EDITOR’S NOTE: Getting Physical was on the CBS Late Movie on October 22, 1986.

Kendall Gibley (Alexandra Paul) is trying to be an actress, but has a day job she dates, worries that she’s chubby and has self-esteem problems. And then one day, she finds herself at a gym and bonds with Nadine and Craig Cawley (Sandahl Bergman and John Aprea), the owners. While she’s starting a relationship with a cop named Mickey (David Naughton), Kendall gets super into being fit and even starts training for a contest. Her new size upsets Mickey, who ends up punching another cop, and they break up, just in time for Nadine to worry that her husband is paying too much attention to Kendall.

Also: Kendall’s dad Hugh (Robert Webber) thinks she’s fat and her mother Myra (Janet Carroll) thinks she needs to have casual sex. And her boss Byron Waldo (Earl Boen) gets mad when she eats celery at work.

By the end, everything works out well and despite being new to working out, Kendall is a finalist in a contest hosting by Arnold’s best friend Franco Columbu. You’ll also get to see Candy Csencsits (who sadly died at 33 from breast cancer), Vicki Kibler-Silengo, Lisa Lyon (who is also in The Hustler of Muscle Beach), Rachel McLish (Aces: Iron Eagle III), Yana Nirvana (who was Drusilla in the 1977 adult version of Cinderella) and Spice Williams-Crosby (Vixis the Klingon from Star Trek V), Connie Downing (Moving Violations) and Denise Gordy (Reform School Girls). Anne Ramsey (Mama Fratelli!) also shows up.

Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern (Rolling Vengeance, The Park Is Mine, Murder In Space, Mazes and Monsters) and written by Marcy Gross, Laurian Leggett and Ann Weston, this movie is filled with slow jams and 80s soft love ballads, including several songs by Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo, as well as songs by Thelma Houston. There’s a new song in almost scene at one point with lots of sweet sounding choruses.

You can watch this on YouTube.