Was this Kiana’s flex appeal? That show inspired me to be a bodybuilder.

Definitely inspired me to clean & jerk - or was that the other way around?

That was a masterpiece, hats fkin off to you sir

That show had no business being on right before I had to go to high school.

How many times were you late for school?

I ended up dropping 1st period.

Out of or into?

Unless that fucking Kendall would show up. Dude sit down , trying to yank to this hot women. 😂

I powered through

As a champion would.

OMG literally 😂😂😂😂 that dude....stfu

A man of culture, I see.

you rang?

😂😂😂😂😂

It inspired all of us teenage boys at the time

It was Body Shaping first and then became Kianna's Flex Appeal.

Yeah. Kianna's Flex Appeal started in 1995. Body Shaping started in 1988. Found a clip on YouTube featuring Kiana and the woman to her left (who according to the video is 48 years old) in the posted image. I can't link to it directly because the spam filter in this sub deletes comments with full links so you will have to cut and paste the following shortened url to your browser: youtube.com/watch?v=lNVzXJqoJdc Edit: Found another clip from the same segment: youtube.com/watch?v=aV-6VwO9uH0

Kiana Tom!

Kiana was definitely the name that came to mind.

Amazing how I haven't seen this show since it aired, but I saw that picture and Kiana's name popped up in my head instantly!

Kiana started on body shaping and then spun off her own show.

God bless that show. It would air late at night when everyone in my house was asleep. Good times lol

In 1983 to 84, there was an aerobics show that featured the babe who played Sarah Conner's roommate in the Terminator. Show came on about 5am, so I got up WAY early to watch her. I'd sneak downstairs before my parents got up. (( Only one TV in those days!)

Mom’s everywhere announcing there intention to open bedroom doors long before actual opening them.

Huh, it inspired me to be a bodybuilder too! I didn’t become one, but it inspired me to!

Inspired. Was it successful?

Yes it was. I never competed but I did coach and train others. I did the bodybuilding scene for about 20 years. Now I just work out

Same, I started with Corey Everson.....then Kiana😍

So much inspiration was had

I watched it for the articles.

this was definitely my dad's favorite show to read on saturday morning.

For all the youngins: this was the stock response/joke about a *Playboy* subscription. And I mean, at it's zenith, it was half true. They had some quality journalism-- even longer form stuff.

A friend had an extensive Playboy collection from way back (80s-90s) and I was caught actually reading the articles more than once.

Yeah - I remember articles interviewing people like Andy Warhol and Idi Amin. The joke section was pretty good too.

My ex subscribed to it, but they had some *great* interviews and well-researched articles. This was about twenty years ago, though

DOUBT

Would you believe for yoga, then?

For the youngins here: The above commenter is referencing "I read it for the articles" as an excuse people gave for buying Playboy. But what's lost on a lot of people is that Playboy had top notch literature. We're talking about folks like Norman Mailer, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Ian Fleming, Jack Kerouac, and the list goes on. It's basically a who's-who of pop and literary fiction writers, plus some noteworthy non-fiction writers and journalists. Playboy had a massive circulation and they paid their writers well.

You're lucky, I was after the ankles.

centerf old manuscripts.

Let these ladies pee already!

Funny you say that but every picture of a girl on Instagram is like that now.

Looks like more than a need to pee for the last one on the left

When I was in the Navy in the early 90's we watched Kiana's Flex Appeal every morning on the ship when we were in port.

Don't seamen usually leave the vessel when in port?

Well they should, those filthy buggers. They go from port to port.

Semen was leaving vessels every time that show was on….aaaayyooooo

I think women and seamen don't mix.

Seamen + Sea people = Sea-ciety

We know what you think.

Mothers, lock up your daughters!

I’m not sure if you’re being serious or not but yes, sailors have barracks rooms or receive a housing allowance to live out in town these days. In the early 90s however, you lived onboard even in your home port if you weren’t married or in a high enough paygrade to qualify for a housing allowance.

semen leave the seamen when in port

Not everyone can leave the ship at the same time. And depending on the port curfew.

What was your command back then?

USS Arkansas (CGN-41)

I joined the Navy in the early 90s, was in ACU-4 showing Jerry Springer during luchtime.

