Jazzercise™
[related: LA Fitness]
Portmanteau of "jazz" and "exercise" - refers to a revolutionary fitness franchise launched in the early 1970's by Judi Sheppard Missett, a former puppeteer and lifelong Seventh Day Adventist. Jazzercise™ initially gained significant market share through the dissemination of [poorly dubbed] VHS cassettes available through late night infomercials. The franchise peaked in popularity via its inclusion in Knight Ridder's Viewtron system and swiftly fell from popularity in the mid-to-late 1980's, paralleling the public's [almost overnight] jettisoning of quiet storm jazz. Jazzercise™ experienced a brief resurgence in the late 1990's with the advent of the HealthGoth lifestyle trend, culminating in a brief and ill-fated brand partnership with LA Fitness. Missett had by that point renounced all secular music as a product of the Occult, leading to the launch of [REDACTED] - a series of evangelical exercise CD's scored by the Seventh Day Adventist progressive rock group the Grainfield Cleopas.
