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{{short description|American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker (1914–2011)}}
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| name = Jack LaLanne
| name = Jack LaLanne
| birth_name = Francois Henri LaLanne
| birth_name = Francois Henri LaLanne
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|9|26|mf=y}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|9|26}}
| birth_place = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], [[United States]]
| birth_place = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|1|23|1914|9|26}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2011|1|23|1914|9|26}}
| death_place = [[Morro Bay, California|Morro Bay]], California, United States
| death_place = [[Morro Bay, California]], U.S.
| resting_place = [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]], [[Hollywood Hills, California]], U.S.
| cause of death = [[pneumonia]]
| nationality =
| years_active = 1936–2011
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| occupation = Chiropractor, fitness expert, television host, inventor, entrepreneur
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=6}}
| spouse = {{marriage|Irma Navarre |1942|1948}}<br />{{marriage|Elaine Doyle|1959|2011}} (his death)
| television = ''The Jack LaLanne Show''
| website = [http://www.jacklalanne.com/ jacklalanne.com]
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| years_active = 1936{{ndash}}2009
| occupation = {{hlist|Fitness expert|television host|inventor|entrepreneur|motivational speaker}}
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* {{marriage|Irma Navarre|1942|1948|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|[[Elaine LaLanne|Elaine Doyle]]|1959<!-- Year omitted due to marriage's end by subject's death, per instructions on template:marriage-->}}
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'''Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne''' (September 26, 1914{{ndash}} January 23, 2011) was an [[United States|American]] [[Physical fitness|fitness]], [[exercise]], and [[nutrition|nutritional expert]] and [[motivational speaker]] who is sometimes called "the godfather of fitness" and the "first fitness superhero."<ref name="MNN">{{cite web|url=http://www.mnn.com/health/fitness-well-being/blogs/jack-lalanne-the-first-fitness-superhero|title=Jack LaLanne: The first fitness superhero|last=d'Estries|first=Michael|date=24 January 2011|publisher=Mother Nature Network|accessdate=25 January 2011}}</ref> He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "[[junk food]] junkie” until he was 15. He also had behavioral problems, but "turned his life around" after listening to a public lecture by [[Paul Bragg]], a well-known nutrition speaker.<ref name="tuttle">{{cite news| url=http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2006/aug2006_report_lalanne_01.htm |title=Report: Jack LaLanne: "Godfather of Fitness" Still Going Strong at 91|last=Tuttle|first=Dave |date=August 2006|work=Life Extension|accessdate=25 January 2011}}</ref> During his career, he came to believe that the country's overall health depended on the health of its population, writing that "[[physical culture]] and nutrition — is the salvation of America."<ref name="clutherlat"/>


'''Francois Henri LaLanne''' ({{IPAc-en|l|ə|ˈ|l|eɪ|n}};<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/nls/about/organization/standards-guidelines/ijkl/#l|title=Say How: L|publisher=National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled|access-date=4 April 2021}}</ref> September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011), the "Godfather of Fitness",<ref>Time Magazine. Jack LaLanne, Fitness Guru, Dies at 96.
Decades before fitness began being promoted by celebrities like [[Jane Fonda]] and [[Richard Simmons]], LaLanne was already widely recognized for publicly preaching the health benefits of regular exercise and a good diet. He published numerous books on fitness and hosted a fitness television show between 1951 and 1985. As early as 1936, at age 21, he opened one of the nation's first<ref name="clutherlat"/> fitness gyms in Oakland, California, which became a prototype for dozens of similar gyms using his name.<ref name="newsweek-strong">{{cite news|url=http://www.newsweek.com/2006/02/19/still-going-strong.html|title=Still Going Strong|date=20 February 2006|work=Newsweek|accessdate=25 January 2011}}</ref> One of his 1950s television exercise programs was aimed toward women, whom he also encouraged to join his health clubs.<ref name="clutherlat"/><ref name="NYT-obit"/> He invented a number of exercise machines, including leg-extension and pulley devices. Besides producing his own series of videos, he coached the elderly and disabled to not forgo exercise, believing it would enable them to enhance their strength.<ref name="clutherlat"/><ref name="NYT-obit"/>
By Nick Carbone Jan. 23, 2011.</ref><ref>ABC News. Fitness Legend Jack LaLanne Dies. By Amanda Vanallen. January 24, 2011.</ref><ref>Hollywood Reporters. Godfather of Fitness Jack LaLanne Is Laid to Rest. Bill Higgins. February 1, 2011.</ref> was an American fitness and nutrition guru and [[motivational speaker]]. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "[[junk food]] junkie" until he was 15 years old. He also had behavioral problems but "turned his life around" after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition by health food pioneer [[Paul Bragg]]. During his career, he came to believe that the country's overall health depended on the health of its population, and he referred to [[physical culture]] and nutrition as "the salvation of America".<ref name="clutherlat" />


LaLanne hosted the first<ref name="Publisher 2022">”Pride & Discipline: The Legacy of Jack LaLanne” Elaine LaLanne and Greg Justice. {{ISBN|979-8985442106}}. Publisher: Greg Justice, March 16, 2022.</ref> and longest-running<ref>LoBrutto, Vincent (2018). TV in the USA: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas [3 volumes]. ABC-CLIO. p. 69. {{ISBN|9781440829734}}. Retrieved 14 December 2017</ref> nationally syndicated fitness television program, ''[[The Jack LaLanne Show]],'' from 1951 to 1985. He published numerous books on fitness and was widely recognized for publicly preaching the health benefits of regular exercise and a good diet.<ref name=sivlltt>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.si.com/vault/1960/12/19/585930/lalanne-a-treat-and-a-treatment |magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Horn |first=Huston |title=LaLanne: a treat and a treatment |date=19 December 1960 |page=28}}</ref> He started working out with weights when they were an oddity.<ref name="ReferenceA">NY Times. Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96. By Richard Goldstein. Jan. 23, 2011</ref> As early as 1936, at the age of 21, he opened the nation's first modern health club in [[Oakland, California]],<ref name="clutherlat" /><ref name="Publisher 2022"/> which became a prototype for dozens of similar gyms bearing his name,<ref name="newsweek-strong">{{cite news |url=http://www.newsweek.com/2006/02/19/still-going-strong.html |title=Still Going Strong |date=20 February 2006 |work=Newsweek |access-date=25 January 2011}}</ref> later licensing them to Bally.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
LaLanne also gained recognition for his success as a [[bodybuilder]], as well as for his prodigious feats of strength. [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] once stated, "That Jack LaLanne's an animal!," after LaLanne, at 54, beat a 21-year-old Schwarzenegger "badly" in an informal contest.<ref name="MNN"/> He credited LaLanne for being "an apostle for fitness" by inspiring "billions all over the world to live healthier lives,"<ref name="KSBY">[http://www.ksby.com/news/schwarzenegger-calls-lalanne-most-energetic-man-in-the-room-/ "Schwarzenegger calls LaLanne 'most energetic man in the room"], KSBY.com, Jan. 24, 2011</ref> and had earlier placed him on his Governor's Council on Physical Fitness.


One of LaLanne's 1950s television exercise programs was aimed toward women, whom he also encouraged to join his health clubs.<ref name="clutherlat" /><ref name="NYT-obit" /> He invented a number of exercise machines, including the pulley and [[leg extension]] devices and the [[Smith machine]], as well as [[protein supplement]] drinks,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-12272311.amp |title=Godfather of Fitness' Jack Lalanne's legacy |publisher=BBC News |first1=Rajini |last1=Vaidyanathan |date=25 January 2011}}</ref> [[resistance band]]s, and [[protein bars]]. He also popularized [[juicing]]<ref name="Publisher 2022"/> and the [[jumping jack]].<ref>Erik Hayden. "Remembering Fitness Legend Jack LaLanne"</ref> He produced his own series of videos so viewers could be coached virtually.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He pioneered coaching the elderly and disabled to exercise in order to enhance their strength and health.<ref name="clutherlat" /><ref name="NYT-obit" />
He was inducted to the [[California Hall of Fame]] and has a star on the [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame#L|Hollywood Walk of Fame]].


LaLanne also gained recognition for his success as a [[bodybuilder]] and for his prodigious feats of strength. At the age of 70, handcuffed and shackled, he towed 70 boats, carrying a total of 70 people, a mile and a half through Long Beach Harbor.<ref name="NYT-obit" /> [[Steve Reeves]] credited LaLanne as his inspiration to build his muscular physique while keeping a slim waist. [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], as [[governor of California]], placed him on his Governor's Council on Physical Fitness, and on the occasion of LaLanne's death he credited LaLanne for being "an apostle for fitness" by inspiring "billions all over the world to live healthier lives".<ref name="KSBY">[http://www.ksby.com/news/schwarzenegger-calls-lalanne-most-energetic-man-in-the-room-/ "Schwarzenegger calls LaLanne 'most energetic man in the room{{'"}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110129234814/http://www.ksby.com/news/schwarzenegger-calls-lalanne-most-energetic-man-in-the-room-/ |date=29 January 2011 }}, KSBY.com, 24 January 2011</ref>
==Early life==
LaLanne was born in [[San Francisco, California]],<ref name="clutherlat">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124,0,5507436,full.story|title=Jack LaLanne obituary: Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement|last=Luther|first=Claudia|date=23 January 2011|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref> to Jennie (née Garaig) (1884–1973) and Jean/John LaLanne (1881–1939). His parents were immigrants from [[Oloron-Sainte-Marie]] in southwest [[France]]. LaLanne had two older brothers, Ervil, who died in childhood (1906–1911), and Norman (1908–2005), who nicknamed him "Jack."<ref name="clutherlat"/><ref name="reitwiesner">Reitwiesner, William Addams (date unknown). Ancestry of Jack LaLanne. Retrieved from http://www.wargs.com/other/lalanne.html.</ref>


LaLanne was inducted into the [[California Hall of Fame]] and has a star on the [[List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame#L|Hollywood Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/23/fitness-guru-jack-lalanne-96-dies-at-calif-home/ |title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne, 96, dies at Calif. home |author=Andrew Dalton |newspaper=U-T San Diego |date=23 January 2011}}</ref>
He grew up in Bakersfield, California and later moved to Berkeley when he was still a child. His father died at the age of 58 of a heart attack, caused in part by poor nutrition.<ref name=Encyc>''St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture'' vol. 3, St. James Press (2000) pp. 81-83</ref> LaLanne wrote that as a boy he was addicted to sugar and junk food. He had violent episodes directed against himself and others, describing himself as "a miserable goddamn kid...it was like hell."<ref name="SFChron-obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/24/MN3T1HDCIB.DTL|title=Jack LaLanne, fitness pioneer, dies at 96|last=Kuruvila|first=Matthai|coauthors=Demian Bulwa|date=24 January 2011|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref> Besides having a bad temper, he also suffered from headaches and bulimia, and temporarily dropped out of high school at age 14. The following year, at age 15, he heard health food pioneer [[Paul Bragg]] give a talk on health and nutrition, focusing on the "evils of meat and sugar."<ref name=Encyc/>