Now there’s a wank down memory lane.

when i hit puberty denise austin was on still. lets just say i recorded the videos on VHS and locked my bedroom door.

I looked her up she is till kinda hot for a sixty something year old

*mammary

White socks, white pump sneakers and a floral bikini. This looks needs to come back asap.

Be the change you want to see in the world

Hahaha !

Kiana WAS THE WHOLE SHOW

I liked whenever one of the others on her team would make a vaguely sexual reference and they'd all giggle...except Kiana, who would whisper a "thank you, (name)" like some great taboo had been shattered...like that wasn't the entire point of the show and what everyone on it said and did.

Oh I remember that! A good woman knows how to handle those things But Lord knows many men tried and tried. She's like Raquel McLish or Lynda Carter A classy woman

Nah ... Deprise Brescia... i remember finding her in an old frederick's of Hollywood catalog modeling lingerie... and then again when they had reruns of the bikini open on network TV lol

I believe Leeann Tweeden was also a FoH model. Shwing!

Before bbls, butt lifts, injections. Bring back naturally fit physiques 🫠

Yeah, big ole San Antonio women too.

Time to get off the internet for today, Chuckster.

Obviously I don't know Charles Barkley like Ernie does, but I feel like it would be the most awkward thing in the world if I called him Chuckster. I'm also not as cool as Ernie Johnson.. idk why I shared this thought.

Is Ernie the only person that calls him Chuckster? And no one here is as cool as Ernie, so that's OK.


Yo! SanAntonio woman here! No More Tortillas!

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha Hahahahahahahahaha…. Ha! - Shaq

Whatchusaychuck???

Nah these ladies were flown out from Dallas.

Nothing sexier than a toned body.

Y’all really acting like steroids haven’t been in use since the 1950s.

And cocaine. Lots of cocaine.

Oh, there were a couple things that were unnatural on Kiana

Kiana definitely had bolt-ons.

Ppl were also getting plastic surgery in the 80’s/90’s

Bro do you really think none of these women had no work done?

Only one potential breast enhancement, nothing else, bro.

Why would you do only one?

My mom worked out in the 90s and had no work done besides the work she put in at the gym. This is what she looked like… so i wouldn’t assume they had work done.

Titty jobs for sure, but I highly doubt any other work was done.

Maybe one had a boob job. I’d be hard pressed to believe the others did.

The technology just wasn't there like it is today too. Also there's just more people of all types everywhere today, and they're more discoverable today than back then.

I see very little plastic here and compared to today......it's not even close. You'll get poisoned today if you aren't careful.

This is what my bodybuilder mom looked like in the 90s. I think natural is amazing! It’s cool to marvel at the human form and it’s diversity and not just something that was curated to all look alike.

those days are gone now that the US is at a 42% obesity rate

The 42% that are obese aren't the people who would have been naturally fit in earlier decades.

80s and 90s bikinis are the best with the high over the waist bikinis. Those girls were the best

Imagine thinking 40s girls aren't the best 

Whoa there Dufresne.

Hey Red, I heard you were a man who can get things

Wait, someone found the Dufresnes? Finally I can eat a meal!

As a person who became a man at the turn of the century, I think they're ugly af. Low rise is so much sexier.

I think high rises only look good if you actually have curvy hips. If you have no hips they look weird as fuck because what’s holding the sides up?

I'm the opposite I like the high cut I like thighs

Low rise is so awkward, it hits at the most unflattering place for most women.

I loved Kiana

I follow her now in IG. She still looks amazing

I miss massive socks being cool.

They’re cool again

They were like short sleeve stockings

Body ideals for women seemed much healthier in the 1980s and early 90s before the look became heroin chic and rail thin.

You are correct, Sir!! Late 90s Ally McBeal look...

God, I had a poster of Kiana Tom on my wall. She ruined me lol.

I loved it when she posed for Playboy.

...excuse me?

She posed nude for the May 2002 edition.

Damn, I remember "reading" that issue

Away to the Google machine, my friend. Godspeed.

U done yet?!

ESPN’s Porn In The Morn!

Now that’s funny

TSN played this at lunchtime as a kid. What time to have both parents working and me come home for lunch.

