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  • Опубликовано: 27 янв 2025

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  • @a1white
    @a1white 14 дней назад +68

    Next week, we learn about the new trend of "Walking"

    • @ronwhite8503
      @ronwhite8503 13 дней назад +6

      Walking would be something new to most people nowadays.

    • @purefoldnz3070
      @purefoldnz3070 5 дней назад

      @@ronwhite8503 how?

  • @depniff
    @depniff 14 дней назад +75

    Never heard of Ernest Marples before seeing this. Worth a look at the controversies surrounding him on wikipedia. When he said the police might think to chase him, he wasn't far wrong for various reasons. It's often the names that come up in these films that are more interesting than than the subject.

    • @andydixon2980
      @andydixon2980 14 дней назад +5

      Yes indeed. What was he running away from is the question. Tax certainly helped his jogging.

    • @richardsmith4992
      @richardsmith4992 14 дней назад +9

      Thoroughly revolting individual, but pretty much standard fare for politicians on the gravy train.

    • @Hacienda_27
      @Hacienda_27 14 дней назад +11

      He's the real reason we've got no railways left

    • @garrylawless3550
      @garrylawless3550 14 дней назад +2

      Oh he was a controversial MP. 👍🏼😉

    • @welshaccenttutorials3104
      @welshaccenttutorials3104 14 дней назад +1

      he was dead within 11 years of this

  • @Ytwhna
    @Ytwhna 12 дней назад +31

    I can’t get enough of this video. It’s like a Harry Enfield comedy sketch. The way the tall guy runs is priceless. I want a Time Machine

    • @mozdickson
      @mozdickson 9 дней назад +1

      "Mmmmhh..." "Really beginning to puff...now..."

  • @AndrewG975
    @AndrewG975 14 дней назад +17

    Ernest Marples is such a name of its era.

  • @matthewtrow5698
    @matthewtrow5698 14 дней назад +68

    Another Monty Python skit that didn't quite make the grade. The reporter here is actually John Cleese's stunt double.

  • @FlibDokky
    @FlibDokky 14 дней назад +27

    it's fascinating watching all these new things be introduced into England over the years

    • @clavichord
      @clavichord 14 дней назад +7

      It'll never catch on

  • @cyclingSausage
    @cyclingSausage 7 дней назад +5

    That was really funny! The 'J's on the trees, and the interviewers running style killed me. 😀

  • @passing4human598
    @passing4human598 14 дней назад +29

    Love this. Before exercise became an industry.

    • @csr7080
      @csr7080 14 дней назад +1

      Yeah it's much better now.

    • @amunago080
      @amunago080 13 дней назад +8

      Well because people actually worked back then instead of sitting infront of a computer 18 hours a day

  • @db7109
    @db7109 14 дней назад +22

    a touch of alan partridge about this reporter

    • @robertoc2485
      @robertoc2485 14 дней назад +3

      Could be a Monty python sketch at the beginning 😂

  • @rienzitrento8397
    @rienzitrento8397 8 дней назад +1

    Love this clip of the Old Nationwide team

  • @paulcook7426
    @paulcook7426 10 дней назад +6

    Well this video, has inadvertently sent me down a rabbit hole of various controversies involving Ernest Marples.

    • @stenners123
      @stenners123 8 часов назад +1

      Same, he seemed like a decent bloke until you read about what he did

  • @jamiec2138
    @jamiec2138 10 дней назад +4

    I thought this was a Monty Python sketch. Didn’t realise jogging was “invented”

  • @Tmuk2
    @Tmuk2 14 дней назад +21

    This wasn't the only method he had to get his pulse racing.... Wikipedia

  • @pdoot
    @pdoot 12 дней назад +4

    Actual footage of me talking at my non sporty friends

  • @mozdickson
    @mozdickson 9 дней назад +3

    Wireless mic and sound production quality - impressive.

