- Can we work out when these workouts were invented?
- Let's talk about that.
(upbeat music)
- Good mythical morning!
- It's still January
and that means chances are your gym is crowded
and your dad still has his holiday lights up
but don't worry, by March the gym will empty out
and the lights will still be up.
- Yes but right now everyone is trying out
their new fitness devices, new workout routines
but they will soon fade into the past,
just like all those that came before them
throughout the decades.
So today, we're gonna look at some of these workouts
to see if we can tell exactly which decade they came from.
It's time for
"Year Eye with Two Straight Guys: Exercise Edition".
In each round, we're gonna see an exercise
that was made popular from a past decade
and then we'll guess that decade
by shuffling on the shuffleboard!
- Look at this shuffleboard!
It's back.
All right.
- It's exactly the same.
- Who's closest to the actual year wins the round.
The loser must wear a sweaty headband
throughout "Good Mythical Morning".
- Mm, let's shuffle.
- [Both] Round one.
- Okay, let's see our first exercise.
- Okay, Theresa, hello.
Wow, you're good at that.
You call that a balance board, is that what you call that?
- I call that a skateless skateboard on a cylinder.
- Okay, that's pretty literal.
Okay, Link won last time, so he's gonna go first.
- Now, I'm getting, like, a '70s vibe
and I dunno if it's cause you got a headband on.
It's not, you know, it's--
- [Rhett] Yeah, go with that.
- I just feel like this is something
that's like, groovy man.
Kinda like, I dunno, maybe that's '60s.
- [Rhett] Yep.
- All right, I'm gonna go with 1960.
That decade.
And then I'll block you from other parts of the board
and I think this thing's kinda heavy.
(plastic scraping)
Oh yeah!
- [Rhett] Okay, that's good, you did--
- [Link] A little shy.
- [Rhett] You did what you have tried.
- Not much you can do.
All right, Theresa, I'm gonna give this thing a shot
while Rhett is up.
- Careful.
- What do you mean, be careful?
I know what I'm doing.
(wood thumping)
Oh my goodness.
(laughing)
- More weight on the left side.
More weight on the left side!
- [Link] Well, there's a--
- Lean on on the left.
Lean hard on the left!
- Oh my God! - Hard on the left!
♪ 41 years old ♪
(laughing)
- Now here's the thing.
He wouldn't be able to do this at all if he wasn't wearing
that incredible sweatsuit.
(laughing)
It adds 10% athleticism. - Here we go.
- Okay, I think the question.
- I am sweating out of just anxiety.
Get back on there.
- The question is, did something--
- If you want to.
- There's a difference between when it was invented
and when I became aware of it.
- When did you become aware of it?
- Last year.
(laughing)
- Okay.
- So, it's 2019 is not an option.
I don't know man, I feel like this is '90s.
- All right, shuffle away, man.
Try to get around me.
♪ I wanna do the '90s ♪
- [Link] Too far!
- [Rhett] Okay, hopefully.
- [Link] You hit 1950.
- [Stevie] Okay, so that is called the balance board.
It's a fitness device
that can help enhance stability and coordination.
It was invented by World War II Pilot Stanley Washburn
after seeing kids on the African Gold Coast playing
on a log in 1956.
- [Link] 1956?
- [Rhett] Hey, that's where I--
- [Link] Dang it!
- Exactly, right where I landed.
- You nailed it by accident.
You jerk!
- [Both] Round two.
- Quick reminder.
A new "Fancy Fast Food" episode dropped today
on the Mythical Kitchen channel.
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Subscribe to that channel.
- But now, let's take a look at our first exercise.
Hello Emily.
- [Emily] Hey.
- All right, no apparatus.
So, this is just you and your sweats?
- Yep, just me and some big sweats.
(laughing)
- All right.
- Looking real cool.
All right.
- [Link] Let's see it.
(upbeat music)
- Okay.
(hands clapping)
- [Rhett] What, okay, I guess.
- Get funky.
Okay, high kicks.
- [Link] High kick.
- Your kids love you.
I promise.
- Oh yeah, now she's going sideways.
Okay.
(laughing)
All right, little footwork.
There we go.
Little more footwork.
Some kicking.
Now she's back to that.
- And there it is.
- Woo!
All right.
(hands clapping)
- [Rhett] Wow.
- You know, you know you've had a good workout
when it ends with, "And there it is."
(group laughing)
You're winning so you go first now.
- You want me to do it more?
Is there more you want me to do with that?
- You could keep moving if you want to.
- No, that's cool.
I just want to make sure it's over.
- Wow, I mean, I don't even really know what just happened.
I mean, you danced.
I mean, I guess this is, like, when aerobic dancing started
to happen.
Ah, when would that happen?
'60s or '70s, is what I'm thinking.
