Can the 'trailer-trash workout' save your summer figure?

by Rigel Celeste (Subscribe to Rigel Celeste's posts)
Jun 30th 2007 11:04AM

Although summertime is friendlier for outdoor sports and physical activity for many people than winter is, it's also full of hot lazy days, fattening BBQ meals, and vacations. All too often people start off in the spring with big plans to lose weight and get in shape, only to let themselves get derailed by mid-summer holiday plans. The great thing about summer holidays, though, is that they lend themselves fairly easily to fitness if you're willing to make the effort. The "trailer trash workout" (named by the trainer who created it) was designed to be easy, quick, and nearly equipment-free -- all great qualities in a summer travel exercise routine.

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Ralph Garcia 7-04-2007 @ 9:51PM

I thought the number one trailer trash workout is trying to pick up a critter on the road who had just been run over. They have to do it before another car runs over it. By the way, you have the white trash photo all wrong. That woman and little girl are too classy to be white trash. You need to show a photo of a redneck, or hick, or dumb looking person. An intelligent person is now white trash. I hear Kevin Federline is looking for work these days, maybe you could get him to model for a white trash photo.

Ralph Garcia 7-04-2007 @ 9:52PM

Sorry that was a typographical error. What I meant to say was an intelligent white person is NOT white trash.

Charlotte 7-04-2007 @ 10:22PM

I think it is sad that just because a person is poor and cannot do better they are consider white or trailer trash. Juat remenber but for the grace of God the people who are looking down on those commionally called trailer trash would be in there spot. The mothers who are raising their kids by themselves, The people on dissablity,the people who never had the advantages that lots of people with money have, should not be looked down on and called trailer trash. Plus that is racial profiling if I have ever heard it. So when you allow you writers to write such I think you have no idea how many of your readers are ( trailer trash ) and are offended. Would you racially profile other people I think not so please stop racially profiling poor people as trailer trash.

Ronnie 7-04-2007 @ 10:13PM

FUNNY workout?
You sit around all day, don't work, stuff your face with
food wear a tube top, and afterward's go shopping
to Wal Mart. Now that's what I call a full day workout.

BadGuava 7-04-2007 @ 10:18PM

As US-Certified Grade A white trash, I have to tell you, your trainer got it all wrong.

'cept the water bottle weights....we do that here in my Fl trailer park.

ken 7-04-2007 @ 10:25PM

Well ya'll we gotta get gettin da work out we need. Dhey say America's the most out of shape. And I think I'd rather do The real Trailer Trash workout" Sit in a chair and do my bends at the elbow to mouth with a cold beer" People I am in shape...Round is a shape!!!!!

cher 7-04-2007 @ 10:58PM

As third generation trailer trash, I am surprised neither the "porch sofa power lift" was mentioned nor the "push the broken, rusted, flat tired lawnmore through the knee high grass" exercise. As you gain strength, the upholstered sofa gets wet & adds more weight to the workout, & of course the grass grows taller to increase that workout.

And ya'll thought we kept them ol things around just for looks!

robyn romanchuk 7-04-2007 @ 11:11PM

Excuse me! I live in a trailer, and i am not trash? And beleive me, my trailer is paid for. I have seen some homes that are just plain sick, my trailer compared to some of those houses makes mine look like a castle. I work everyday and pay for everything i own, so i really think sterotypeing people who lives in trailers are just a reson to keep hiding all the skeltons they have in all their closets!

robyn romanchuk 7-04-2007 @ 11:15PM

Oh and by the way, I consider myself to be very fit. I can send pics if you like!

Jen 7-04-2007 @ 11:16PM

I think Charlotte said it best. I lived in a trailer for 12 years while saving for my "real" home. I found the nicest people lived in the park I lived in and never once did I consider them or myself "trailer Trash". This is most degrading and offensing to people who live in trailers. This trainer should change the name of his work-out....

GAIL 7-04-2007 @ 11:22PM

HEY EVERYONE, LIGHTEN UP A BIT, WAY TO MUCH FANFARE
OVER A WELL KNOWN PHRASE, AND IT'S ALL FOR FUN ANYWAY.....WE COULD ALL USE MORE OF THAT............

KSmith 7-04-2007 @ 11:28PM

Look at the obvious here. This person is from England, apparently well to to, (i.e., a fab personal trainer, motorcrossing the States in an RV..) The 'Fab' trainer came up with the name...Too bad anyone with the slightest thought pattern can find their way into print to snub those they know nothing about...Too bad so many otherwise probably thoughtful people have such a bad sense of humor that they have to besmirch others to get something said. Such is life. The workout itself is not so bad, nor so original. It has been done in many forms by those of us to busy or to broke to be members of a gym or have 'fab personal trainers.' The title just shows the 'Fab Trainer' doesn't have such Fab class.

Jen 7-04-2007 @ 11:29PM

Oh,and I didn't see the "trainers" name mentioned.....hmmm......was he afraid of being bashed for stereotyping people?

Gina 7-04-2007 @ 11:44PM

It seems that most people assume that all people who live in trailers are bumpkins and beer guzzling, uneducated swine in dirty overalls and tees. But then, "90% of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in danger of contamination." "Man can only do so much to keep fools from their natural folly." -- Walter Matthau's lines from Hello Dolly, and my sentiments! Persons who call names and point fingers and judge others are themselves at the bottom of the heap and are trying to feel better about themselves by putting others down.

