Joanie Greggains

About Joanie Greggains

Joanie Greggains was a fitness instructor, television host, and author who brought exercise programming into American homes for decades. She hosted the nationally syndicated television show "Morning Stretch" from 1982 to 2000 and produced fifteen exercise videos that sold over ten million copies. She authored "Fit Happens" and co-authored "The Fat Flush Plan" and "The Fat Flush Fitness Plan," and later hosted health-focused radio programs in Northern California.

In this interview

• Discusses why she wrote "Fit Happens" after years in the fitness field
• Criticizes late-night gadgets promising overnight fitness results and quick fixes
• Emphasizes that true fitness requires consistent effort, not fancy equipment or buttons

“If you stay up late enough, you can see more gadgets that promise to make it happen overnight.”— Joanie Greggains, in this interview

Since this interview

Greggains continued her fitness advocacy through radio, hosting "Let's Talk Health" on KSRO Radio starting in 2014 and partnering in Greggains Health Matrix to produce fitness workouts. She died on May 28, 2022, at age 78 in Marin County, California.