Angela Lansbury's Positive Moves: My Personal Plan for Fitness and Well-Being

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I think about each demand that will present itself in the coming day, and I visualize myself meeting it easily and well.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. If you’re too young to remember, it was a perfect storm of spandex and leg warmers, brought on by Jane Fonda’s Workout Book and Olivia Newton John’s “Physical,” and culminating in every single famous person ever putting out a workout video. This is a delightful and quick read that one is able to do with the author's voice just saying the words in your head. She left us without writing a full memoir, so we must be grateful for the few stories about growing up in England, balancing professional successes with personal struggles, etc.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Though out of print, it is fairly easy to find an inexpensive copy of this wonderful lifestyle and health guide by Angela Lansbury. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Some moments are amusing, such as when Lansbury introduces us to "land swimming", an exercise move she came up with herself, and "moving freely", where she manages to keep a straight face while dancing in a peach-colored jumpsuit to the tape's synthesizer background music. For a ’70s kid like me, she was notable for being the witchy woman in Bedknobs and Broomsticks, a Disney film that climaxes with live-action suits of armor coming to life and fighting off Nazis.

In truth, the book’s real value is the bit of light it casts into Lansbury’s life and upbeat personal philosophy. This book is a mixture of class and comfort, avoiding fads and extremes in favor of gentleness, productivity, and practicality.When I was growing up, women over 60 wore flowered house dresses or polyester twin sets — with a fat string of Barbara Bush beads, if they were being fancy.

Ultimately, I found the great actress’s account of her fitness and diet regime a little thin/idiosyncratic, though I did mark a vegetable soup recipe I might try later this week. It was so well-liked by senior citizens that it pretty much single-handedly changed the way older women dress. One star lost for typical anti-fatness to be expected from a “fitness book”, particularly of its era. Right from a childhood of dancing across Regents Park in a toga, Lansbury had a positive, practical approach to life.Yes, the Murder She Wrote star followed in the footsteps of Debbie Reynolds by releasing a workout tape presumably aimed at women of a certain age, although the moves Lansbury demonstrates can benefit anyone. Published in 1990, Lansbury's thoughts on managing her weight, moods, effects of aging and staying mentally healthy are mostly timeless. Much of the advice seems to be good advice to talk, although there were a few things I disagreed with as something I would want to do, personally.