That being said, who's up for doing a Mud Pit Belly Flop or an Armpit Serenade or having a Butt Crack Competition?

sandy 7-04-2007 @ 11:47PM

First, it's funny that a workout for someone traveling the country in an RV is called a "trailer trash" workout. I know, it's because it doesn't cost anything, but it's a funny contradiction. Because if I'm living in a trailer, I don't think I can afford an extra one to travel around in, unless I guess the one I live in has wheels still on it. Second, I have lived in a few trailers myself, but I don't find the term offensive, because I think it is more a state of mind or being than a place people live. There are plenty of clean, respectable people that live in trailers or mobile homes, and there are plenty of "trailer trash" that live in expensive homes and fit the profile.

Diana 7-05-2007 @ 1:14AM

HA HA! MY HUSBAND WORKS IN A FACTORY MAKING MODULAR HOMES WORTH AT LEAST $75,000 AND THAT IS THE CHEAPEST. THEY ARE LIKE HOMES. WE IN THE SOUTH ARE NOT THE ONLY DARN SO CALLED RED NECKS THEY ARE ALL OVER. NORTH, MID-WEST, NORTH WEST,SOUTH WEST, AND WEST AND ANY WHERE IN BETWEEN. TO CALL A PERSON TRAILER TRASH IS VERY RUDE AND YOU ARE A POMPOUS JACKASS FOR SAYING IT , YES WE KNOW BIG FANCY WORDS ALSO, BECAUSE I GOT AN EDUCATION AND MY MOM MADE SURE I HAD THE MANNERS DOWN PAT. SOMETHING THAT THE SOUTHNERS DO HAVE, BUT NO ONE ELSE HAS. HOW ABOUT THE RUN DOWN APARTMENTS UP NORTH AND OUT IN THE MID WEST AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE ELSE I GUESS IT IS ALL OVER THOSE RUN DOWN APARTMENTS. BE SURE WHEN YOU START CRITIZING YOU NEED TO DO THIS WHERE YOU LIVE TO, SO IT WILL EVEN OUT. I AM SURE YOU DON'T LIVE IN A PALACE YOUR OWNSELF. THERE ARE A LOT OF GREAT PEOPLE LIVING IN TRAILERS, MODULAR HOMES AND DOUBLE WIDES. THEY ARE NO MORE TRASH THAN YOU ARE. MAYBE YOU ARE THE TRASH. I DON'T KNOW, BUT NEXT TIME, YOU SAY SOME THING ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE YOU BETTER THINK OF YOURSELF OR YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.! NO ONE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER PERSON, GOD CREATED EVERYONE EQUAL, WHETHER YOU BELIEVE IT OR NOT!

Diana 7-05-2007 @ 1:18AM

RALPH GARCIA, EVERY RACE CAN BE SAID THAT THEY HAVE TRASH IN IT, NOT ONLY WHITES, THAT SOUNDED LIKE A RACIST REMARK TO ME!

Dan 7-05-2007 @ 3:35PM

People who happen to live in MOBILE HOMES (you can't trail them behind your car/pick up truck).\; are humans beings the same as everyother person on this planet (that we are slowly killing + thus ourseleves). We have a life, our dreams, And Love of life. WE ALL PUT OUR PANTS/DRESSES ON THE SAME, WE ALL LOOK AND ACT THE SAME ON A TOILET. Some people happen to be in better positions in life then others, HOWEVER NOBODY IS BETTER THEN THE OTHER HUMAN BEING-WE ALL HAVE OUR HOPES, OUR DREAMS, OUR LOVE OF LIFE. Roddy King was right-Why can't we all just fet along, AND TREAT OTHERS THE WAY WE'D EXPECT TO BE TREATED. IT'S THE ONLY WAY WE CAN MAKE THIS SHORT LIFE HERE MEANINGFUL.
dO A NICE TIME TO ANOTHER, IF THEY THANK YOU- JUST SAY PASS IT ON.. JUST LIKE THE MOVIE "PAY. IT FORWARD"
I DON'T KNOW YOU BUT I LOVE YOU- HAVE A HAPPIER LIFE.
:-o)
PS: There is no Trailer trash! The trash is in your mindset, let it go. Treat everyone the same - There by the grace of GOD go I. Thank GOD For today-nobodys promised tomorrow.
Have a nice day / life.............

Jossy 7-05-2007 @ 2:55AM

I don't live in a Trailer. We have a nice horsefarm with acreage, clean air, and it's surrounded by forest so it's like a forest island here. Yes, if we put it on the market today, we'll laugh all the way to the bank, and even laugh harder if we don't do this for several years as it's value keeps going up and up every year. There's a Trailer Park in a nearby town and it was, indeed, a rowdy place. The Police in that town were constantly there due to robbery, fights, drug deals, and even murder. The owner of this Trailer Park didn't live in the area and didn't monitor who moved into it. However, after the last murder there, a huge crackdown happened and the Park has been cleaned out of it's "White Trailer Trash", as y'all call them. By the way, the murder was Black man on Black man and yes, the "innocent" dead Black man lived in the Trailer Park. There's also Hispanics that live there, Japanese, Chinese, American Indian, and people from other countries that have become American Citizens. I don't believe there really is what is commonly called "White Trailer Trash". If it's trash, it's Trailer Trash of many Colors. However, I doubt there's as many Cockroaches living in those Trailers but I do know that Apartments are loaded with them......plus Rats. With this in mind, now who is the lowest of the lowest in the Trash heap?