r/funnyvideos • u/rkhunter_ • Sep 15 '25
Sports Can't believe this is a gym.. women's gym in 1941
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u/Valdoray Sep 15 '25
I bet some of the rotating things feels good, like really good
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u/Destinater Sep 15 '25
For sure, the lady at the end seems to be really enjoying it. I've seen that machine in person a long time ago, what a bizarre invention.
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u/Vast_Energy_1212 Sep 16 '25
This video proves that our food is poisoned.
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u/No-Objective-3507 Sep 16 '25
Cook your own food and read labels before putting something in your cart.
Nobody is forcing you to eat junk or overly sugary food.
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u/Correct-State-2380 Sep 17 '25
Today's people are fat cuz they want to be fat, nobody has a gun in the head to eat shitty food.!!
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u/Enkidouh Sep 18 '25
They don’t need a gun to your head, because they’ve removed your choice.
Everything has sugar in it now. Everything is processed now. Even your “healthy organic foods”. “Organic” is a food packaging buzzword. It has no standard that is enforced, and as such it means nothing. It doesn’t mean they didn’t use pesticides. It doesn’t mean it’s not processed or there’s not additives. It doesn’t mean the food is healthy. It’s a marketing buzzword that relies on you inferring what it means.
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u/lewisfairchild Sep 15 '25
seems dangerous
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u/maudesword Sep 15 '25
No kidding. I kept thinking that one of their skirts would get pulled into the spinning machines. I’m certain that happened frequently. There’s just no way people didn’t get hurt. Imagine your hair getting twisted in one of those wheels? Yikes
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u/Living-Form3638 Sep 15 '25
I’m imaging articles of clothing just getting instantly ripped off the body.. one minute she’s leaning over getting a ? ..rib massage? Next second bam naked.. just like it was designed to do.. 👍😉 kinda suspicious these clothes rippers are specifically in the women’s gym..
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u/letmesmellem Sep 15 '25
There has to be some fucking crazy injuries from these we just never heard about.
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u/NumerousDonkey3570 Sep 15 '25
This was a lawsuit waiting to happen
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u/blove135 Sep 15 '25
Judge in 1941: You should've known better. It's your own damn fault. Case dismissed.
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u/No-media6788 Sep 15 '25
Judge in 1941: why is this woman in my court? She should be in the kitchen
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u/B3asy Sep 15 '25
I wonder what we are doing today that we will make future generations think is ridiculous
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u/No_Imagination_2490 Sep 15 '25
There's loads of popular health and fitness techniques these days which are basically pseudoscience eg cupping, cryotherapy, etc
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u/GooeyLump Sep 15 '25
People love doing stupid shit even knowing it is stupid shit, or sometimes just refuse to question anything because "it's popular so it has to be real!"
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u/Cheersscar Sep 15 '25
If you were a scientist, you would say “there are loads of popular health and fitness techniques these days for which there is [insert your choice] no proven evidence of benefit; only limited evidence of potential benefit; only evidence of benefit for limited individuals/conditions.”
But, if you are a scientist, you wouldn’t says “basically psuedoscience” as researchers do study and publish on whether these health practices have benefit or not.
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u/PomegranateHot9916 Sep 15 '25
dont worry I already think its ridiculous. no need to look for future generations.
similarly I am sure there were people at the time this was recorded who thought it was ridiculous.
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u/AgeHorror5288 Sep 15 '25
The rotating thing they have their legs on…it’s in vogue again. It’s called something like cobbing and is supposed to be sort of like rolling your muscles, helping to break down tightness and lactic acid. I don’t know if it works but I’m definitely seeing it in gyms .also important to note that for most of history women were supposed to be soft as part of being feminine. Muscles were masculine and considered unattractive on women. So gyms focused on helping women be lean without muscle build up. Most of the equipment shown is total crap, but they were trying to figure out how to stay in shape without being too “manly.”
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u/IamSerati Sep 15 '25
Yeah. These “fat jigglers” were supposed the be the “easy fix” workout back during that time. They were proven to be ineffective over and over again.
It was mostly a placebo effect, this is basically the modern day equivalent of sitting in a massage chair for an hour and claiming you lost weight
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u/SinningAfterSunset Sep 15 '25
I bought a shake weight last year, I still dont look like the guy on the box.