==Early life==
LaLanne was born in [[San Francisco, California]],<ref name=sivlltt/><ref name="clutherlat">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124,0,5507436,full.story|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207193020/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124,0,5507436,full.story|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2011|title=Jack LaLanne obituary: Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement|last=Luther|first=Claudia|date=23 January 2011|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=24 January 2011}}</ref> the son of Jennie (''née'' Garaig) and Jean/John LaLanne, [[French people|French]] immigrants from [[Oloron-Sainte-Marie]]. Both entered the US in the 1880s as young children at the [[Port of New Orleans]]. LaLanne had two older brothers, Ervil, who died in childhood (1906–1911), and Norman (1908–2005), who nicknamed him "Jack".<ref name="clutherlat" /> He grew up in [[Bakersfield, California]] and later moved with his family to [[Berkeley, California]] circa 1928. In 1939, his father died at the age of 58 in a San Francisco hospital,<ref name=frobbdgz>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B3I0AAAAIBAJ&pg=2008%2C1382340 |newspaper=Berkeley Daily Gazette |title=John Lalanne |agency=Deaths |date=18 September 1939 |page=13}}</ref><!--(John LaLanne obituary, Berkeley Daily Gazette, Monday, 18 September 1939)--> which LaLanne attributed to "coronary thrombosis and [[cirrhosis]] of the liver". In his book ''The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health'', LaLanne wrote that as a boy he was addicted to sugar and junk food.<ref>''The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health'' (page 21, 1960 edition)</ref> He had violent episodes directed against himself and others, describing himself as "a miserable kid ... it was like hell".<ref name="SFChron-obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/24/MN3T1HDCIB.DTL|title=Jack LaLanne, fitness pioneer, dies at 96|last=Kuruvila|first=Matthai|author2=Demian Bulwa|date=24 January 2011|work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]|access-date=24 January 2011}}</ref>


Bragg's message had a powerful influence on LaLanne, who then changed his life and started focusing on his diet and exercise.<ref name="bragg">{{cite web
Besides having a bad temper, LaLanne also suffered from headaches and [[bulimia]], and temporarily dropped out of high school at the age of 14. The following year, aged 15, he heard [[health food]] pioneer [[Paul Bragg]] give a talk on health and nutrition, focusing on the "evils of meat and sugar".<ref name=Encyc>''St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture'' vol. 3, St. James Press (2000) pp. 81-83</ref> Bragg's message had a powerful influence on LaLanne, who then changed his life and started focusing on his diet and exercise.<ref name="bragg">{{cite web
| url=http://naturalhealthperspective.com/tutorials/paul-bragg.html
| url=http://naturalhealthperspective.com/tutorials/paul-bragg.html
| title=Paul C. Bragg
| title=Paul C. Bragg
| publisher=The Natural Health Perspective
| publisher=The Natural Health Perspective
| date=2009-01-29
| date=29 January 2009
| access-date=13 September 2009
| accessdate=2009-09-13
}}</ref> In his own words, he was "born again". and besides his new focus on nutrition, he began working out daily (although while serving during [[World War II]] as a Pharmacist Mate First Class at the [[Sun Valley, Idaho|Sun Valley]] Naval Convalescent Hospital, LaLanne stated that he started in bodybuilding at "age 13").<ref>"On The Sports Front," ''Twin Falls (Idaho) Times News'', 25 February 1944, George F. Redmond, sportswriter.</ref> Describing his change of diet, LaLanne stated, "I had to take my lunch alone to the football field to eat so no one would see me eat my raw veggies, whole bread, raisins and nuts. You don't know the crap I went through".<ref name=Planet>[http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2011-01-26/article/37169?headline=Jack-La-Lanne-A-Berkeley-not-Oakland-Original--By-Steven-Finacom "Jack La Lanne{{snds}}A Berkeley (not Oakland) Original"], ''Berkeley Daily Planet'', 25 January 2011</ref>
}}</ref> In his own words, he was "born again," and besides his new focus on nutrition, he began working out daily. He went back to school, where he made the high school football team, and later went on to college in San Francisco where he earned a [[Doctor of Chiropractic]] degree. He studied [[Gray's Anatomy|Henry Gray's ''Anatomy of the Human Body'']] and concentrated on [[bodybuilding]] and [[Weight training|weightlifting]].<ref name=Encyc/>

Writer Hal Reynolds, who interviewed LaLanne in 2008, notes that he became an avid swimmer and trained with weights; he described his introduction to weight lifting thus:

{{cquote|[LaLanne] found two men working out in a back room, who kept weights in a locked box. When he asked them if he could use their weights, they laughed at him and said, "Kid, you can't even lift those weights." So he challenged them both to a wrestling match with the bet that if he could beat them, they would give him a key to the box. After he beat them both, they gave him a key and he used their weights until he was able to buy his own.<ref name=Planet/>}}

LaLanne went back to school, where he made the high school football team, and later went on to college in San Francisco where he earned a [[Doctor of Chiropractic]] degree. He studied [[Gray's Anatomy|Henry Gray's ''Anatomy of the Human Body'']] and concentrated on [[bodybuilding]] and [[Weight training|weightlifting]].<ref name=Encyc/>


==Fitness career==
==Fitness career==
===Early wrestling career===
LaLanne won the American Athletic Foundation Wrestling Championship in 1930, the American Athletic Union medal for wrestling in 1936, and was put on the 1936 Olympic wrestling team but was taken off the team because he was “charging money for exercise” by opening a gym and thus “considered a professional”.<ref name="Publisher 2022"/>

===Health clubs===
===Health clubs===
Arnold Schwarzenegger said of Lalanne, “It doesn’t matter where you go, there’s a health club, and it all started with Jack LaLanne.”<ref>{{Cite web |last=Teper |first=Lonnie |date=2011-02-02 |title=Celebrating Jack LaLanne - |url=https://www.ironmanmagazine.com/celebrating-jack-lalanne/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=www.ironmanmagazine.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/02/01/jack.lalanne.memorial/index.html CNN. “Arnold Schwarzenegger eulogizes Jack LaLanne.” By Alan Duke. February 3, 2011.</ref>
In 1936, he opened what is considered the nation's first health and fitness club in [[Oakland, California]],<ref name=Encyc/> where he offered supervised weight and exercise training and gave nutritional advice. His primary goal was to encourage and motivate his clients to improve their overall health. Doctors, however, advised their patients to stay away from his health club, a business totally unheard of at the time, and warned their patients that "LaLanne was an exercise 'nut,' whose programs would make them muscle-bound" and cause severe medical problems.<ref name=Encyc/> LaLanne recalls the initial reaction of doctors to his promotion of weight-lifting:

:"People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me—they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive."<ref name="NYT-obit">{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/sports/24lalanne.html|title=Jack LaLanne, Father of Fitness Movement, Dies at 96|last=Goldstein|first=Richard|date=24 January 2011|work=The New York Times|accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref>
In 1936, he opened the nation's first health and fitness club in [[Oakland, California]],<ref name=Encyc/> where he offered supervised weight and exercise training and gave nutritional advice. His primary goal was to encourage and motivate his clients to improve their overall health. Doctors, however, advised their patients to stay away from his health club, a business totally unheard of at the time, and warned their patients that "LaLanne was an exercise 'nut', whose programs would make them 'muscle-bound' and cause severe medical problems".<ref name=Encyc/> LaLanne recalls the initial reaction of doctors to his promotion of weight lifting:


{{cquote|People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me{{nsmdns}}they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.<ref name="NYT-obit">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/sports/24lalanne.html|title=Jack LaLanne, Father of Fitness Movement, Dies at 96|last=Goldstein|first=Richard|date=24 January 2011|work=The New York Times|access-date=24 January 2011}}</ref>}}
LaLanne designed the first leg extension machines, pulley machines using cables, and the weight selectors that are now standard in the fitness industry.
He invented the original model of what became the [[Smith machine]].<ref>[http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/302860 Fitness guru Jack LaLanne has passed away]</ref> LaLanne encouraged women to lift weights (though at the time it was thought this would make women look masculine and unattractive). By the 1980s, Jack LaLanne's European Health Spas numbered more than 200. He eventually licensed all his health clubs to the Bally company, now known as [[Bally Total Fitness]]. Though not associated with any gym, LaLanne continued to lift weights until his death.


LaLanne designed the first leg extension machines, pulley machines using cables, weight selectors, and many other inventions, none of which he patented, that are now standard in the fitness industry.<ref name="Publisher 2022"/> He invented the original model of what became the [[Smith machine]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/302860 | title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne has passed away | work=digitaljournal.com | access-date=27 August 2015}}</ref> He invented [[resistance band]]s, which he marketed as the Glamour Stretcher for women and the Easy Way for men with different tensions.<ref name="Publisher 2022"/> LaLanne encouraged women to lift weights (though at the time it was thought this would make women look masculine and unattractive), and he was the first to have a coed health club.<ref name="Publisher 2022"/> By the 1980s, Jack LaLanne's European Health Spas numbered more than 200. He eventually licensed all his health clubs to the Bally company, now known as [[Bally Total Fitness]]. Though not associated with any gym, LaLanne continued to lift weights until his death.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
LaLanne's gym ownership led to a brief [[professional wrestling]] career in 1938. Wrestlers were among the few athletes who embraced weight training, and they frequented his health club. LaLanne wrestled in the [[Bay Area]] for only a few months. He was well respected enough that he was [[kayfabe|booked]] to wrestle to a draw against some big name opponents rather than lose, despite his lack of experience. LaLanne was friendly with such performers as [[Lou Thesz]] and [[Strangler Lewis]].


===Books, television and other media===
===Books, television and other media===
[[Image:Edjackfn.jpg|thumb|left|150px| [[Edgar L. McCoubrey]] and [[Jack LaLanne]], ca 1950]]
[[File:Jack LaLanne 1961.JPG|thumb|Jack LaLanne in 1961]]
[[File:Jack LaLanne on TV.jpg|thumb|Explaining health during his TV show]]
LaLanne presented fitness and exercise advice on television for 34 years. ''The Jack LaLanne Show'' was the longest running [[television exercise program]]. It began in 1951 as a local program on [[San Francisco]]'s [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] television station, [[KGO-TV]], with LaLanne paying for the airtime himself as a way to promote his gym and related health products. LaLanne also met his wife Elaine while she was working for the local station. In 1959, the ABC network picked up the show for nationwide broadcast, which continued until 1985.


