# 1992 VHS • Body Flex Instructional Tape 60 FPS

Body Flex: Instructional Tape is the foundational instructional video for the Body Flex system, running approximately 40 minutes and one second. The program opens with a medical disclaimer contraindicating use during pregnancy, uncontrolled high blood pressure, and glaucoma, followed by citations from the U.S. Olympic Training Committee, Nobel Prize-winning cell physiologist Dr. Otto Warburg, and others supporting deep breathing as central to fitness and disease prevention. The host presents Body Flex as a system of diaphragmatic aerobic breathing combined with held body positions to direct oxygenated blood to specific problem areas, drawing on the principle that stress applied to a body part increases blood flow there. She describes her own background as a mother of three who was told by physicians that a flat stomach was impossible, and frames the program as requiring no gym, no diet, and no special equipment. The toe pull stretch, learned from a Houston ballet company, is demonstrated mid-program.

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1992
- By: The Vista Group®
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-BodyFlexInstructionalTape)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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