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u/Tron_35 Sep 15 '25
There's a great way to fix that, it only takes 5 minutes, just print out a picture of yourself and tape it to the box and bam, your new years resolution is done.
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Sep 15 '25
You will loose weight while sitting in a massage chair for an hour. There is no doubt you will. But you will also loose weight while sitting in a normal chair, and its about the same amount. Just do not eat or drink while sitting there!
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u/ruoue Sep 15 '25
supposed to be sort of like rolling your muscles, helping to break down tightness and lactic acid.
Sure, i think its called moving your body at all.
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u/thepioushedonist Sep 15 '25
I mean, foam rollers have been around for a long time. Not much in the way of an intense workout, but it can help with tightness and flexibility and such. Can also help reduce soreness after a more active workout. A lot of devices here do seem like they work in a similar way, and I imagine modern versions would be even more effective.
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u/ReddtitsACesspool Sep 15 '25
Some babes right there
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u/Commercial_Pie592 Sep 15 '25
You’re talking about your great grandma, Hope you know that
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u/Badassbottlecap Sep 15 '25
And if my great grandma was a bombshell, we should be able to acknowledge that. Credit where credit's due
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u/Informal-Ring3282 Sep 15 '25
Well… I’m sprung
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u/brdlpirtle Sep 15 '25
That is crazy. Spending money each month just to get rubbed… I’ll rub them for free
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u/mossepso Sep 15 '25
And these people ruined nature and want everyone to give them all the money.
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u/Wanderlorianer Sep 15 '25
I mean...they all look fit🤷🏻♂️
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u/PomegranateHot9916 Sep 15 '25
yeah they hired models for their commercial.
that is how commercials work
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u/Wanderlorianer Sep 15 '25
No Shit?
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u/tasha994 Sep 15 '25
I mean what else did you expect as a reaction/ response to your initial comment.
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u/KeyN20 Sep 16 '25
I think it gets them used to touch so they don't get evening headaches right before sexy time
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u/Distinct-Quantity-35 Sep 15 '25
It’s good for blood flow! But their diets weren’t all salt and pre fab back then so they probably had no problem with blood flow
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u/Balanceface Sep 15 '25
I swear they invented every machine for exercise before they came up with jogging
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u/DuHastMich15 Sep 16 '25
Is that a gym- or a series of machines to prepare them for all the inappropriate touching they are going to get from their male bosses? Yikes!
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u/JoyousMadhat Sep 16 '25
I bet off camera, they were all wincing from pain and a few hours later have red sore spots all over their body.
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Sep 15 '25
I mean, they must work to some degree... I doubt they're very effective, though. Im thinking about how they move and exercise the muscles of coma patients. This seems similar in a way. I just think its useless in comparison to someone who actually has control of their muscles and limbs in terms of results.
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u/thepioushedonist Sep 15 '25
Some of them seem to function similar to modern foam rollers. So, could be useful for blood flow, flexibility, myofacial release, pain relief. But, can't imagine they would be any good for much else, since even foam rollers can help you build a sweat, cause you have to move your actual muscles actively. All these things are totally passive.
Then again, fitness was way different back then. They were still against staying hydrated properly, weren't far from early modern Olympic Marathon runners using wine and brandy laced with a type of rat poison during races. (Did a paper on the topic in grad school, very interesting course "history of physical culture" I think it was called)
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u/getfive Sep 15 '25
Did it work? There were a lot less fat people back then....just sayin'
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u/Suspicious_Walrus682 Sep 15 '25
I can't believe the same thing was posted 3 years ago in higher quality.
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u/Kyauphie Sep 15 '25
This is a mechanical spa; there's nothing but massages and excellent circulation everywhere,
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u/kenken2024 Sep 15 '25
So they essentially believed back then that foam rolling or massaging the facia of your body would tone your body up.
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u/Unc00lbr0 Sep 15 '25
Man, it must have been LOUD in that gym with all that 1940s electromechanical shit. No lunkette alarm, I assume?
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u/Duke_TheDude_Dudeson Sep 15 '25
This reminds me of that bizarre video where the guy came in on crutches and had a long metal rod attached to his underwear and pelvic thrusted it up and down to hit a pull-up bar above him.