LaLanne presented fitness and exercise advice on television for 34 years. ''[[The Jack LaLanne Show]]'' was the longest-running television exercise program. According to the SF Chronicle TV program archives, it first began on 28 September 1953 as a 15-minute local morning program (sandwiched between the morning news and a cooking show) on [[San Francisco|San Francisco's]] [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] television station, [[KGO-TV]], with LaLanne paying for the airtime himself as a way to promote his gym and related health products. LaLanne also met his wife Elaine while she was working for the local station. In 1959, the show was picked up for nationwide syndication, and continued until 1985.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
The show was noted for its minimalist set, where LaLanne inspired his viewers to use basic home objects, such as a chair, to perform their exercises along with him. Wearing his standard jumpsuit, he urged his audience "with the enthusiasm of an evangelist," to get off their couch and copy his basic movements, a manner considered the forerunner of today's fitness videos.<ref name=Encyc/><ref>[http://www.jacklalanne.com/watch-jack/ Jack LaLanne Show video]</ref>{{rp|watch}}
In 1959, LaLanne recorded ''Glamour Stretcher Time'', a workout album which provided [[phonograph]]-based instruction for exercising with an elastic cord called the Glamour Stretcher.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2006/01/11/fashion/20060112_FITN_SLIDESHOW_1.html Jack LaLanne's Glamour Stretcher, NYTimes Exercise Product History]</ref> As a daytime show, much of LaLanne's audience were stay-at-home mothers. Wife Elaine LaLanne was part of the show to demonstrate the exercises, as well as the fact that doing them would not ruin their figures or musculature. LaLanne also included his dog Happy as a way to attract children to the show. Later in the run, another dog named Walter was used, with LaLanne claiming "Walter" stood for "We All Love To Exercise Regularly."


The show was noted for its minimalist set, where LaLanne inspired his viewers to use basic home objects, such as a chair, to perform their exercises along with him. Wearing his standard jumpsuit, he urged his audience "with the enthusiasm of an evangelist," to get off their couch and copy his basic movements, a manner considered the forerunner of today's fitness videos.<ref name=Encyc/><ref>[http://www.jacklalanne.com/watch-jack/ Jack LaLanne Show video] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216034740/http://www.jacklalanne.com/watch-jack/ |date=16 February 2010 }}</ref>{{rp|watch}} In 1959, LaLanne recorded ''Glamour Stretcher Time'', a workout album that provided [[phonograph]]-based instruction for exercising with an elastic cord called the Glamour Stretcher.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2006/01/11/fashion/20060112_FITN_SLIDESHOW_1.html Jack LaLanne's Glamour Stretcher, NYTimes Exercise Product History]</ref> As a daytime show, much of LaLanne's audience were stay-at-home mothers. LaLanne's wife Elaine LaLanne was part of the show to demonstrate the exercises and to show that doing them would not ruin the figures or musculature of women. LaLanne also included his dog Happy as a way to attract children to the show. Later in the run, another dog named Walter was used, with LaLanne claiming "Walter" stood for "We All Love To Exercise Regularly".{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}
LaLanne published several books and [[video]]s on fitness and nutrition, appeared in movies, and recorded a song with [[Connie Haines]]. He marketed [[exercise equipment]], a range of [[vitamin]] supplements, and two models of electric [[juicer]]s.<ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703398504576100923135057068.html Jack LaLanne, Media Fitness Guru, Dies at 96 - Wall Street Journal] Published 24 January 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.</ref> These include the "Juice Tiger", as seen on ''Amazing Discoveries'' with [[Mike Levey]], and "Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer".<ref name=cpsc86/> It was on the show that LaLanne introduced the phrase "That's the power of the juice!" However, In March 1996, 70,000 Juice Tiger juicers, 9% of its models, were recalled after 14 injury incidents were reported.<ref name="cpsc86">[http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml96/96086.html U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC, National Media Corporation Announced Juice Tiger Recall Program]</ref> The Power Juicer is still sold in five models.<ref>[http://www.powerjuicer.com Power Juicer]</ref>


LaLanne published several books and [[video]]s on fitness and nutrition, appeared in movies, and recorded a song with [[Connie Haines]]. He marketed exercise equipment, a range of [[vitamin]] supplements, and two models of electric [[juicer]]s.<ref>[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703398504576100923135057068 Jack LaLanne, Media Fitness Guru, Dies at 96 – Wall Street Journal] Published 24 January 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.</ref> These include the "Juice Tiger", as seen on ''Amazing Discoveries'' with [[Mike Levey]], and "Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer".<ref name=cpsc86/> It was on the show that LaLanne introduced the phrase "That's the power of the juice!" However, in March 1996, 70,000 Juice Tiger juicers, 9% of all its models, were recalled after 14 injury incidents were reported.<ref name="cpsc86">[http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml96/96086.html U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC, National Media Corporation Announced Juice Tiger Recall Program] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111115926/http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml96/96086.html |date=11 January 2012 }}</ref> The Power Juicer is still sold in five models.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.powerjuicer.com|title=Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer™ - Free Shipping! Exclusive New Model|work=powerjuicer.com|access-date=27 August 2015}}</ref>
LaLanne celebrated his 95th birthday with the release of a new book titled, ''Live Young Forever''.<ref>{{cite web|last=LaLanne|first=Jack|title=Live Young Forever|url=http://www.liveyoungwithjacklalanne.com/index.html|publisher=Robert Kennedy Publishing|year=2009|accessdate=28 January 2011}}</ref>
In the book, he discussed how he kept healthy and active well into his advanced age.


LaLanne played the role of "Hercules" in the Christmas television movie, "The Year Without Santa Claus" starring John Goodman, in 2006, his last acting role.
==Personal health routine==


LaLanne celebrated his 95th birthday with the release of a new book titled ''Live Young Forever''.<ref>{{cite web|last=LaLanne|first=Jack|title=Live Young Forever|url=http://www.jacklalanne.com/store/products/Live_Young_Forever-57-2.html|publisher=Robert Kennedy Publishing|year=2009|access-date=28 January 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617213615/http://www.jacklalanne.com/store/products/Live_Young_Forever-57-2.html|archive-date=17 June 2010}}</ref>

==Personal health routine==
===Diet===
===Diet===
One of LaLanne's sayings was "If man made it, don't eat it."<ref>Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity. By Jack Lalanne. Publisher: UNKNO. September 16, 2009. {{ISBN|1552100642}}, {{ISBN|978-1552100646}}.</ref>


LaLanne blamed [[ultra-processed foods]] for many health problems. For most of his life, he eschewed sugar and white flour while eating many fruits and vegetables,<ref>Reuters. Jack LaLanne, 93, still spreads gospel of exercise. March 19, 2007.</ref> and he ate a mostly dairy-free<ref>http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html Shareguide: Holistic Health Magazine & Resource Directory. Interview with Jack LaLanne
LaLanne blamed overly processed foods for many health problems. He advocated a mostly meatless diet but which included [[fish]] (see [[Pescetarianism]])<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/19/LV107553.DTL | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | title=Raising the bar / At 88, fitness guru Jack LaLanne can run circles around those half his age | first=Sam | last=McManis | date=2003-01-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html | work=Share Guide | title=Interview with Jack LaLanne / Legendary Fitness Expert, Health Pioneer, Diet and Nutrition Innovator | first=Dennis | last=Hughes}}</ref>, and took vitamin supplements.<ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-24/jack-lalanne-fitness-guru-dies-at-96-learn-10-of-his-habits/full/ Jack LaLanne's 10 Health Habits]. The Daily Beast. Published January 24, 2011. Accessed January 31, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-03-14/lifestyle/9603120380_1_exercise-upper-arms-workout/2 Jack Lalanne: 81 Going On 60]. The Sun Sentinel. Published March 14, 1996. Accessed January 31, 2011.</ref><ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/17/lkl.00.html CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Jack La Lanne Discusses a Life of Health and Fitness]. Aired July 17, 2000, 9:00 p.m. ET. Accessed January 31, 2011.</ref>
Legendary Fitness Expert, Health Pioneer, Diet and Nutrition Innovator (1914-2011). Interview by Janice Hughes and Dennis Hughes, Share Guide Publishers.</ref> and meatless diet that included lots of egg whites and fish.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/19/LV107553.DTL | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | title=Raising the bar / At 88, fitness guru Jack LaLanne can run circles around those half his age | first=Sam | last=McManis | date=19 January 2003}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html | work=Share Guide | title=Interview with Jack LaLanne / Legendary Fitness Expert, Health Pioneer, Diet and Nutrition Innovator | first=Dennis | last=Hughes | access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> He also took vitamin supplements<ref>[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-24/jack-lalanne-fitness-guru-dies-at-96-learn-10-of-his-habits/full/ Jack LaLanne's 10 Health Habits]. The Daily Beast. Published 24 January 2011. Accessed 31 January 2011.</ref><ref>[http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-03-14/lifestyle/9603120380_1_exercise-upper-arms-workout/2 Jack Lalanne: 81 Going On 60] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207065101/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-03-14/lifestyle/9603120380_1_exercise-upper-arms-workout/2 |date=2011-02-07 }}. ''The Sun Sentinel''. Published 14 March 1996. Accessed 31 January 2011.</ref><ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/17/lkl.00.html CNN Transcript – Larry King Live: Jack La Lanne Discusses a Life of Health and Fitness] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629060445/http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/17/lkl.00.html |date=2011-06-29 }}. Aired 17 July 2000, 9:00 p.m. ET. Accessed 31 January 2011.</ref> and protein supplements.<ref name="Life Lessons from Jack LaLanne">{{Cite web |date=2011-01-24 |title=Life Lessons from Jack LaLanne |url=https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19527902/the-first-man-of-fitness/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=Men's Health |language=en-US}}</ref>