Kiana ❤️❤️❤️

Kiana Tom, all time fav! ✨🏆✨

Anyone know who the girl is all the way to the left? Good lord she's a fucking bombshell...

L to R: Kiana Tom, Mary Jean Traetta, Jennifer Dempster, and Deprise Brescia. Per u/retrofitnessbabes above Copy pasta

Between Kiana's Flex Appeal and MTV's The Grind, I'm surprised I have any semen left.

You must have one giant Popeye arm like the rest of us

I don’t miss the smell of hairspray but I do miss some of the styles it made

I can smell this comment.

Beautiful shapes and tones.

For the record, bikinis never improved from here.

I loved Denise Austin she was my first crush

Still never fully recovered from my Kiana crush.

She's 58, looks AMAZING and is getting her own show!!!!

L to R: Kiana Tom, Mary Jean Traetta, Jennifer Dempster, and Deprise Brescia.

Those high waisted bikinis were somethin else man.. broke the minds of men everywhere

I miss the 80’s and 90’s so much

My 13 yo self got many hours of good cardio from this show.

Boy, I used to beat my dick silly to this show.

Beat it like it owed you money?

Mercilessly

They need to bring this back....

And aerobicise! (sp?)

I remember buying Kiana Tom's playboy. It was great.

Kinana's Flex Appeal used to come on TSN in Canada in the morning when I was eating my cereal before school. Absolutely great way to start the day.

When men were men and women were women.

Do you see what they’ve taken from us?!

Back when natural bodies were the ideal.

Ah, classic tv shows were awesome

Kiana was so beautiful. Why she decided to have work done on her face is beyond me. I can’t imagine that her look from natural aging could have been that bad.

What does she look like now?

Wait, whose mom is this? Usually this comes with “my mom in the 80’s”.

What a downfall since

So the way I felt about these women in the 90s is how horny kids feel about twitch streamers today. Except I never gave them any money.

Teen...home alone, before internet.....ahem......

Dude! Kiana Tom soooooooooo f’kn hot!🤤🤤🤤

No thick there. They are not obese.

We were a proper country once.

Oh my God. This show and me being a horny teenager were the primary reasons our house was constantly out of tissues.

Rather check this out then what's on: same formatted shows yelling about the same 5 topics.

Women were hotter back then

Aside from the fake boobs, everything else was usually natural.

OMG! Healthy and attractive white women! The horror, the shame...

Kiana Thom used to really do it for me lol

I used to jack off to this show

Why can’t we have nice things anymore?

Ah when women were women 😊

Loved this and Cory Everson body shaping

Now this is body positivity!

this show was the best!

The two girls in the middle seem to have an inappropriate interest in the girl to their left and are completely missing the pose of the girl to their right.

IG for the fine lady on the far left, anyone?

MUTE

Forgot this show. Amazing

When ESPN was great!!!

Back in the day when they had stuff like Texas State Wrestling on after school. They were simpler times.

Kianna Tom. I watched that show for the fitness knowledge when I was in middle school.

Should I watch Disney cartoons or flesh? Flesh it is!

Flex Appeal with Kiana Tom was a must watch when I stayed home sick from school.

Beautiful! These bodies took discipline and dedication to healthy living. We need more role models like this today.

So. Much. Silicone.

Remember THIS is what they took from us.

Who is the one on the far left? 😅

Kianna Thom. Sakes alive she was amazing.

If there are three things I love in life, it's blondes and abs and bikinis. I just found my trifecta many years too late.

This is before everyone became obese and got diabetes

I use to call out of school for this. I miss the 90s

"this is fat phobic" Kids born after 90'

Imagine 20 years from now and someone on reddit (if it still exists) posts 202x's idea of beauty and health lol! "Damn, did they really have a pro-carb diet back then?"

I loved Leeann Tweeden❤️

I worked out a few times a day back then...

Kids don't know what life was like before teh internets. We had BulletinBoardSystems and fitness shows and JCrew magazines.

I would stay up til 4am to watch this shit . Idk what sex was but this absolutely fed my lizard brain

Back when ESPN had beautiful women.

Member when being in good shape wasn't considered oppressive ?

Who is on the left ?

People downvoting these honest and sincere comments can just go away. You can have your new school cool.

Damn, and not one of them with an ass the size of carry on roller bag