    • @psyskeptic9979
      @psyskeptic9979 4 дня назад +1

      It might have been tape recorded and dubbed in later

  • @frankshailes3205
    @frankshailes3205 14 дней назад +19

    Jim Fixx was one of millions of Americans who started running in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Unlike other runners, however, Fixx wrote a best-selling book about running and, ironically, died of a heart attack at the age of 52 years while running.

    • @peybak
      @peybak 14 дней назад +1

      Wasn't that a Denis Leary joke? Who knows where he stole it from though.

    • @therespectedlex9794
      @therespectedlex9794 13 дней назад +1

      ​@peybak What do you mean, joke? That was a real guy.

    • @martyndissington
      @martyndissington 13 дней назад +2

      @@peybak He stole it from his usual target, the great Bill Hicks.

    • @martyndissington
      @martyndissington 13 дней назад +1

      @@therespectedlex9794 His story was used for comic effect to imply exercise will kill you! 🙂

    • @WillScarlet1991
      @WillScarlet1991 13 дней назад +2

      Blame all the cigars he smoked.

  • @bardo0007
    @bardo0007 9 дней назад +3

    Monty Python would be proud of this

  • @LostWaxProcess
    @LostWaxProcess День назад

    I have to say, his form is excellent

  • @FHIPrincePeter
    @FHIPrincePeter 8 дней назад +2

    Nationwide spent all their money on the Jogging track suit but none on any trainers!

  • @MartFish
    @MartFish День назад

    Two competitive men turning jogging in to a classic beasting session 🤣

  • @hopebgood
    @hopebgood 13 дней назад +3

    I used to hate cross-country running at my old grammar school and when we played football it was like that scene from Kes.

  • @darrenwilson8042
    @darrenwilson8042 14 дней назад +9

    The originator of the craze was an American Jim Fixx. He passed away of a heart attack aged just 52 ............. whilst out a jog

  • @MichaelBosley
    @MichaelBosley 14 дней назад +18

    It’ll never catch on.

  • @foxyjazzbopper
    @foxyjazzbopper 7 дней назад +1

    Brilliant

  • @northernfireworks402
    @northernfireworks402 7 дней назад +1

    I know it's a bit late in the day of the life of the Pythons being '71 but they had plenty of material to work with and be inspired by!

  • @harryhill8543
    @harryhill8543 13 дней назад +12

    ""Veronica and I trying this new fad called uh, jogging. I believe it's jogging or yogging. It might be a soft j. I'm not sure but apparently you just run for an extended period of time. It's supposed to be wild" - Ron Burgundy 2004.

  • @patrickfitzgerald409
    @patrickfitzgerald409 2 дня назад

    Looked potentially like a Monty Python sketch at the start...!😊

  • @janebaxter841
    @janebaxter841 14 дней назад +12

    When I was at school this kind of motion - half way between walking and running -was called trotting.🤔But somehow telling someone "I'm just going for a trot dear' cungers up a different kind of pictire.😝

    • @epukiro15
      @epukiro15 14 дней назад +9

      Conjures, picture

    • @therespectedlex9794
      @therespectedlex9794 13 дней назад

      Cungering a pictire in the bog, mate. See you in a few minutes.

    • @terenceretter5049
      @terenceretter5049 8 дней назад +1

      @@epukiro15 A case of the 'trots' perhaps?

  • @redbeki
    @redbeki 13 дней назад +2

    Wow, jogging an American import.. I never knew that!

    • @Gallywomack
      @Gallywomack 12 дней назад +1

      Well yes but I'm pretty sure the 'Olympic Games Coach' he mentions is New Zealander Arthur Lydiard, who was the original proselytiser of jogging for lifelong health, used to advocate for jogging and walking in combination, and had the 'train, don't strain' catchphrase. He sold US coach Bill Bowerman on the benefits of jogging for health and it was Bowerman who took that message to the USA.

    • @wodenravens
      @wodenravens 7 дней назад

      If you read the Wikipedia on jogging (which this video prompted me to do), you can see that people have long been jogging. The American 'import' here is the specific regimen rather than the activity itself.