The NY Times reported in his obituary that he avoided snacks and ate two meals a day,<ref name=NYT-obit /> although he once said that he ate three meals a day.<ref name="web.archive.org">{{Cite web |date=2020-10-29 |title=The Father of Fitness Just Keeps Going and Going and ... - Los Angeles Times |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-08-he-36830-story.html |access-date=2023-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029140413/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-08-he-36830-story.html |archive-date=2020-10-29 }}</ref> His breakfast, after working out for two hours, consisted of hard-boiled egg whites, a cup of broth, oatmeal with [[soy milk]], and seasonal fruit.<ref name=NYT-obit /> Other sources say that breakfasts were homemade protein shakes: one was [[protein powder]] shake with wheat germ, brewer's yeast, bone meal, juice, and handfuls of vitamins and minerals<ref name="Life Lessons from Jack LaLanne"/> consisting of “100 liver-yeast tablets, 15,000 milligrams of vitamin C, 2000 units of B, some boron and some zinc, also 75 alfalfa and kelp tablets”.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-02-05 |title=David Rensin, '20 Questions with Jack Lalanne', Playboy Magazine (October, 1984). - Physical Culture Study |url=https://physicalculturestudy.com/2018/02/05/david-rensin-20-questions-with-jack-lalanne-playboy-magazine-october-1984/,%20https://physicalculturestudy.com/2018/02/05/david-rensin-20-questions-with-jack-lalanne-playboy-magazine-october-1984/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=physicalculturestudy.com |language=en-US}}</ref>
He ate two meals a day and avoided snacks. His breakfast, after working out for two hours, consisted of hard-boiled egg whites, a cup of broth, oatmeal with soy milk and seasonal fruit. For dinner he and his wife typically ate raw vegetables and egg whites along with fish. He did not drink coffee.<ref name=NYT-obit/>


Another shake LaLanne consumed consisted of [[egg whites]] and [[soybean]] with carrot juice, celery juice, and some fruit.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2011-01-24 |title=Health, fitness guru Jack LaLanne dies at 96 |url=https://boulderweekly.com/news/health-fitness-guru-jack-lalanne-dies-at-96/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=Boulder Weekly |language=en-US}}</ref> One source reported that his lunch was four boiled egg whites, five servings of fresh fruit, plus five raw vegetables.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McManis |first=Sam |date=2003-01-19 |title=Raising the bar / At 88, fitness guru Jack LaLanne can run... |url=https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Raising-the-bar-At-88-fitness-guru-Jack-2639258.php |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=SFGATE |language=en}}</ref> For dinner, he and his wife typically ate a high-protein salad with egg whites along with fish (often [[salmon]]) and some wine.<ref name="NYT-obit" /> He did not drink coffee.<ref name="NYT-obit" />
LaLanne said his two simple rules of nutrition are: "if man made it, don't eat it", and "if it tastes good, spit it out."<ref name="LaLanneisms">{{cite web|url=http://www.jacklalanne.com/jacks-adventures/lalanneisms.php|title=Jack LaLanne -LaLanneisms|publisher=JackLaLanne.com|accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref> He offered his opinion of the average person's diet:


He once described his diet by saying, “ At least eight to 10 raw vegetables and three to four pieces of fresh fruit a day. I have natural grains, beans, brown rice, lentils, wheat. And I get most of my protein from fish and egg whites. I eat no meat of any kind. I drink my breakfast. Half carrot juice, half celery juice and then I put an apple and a banana in it and 50 grams of protein made out of egg whites and soybean. For lunch I’ll have three pieces of fresh fruit, three to six egg whites and whole wheat toast. And Elaine makes soup for me with vegetables but no cream or butter. Elaine and I eat out practically every night, but we have the restaurants trained. We call them that we’re coming in, and they’ll have a raw vegetable salad and I’ll have oil dressing loaded up with chopped garlic. I take my own pita bread made out of whole wheat with no salt or oils. And I’ll have a baked potato and fish.”<ref name="web.archive.org"/>
:"Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. [[High blood pressure]] is from all this high-fat eating. Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up."<ref name="MNN"/>


===Exercise===
===Exercise===
[[File:Jack LaLanne.jpg|thumb|LaLanne receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 at Muscle Beach in Venice Beach, California.]]When exercising, he worked out repetitively with weights until he experienced "muscle fatigue" in whatever muscle groups he was exercising, or when it became impossible for him to go on with a particular routine. "Training to failure" is now commonplace. LaLanne moved from exercise to exercise without stopping. To contradict critics who thought this would leave him tightly musclebound and uncoordinated, LaLanne liked to demonstrate one-handed balancing. His home contained two gyms and a pool which he used daily.<ref name=NYT-obit/> He also dismissed warmups, calling them "shtick" and "something else to sell": "15 minutes to warm up? Does a lion warm up when he's hungry? 'Uh oh, here comes an antelope. Better warm up.' No! He just goes out there and eats the sucker."
When exercising, LaLanne worked out repetitively with weights until he experienced "muscle fatigue" in whatever muscle groups he was exercising, or when it became impossible for him to go on with a particular routine; this is most often referred to as "[[training to failure]]". LaLanne moved from exercise to exercise without stopping. To contradict critics who thought this would leave him tightly musclebound and uncoordinated, LaLanne liked to demonstrate one-handed balancing. His home contained two gyms and a pool that he used daily.<ref name=NYT-obit/>


{{stack|float=left|[[File:Jack LaLanne.jpg|thumb|left|LaLanne receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 at Muscle Beach in [[Venice Beach, California]]]]}}
He continued with his two-hour workouts into his 90s, which also included walking.<ref name="CNN-at89">{{cite news |title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne still going strong at 89|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/19/jack.lalanne.ap/ |publisher=CNN.com|date=2004-01-19 |accessdate=2011-01-23|archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20070904075927/http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/19/jack.lalanne.ap/ |archivedate = 2007-09-04}}</ref>


He continued with his two-hour workouts into his 90s, which also included walking.<ref name="CNN-at89">{{cite news |title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne still going strong at 89|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/19/jack.lalanne.ap/ |publisher=CNN.com|date=19 January 2004 |access-date=23 January 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070904075927/http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/19/jack.lalanne.ap/ |archive-date = 4 September 2007}}</ref> He stated, "If I died, people would say 'Oh look, Jack LaLanne died. He didn't practice what he preached.'"<ref name=NYT-obit/>
He often said, "I'd hate to die; it would ruin my image." and "If I died, people would say 'Oh look, Jack LaLanne died. He didn't practice what he preached.'"<ref name=NYT-obit/> When asked about sex, LaLanne had a standard joke, saying that despite their advanced age, he and his wife still made love almost every night: "Almost on Monday, almost on Tuesday, almost on Wednesday..." He explained his reasons for exercising:
:"I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You see, life is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest. How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth — and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years."<ref name="MNN"/>He also added "I know so many people in their 80s who have Alzheimer's or are in a wheelchair or whatever. And I say to myself 'I don't want to live like that. I don't want to be a burden on my family. I need to live life. And I'd hate dying; it would ruin my image.'"


LaLanne summed up his philosophy about good nutrition and exercise:
LaLanne summed up his philosophy about good nutrition and exercise:
:"Living is a pain in the butt. Dying is easy. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom."<ref>Siegel M.D., Andrew. ''Finding Your Own Fountain of Youth: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Health'', Paul Mould Publ. (2008) p. 191</ref>


"Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the butt. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom."<ref>Siegel M.D., Andrew. ''Finding Your Own Fountain of Youth: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Health'', Paul Mould Publ. (2008) p. 191</ref>
===Opinion about food additives and drugs ===
LaLanne often stressed that chemical food additives and drugs contributed to making people mentally and physically ill due to having too many chemicals and not enough natural foods in their diet. As a result, he writes, many people turn to alcohol and drugs to deal with symptoms of ailments, noting that "a stream of aches and pains seems to encompass us as we get older."<ref name=LaLanne-book>LaLanne, Jack. ''Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Life'', Hastings House (2003)</ref>{{rp|114}} He refers to the human bloodstream as a "River of Life, which is "polluted" by "junk foods" loaded with "preservatives, salt, sugar, and artificial flavorings."<ref name=LaLanne-book/>{{rp|167}}


He said that since the average person doesn't have the time to exercise two hours per day, he recommended 30-minute workouts, 3-4 times a week, and changing one's routine every 2–3 weeks.<ref name="CNN-at89"/>
Relying on evidence from The President's Council on Physical Fitness, he also agrees that "many of our aches and pains come from lack of physical activity." As an immediate remedy for symptoms such as constipation, insomnia, tiredness, anxiety, shortness of breath, or high blood pressure, LaLanne states that people will resort to various drugs: "We look for crutches such as sleeping pills, pep pills, alcohol, cigarettes, and so on."<ref name=LaLanne-book/>


==Family and death==
===Views on food additives and drugs===
LaLanne was married to Elaine Doyle LaLanne for over 50 years and had three children: one from his first marriage (Yvonne LaLanne), one from Elaine's first marriage (Dan Doyle), and one together (Jon LaLanne). Yvonne is a chiropractor in California; Dan and Jon are involved in the family business, BeFit Enterprises, which they and their mother and sister plan to continue.<ref name="clutherlat"/><ref name="SFChron-obit"/><ref name="USAToday-obit">{{cite web| url=http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/fitness/exercise/2011-01-25-lalanneobit24_ST_N.htm?csp=ylf | title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne dies at 96|last=Weise|first=Elizabeth|coauthors=Nanci Hellmich|date=25 January 2011|work=[[USA Today]]|accessdate=26 January 2011}}</ref> Another daughter from Elaine's first marriage, Janet Doyle, died in 1974 at age 21 in a car accident.<ref name="clubindustry">{{cite web| url=http://clubindustry.com/forprofits/1001-lalanne-lifettime-achievement-award/index3.html| title=Jack LaLanne Receives Lifetime Achievement Award|last=Goldman|first=Stuart |date=1 October 2009| publisher= ClubIndustry.com|accessdate=26 January 2011}}</ref>


LaLanne often stressed that artificial food additives, drugs, and processed foods contributed to making people mentally and physically ill. As a result, he writes, many people turn to alcohol and drugs to deal with symptoms of ailments, noting that "a stream of aches and pains seems to encompass us as we get older".<ref name=LaLanne-book>LaLanne, Jack. ''Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Life'', Hastings House (2003)</ref>{{rp|114}} He refers to the human bloodstream as a "River of Life", which is "polluted" by "junk foods" loaded with "preservatives, salt, sugar, and artificial flavorings".<ref name=LaLanne-book/>{{rp|167}}
LaLanne died of pneumonia at his home on January 23, 2011 then sucked a fat cock. According to his family, he had been sick for a week, but refused to see a doctor. They added that he had been performing his daily workout routine the day before his death.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne Dies at Age 96|url=http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jack-lalanne-obit,0,6090474.story|accessdate=24 January 2011|newspaper=[[KTLA]]|date=23 January 2011}}</ref><ref name="msnbc-24jan2011">{{cite news| url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41225595/ns/us_news-life/|title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne, 96, dies at Calif. home|date=24 January 2011|publisher=Associated Press via MSNBC|accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref>


