Although commonly known as "The 20 Minute Workout", the spelling was :20 MINUTE WORKOUT for marketing style. "The 20 Minute Workout" was an aerobics-based television-program during the early 1980s, whereby three young women would exercise in a white room that was illuminated with bright white lights.

The predominant camera-angles rotated around the three subjects, and were very risque, even by our post-2000 standards, for the reason the dancers would often be shown from behind with views of their crotches accentuated by a thong or bikini over their silky leotards or hose. Further, they would also regularly perform scissor-exercises while they had their legs spread in full frontal view of the camera.

Pulsating music from synthesizers was played in the background. While the music sounded very 1980s, it was also sounded similar to the TRANCE-DANCE that became popular in some clubs during the 1990s and on public and college radio-stations.

There are numerous websites hosted by fans that detail about the dancers, and include so-called screen-captures from the show. The website of IMDB.com lists the show twice among their webpages, first in 1982 and second in 1983; moreover, IMDB.com claims that :20 MINUTE WORKOUT was a spin-off from Aerobicise.

"The 20 Minute Workout", or a program like it, was featured at the beginning of a scene in the movie of "48 HOURS", starring both Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte, when the those actors portrayed having "rousted some dykes".