    • @TheFlargleblargle
      @TheFlargleblargle 2 дня назад

      Long-distance running overall is the oldest sport there is. The earliest humans (men and women) were persistence hunters, with the average hunt to take down a deer/antelope being 8 hours. It's something very special about humans that our stamina is actually one of the best in the animal kingdom. Countries like Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda are still have the best results/highest medal scorers in long distance because the original running culture never really died there. I imagine America formalised the sport and training regimen, which is how it trickled along to many western countries. Could be wrong though!

    • @wodenravens
      @wodenravens 2 дня назад

      @TheFlargleblargle East Africans didn't really have a tradition of long distance running. It developed in the 1960s. The runners mostly come from pastoral cultures rather than the few hunter-gathering cultures in East Africa that track game over long distances.

  • @cdogensis6392
    @cdogensis6392 12 дней назад +3

    Ironic how a man who did more to get people into cars than anybody, was into keeping fit

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 10 дней назад +2

      I was thinking the same thing.

    • @EnterShikari01
      @EnterShikari01 7 дней назад

      Love cars!

  • @robman80808
    @robman80808 12 дней назад +1

    Scientific, you say? I might give this "jogging" a try.

  • @rosstocher
    @rosstocher 14 дней назад +4

    Well he died 7 years after this at age 70.

  • @meagain3876
    @meagain3876 8 дней назад

    At 4'36" that looked faster than a jog - anyone else agree?

  • @dannyg9039
    @dannyg9039 2 дня назад +2

    I believe it's pronounced yogging

  • @worldVHS
    @worldVHS 14 дней назад +3

    Jog On

  • @ncot_tech
    @ncot_tech День назад

    "Don't strain, just train". I give it 30 seconds before some fitness influencer starts doing this claiming it's the next new thing.

  • @gezbo66
    @gezbo66 14 дней назад +14

    What the hell?

    • @Teal4240
      @Teal4240 14 дней назад +1

      Yep, a very different world and not that long ago.

  • @octaviussludberry9016
    @octaviussludberry9016 14 дней назад +5

    55 mil....55 yards pmsl

  • @adrianparker-e9f
    @adrianparker-e9f 12 дней назад +1

    I think that before the 1970's anyone doing fitness activities would only be doing it if they were amateur athletes, and would go to a particular place to do it ie; a running track. People wouldn't be seen 'doing it out in the open' ! Many people just wouldn't be doing activity just for keeping fit. My brothers did cycling from the early 70's, but i can't recall seeing someone running in the street when i was younger, maybe in a park ? ( i live in Hull !)

  • @AndrewChapman-p9c
    @AndrewChapman-p9c 9 дней назад

    The reporter is Bob Wellings ?

  • @hughgurney8686
    @hughgurney8686 8 дней назад +4

    I assume the Olympic coach is Bill Bowerman as he wrote a books on Jogging in the 60s as well as being a co-founder of Nike. But he learned the method from Arthur Lydiard - the New Zealander who coached Peter Snell to Olympic gold and sent runners out for daily runs with the "train don't strain" mantra.

  • @Secretname951
    @Secretname951 4 дня назад +1

    Yes, very scientific…

  • @kelechi_77
    @kelechi_77 14 дней назад

    juggin'

  • @peterbedford2610
    @peterbedford2610 3 дня назад

    Check out Pathe if you like this old stuff

  • @81joshimitsu
    @81joshimitsu 8 дней назад

    These days, we have the Boris to represent jogging for the political class

  • @vanderark89
    @vanderark89 14 дней назад +8

    Can’t see Ted Heath going for a jog. He got pretty fat when he was PM. Might have helped clear his mind during the 3 day week

  • @lobbierox
    @lobbierox 6 дней назад

    Sadly the distinction between running and jogging has been lost

  • @MartFish
    @MartFish День назад

    Wait a sec this is zone 2 training or 80/20 rule no? 😂

  • @valdvald5896
    @valdvald5896 2 дня назад

    Even all them years ago there, coaches were promoting 'science based' exercises ffs 😅

  • @cashawX10
    @cashawX10 14 дней назад

    Oh my, didn't Ernest have an interesting life in the years after this film. Obviously the jogging left in in good stead for his future endeavors....