Relying on evidence from The President's Council on Physical Fitness, he also agreed that "many of our aches and pains come from lack of physical activity". As an immediate remedy for symptoms such as constipation, insomnia, tiredness, anxiety, shortness of breath, or high blood pressure, LaLanne states that people will resort to various drugs: "We look for crutches such as sleeping pills, pep pills, alcohol, cigarettes, and so on."<ref name=LaLanne-book/>
==Timeline: LaLanne's feats==

''(As reported on Jack LaLanne's website)''
==Family==
* '''1954 (age 40):''' swam the entire length (8,981&nbsp;ft/1.7&nbsp;mi) of the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] in [[San Francisco]], [[under water]], with {{convert|140|lb|kg st}} of air tanks and other equipment strapped to his body; a world record.
LaLanne was married to his second wife, Elaine Doyle LaLanne, for over five decades. They had three children: Yvonne LaLanne, a daughter from his first marriage, Dan Doyle, a son from Elaine's first marriage, and Jon LaLanne, a son they had together. Yvonne is a chiropractor in California; Dan and Jon are involved in the family business, BeFit Enterprises, which they and their mother and sister plan to continue.<ref name="clutherlat" /><ref name="SFChron-obit" /><ref name="USAToday-obit">{{cite web| url=https://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/fitness/exercise/2011-01-25-lalanneobit24_ST_N.htm?csp=ylf | title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne dies at 96|last=Weise|first=Elizabeth|author2=Nanci Hellmich|date=25 January 2011|work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=26 January 2011}}</ref> Another daughter from Elaine's first marriage, Janet Doyle, died in a car accident at age 21 in 1974.<ref name="clubindustry">{{cite web| url=http://clubindustry.com/forprofits/1001-lalanne-lifettime-achievement-award/index3.html| title=Jack LaLanne Receives Lifetime Achievement Award|last=Goldman|first=Stuart |date=1 October 2009| publisher= ClubIndustry.com|access-date=26 January 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206014827/http://clubindustry.com/forprofits/1001-lalanne-lifettime-achievement-award/index3.html|archive-date=6 December 2009}}</ref>
* '''1955 (age 41):''' swam from [[Alcatraz Island]] to [[Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco|Fisherman's Wharf]] in San Francisco while handcuffed. When interviewed afterwards he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which significantly reduced his chance to do a [[jumping jack]].

* '''1956 (age 42):''' set what was claimed as a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23&nbsp;minutes on ''[[You Asked For It]]'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Grace|first=Francie|title=LaLanne: Pushing 90, Pumping Iron|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/10/25/health/main651218.shtml|accessdate=24 January 2011|newspaper=[[CBS]]|date=14 January 2004}}</ref> a television program hosted by [[Art Baker (actor)|Art Baker]].
==Death==
* '''1957 (age 43):''' swam the [[Golden Gate]] channel while towing a {{convert|2500|lb|kg st|sing=on}} [[cabin cruiser]]. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6&nbsp;km) swim into a swimming distance of {{convert|6.5|mi|km}}.
LaLanne often said, "I can never die; that would ruin my image!" He died of [[respiratory failure]] due to [[pneumonia]] at his home on January 23, 2011. He was 96. According to his family, he had been sick for a week but refused to see a doctor. They added that he had been performing his daily workout routine the day before his death.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne Dies at 96|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/01/23/obit.jack.lalanne/|access-date=24 January 2011|date=24 January 2011}}</ref> He is buried at [[Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills)|Forest Lawn Memorial Park]] in [[Hollywood Hills, California]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&dq=jack+lalanne+forest+lawn&pg=PA420 ''Resting Places'']</ref>
* '''1958 (age 44):''' maneuvered a [[paddleboard]] nonstop from [[Farallon Islands]] to the San Francisco shore. The {{convert|30|mi|km|adj=on}} trip took 9.5 hours.

* '''1959 (age 45):''' did 1,000 [[star jump]]s and 1,000 [[chin-up]]s in 1 hour, 22&nbsp;minutes, to promote ''[[The Jack LaLanne Show]]'' going nationwide. LaLanne said this was the most difficult of his stunts, but only because the skin on his hands started ripping off during the chin-ups. He felt he couldn't stop because it would be seen as a public failure.
==LaLanne's feats==
* '''1974 (age 60):''' For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a {{convert|1000|lb|kg st|sing=on}} boat.

* '''1975 (age 61):''' Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a {{convert|1000|lb|kg st|sing=on}} boat.
''(As reported on Jack LaLanne's website)''
* '''1976 (age 62):''' To commemorate the "Spirit of '76", [[United States Bicentennial]], he swam one mile (1.6&nbsp;km) in [[Long Beach Harbor]]. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bicentennial Swim|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T0YhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bH8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2224,2013273&dq=jack+lalanne+bicentennial&hl=en|accessdate=24 January 2011|newspaper=[[Modesto Bee]]|date=21 October 1976}}</ref>
* 1954 (age 40){{snds}}Swam the entire {{convert|8981|ft|mi km|1|adj=on}} length of the [[Golden Gate]] in [[San Francisco]], [[under water]], with {{convert|140|lb|kg st|abbr=on}} of air tanks and other equipment strapped to his body; a world record.<ref name=Orange>[https://books.google.com/books?id=jxIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=jack+lalanne+awards&pg=PA95 "A Fitting Life for Jack LaLanne"] ''Orange Coast Magazine'', August 1986</ref>
* '''1979 (age 65):''' towed 65 boats in [[Lake Ashi]]noko, near [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with {{convert|6500|lb|kg st}} of [[Louisiana Pacific]] wood pulp.<ref name="FitnessIcon">{{cite news | url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061101919.html | title=A Fitness Icon Keeps His Juices Flowing |author=Squires, Sally | work=The Washington Post | date=2007-06-12 | accessdate=2010-05-05}}</ref>
* 1955 (age 41){{snds}}Swam from [[Alcatraz Island]] to Pier 43 in San Francisco while handcuffed.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Newton |first=Dwight |date=1955-07-09 |title=Day and Night with Radio and Television |pages=14 |work=[[The San Francisco Examiner]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117467916/day-and-night-with-radio-and-television/ |access-date=2023-01-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=1955-07-11 |title=Swims Handcuffed From Alcatraz |pages=24 |work=Stockton Evening and Sunday Record |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117468038/swims-handcuffed-from-alcatraz/ |access-date=2023-01-29}}</ref> When interviewed afterwards, he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which significantly reduced his ability to do a [[jumping jack]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* '''1980 (age 66):''' towed 10 boats in [[North Miami, Florida]]. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6&nbsp;km) in less than one hour.
* '''1984 (age 70):''' handcuffed, shackled, and fighting strong winds and currents, towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from the Queen’s Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the ''[[RMS Queen Mary|Queen Mary]]'', 1&nbsp;mile.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jack LaLanne Fit As Ever At 70|url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HJwzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zDIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=4111,2340193&dq=jack+la+lanne+queen+mary&hl=en|accessdate=24 January 2011|newspaper=[[Lodi News-Sentinel]]|date=19 November 1984|agency=[[UPI]]}}</ref>
* 1956 (age 42){{snds}}Set what was claimed as a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on ''[[You Asked For It]]'',<ref>{{cite news|last=Grace|first=Francie|title=LaLanne: Pushing 90, Pumping Iron|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lalanne-pushing-90-pumping-iron/|access-date=24 January 2011|newspaper=[[CBS]]|date=14 January 2004}}</ref> a television program hosted by [[Art Baker (actor)|Art Baker]].
* 1957 (age 43){{snds}}Swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a {{convert|2500|lb|kg st|-1|abbr=on}} [[cabin cruiser]]. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6&nbsp;km) swim into a swimming distance of {{convert|6.5|mi|km}}.<ref name=Orange/>
* 1958 (age 44){{snds}}Maneuvered a [[paddleboard]] nonstop from [[Farallon Islands]] to the San Francisco shore. The {{convert|30|mi|km|adj=on}} trip took 9.5 hours.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* 1959 (age 45){{snds}}Did 1,000 [[push-ups]] and 1,000 [[chin-up]]s in 1 hour, 22&nbsp;minutes, to promote ''[[The Jack LaLanne Show]]'' going nationwide. LaLanne said this was the most difficult of his stunts, but only because the skin on his hands started ripping off during the chin-ups. He felt he couldn't stop because it would have been seen as a public failure.<ref name=Orange/>
* 1974 (age 60){{snds}}For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a {{convert|1000|lb|kg st|abbr=on}} boat, according to his obituary in Los Angeles Times in 2011 and his website.<ref>[https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124-story.html Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement]. 23 January 2011. Los Angeles Times</ref> However, according to an account of this event published the day after it occurred in the Los Angeles Times, written by Philip Hager, a Times staff writer, LaLanne was neither handcuffed nor shackled if each of those terms has the conventional meaning of "tightly binding the wrists or ankles together with a pair of metal fasteners". Hager says that LaLanne "had his hands and feet bound with cords that allowed minimal freedom". But "minimal" clearly did not mean "no" freedom, since elsewhere in the article Hager describes LaLanne's method of propulsion through the water as "half-breast-stroke, half-dog paddle", which is how you swim with your hands tied.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* 1975 (age 61){{snds}}Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a {{convert|1000|lb|kg st|abbr=on}} boat.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* 1976 (age 62){{snds}}To commemorate the "Spirit of '76," [[United States Bicentennial]], he swam one mile (1.6&nbsp;km) in [[Long Beach Harbor]]. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.<ref>{{cite news|title=Bicentennial Swim|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T0YhAAAAIBAJ&pg=2224,2013273&dq=jack+lalanne+bicentennial&hl=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728193049/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T0YhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bH8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2224,2013273&dq=jack+lalanne+bicentennial&hl=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 July 2012|access-date=24 January 2011|newspaper=[[Modesto Bee]]|date=21 October 1976}}</ref>
* 1979 (age 65){{snds}}Towed 65 boats in [[Lake Ashi]]noko, near [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]]. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with {{convert|6500|lb|kg st|-1|abbr=on}} of [[Louisiana Pacific]] wood pulp.<ref name="FitnessIcon">{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061101919.html | title=A Fitness Icon Keeps His Juices Flowing |author=Squires, Sally | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=12 June 2007 | access-date=5 May 2010}}</ref>
* 1980 (age 66){{snds}}Towed 10 boats in [[North Miami, Florida]]. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6&nbsp;km) in less than one hour.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* 1984 (age 70){{snds}}He towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from the Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the ''[[RMS Queen Mary|Queen Mary]]'', 1&nbsp;mile.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jack LaLanne Fit As Ever At 70|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HJwzAAAAIBAJ&pg=4111,2340193&dq=jack+la+lanne+queen+mary&hl=en|access-date=24 January 2011|newspaper=[[Lodi News-Sentinel]]|date=19 November 1984|agency=[[UPI]]}}</ref>


==Awards and honors==
==Awards and honors==
{{more citations needed section|date=April 2023}}
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On June 10, 2005, then governor [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] launched the [[California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport]]. In his address, Schwarzenegger paid special tribute to LaLanne, who he credited with demonstrating the benefits of fitness and a healthy lifestyle for 75 years.<ref name="CA-Council">[http://www.laughingplace.com/Lotion-View-89.asp "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Announces California Council on Physical Fitness and Sports"]''Lauphing Place'', June 14, 2005</ref> In 2008, he inducted LaLanne into the [[California Hall of Fame]] and personally gave him an inscribed plaque at a special ceremony.
On June 10, 2005, then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched the ''California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport''. In his address, Schwarzenegger paid special tribute to LaLanne, who he credited with demonstrating the benefits of fitness and a healthy lifestyle for 75 years.<ref name="CA-Council">[http://www.laughingplace.com/Lotion-View-89.asp "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Announces California Council on Physical Fitness and Sports"]''Lauphing Place'', 14 June 2005</ref> In 2008, he inducted LaLanne into the [[California Hall of Fame]] and personally gave him an inscribed plaque at a special ceremony.


