defying VHS in 1982, the emphasis of exercise videos and DVDs has been on acquiring a body that belies a person’s real age, with the instructors more than likely to be young. Twenty-five years on, many older women, who either caught the exercise bug courtesy of those original Fonda tapes, or are new to exercise, still want to look buff.
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But these days they prefer to be taught via a DVD in private by women who have had similar life experiences. That means female instructors who may have given birth several times and then struggled with a weight problem – and whose current healthy glow and still-slim appearance in their 30, 40s, 50s and beyond is due to the discipline of exercise and good diet, rather than plastic surgery or Botox.
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Whatever their individual experiences, older woman exercisers apparently feel better working out with someone who projects a body image on a TV screen that is feasible for females in more mature age groups.
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“If you’re down in your basement following someone, you like the idea that they look like you,” said Denise Brown, editor-in-chief of Fitness magazine.
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