History Main / WorkoutFanservice

* Some TV shows supposedly based around fitness have been accused of being just excuses to deliver this:
** There was an Australian TV series called ''Aerobics Oz Style'', which was supposedly for the audience to exercise along to. However, the performers' skimpy dress, and some of the choreography and [[MaleGaze camera direction]], raised much suspicion that it was more for the audience to... "exercise" to.
** There was a similar series in the '80s called ":20 Minute Workout". It aired very early (around 5 a.m) and featured very hot models performing basic calisthenics to a musical background.
** ''[[http://www.aerobicise.com/ Aerobicise]]'' was an early 1980s workout show on TV. Lots of interesting angles on two to four hot women "demonstrating" workout techniques in a WhiteVoidRoom.
** The 1980s French show ''Gym Tonic'' always ended with the two (female) hosts taking a shower, with ''nothing'' to hide their bodies while they showered. That sequence was briefly removed for two weeks, viewers uproar (mostly males) ensued, and it was quickly put back in.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fDS_3x8qw This ''Nine News Now'' segment]] on good-looking men has guys working out [[ShirtlessScene with their shirts off]].
* ''Series/UtopiaFalls'': The good-looking, athletic young people on the show are frequently shown practicing dance (or for Sage, capoeira) while in workout clothes that show their torsos and legs in tight fabric, their stomachs often partly bared too.

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* In ''Film/DieHard2'', Colonel Stuart (played by William Sadler) is introduced doing some martial arts, which he later uses [[spoiler: to fight the hero]]. What makes it this trope is that he's completely naked for no reason, though the audience only sees him from the back.

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** James Vega does plenty of pull-ups. This is even lampshaded and considered to be in-universe {{fanservice}} - he works out near where gay shuttle pilot Steve Cortez maintains his shuttle and the ship's arsenal, and says "Heh, you know you love the show, Esteban!"

* The [[KoreanWebtoon webtoon]] ''Webcomic/{{Sexercise}}'' could be considered a comic based entirely on a cheeky spin on this trope- the premise is a gym where members exercise by having sex with each other. It also features several traditional examples of WorkoutFanservice, such as Hyuna ogling Miso as he's lifting weights and Yoona's introduction featuring her using the treadmill with a prominent shot of her toned abs and thighs.

* While various comic book superheroines have been shown working out, ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' is probably the most prone to doing actual powerlifting exercises like superheavy bench presses and squats, given her whole appeal is being an AmazonianBeauty.

* ''Manga/PrisonSchool'' has this on often with Meiko Shiraki.

* ''Series/LesFillesDaCote'' dealt with the lives of two sets of neighbours and the gym/health club they visited. Lots of scenes are set in the gym and the health club, and offer the "girls next door" and their male neighbours, walking paradigms of 1990's French chic, to show off toned bodies in workout clothing or swimming costumes. the same applies to the troop of extras in the gym. Of course, EveryoneLooksSexierIfFrench: there are no fat, ill-toned or unappealing bodies in the gym. Well, there is ''one'', but Georgette is there for RuleOfFunny and to act as an AbhorrentAdmirer to central male lead [[FrenchJerk Marc]].

* ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'': Issues 466 and 470 has Psylocke stretching in the grounds of the Xavier Institute, thoroughly distracting many of the soldiers and government agents monitoring the X-Men.

** Wedge and Wes are working out in issue #32, with both being fit, muscular young men. Later on, Reina, an attractive young women, is introduced wearing a swimsuit; Wedge and Wes [[EatingTheEyeCandy spend some time looking at her admiringly]]. Wedge ends up dating her briefly.
** [[AmazonianBeauty Plourr, a tall, muscular woman who's also quite beautiful]], wears a tanktop along with shorts at length in some later issues while she spars and fights enemies barehanded.

* An in-universe version in a cut portion of ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS IOU}}''. Classes for the Department of Zen Aerobics consist of sitting in LotusPosition, watching aerobics on television. Despite the lack of any practical use for the classes, they are quite popular. (Unfortunately, the department was trimmed from the final version.)

** For ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Creator/SquareEnix posted a [[https://twitter.com/SquareEnix/status/1259936379569500160 tweet]] of Estinien doing one-handed pushups while wearing only a ModestyTowel as part of their "Stay Home and Play" campaign.

* Invoked in the ''Literature/CiaphasCain'' book ''Cain's Last Stand''. Cain, in the middle of a lesson, notices one of his students paying more attention to the Sororitas novitates (consisting solely of attractive, ''extremely'' muscular young women) exercising outside the classroom window, and naturally chooses ''him'' to ask the next question to.

* While various comic book superheroines have been shown working out, ''ComicBook/SheHulk'' is probably the most prone to doing actual bodybuilding exercises like superheavy bench presses and squats, given her whole appeal is being an AmazonianBeauty.

** [[AmazonianBeauty Plourr, a tall, muscular woman who's also quite beautiful]], wears a tanktop along with shorts at length in some later issues while she spars and fights enemies barehanded. In keeping with BoobsOfSteel, she's the bustiest among the female characters and also the most skilled at martial arts.

* ''Series/GrowingPains'': In "How the West Was Won Part 2", Coach Lubbock's daughter Cindy (who Zack and Boner have big crushes on) is seen working out in a yoga outfit.

* A radio commercial in the Chicago for Allstate Insurance features Creator/DeanWinters' "Mayhem" character as an attractive beach volleyball player causing [[DistractedByTheSexy a rear-end collision]] on Lake Shore Drive.