In 2007, LaLanne was awarded [[President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports|The President’s Council’s]] Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to "individuals whose careers have greatly contributed to the advancement or promotion of physical activity, fitness, or sports nationwide." Winners are chosen based on the "individual’s career, the estimated number of lives the individual has touched through his or her work, the legacy of the individual’s work, and additional awards or honors received over the course of his or her career."<ref>[http://www.fitness.gov/news/news/news-release_lifetime_achievement-05.03.07.html Press Release] President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, May 3, 2007</ref>
In 2007, LaLanne was awarded [[President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports|The President's Council's]] Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to "individuals whose careers have greatly contributed to the advancement or promotion of physical activity, fitness, or sports nationwide". Winners are chosen based on the "individual's career, the estimated number of lives the individual has touched through his or her work, the legacy of the individual's work, and additional awards or honors received over the course of his or her career".<ref>[http://www.fitness.gov/news/news/news-release_lifetime_achievement-05.03.07.html Press Release] President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, 3 May 2007 {{cite web |url=http://fitness.gov/news/news/news-release_lifetime_achievement-05.03.07.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916093948/http://fitness.gov/news/news/news-release_lifetime_achievement-05.03.07.html |archive-date=16 September 2008 |title=Lifetime Achievement|url-status=dead |access-date=1 June 2016}}</ref>


;Other honors
'''Other honors'''
* 1963: Founding member of President’s Council on Physical Fitness under President Kennedy<ref>[http://www.aarp.org/health/fitness/info-11-2010/fitness-fads-jack-lalanne.html "Famous Fitness Fads"] AARP, Dec. 10, 2010</ref>
* 1963: Founding member of President's Council on Physical Fitness under President Kennedy<ref>[http://www.aarp.org/health/fitness/info-11-2010/fitness-fads-jack-lalanne.html "Famous Fitness Fads"] AARP, 10 December 2010</ref>
* President’s Council of Physical Fitness Silver Anniversary Award
* President's Council of Physical Fitness Silver Anniversary Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award
* Governor's Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award <ref name=McMeel>''Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy'', Andrews McMeel Publishing (2008) p. xxxi</ref>
* The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans
* The [[Horatio Alger]] Association of Distinguished Americans <ref>Behar, Joy. ''When You Need a Lift'', Random House (2007) p. 171</ref>
* American Academy of Achievement, 1975<ref>{{cite web |title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=achievement.org |publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]] |url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business}}</ref>
* American Academy of Achievement
* American Cancer Society
* American Cancer Society {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* American Heart Association
* American Heart Association {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* American Medical Association
* American Medical Association {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* WBBG Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame
* WBBG Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* APFC Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame
* APFC Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* Patriarch Society of Chiropractors
* Patriarch Society of Chiropractors {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* NFLAHealthy American Fitness Award
* NFLA{{snds}}Healthy American Fitness Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* Received an Award from the Oscar Heidenstam Foundation Hall of Fame
* Received an Award from the Oscar Heidenstam Foundation Hall of Fame {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* Received National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Gold Circle Award commemorating over 50 years in the Television Industry
* Received National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Gold Circle Award commemorating over 50 years in the Television Industry {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* IHRSA Person of the Year Award
* IHRSA Person of the Year Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* Jack Webb Award from the Los Angeles Police Historical Society
* Jack Webb Award from the Los Angeles Police Historical Society {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* Interglobal’s International Infomercial Award
* Interglobal's International Infomercial Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* The Freddie, Medical Media Public Service Award
* The Freddie, Medical Media Public Service Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* Freedom Forum Al Neuharth Free Spirit Honoree
* Freedom Forum Al Neuharth Free Spirit Honoree {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* Lifetime Achievement Award from Club Industry
* Lifetime Achievement Award from Club Industry {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* 1992 (age 78): The [[Academy of Body Building and Fitness]] Award
* 1992 (age 78): The Academy of Body Building and Fitness Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* 1994 (age 80): The State of California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award
* 1994 (age 80): The State of California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* 1996 (age 82): The [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] Fitness Award
* 1996 (age 82): The [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] Fitness Award <ref name=McMeel/>
* 1999 (age 85): The Spirit of [[Muscle Beach]] Award
* 1999 (age 85): The Spirit of [[Muscle Beach]] Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
* 2002 (age 88): A star on the [[Hollywood Boulevard]] [[Walk of Fame]]. At his induction ceremony, LaLanne did push ups on the top of his star.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/jack_lalanne_will_shame_you_wi.html |title=Jack LaLanne Shall Shame Us With His Old-Man Energy No Longer | accessdate=2010-01-24 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=New York Magazine}}</ref>
* 2002 (age 88): A star on the [[Hollywood Boulevard]] [[Walk of Fame]]. At his induction ceremony, LaLanne did pushups on the top of his star.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/jack_lalanne_will_shame_you_wi.html |title=Jack LaLanne Shall Shame Us With His Old-Man Energy No Longer | access-date=24 January 2010 |publisher=New York Magazine}}</ref>
* 2005 (age 91): The [[Jack Webb]] Award from the [[Los Angeles Police Department]] Historical Society; the Arnold Classic Lifetime Achievement Award; the Interglobal's International Infomercial Award; the [[Freddie Award]]; the Medical Media Public Service Award; Free Spirit honoree at [[Al Neuharth]]'s Freedom Forum; Inaugural Inductee into the [[National Fitness Hall of Fame]]<ref>[http://www.nationalfitnessorganization.com/inductees2005.html National Fitness Hall of Fame Class of 2005]. Retrieved on 2008-11-23. {{dead link|date=January 2011}}</ref>
* 2005 (age 91): The [[Jack Webb]] Award from the [[Los Angeles Police Department]] Historical Society; the Arnold Classic Lifetime Achievement Award; the Interglobal's International Infomercial Award; the Freddie Award; the Medical Media Public Service Award; Free Spirit honoree at [[Al Neuharth]]'s Freedom Forum; Inaugural Inductee into the [[National Fitness Hall of Fame]]<ref>[http://www.nationalfitnessorganization.com/inductees2005.html National Fitness Hall of Fame Class of 2005]. Retrieved on 23 November 2008. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113113758/http://www.nationalfitnessorganization.com/inductees2005.html |date=13 January 2009 }}</ref>
* 2008 (age 94): Inducted by [[Governor of California|California Governor]] [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (fellow 2005 inductee of the National Fitness Hall of Fame) and [[Maria Shriver]] into the [[California Hall of Fame]]<ref>{{cite web
* 2008 (age 94): Inducted by [[Governor of California|California Governor]] [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] (fellow 2005 inductee of the National Fitness Hall of Fame) and [[Maria Shriver]] into the [[California Hall of Fame]]<ref>{{cite web
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| title=Jack LaLanne - 2008 Inductee of the California Hall of Fame
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| url=http://www.californiamuseum.org/exhibits/california-hall-fame-2008
| title=The California Hall of Fame 2008 Exhibits
| title=The California Hall of Fame 2008 Exhibits
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* 2012 (posthumously): Together with his wife, inducted into the [[International Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref name="ISHoF fellows">{{Cite web|url=http://www.sportshof.org/hall-of-fame/|title=International Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2012|access-date=February 15, 2012|publisher=International Sports Hall of Fame|archive-date=February 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218061033/http://www.sportshof.org/hall-of-fame/|url-status=live}}</ref>


==Filmography==
==Filmography==

LaLanne appeared as himself in the following films and television shows:
'''LaLanne appeared as himself in the following films and television shows''':
* ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'' (Season 2, 2004)
* ''[[You Bet Your Life]]'' (1961)<ref>{{YouTube|T3IBxwm2LfA}}</ref>
* ''Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina'' (2003)
* ''[[Peter Gunn]]'' (1960)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482364/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|title=Jack LaLanne|work=IMDb|access-date=26 January 2016}}</ref> – LaLanne appeared in an episode with [[Craig Stevens (actor)|Craig Stevens]].
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (Season 10, 1999), episode "[[The Old Man and the C Student]]".
* ''[[Mister Ed]]'' (1961), episode "Psychoanalyst Show" (as "Instructor"), (1963), episode "Doctor Ed"
* ''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]'' (Season 2, 1966), episode "Fester Goes on a Diet"
* ''[[Batman (1966 film)|Batman]]'' (man on roof with girls, uncredited cameo) (1966)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482364/filmoyear|title=Latest Titles With Jack LaLanne|work=IMDb|access-date=27 August 2015}}</ref>
* ''[[Here's Lucy]]'' (Season 2, 1969), episode "Lucy and the Bogie Affair"
* ''[[Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In]]'' (Episode #5.14, 1971), Guest Performer
* ''Fit & Fun Time'' (kids TV pilot) (1972)
* ''The Richard Simmons Show'' (1982)
* ''[[The Chevy Chase Show]]'' <ref>{{Cite web| url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182260/credits|title=The Chevy Chase Show{{!}} Credits| website=IMDB|language=en-us|access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref>
* ''[[Repossessed (film)|Repossessed]]'' (1990)
* ''Amazing Discoveries'' (1991)
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (Season 10, 1999), episode "[[The Old Man and the 'C' Student]]"
* ''[[Beefcake (film)|Beefcake]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Beefcake (film)|Beefcake]]'' (1999)
* ''Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina'' (2003)
* ''[[Repossessed]]'' (1990)
* "Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed" (2004)
* ''[[Fit & Fun Time]]'' (kids TV pilot) (1972)
* ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!]]'' (Season 2, 2004)
* ''[[Batman (1966 film)|Batman]]'' (man on roof with girls, uncredited cameo) (1966)<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482364/filmoyear Jack LaLanne - Filmography by year]</ref>
* ''[[The Addams Family (TV series)|The Addams Family]]'' (Season 2, 1966), episode "Fester Goes on a Diet"
* ''[[The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006 film)|The Year Without a Santa Claus]]'' (2006), Hercules
* "[[How To Live Forever]]" (Documentary, 2009)
* ''[[Peter Gunn]]'', Lalanne appeared in an episode with [[Craig Stevens (actor)|Craig Stevens]].
* ''[[You Bet Your Life]]'', (1957)<ref>http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/20110125/ts_dailybeast/12027_jacklalannediedbirthdayfeatspowerjuicermorememories_1</ref><ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJFYkuumI28</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==