So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to land on the '60s
and then hope that you push me into the '70s when you try
to move me out of the way.
(plastic scraping)
Or I'm just gonna land on the '70s.
- Now, here's the thing.
I don't know if this is jazzercise
or if this is some sort of, like, disco dancing.
- You think it may be a proprietary exercise thing.
- Yeah, I think she's doing something specific
like disco dancing.
Like, inferno cardio.
Like, disco inferno cardio.
- Well, that would be the '70s which is where I'm at.
- Right, so, I'm about to obliterate you outta the '70s
and nestle myself right where you were.
- Okay.
Don't miss.
(plastic scraping)
- [Link] Go!
Okay.
- [Rhett] That's a good move.
- [Link] Mission accomplished.
- [Stevie] Okay, Emily was demonstrating jazzercise.
- [Link] Yes!
- [Stevie] Very well, I must say.
(Emily laughing)
Which combines dance, strength and resistance training
with popular music.
It was invented by Judi Sheppard Missett
who was teaching up to 35 classes a week
when she first started jazzercise in 1969.
- Oh, man.
- [Stevie] You were so close.
But the wrong decade.
- But I still get the points. - But you're still closer
and get the point.
- Nice!
We're tied up.
- [Both] Round three.
- Demonstrating our next exercise device,
Mythical team member, Nick Lopez.
- Oh, you guys never met Nick.
- First time on the show.
- You may know Nick as a tennis legend around Burbank
if you're around Burbank.
- How you feeling Nick?
- Fantastic.
- [Rhett] How fast can that thing go?
- Let's find out.
- Speed up.
- Whoa, there's lots of beeping.
There's lots of--
- [Link] There you go.
C'mon Nick.
- Hey, we're gonna create a gif.
- What do you mean?
When he falls?
- When he falls.
- Here we go, this is fast.
- Oh my God, don't.
Oh, the tongue's coming out.
- [Rhett] Ugh, I'm nervous!
Woo!
- Oh my gosh, that thing's bouncing.
That's as fast as it goes?
- It is the fastest it goes.
- That's the maximum?
- That's 10.
- That's level 10.
- Hey, don't get fancy doing things with your hands now.
- Okay, stop before you hurt yourself.
I mean, I did want you to fall but you took too long so.
(laughing)
Okay, Link, why don't you go first.
- You can stand up there.
Just act like you're still going.
Just, like, do some sort of.
There you go - Right.
That's good, that's nice.
- All right, here's the thing.
Which came first, the electrified treadmill
or a not electrified version
that this also is a stand-in for?
Now, I know that there was electricity all the way back
but I'm just wondering, is this the electrified treadmill
or just a treadmill
and it could have been an unelectrified version?
- [Stevie] The first time the treadmill was invented
for exercise is the decade we're looking for.
- Invented for exercise.
- Well, what was it used for before then?
- Science.
- Like, "I Love Lucy", her, like, factory job.
(laughing)
I think this is pretty early but I'm thinking '20s.
- [Rhett] Okay.
(plastic scraping)
- [Link] Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop!
- Okay, I was thinking either '20s or '40s
cause '30s is not an option.
- No, it's not.
You should go for '30s.
- 10 seems like, I wouldn't be surprised
but I think the only thing that I have left to do,
is I have to knock you into the back to secure my answer.
- You're going for a defensive move, here?
- I'm doing exactly what you did on the last round.
I'm knocking you further away from any potential answers.
- You're a coward.
(plastic scraping)
(metal clunking)
Boo!
- Woo, strategy!
- Boo!
- Strategy, popular since 1910.
- [Stevie] Okay, Nick was, of course,
running on the treadmill and doing so while smiling
which was very nice.
Thank you Nick.
A treadmill is a device that originates
from the late 1st Century A.D. when the Romans used it
to lift heavy items and it was used
for various different purposes over thousands of years
but the treadmill finally transformed
into an exercise machine when it was patented
by Claude Lauraine Hagen in 1913.
- [Rhett] Wow.
- See, so.
- [Stevie] And I actually have a photo of one
of the earliest wooden treadmills.
- [Link] That's, that's nice.
- [Rhett] That's dangerous.
- So, your cowardice move gives you the point
though we both looked horrible.
- Right.
- [Both] Round four.
- Let's see another exercise.
Mr. David Hill.
- [Rhett] Oh wow.
- Good morning, gentlemen.
- [Link] Hey.
- What size weights you got there?
- Got two pounders.
- [Rhett] Two pounders.
- [Link] All right, so.
- Arms out, legs out.
(laughing)
- Arms out, legs out.
- Have you seen this before?
- I've never seen arms out, legs out before.
Okay, so, now what's he doing?
- Semi-circle.
- [Link] Leg semi-circle.
- [Rhett] He's still got the weights though.
- So, is the chair part of this David Hill?
- Yes. - Yeah, I believe so.
