Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? What didn’t the 1980s give us? There was Jane Fonda and her aerobics ...

Women's Health may earn commission from the links on this page, but we only feature products we believe in. Why Trust Us? It may be 2021, but not since the actual decade has the ’80s been more ...

Fonda made fashion—and fitness—history when she chose the outfit. She was inspired by the outfits that ballerinas wore, and paired the leotard with tights and leg warmers on the cover. The book was ...

The ’80s definitely had it going on with fitness gear and workout accessories. Working out in the 1980s was all about fitness, sure, but it was also about looking awesome while getting into shape.

In this era of yoga pants, it’s easy to forget the leotard—early active-wear that required the confidence of a naked emperor. Named after Jules Léotard, a 19th-century French acrobat (and a man), the ...