Q Magazine June 2004
"Punk Rock Aerobics is where it's at...All great fun."


CosmoGIRL! April 2004
"Crank up the music and do these heart-pumping, muscle-toning moves for a great body!"


In-Forum 04/22/04
"The high impact and hardcore aerobic workouts appeal to punks who last broke a sweat circling the mosh pit."


Netsurfer Digest 02/21/04
"An absolutely hilarious book...Remains true to the punk DIY ethos and looks like way too much fun...Inspired."


Twist January 2004
"You need to check out this funny twist on fitness books...It offers a unique, un-boring approach to exercise."


Boston Magazine January 2004
"The book, part serious aerobics instruction, part hilarious coffee table fodder, delivers on its subtitle."


Fort Myers News-Press 12/08/03
"These certified aerobics instructors have developed a work-out routine that uses fun, energetic music combined in a do-it-yourself book."


Miami Herald 01/13/04
"Will get you in the mood to move."


Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century
"Better than the last Sex Pistols reunion. Hilarious and wonderfully done."


Spin
"Getting in shape with Punk Rock Aerobics is as easy as 1! 2! 3! 4!"


Book Description
Would you flee in terror if confronted with a room full of sweaty people in spandex thongs? Are you not immune to the occasional Joe Strummer-style air guitar jump? If you answered "yes" to either of these questions, here at last is your workout book. As simple as throwing on that old Ramones (or even White Stripes) record, punk meets fitness in an exercise craze that is spreading like wildfire amongst teens and aging rockers alike: Punk Rock Aerobics. Though punk and aerobics may seem to be unlikely bedfellows -the love child of Richard Hell and Richard Simmons?-here are two "formerly decrepit, lazy, cigarette-smoking, beer drinking" rockers-turned-certified-aerobics-instructors as enthusiastic about X and Iggy Pop as they are about getting into shape. Full of easy-to-follow moves in a home-exercise-friendly format, Punk Rock Aerobics is a calorie-burning, DIY workout. Back in the "good old days" cigarettes might have sufficed to keep rockers slim, posit these authors, but to really be able to rock out all night, you need to drop those chips and get off the couch. Peppered throughout to help you stay inspired are Q&A's and photos of rockers on their own workout routines: J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. perfecting the "Face Down Butt Lift." Mary Timony doing the "Jumping Jacked Ups." K Records' Calvin Johnson on the philosophical implications of Ultimate Frisbee. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore declaring "it's not the poundage so much as the roundage that I have a problem with." Hugo Burnham on the percentage of Jack Daniels (60) that comprised his sweat back in his glory days drumming for Gang of Four. Also included to help you get rid of the Schlitz gut is a sure-to-be-controversial discography for picking your favorite MP3's, CD's, and LP's. As Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth declares, "Just put on yr favorite punker and "kick out the jams, motherf***er."


About the Author
Maura Jasper is a video artist and painter with extensive exhibition history and background in music, including designing album covers for SubPop and Atlantic Records and curating art and music for Gallery Bershad in Somerville, MA. Fellow Boston resident Hilken Mancini studied at the Boston Conservatory of Dance before forming the indie rock band Fuzzy as lead guitarist in 1992. She currently plays music with both Buffalo Tom's Chris Colbourn, and The Count Me Outs.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Would you flee in terror if confronted with a room full of sweaty people in spandex thongs?

Are you not immune to the occasional Joe Strummer-style air guitar jump?

If you answered "yes" to either of these questions, here at last is your workout book. As simple as throwing on that old Ramones (or even White Stripes) record, punk meets fitness in an exercise craze that is spreading like wildfire amongst teens and aging rockers alike: Punk Rock Aerobics. Though punk and aerobics may seem to be unlikely bedfellows -the love child of Richard Hell and Richard Simmons?-here are two "formerly decrepit, lazy, cigarette-smoking, beer drinking" rockers-turned-certified-aerobics-instructors as enthusiastic about X and Iggy Pop as they are about getting into shape.

Full of easy-to-follow moves in a home-exercise-friendly format, Punk Rock Aerobics is a calorie-burning, DIY workout. Back in the "good old days" cigarettes might have sufficed to keep rockers slim, posit these authors, but to really be able to rock out all night, you need to drop those chips and get off the couch. Peppered throughout to help you stay inspired are Q&A's and photos of rockers on their own workout routines:

J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. perfecting the "Face Down Butt Lift." Mary Timony doing the "Jumping Jacked Ups." K Records' Calvin Johnson on the philosophical implications of Ultimate Frisbee. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore declaring "it's not the poundage so much as the roundage that I have a problem with." Hugo Burnham on the percentage of Jack Daniels (60) that comprised his sweat back in his glory days drumming for Gang of Four.

Also included to help you get rid of the Schlitz gut is a sure-to-be-controversial discography for picking your favorite MP3's, CD's, and LP's. As Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth declares, "Just put on yr favorite punker and "kick out the jams, motherf***er."

FROM THE CRITICS

Spin

Getting in shape with Punk Rock Aerobics is as easy as 1! 2! 3! 4!

People

The hipster way to whittle those hips.

San Francisco Chronicle

Punks of both genders have fallen for the exercise program that matches three chords with three favorite moves.

Boston Globe

Fist-pumping and head-banging are a great way to avoid looking like a TV-sated slug this winter. Just ask Hilken Mancini and Maura Jasper, the Jane Fonda renegades behind Boston's cult workout sensation.

Boston Phoenix

For music fans and anyone with half a sense of humor and a clue, the book is a well-informed riot from cover to cover.

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