I think it's like chairsize.
- Okay, so you're going first because.
- Chairsercise.
- You're in the lead.
You don't have to.
- Here's another one.
Run in place.
(feet stomping)
- Running in place.
Now, you're just making stuff up now.
- You seem like you do this on a regular basis.
- You ever walk by him at his desk?
- He's always doing that.
- Doing that.
- Yeah.
So, in which decade was there a lot of sitting?
I don't know if that's the right question.
- Arms out, legs out.
- In which decade did they come out with ideas
like, "You know what?
"You don't even have to get out of your desk."
That feels like an '80s thing to me so, I'm gonna try
to land on 1980.
(plastic scraping)
Or I'll just land right at the top.
- All right, now, here's the thing.
- Let me try that chair.
- Now, see, I could try to do the cowardice power move
and slam you all the way back
but that's a long way to travel.
- [Rhett] Like this?
- [David] Yep, semi-circle.
Leg, oh yeah, put the hip flexor in there.
- I actually think this is.
This is in the 2000s.
David, you know what I'm going for?
You weren't listening to me.
- Oh no, I know, I'm just.
- You're going for 2000.
- Do you think that's right?
- He can't give you answers.
- Guess we'll see, yeah.
I just know the moves.
(laughing)
(plastic scraping)
- Oh, you know what but I'm closer to most everything
than you which that's a nice move.
- You're not closer to 1980.
- No, I'm not.
- [Rhett] That's the only way I could win, I think.
- [Stevie] Okay, so, this is called Chair-A-Cise.
Close. - Whoa!
What did I say?
Chairsercise?
- [Stevie] Yeah, something like that.
- Okay, whatever.
- [Stevie] A weight loss program intended to prevent pain
or injury by doing it completely sitting down.
It was invented by fitness trainer, Daryl Madison
but we weren't sure exactly which year he invented it
so, we called him and he told us he created it in 2007.
- Whoa, wow. - Yeah, see.
It's simple.
All right, so, I got the point.
Man, we are all tied up.
- Tied up!
- [Both] Round five.
- Okay, let's see this last exercise.
Hello David.
- What's David gonna do with that pole?
(laughing)
I wonder.
- [David] You guys ready?
- So ready. - Oh yeah,
I've been ready my whole life.
What, whoa, what?
(laughing)
- David.
- Please tell me whenever you want me to stop.
- Please don't make eye contact as you come around.
- I'm slipping now.
- What else have you got?
- Oh, I'm dizzy.
- Hold on, that was absolutely incredible.
- He's not pole dancing.
- He is but he's pole spinning.
- He's pole-exercising.
- Have you ever seen pole dancing
because that does happen sometimes.
- No.
- Pole dancing as an exercise, I think, is the thing
that we're trying to guess.
Okay, we've kinda determined
that this whole knocking the other guy's ball out of the way
is kind of a cheap way to win.
So, for this final round.
- Yeah, it's very cowardly.
- We can't touch each other's balls
in this final round, okay.
And, by the way, you also did it to me
before I did it to you.
- That's true.
- You touched my ball, then I touched your ball.
Now, what we're gonna do, you can't touch each other's balls
but that means the guy that goes first
has a slight advantage now.
Since you won this game last time, we're tied.
I'm going to get to go first.
- Hmm.
- Don't overthink it.
If you're trying to figure out
why we just came up with that, don't overthink it.
- Well, you have the advantage because now you can block me
cause I can't hit you.
- Right.
I've only been aware of people using the pole
for things other than, you know, just for exercise,
in the last 12 to 15 years.
That's not an option so, it's gotta be the '80s or the '90s.
So, I'm gonna try to land on the '80s
which will kinda block you and make you have
to reach around for the '90s.
(plastic scraping)
- [Link] I think you went too far.
Oh, too short.
- [Rhett] Dang it!
- I think you're right.
This is a recent thing.
We know 2000's off the board so, I'm going for '90s.
Now, if I touch you.
- You lose.
- I'm disqualified.
- Yeah, don't touch my ball.
- All right, here we go.
Just gotta nudge, kinda close to you and nestle.
(plastic scraping)
In the '90s.
You're out!
- Yep, okay, I can't see how you could not win
unless pole dancing was invented in 1910.
(laughing)
Which has already been an answer.
- [Stevie] Okay, so yes,
David was demonstrating pole dancing.
It's believed to have originated as a performative art
in America when the Hoochie Coochie girls danced
while they set up tent poles at fairs in the 1920s
but this was first taught to non-performers
as a fitness class by Fawnia Mondey Dietrich in 1994.
- [Link] Woo!
- There you go.
Congratulations Link.
That means I got to wear a sweaty headband
in "Good Mythical Morning".
- And I get a celebratory twirl from David.
- Woo!
- Look at that.
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