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'''Official'''
'''Official'''
* [http://www.jacklalanne.com/ Official Jack LaLanne website]
* {{Official website}}
'''Media and publications'''
'''Media and publications'''
* {{YouTube|OMJFRlRsb8A|HBO Sports tribute}}, video, 31 January 2011
* [http://www.liveyoungwithjacklalanne.com/ LaLanne's book ''Live Young Forever''].
* [http://www.vimeo.com/5500899 Jack LaLanne excerpt from the documentary film, HOW TO LIVE FOREVER.]
* {{IMDb name|id=0482364|name=Jack LaLanne}}
* {{IMDb name|id=0482364|name=Jack LaLanne}}
* [http://www.ellipticalconsumers.com/jack-lalanne-live-young-forever// LaLanne's book ''Live Young Forever''].
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBmVA_oo9g&feature=player_embedded HBO Sports tribute], video, Jan. 31, 2011
'''Interviews'''
'''Interviews'''
* [http://excelsiorgroup.co.uk/blog/exclusive-jack-lalanne-interview-on-his-93rd-birthday/ Interview with Jack LaLanne on his 93rd birthday]
* [http://www.famousinterview.ca/interviews/jack_lalanne.htm Interview with Jack LaLanne]
* [http://www.famousinterview.ca/interviews/jack_lalanne.htm Interview with Jack LaLanne]
* [http://outsideonline.com/magazine/1195/11f_jack.html Interview by Donald Katz]
* [https://www.outsideonline.com/1830081/jack-lalanne-still-animal Interview by Donald Katz]
* [http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html Interview by Dennis Hughes of Share Guide]
* [http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html Interview by Dennis Hughes of Share Guide]
* [http://www.drmcdougall.com/mcdougallcast/p.php?file=2007-05-28_1994-07-02_jack_lalanne.mp3 Taped interview with Dr. McDougall 02 July, 1994]
* [https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/podcast/jack-lalanne/ Taped interview with Dr. McDougall 02 July, 1994]
* [http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/jack-lalanne Jack LaLanne interview] at [[Archive of American Television]] September 12, 2003
* [http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/jack-lalanne Jack LaLanne interview] at [[Archive of American Television]]{{snds}}12 September 2003
'''Miscellaneous'''
'''Miscellaneous'''
* [http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml96/96086.html CPSC Tiger Juicer Recall Page]
* [https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1996/cpsc-national-media-corporation-announced-juice-tiger-recall-program CPSC Tiger Juicer Recall Page]
* [http://www.powerjuicer.com/ Official Jack LaLanne Power Juicer page]
* [https://www.rsmanuals.com/329/jack-lalannes-power-juicer-cl-003ap/page-1/ Jack LaLanne Power Juicer manual]
* [http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html Jack LaLanne interviewed by Janice Hughes and Dennis Hughes]
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'''Memorials and retrospectives'''
'''Memorials and retrospectives'''
* ''[[Life Magazine]]'' remembers Jack LaLanne - [http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/54851/life-remembers-jack-lalanne#index/0 slideshow]
* ''[[Life Magazine]]'' remembers Jack LaLanne{{snds}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20110127015537/http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/54851/life-remembers-jack-lalanne slideshow]
* [[Chicago Tribune]] [http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/la-me-jack-lalanne-pictures,0,1957206.photogallery photo gallery of Jack LaLanne |1914-2011]
* ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' [http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/la-me-jack-lalanne-pictures,0,1957206.photogallery photo gallery of Jack LaLanne |1914-2011]
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Jack LaLanne
LaLanne in 1961
Born
Francois Henri LaLanne

(1914-09-26)September 26, 1914
DiedJanuary 23, 2011(2011-01-23) (aged 96)
Resting placeForest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills, California, U.S.
Occupations
  • Fitness expert
  • television host
  • inventor
  • entrepreneur
  • motivational speaker
Years active1936–2009
TelevisionThe Jack LaLanne Show
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Spouses
Irma Navarre
(m. 1942; div. 1948)
(m. 1959)
Children3
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Francois Henri LaLanne (/ləˈln/;[1] September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011), the "Godfather of Fitness",[2][3][4] was an American fitness and nutrition guru and motivational speaker. He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was 15 years old. He also had behavioral problems but "turned his life around" after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition by health food pioneer Paul Bragg. During his career, he came to believe that the country's overall health depended on the health of its population, and he referred to physical culture and nutrition as "the salvation of America".[5]

LaLanne hosted the first[6] and longest-running[7] nationally syndicated fitness television program, The Jack LaLanne Show, from 1951 to 1985. He published numerous books on fitness and was widely recognized for publicly preaching the health benefits of regular exercise and a good diet.[8] He started working out with weights when they were an oddity.[9] As early as 1936, at the age of 21, he opened the nation's first modern health club in Oakland, California,[5][6] which became a prototype for dozens of similar gyms bearing his name,[10] later licensing them to Bally.[9]

One of LaLanne's 1950s television exercise programs was aimed toward women, whom he also encouraged to join his health clubs.[5][11] He invented a number of exercise machines, including the pulley and leg extension devices and the Smith machine, as well as protein supplement drinks,[12] resistance bands, and protein bars. He also popularized juicing[6] and the jumping jack.[13] He produced his own series of videos so viewers could be coached virtually.[9] He pioneered coaching the elderly and disabled to exercise in order to enhance their strength and health.[5][11]

LaLanne also gained recognition for his success as a bodybuilder and for his prodigious feats of strength. At the age of 70, handcuffed and shackled, he towed 70 boats, carrying a total of 70 people, a mile and a half through Long Beach Harbor.[11] Steve Reeves credited LaLanne as his inspiration to build his muscular physique while keeping a slim waist. Arnold Schwarzenegger, as governor of California, placed him on his Governor's Council on Physical Fitness, and on the occasion of LaLanne's death he credited LaLanne for being "an apostle for fitness" by inspiring "billions all over the world to live healthier lives".[14]

LaLanne was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[15]

Early life

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LaLanne was born in San Francisco, California,[8][5] the son of Jennie (née Garaig) and Jean/John LaLanne, French immigrants from Oloron-Sainte-Marie. Both entered the US in the 1880s as young children at the Port of New Orleans. LaLanne had two older brothers, Ervil, who died in childhood (1906–1911), and Norman (1908–2005), who nicknamed him "Jack".[5] He grew up in Bakersfield, California and later moved with his family to Berkeley, California circa 1928. In 1939, his father died at the age of 58 in a San Francisco hospital,[16] which LaLanne attributed to "coronary thrombosis and cirrhosis of the liver". In his book The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health, LaLanne wrote that as a boy he was addicted to sugar and junk food.[17] He had violent episodes directed against himself and others, describing himself as "a miserable kid ... it was like hell".[18]

Besides having a bad temper, LaLanne also suffered from headaches and bulimia, and temporarily dropped out of high school at the age of 14. The following year, aged 15, he heard health food pioneer Paul Bragg give a talk on health and nutrition, focusing on the "evils of meat and sugar".[19] Bragg's message had a powerful influence on LaLanne, who then changed his life and started focusing on his diet and exercise.[20] In his own words, he was "born again". and besides his new focus on nutrition, he began working out daily (although while serving during World War II as a Pharmacist Mate First Class at the Sun Valley Naval Convalescent Hospital, LaLanne stated that he started in bodybuilding at "age 13").[21] Describing his change of diet, LaLanne stated, "I had to take my lunch alone to the football field to eat so no one would see me eat my raw veggies, whole bread, raisins and nuts. You don't know the crap I went through".[22]

Writer Hal Reynolds, who interviewed LaLanne in 2008, notes that he became an avid swimmer and trained with weights; he described his introduction to weight lifting thus:

[LaLanne] found two men working out in a back room, who kept weights in a locked box. When he asked them if he could use their weights, they laughed at him and said, "Kid, you can't even lift those weights." So he challenged them both to a wrestling match with the bet that if he could beat them, they would give him a key to the box. After he beat them both, they gave him a key and he used their weights until he was able to buy his own.[22]

LaLanne went back to school, where he made the high school football team, and later went on to college in San Francisco where he earned a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. He studied Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body and concentrated on bodybuilding and weightlifting.[19]

Fitness career

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Early wrestling career

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LaLanne won the American Athletic Foundation Wrestling Championship in 1930, the American Athletic Union medal for wrestling in 1936, and was put on the 1936 Olympic wrestling team but was taken off the team because he was “charging money for exercise” by opening a gym and thus “considered a professional”.[6]

Health clubs

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Arnold Schwarzenegger said of Lalanne, “It doesn’t matter where you go, there’s a health club, and it all started with Jack LaLanne.”[23][24]

In 1936, he opened the nation's first health and fitness club in Oakland, California,[19] where he offered supervised weight and exercise training and gave nutritional advice. His primary goal was to encourage and motivate his clients to improve their overall health. Doctors, however, advised their patients to stay away from his health club, a business totally unheard of at the time, and warned their patients that "LaLanne was an exercise 'nut', whose programs would make them 'muscle-bound' and cause severe medical problems".[19] LaLanne recalls the initial reaction of doctors to his promotion of weight lifting:

People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me‍—‌they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.[11]

