- There's a cheeky new workout craze.
- Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning.
- Would you ever consider participating in a workout class
where you and everybody else is completely naked?
Totes naked.
- Let me consider it for a second, no.
- Well you're gonna consider it more.
- I would not be into that idea.
- Because we're gonna talk about it today.
Because it turns out this is happening,
of course this is happening.
It's the Earth.
- Right, 2017, year of the butt.
- If you can think of it, it's probably happening
somewhere on the Earth, or those other Earths
that were discovered.
It's probably happening on some of those, too.
But this is in Southampton, England, it's called nudercise.
- Oh yeah, of course it is.
- It's all in the marketing.
And it is an hour-long class featuring, quote,
gentle boot camp style exercise with partner games.
- Uh, what?
- And teamwork, which includes jumping jacks,
sit-ups, push-ups, and partner work.
Did I mention partner work?
For only eight euro.
- Naked partner games,
that could mean a number of things.
- It's all on the up and up.
This is England.
- Okay, alright, so naked partner games
we're talking exercises.
- And there are photos.
From the article, - Oh no, come on.
- From thesun.co.uk, now we've added these black boxes
- Well for you, but not for me.
- We don't see the black boxes.
- I don't see anything, well I see,
- I'm requesting that we add black boxes,
because the blurring standards in the UK
are either really low, or they just got
no blurring skills, man, it's like so sloppy
with the blurring over there.
- I see crack for days, man.
- They don't care, they don't care.
- What is going on, what, first of all,
- That guy's not even hinging, imagine how much more
crack there is when he hinges.
- They're not in sync at all.
And that guy, he's not completely naked,
he's got knee pads on, he's cheating.
- And shoes.
- Yeah, well several of them have shoes,
oh, there is a woman.
- [Link] There is Helen Smith with the stopwatch.
She started this class.
- Oh, a woman started this class.
- Yes, after someone on a forum asked her
if it was a service she offered up.
- Yeah, a dude on a forum.
A man had to find his way into this somehow.
I'm not trying to generalize about men and women here,
but I'm just saying that this has
a dude's idea written all over it.
And a bunch of dudes thought it was a good idea,
and they all showed up at the class,
and it was a bunch of dudes showing up for the class.
- There's 10 people in the class, and one of them's
a woman, and then the instructor's a woman
with a stopwatch and nothing else.
- Any time a man says, hey, this would be better
if we were all naked, you know I mean,
- You just roll your eyes.
- You gotta know what he's thinking,
he's thinking about naked partner games.
- Right, right, right.
But let's not sell this short, or let's not overjudge this.
- Let's not poo poo on it.
- Let's hear, well if they did,
- Hopefully they don't. - You'd see it immediately.
Helen says, the main benefit of exercising naked
is that you can really see what the instructor
is doing in the exercises.
- Oh, gimme a freaking break.
Have you ever seen the tight yoga pants?
If you're talking about seeing form-fitting stuff,
I can tell what the body is doing, I don't want to know
what certain parts of the body are doing,
they're irrelevant to the exercise.
- You're not disagreeing with her, though,
so you're totally agreeing.
You can definitely see what the instructor is doing
in these exercises.
For example, if, this is still her talking,
if you're doing a plank, but wearing baggy exercise clothes
it's hard to tell if you have the correct form or not,
so this is all about the planks, y'all.
- Hold on, this is a big leap from baggy exercise clothes
to no clothes.
Let's just get tight clothes, it's already happening.
- But you know, I've been searching my soul
and my heart to try to figure out what I think about this,
and I mean, first of all, right off the bat,
my reaction is this is painfully awkward.
I mean I go into a public restroom, I don't know
where to put my eyes, what am I supposed to do,
- On yourself, man.
- I'm like looking up at the wall.
I like look up, when I'm at the row of urinals.
- Well think about me, every time I get next to somebody,
though, they're like, oh a tall dude, he can see everything.
You know, that's what people think,
and I keep my head locked, even if they address me,
I never turn my head.
- For a tall dude, it's not just about where the eyes are,
it's about how much higher everything else is.
I'm just saying.
- But I'm just talking about my perspective.
- This morning I was at a workout class.