  • @Johnconno
    @Johnconno 13 дней назад +3

    Jogging?
    It's called Wild Running.

  • @samlewis4948
    @samlewis4948 14 дней назад +26

    "In later life, Marples was elevated to the peerage before fleeing to Monaco at very short notice to avoid prosecution for tax fraud." Classic Tory

    • @trixunix5411
      @trixunix5411 14 дней назад

      @samlewis4948 Change "tax fraud" for "s*x with children" and it would be your classic Labour.
      But to be fair, Labour MPs would never be prosecuted for that, as very recent events show

    • @daves6213
      @daves6213 13 дней назад

      Where's Tulip going to flee to?

    • @EnterShikari01
      @EnterShikari01 7 дней назад

      Wonder when half the Labour front bench are going to do a runner? Oh wait they won’t, because they are the establishment. The left used to be against the establishment and for the working classes. Not anymore!

    • @EnterShikari01
      @EnterShikari01 7 дней назад

      @@daves6213Fuhrer Starmer?

  • @psyskeptic9979
    @psyskeptic9979 4 дня назад

    Earnest Marples was about 63 here, and lived for another 7 years after this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Marples

  • @nickmonkey284
    @nickmonkey284 14 дней назад +18

    England when it was still charming

    • @remotefaith
      @remotefaith 14 дней назад

      On the surface but abuse was rife in many ways

    • @therespectedlex9794
      @therespectedlex9794 13 дней назад

      Yet people say it was petty and draconian.

  • @edjack1993
    @edjack1993 14 дней назад +1

    Oh don’t be ridiculous.

  • @sleepyheadsleeps
    @sleepyheadsleeps 14 дней назад

    😨

  • @Yaya.imhere
    @Yaya.imhere 14 дней назад

    🤔

  • @Tsogoh
    @Tsogoh 14 дней назад +5

    And remember, jogging is invented by sport shoes companies to sell more sport shoes.

  • @eldaytripper2
    @eldaytripper2 5 дней назад +1

    Simpler times

  • @las10plagas
    @las10plagas 13 дней назад +2

    'fun' fact:
    the 'inventor' of jogging died because of jogging.
    daily jogging is bad for your back. he died during a surgery on his back.
    at least that's what I once heard...

    • @bardo0007
      @bardo0007 9 дней назад

      If he died during a surgery that's just unlucky, the surgery killed him

    • @las10plagas
      @las10plagas 9 дней назад

      @@bardo0007 *jogging killed him, yes.

    • @hughgurney8686
      @hughgurney8686 8 дней назад +1

      You're probably referring to Jim Fixx who popularised jogging with his book The Complete Book of Running in the 1970s. He died from a heart attack while out jogging but had a hereditary heart condition and had smoked for many years before taking up running.

    • @las10plagas
      @las10plagas 8 дней назад

      @@hughgurney8686 hmm, I don't think so. I distinctly remember him dying during back surgery 🤔... I think 😛

  • @sarahlouise7163
    @sarahlouise7163 10 дней назад +2

    terrible for your joints, terrible for your face. all that gravity, multiplied.
    just walk faster.

  • @IIZCHAOS
    @IIZCHAOS 3 дня назад

    Man before London became londinistan

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood 18 часов назад

      Off to GB News with ya, you sad old racist.

  • @youtubing2334
    @youtubing2334 14 дней назад +2

    If only they’d banned this!

  • @claymor8241
    @claymor8241 5 дней назад

    It says broadcast June 5, the day before my 14th birthday, but that was a Saturday and iirc Nationwide wasn’t on on Saturdays. I suspect an AI fake.

  • @mattsan70
    @mattsan70 14 дней назад +2

    It will never catch on

  • @sarahdavis9770
    @sarahdavis9770 11 дней назад +1

    The worst import. People wore nice clothes and walked before this blight.