Anyone's parents rock a Healthrider aka Yeetmaster 5000 back in the day?
Posted by jonnyvsrobots@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 30 comments
I'm sure more than a few of you had parents who got one of these in the 90s to stay in shape. Watching synchronized "healthriding" is yet another reminder of how unintentionally hilarious the 90s were.
DickchardHumperdink@reddit
Parents still had it until the last couple years when they downsized. Remember the Gut-Buster? We had one of those too. Loved playing with it.
puma_pantss@reddit
Nope. A lot of Jane Fonda exercise tapes in my pops room though.
DickchardHumperdink@reddit
I thought Jane Fonda was just a fitness instructor until way too late in my life.
Dazzling_Flight_3365@reddit
😂
BugEquivalents@reddit
😂
jonnyvsrobots@reddit (OP)
🤨
Dazzling_Flight_3365@reddit
My parents had one. Don’t think they actually used though. I know my brothers and I played on it.
elliemff@reddit
My mom was (and still is tbh) the ultimate Weight Watcher mom. We had that contraption (don’t take gas station mini thins before using it), the Total Gym, every single Sweatin to the Oldies, Tae Bo, and (my personal favorite) the lady who promised face lift results from making funny faces. But because my mom is also what I now recognize as undiagnosed ADHD, every single thing just collected dust after a couple weeks unless my sisters and I decided to use it.
BeefSupremeeeeee@reddit
Friends parents had one. He was telling me how he was going to get all buff using it.
Was mostly used as a clothing rack.....
drkittymow@reddit
My mom had one called the Gravity Rider. It was so easy it was impossible to get a work out on it.
ButterscotchNo7362@reddit
We were a Soloflex family. My Dad actually used it religiously.
braywarshawsky@reddit
We had one of these...
Plus that Chuck Norris Bow Flex thing.
Hilsam_Adent@reddit
Chuck Norris was that stupid pilates bench thing, I forget the name of it. A quick Google says it was called the "Total Gym" and that seems right in my brain. I also remember when they got Christie Brinkley on board for the commercials, as well.
PunkDoubt@reddit
Didn’t Tony Little have a version too?
Hilsam_Adent@reddit
The Gazelle!
jonnyvsrobots@reddit (OP)
Haha I forgot about that dude!
xargos32@reddit
Nope. We had a small house that didn't really have a good place for one, plus I guarantee it wouldn't have been used.
YogurtclosetDull2380@reddit
It's one of the 3 things left in the basement of my parents rambler
MaxMcLarenTBSL@reddit
You mean the HumpMaster 5000?
Best coat rack we ever had.
lava_monkey83@reddit
That’s a cloths rack
red286@reddit
Nah, my mom got a rowing machine.
When she first got it, my sister and I would goof around on it, but got bored of it pretty quick. I never once saw either of my parents use it, it just sat against a wall in the basement.
Bulky_Goat_9624@reddit
Yep! Mom had this and the ab roller. She never used either
TK-385@reddit
My aunt had one of these, it might still be around buried under some other random stuff.
WLH7M@reddit
My granny had one in the basement me and my cousins used to play on.
She has a graveyard of workout equipment from decades past. One of those machines with the belt that wraps around you and just shakes the hell out of you. We used to see who could keep their head in our the longest.
dontletyourcrownslip@reddit
That's hysterical 🤣
ScroatusMalotus@reddit
Not over here, though I did recently have a random memory of the Nordic Flex Gold that we had for about a day after assembling it and discovering that there was no negative resistance.
Concordic_Dissonance@reddit
I used it everyday of High School while watching tv.
tahmorex@reddit
Got about a week’s attention; then became laundry hangar
wheres_the_revolt@reddit
My mom had one!
edwardturnerlives@reddit
I never saw my parents do anything remotely close to what I would call exercise.