- Hell yeah, you were.
- And I was supermanning on the ground.
- What does that mean?
- That's when you lay on your belly
and then you lift your arms and your feet,
and it like does, it like works out your back.
But then in between you put your face into the mat,
and the whole time I'm thinking,
what was right here on the mat before my face was here?
Was this somebody else's crotch?
I mean at least I took comfort in the fact
that the crotch was covered in shorts or pants.
Not the case here, I mean, it's painfully awkward.
- There are sanitary issues potentially.
- Beyond that, it also could be painfully painful.
I mean there's lots of flopping going on.
- Well it depends on how hard your jumping jacks are.
I mean, I take it easy sometimes.
- No, you gotta go full bore, man.
- Listen, it is 2017, and so in an effort
to not just be too old school, and too close-minded to this,
I will say that, okay, there's one perspective that is,
you know, our shame around nakedness,
and our discomfort with the human body,
is just a cultural construct.
Right, and so we should be more comfortable
with naked bodies, and we shouldn't associate
shame with those, but I'll tell ya,
I can get there almost, but when I see some junk jangling
during a jumping jack, that entire worldview
is gonna come crumbling down.
I'm sorry, it's just better if you secure it.
It's just gonna be better.
- It doesn't tumble down, it more just goes all around.
- Yeah, well you don't have to describe it in detail,
you could just go to one of these classes to see.
- I don't really wanna scramble my worldview in that way.
- And I will say also that I personally don't need
to be any more embarrassed with my exercise routine
than I already am, because I recently started
a pilates class, not personally started it,
I joined a pilates class.
- You know what, this is a safe place, Rhett, you can share.
- You guys know, I talk about it a lot,
I've got back issues, and my physical therapist has taught,
- Do they teach you to be a pilot?
- No, it's not about piloting, it's about pilates.
And it's really good for flexibility, and core strength,
and things that guys like me, who have back issues,
and apparently a lot of older dudes, and women, also need
because that's who's in my class.
Now I go to two different things a week,
and just in case you question whether or not
I'm actually doing this, I did get my instructor
to take some compromising video footage of me
that I'm gonna show to you, and this is
from my private class, which just means that
it's just me and an instructor.
- Now before you play this,
- That's why there's nobody else in the class.
- You were not nude, I just need to be prepared.
- Yes, I'm not nude. - Do we need any black boxes?
- I show a lot of thigh, - Oh my goodness.
- I am not nude.
- Okay, here we go. - This is me in action.
- What is happening?
- I'm breathing.
- Why you gotta make eye contact?
What are you doing, oh, here's another one.
- This is called the flower - Oh wow.
- I'm making a flower, this is very good for the back.
Now you can imagine if I was naked.
- Yeah, not that I want to,
but if you were naked right now,
oooh, what is that, a foot?
- That's my foot, I wear toe socks in the class.
- You're going full bore.
- Because it has special grip, and I really need the grip.
- Plus you'd want to make sure you don't lose a toe.
- Now as you can imagine, if I were naked in that situation
it would not only be a little awkward,
but it might be dangerous.
There's a lot of cables.
I mean, there's so many cables, and weights,
and things sliding around,
- Yeah, you don't wanna get something hung.
- You get into a conversation, and the next thing you know,
- It's lopped off. - Yeah.
- Or just tied in a knot.
- Compromised in some way. - Let's not,
- Temporarily or permanently compromised.
- Oh my goodness, so should we watch the video again,
and just picture you nude?
- No, you shouldn't. - I don't think so either.
They can do that on Tumblr.
- So again, this is like, I'm taking baby steps
towards just being comfortable with, you know,
myself in an exercise class in compromising positions.
At this point in my life, I don't think
that I am evolved enough to say, you know what,
I'm ready to do it naked.
Maybe next year.
- Maybe next year?
- Next year I'll show you the naked pilates video,
with big black bars.
- I mean it is good to have goals when you're working out,
but I just don't think that's a great goal.
- Okay, well, hey, to each his own, man.
- Like don't keep going to pilates,
- You don't have to come there.
- If you hope that soon you'll get naked.
- You don't have to be there.
- No, I'll try it.
- What do you think about nudercise, do you wanna try?
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