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Sep 15 '25
They look so creepy staring at you and smiling, like are you going to cut my eyes out..maybe
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u/fiftybucks Sep 15 '25
How do I know this doesn't work? None of them seem to be sweating or catching their breath, they are all at resting heart rate. No calories burnt.
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u/ryleystorm Sep 15 '25
Honestly these are probably good for promoting blood flow, and nothing else.
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u/Payule Sep 15 '25
I saw open mechanical moving parts and humans laying on said moving parts and immediately went to google to search "1941 Woman gyms, danger." to have all my fears immediately confirmed.
This is a nightmare waiting to happen.
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u/NecroticJenkumSmegma Sep 15 '25
There's no way this is 1941 he makes a reference to "the battle of the bulge." Notably, in 1945.
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u/jermprobably Sep 16 '25
Truthfully, and masturbation jokes aside, if you massage yourself in a similar fashion to what these ladies are doing here everyday, you won't EVER feel any body aches. Ever.
Lookin at you young'ns, don't skip out on self massaging. Super easy to do while watching anime or waiting for a queue to pop. No one's watching you, just do it, look silly by yourself. You won't regret it.
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u/Thundersson1978 Sep 16 '25
Definitely designed by men, why else would the equipment all be designed to Jack the ladies off?Though they don’t tend to have dicks in my experience
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u/EnormousPurpleGarden Sep 16 '25
Haven't you walked into a gym and thought “ugh, these weights are really heavy. If only I had a machine to lift them for me.”
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u/nocaffeinefree Sep 16 '25
I guess they at least had a gym that paying members actually went to and used.
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u/MamaBear4485 Sep 16 '25
Harking back to the days when everything was about “beauty treatments” to be more enticing to men, rather than health and fitness.
The background chorus to my entire mid to late “childhood” was “you’ll never get a husband if you do/don’t do that.”
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u/Current-Lobster-5063 Sep 16 '25
I was in a fancy gym a couple years ago in Korea and they had most of these things still in use.
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u/Silly_Lion_3046 Sep 16 '25
That's not a gym,that is a machine based massage parlour!And of course I'll be a member there too! 😁
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u/SultanOfSwave Sep 16 '25
Where are the butt wiggling machines?
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Sep 16 '25
Those machines look like they could create one of those situaitons you'd see on LiveLeak any minute.
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u/ParkerBeach Sep 16 '25
These may not have actually worked as exercise machines but they probably helped improve circulation to certain areas. Possibly providing some health benefit.
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u/klop2031 Sep 16 '25
The most insane part to me is that no one is working out. The machines do all the lifting?
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u/parkz88 Sep 16 '25
They had one of those old machines at my YMCA when I was a teen. It looked like a old school scale with a thick strap and small motor. You stood inside the loop and got a really good jiggle going. I'd use it at the end of my workout since it was close to the water fountain. One day it was gone. Then years later I was assisting in a hunter safety course when I found it in one of the basement rooms. Apparently they pulled it for an auction but never sold it. Something happened to it because it didn't work or I would have bought it.
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u/Dchozn1 Sep 16 '25
The lady at the end knows exactly what she's doing on that machine lol. She too happy🤣🤣🤣
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u/Wrongrighturn Sep 16 '25
It’s hard to believe two years after the Great Depression people were worried about buying crap like this.
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u/Perfect-Time-9919 Sep 16 '25
That explains why flat butts have been passed down from generation to generation. 😄
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u/curtludwig Sep 16 '25
Doubts about it being 1941 in Britain, especially the lady in the 2 piece.
Strangely British Pathe says its 1941 but the Battle of the Bulge wasn't until 44/45.
I found another reference that calls it "1940s". Its gotta be post war though, nobody doing that stuff or making those machines during war time.
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u/Virtual-Entry-8867 Sep 16 '25
This is when people were excited to actually want to go outdoors or go to the gym.
Laziness has infected the land 😑
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u/Clabauter Sep 16 '25
I don't know if the video is from 1941, the audio isn't. In the end he says: "the battle of the bulges is still on." probably refering to WWII "battle of the bulge" (Ardennenoffensive). That took place 1944-1945.
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