Joanna Rohrback, the imaginative woman behind the viral Prancersice workout and accompanying videos, was inspired to create the exercise by a desire to get in shape following a breakup and her love of horses.

Joanna Rohrback On Prancercise

After splitting from a fiancé, Rohrback wanted to reclaim some power by getting herself in shape. While walking down the boardwalk in Hollywood Beach, Fla., with light weights strapped to her ankles, Rohrback started moving to the beat of a catchy song that started playing through her earphones. The rhythm she found through the song became the first version of her popular exercise. “I heard a really good song on the music player that I had; I started moving in a very unique fashion forward, rhythmically, and that became the first mode of Prancercise: the Prancercise walk,” Rohrback told uInterview exclusively.

In her latest video, the follow-up to the insanely viral first one that Rohrback released in 2013, the exercise originator teams up with a number of horsse. Rohrback admits that including the horses in the video was fulfilling a childhood dream – not one of riding a horse, but moving alongside of it with a prance of her own.

“It was always my dream to move alongside a horse, Prancercising and not riding one because I’m not one to ride a horse,” explained Rohrback. “Personally, I don’t want to force my will on another creature, and I don’t want to put a bit in its mouth, put a saddle on it, and kick it with my feet to force its movement in one way or another. I’d much rather just be part of the herd and move alongside one and Prancercise.”

In order to make this dream a reality, Rohrback joined forces with Peacefull Ridge Rescue owner Victor Cutino. “He’s a very good human being and when I approached him for a location, and I didn’t know where it was going to go and we talked more, and it just kind of came to be,” said Rohrback. “He’s very comfortable with the horses and not everybody can be that way, and he was just a good accompaniment to my video.”

Rohrback Talks ‘Impostors,’ New Exercise

From the get-go, when Rohrback was perfecting her Prancercise movements on the boardwalk, she received wary looks from people who thought she was “on drugs or something,” but it didn’t deter her. Rohrback has also been making an effort to not be phased by the “imposters” copying her moves or the plethora of parody videos that have cropped up.

“I know people are trying to do it but in kind of not upright ways and not legitimate ways, but as I have my certification process in motion, that will change,” says Rohrback of the impostors. As for the parodies, she says, “I say ‘Hey, everybody wants to ride the wave and any type of amusement and entertainment they can bring out. Why not, you know? Everybody was so in awe and trying to figure me out, and thought it was kind of funny because of the clothes I was wearing or the way I was wearing them or the way I talked and it was just all so new and different that it was easy to do parodies for it.”

Rohrback, who parlayed her cyber-stardom into a guest-starring role on Glee, does have more exercises in store for her fans – but she’s not ready to share what they are just yet. “Hey, you guys have to learn the first four modes! You want more?” she asked with a laugh, adding, “There is another mode of Prancercise that I might develop but that’s hush hush for now. You have enough to chew on. I’ve got to have some secrets to make myself intriguing!”