LaLanne designed the first leg extension machines, pulley machines using cables, weight selectors, and many other inventions, none of which he patented, that are now standard in the fitness industry.[6] He invented the original model of what became the Smith machine.[25] He invented resistance bands, which he marketed as the Glamour Stretcher for women and the Easy Way for men with different tensions.[6] LaLanne encouraged women to lift weights (though at the time it was thought this would make women look masculine and unattractive), and he was the first to have a coed health club.[6] By the 1980s, Jack LaLanne's European Health Spas numbered more than 200. He eventually licensed all his health clubs to the Bally company, now known as Bally Total Fitness. Though not associated with any gym, LaLanne continued to lift weights until his death.[citation needed]

Books, television and other media

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Jack LaLanne in 1961

LaLanne presented fitness and exercise advice on television for 34 years. The Jack LaLanne Show was the longest-running television exercise program. According to the SF Chronicle TV program archives, it first began on 28 September 1953 as a 15-minute local morning program (sandwiched between the morning news and a cooking show) on San Francisco's ABC television station, KGO-TV, with LaLanne paying for the airtime himself as a way to promote his gym and related health products. LaLanne also met his wife Elaine while she was working for the local station. In 1959, the show was picked up for nationwide syndication, and continued until 1985.[citation needed]

The show was noted for its minimalist set, where LaLanne inspired his viewers to use basic home objects, such as a chair, to perform their exercises along with him. Wearing his standard jumpsuit, he urged his audience "with the enthusiasm of an evangelist," to get off their couch and copy his basic movements, a manner considered the forerunner of today's fitness videos.[19][26]: watch  In 1959, LaLanne recorded Glamour Stretcher Time, a workout album that provided phonograph-based instruction for exercising with an elastic cord called the Glamour Stretcher.[27] As a daytime show, much of LaLanne's audience were stay-at-home mothers. LaLanne's wife Elaine LaLanne was part of the show to demonstrate the exercises and to show that doing them would not ruin the figures or musculature of women. LaLanne also included his dog Happy as a way to attract children to the show. Later in the run, another dog named Walter was used, with LaLanne claiming "Walter" stood for "We All Love To Exercise Regularly".[citation needed]

LaLanne published several books and videos on fitness and nutrition, appeared in movies, and recorded a song with Connie Haines. He marketed exercise equipment, a range of vitamin supplements, and two models of electric juicers.[28] These include the "Juice Tiger", as seen on Amazing Discoveries with Mike Levey, and "Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer".[29] It was on the show that LaLanne introduced the phrase "That's the power of the juice!" However, in March 1996, 70,000 Juice Tiger juicers, 9% of all its models, were recalled after 14 injury incidents were reported.[29] The Power Juicer is still sold in five models.[30]

LaLanne played the role of "Hercules" in the Christmas television movie, "The Year Without Santa Claus" starring John Goodman, in 2006, his last acting role.

LaLanne celebrated his 95th birthday with the release of a new book titled Live Young Forever.[31]

Personal health routine

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Diet

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One of LaLanne's sayings was "If man made it, don't eat it."[32]

LaLanne blamed ultra-processed foods for many health problems. For most of his life, he eschewed sugar and white flour while eating many fruits and vegetables,[33] and he ate a mostly dairy-free[34] and meatless diet that included lots of egg whites and fish.[35][36] He also took vitamin supplements[37][38][39] and protein supplements.[40]

The NY Times reported in his obituary that he avoided snacks and ate two meals a day,[11] although he once said that he ate three meals a day.[41] His breakfast, after working out for two hours, consisted of hard-boiled egg whites, a cup of broth, oatmeal with soy milk, and seasonal fruit.[11] Other sources say that breakfasts were homemade protein shakes: one was protein powder shake with wheat germ, brewer's yeast, bone meal, juice, and handfuls of vitamins and minerals[40] consisting of “100 liver-yeast tablets, 15,000 milligrams of vitamin C, 2000 units of B, some boron and some zinc, also 75 alfalfa and kelp tablets”.[42]

Another shake LaLanne consumed consisted of egg whites and soybean with carrot juice, celery juice, and some fruit.[43] One source reported that his lunch was four boiled egg whites, five servings of fresh fruit, plus five raw vegetables.[44] For dinner, he and his wife typically ate a high-protein salad with egg whites along with fish (often salmon) and some wine.[11] He did not drink coffee.[11]

He once described his diet by saying, “ At least eight to 10 raw vegetables and three to four pieces of fresh fruit a day. I have natural grains, beans, brown rice, lentils, wheat. And I get most of my protein from fish and egg whites. I eat no meat of any kind. I drink my breakfast. Half carrot juice, half celery juice and then I put an apple and a banana in it and 50 grams of protein made out of egg whites and soybean. For lunch I’ll have three pieces of fresh fruit, three to six egg whites and whole wheat toast. And Elaine makes soup for me with vegetables but no cream or butter. Elaine and I eat out practically every night, but we have the restaurants trained. We call them that we’re coming in, and they’ll have a raw vegetable salad and I’ll have oil dressing loaded up with chopped garlic. I take my own pita bread made out of whole wheat with no salt or oils. And I’ll have a baked potato and fish.”[41]

Exercise

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When exercising, LaLanne worked out repetitively with weights until he experienced "muscle fatigue" in whatever muscle groups he was exercising, or when it became impossible for him to go on with a particular routine; this is most often referred to as "training to failure". LaLanne moved from exercise to exercise without stopping. To contradict critics who thought this would leave him tightly musclebound and uncoordinated, LaLanne liked to demonstrate one-handed balancing. His home contained two gyms and a pool that he used daily.[11]

LaLanne receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 at Muscle Beach in Venice Beach, California

He continued with his two-hour workouts into his 90s, which also included walking.[45] He stated, "If I died, people would say 'Oh look, Jack LaLanne died. He didn't practice what he preached.'"[11]

LaLanne summed up his philosophy about good nutrition and exercise:

"Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the butt. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom."[46]

He said that since the average person doesn't have the time to exercise two hours per day, he recommended 30-minute workouts, 3-4 times a week, and changing one's routine every 2–3 weeks.[45]

Views on food additives and drugs

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LaLanne often stressed that artificial food additives, drugs, and processed foods contributed to making people mentally and physically ill. As a result, he writes, many people turn to alcohol and drugs to deal with symptoms of ailments, noting that "a stream of aches and pains seems to encompass us as we get older".[47]: 114  He refers to the human bloodstream as a "River of Life", which is "polluted" by "junk foods" loaded with "preservatives, salt, sugar, and artificial flavorings".[47]: 167 

Relying on evidence from The President's Council on Physical Fitness, he also agreed that "many of our aches and pains come from lack of physical activity". As an immediate remedy for symptoms such as constipation, insomnia, tiredness, anxiety, shortness of breath, or high blood pressure, LaLanne states that people will resort to various drugs: "We look for crutches such as sleeping pills, pep pills, alcohol, cigarettes, and so on."[47]

Family

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LaLanne was married to his second wife, Elaine Doyle LaLanne, for over five decades. They had three children: Yvonne LaLanne, a daughter from his first marriage, Dan Doyle, a son from Elaine's first marriage, and Jon LaLanne, a son they had together. Yvonne is a chiropractor in California; Dan and Jon are involved in the family business, BeFit Enterprises, which they and their mother and sister plan to continue.[5][18][48] Another daughter from Elaine's first marriage, Janet Doyle, died in a car accident at age 21 in 1974.[49]

Death

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LaLanne often said, "I can never die; that would ruin my image!" He died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at his home on January 23, 2011. He was 96. According to his family, he had been sick for a week but refused to see a doctor. They added that he had been performing his daily workout routine the day before his death.[50] He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.[51]

LaLanne's feats

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(As reported on Jack LaLanne's website)

  • 1954 (age 40) – Swam the entire 8,981-foot (1.7 mi; 2.7 km) length of the Golden Gate in San Francisco, under water, with 140 lb (64 kg; 10 st) of air tanks and other equipment strapped to his body; a world record.[52]
  • 1955 (age 41) – Swam from Alcatraz Island to Pier 43 in San Francisco while handcuffed.[53][54] When interviewed afterwards, he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which significantly reduced his ability to do a jumping jack.[citation needed]
  • 1956 (age 42) – Set what was claimed as a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on You Asked For It,[55] a television program hosted by Art Baker.
  • 1957 (age 43) – Swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a 2,500 lb (1,130 kg; 180 st) cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6 km) swim into a swimming distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).[52]
  • 1958 (age 44) – Maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile (48 km) trip took 9.5 hours.[citation needed]
  • 1959 (age 45) – Did 1,000 push-ups and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes, to promote The Jack LaLanne Show going nationwide. LaLanne said this was the most difficult of his stunts, but only because the skin on his hands started ripping off during the chin-ups. He felt he couldn't stop because it would have been seen as a public failure.[52]
  • 1974 (age 60) – For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a 1,000 lb (450 kg; 71 st) boat, according to his obituary in Los Angeles Times in 2011 and his website.[56] However, according to an account of this event published the day after it occurred in the Los Angeles Times, written by Philip Hager, a Times staff writer, LaLanne was neither handcuffed nor shackled if each of those terms has the conventional meaning of "tightly binding the wrists or ankles together with a pair of metal fasteners". Hager says that LaLanne "had his hands and feet bound with cords that allowed minimal freedom". But "minimal" clearly did not mean "no" freedom, since elsewhere in the article Hager describes LaLanne's method of propulsion through the water as "half-breast-stroke, half-dog paddle", which is how you swim with your hands tied.[citation needed]
  • 1975 (age 61) – Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a 1,000 lb (450 kg; 71 st) boat.[citation needed]
  • 1976 (age 62) – To commemorate the "Spirit of '76," United States Bicentennial, he swam one mile (1.6 km) in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.[57]
  • 1979 (age 65) – Towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with 6,500 lb (2,950 kg; 460 st) of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.[58]
  • 1980 (age 66) – Towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6 km) in less than one hour.[citation needed]
  • 1984 (age 70) – He towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from the Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary, 1 mile.[59]

Awards and honors

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On June 10, 2005, then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. In his address, Schwarzenegger paid special tribute to LaLanne, who he credited with demonstrating the benefits of fitness and a healthy lifestyle for 75 years.[60] In 2008, he inducted LaLanne into the California Hall of Fame and personally gave him an inscribed plaque at a special ceremony.

In 2007, LaLanne was awarded The President's Council's Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to "individuals whose careers have greatly contributed to the advancement or promotion of physical activity, fitness, or sports nationwide". Winners are chosen based on the "individual's career, the estimated number of lives the individual has touched through his or her work, the legacy of the individual's work, and additional awards or honors received over the course of his or her career".[61]

Other honors

Filmography

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LaLanne appeared as himself in the following films and television shows:

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