Jane Fonda To Release New Workout DVDs

Richard Simmons may have you sweatin' to the oldies, but Jane Fonda is sweating with them! The 72-year-old actress announced she is releasing a new line of fitness DVDs -- this time targeting people in her own baby boomer generation.

"I want to get to people who have stopped working out, or never did," Fonda wrote on her blog. The DVDs "will target an audience that has been left out: MY age group and the boomers." After undergoing hip and knee replacements, who better than the former 80s aerobics queen herself to relate to this audience? She also suffers from osteoarthritis -- a condition that she said is genetic and not related to her years of hard-core exercise.

Who can forget Fonda in her legwarmers, Lycra and sweatbands as she started the home workout craze with her 1982 video release, "Jane Fonda's Workout," which sold 17 million copies. "I have to laugh when I think of when I did the first ever...still the largest selling home video of all time," she said. "We had no budget, no hair stylist or makeup artists. We did it all ourselves. I wrote the script on a ski trip in Calgary on the floor of my hotel room. Who knew that that video would launch the video business?" Fonda went on to successfully release 23 workout videos in all.

Filming for the two new DVDs will begin in March with a release date in early 2011. In the meantime, Fonda is busy preparing to launch the first annual World Fitness Day at the Georgia Dome on May 1.

What's her secret to staying so fit and looking so good? It's a combination of things if you ask her. "I owe 30 percent to genes, 30 percent to good sex, 30 percent because of sports and healthy lifestyle and for the remaining 10 percent, I have to thank my plastic surgeon. I'm happier, the sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again."

Are you a throwback of the 80s? If so, check out these fitness apparel trends! Also, you can read Stylelist's take on Fonda's return.