Jack LaLanne

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Francois Henri Jack LaLanne (pronounced/l? 'le? n/"luh-layn" France/lalan/"lah lah" September 26, 1914 -23 January 2011) is an expert American fitness, sports, and nutrition and motivational speakers are sometimes referred to as "Godfather of Fitness" and "First Fitness Superhero". He described himself as a "sugarholic" and "junk food junkie" until he was 15 years old. She also has behavioral problems, but "changed her life" after listening to a public lecture about the benefits of good nutrition by health food. pioneer Paul Bragg. During his career, he became convinced that the overall health of the country depended on the health of his population, and referred to his physical and nutritional culture as "American safety".

Decades before health and fitness began to be promoted by celebrities like Jane Fonda and Richard Simmons, LaLanne is well known for openly preaching the health benefits of regular exercise and a good diet. He published many books on fitness and organized the television show The Jack LaLanne Show between 1953 and 1985. In early 1936, at the age of 21, he opened one of the first fitness centers in Oakland, California. , which became the prototype for dozens of games similar to his name. One of his television programs in the 1950s was aimed at women, who he also encouraged to join his health clubs. He created a number of exercise machines, including pulleys and leg extensions and Smith machines. In addition to producing his own series of videos, he trains seniors and disabled people not to stop exercising, believing it will allow them to improve their strength.

LaLanne also gained recognition for her success as a bodybuilder, as well as for her remarkable strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger once exclaimed, "That Jack LaLanne is an animal!" after 54-year-old LaLanne beat a 21-year-old Schwarzenegger badly in an informal contest. On the occasion of LaLanne's death, Schwarzenegger praised LaLanne as an "apostle for fitness" by inspiring "billions of people around the world to lead a healthier life," and, as governor of California, had previously placed him in his Board of Governors on Physical Fitness.. Steve Reeves praised LaLanne as his inspiration for building muscular muscles while keeping his waistline slim. LaLanne was inducted into the California Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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LaLanne was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Jennie ( nÃÆ' Â © e Garaig; 1882-1973) and Jean/John LaLanne (1881-1939), French immigrants from Oloron-Sainte-Marie. Both entered the US in the 1880s as young people in the Port of New Orleans. LaLanne has two older brothers, Ervil, who died in childhood (1906-1911), and Norman (1908-2005), who dubbed him "Jack". He grew up in Bakersfield, California and then moved with his family to Berkeley, California around 1928. In 1939, his father died at the age of 58 at the San Francisco hospital, which LaLanne was associated with "coronary thrombosis and liver cirrhosis". In his book The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health, LaLanne writes that as a man he is addicted to sugar and junk food. She has a violent episode directed against herself and others, describing herself as "sad damn boy... it's like hell".

In addition to having a bad temper, LaLanne also suffered headaches and bulimia, and while dropping out at the age of 14 years. The following year, at the age of 15, he heard Paul Bragg pioneering health food giving a lecture on health and nutrition, focusing on "Crime meat and sugar". Bragg's message had a powerful influence on LaLanne, which then changed his life and began focusing on diet and exercise. In his own words, he was "born again", and in addition to his new focus on nutrition, he began to work every day (although earlier, while serving during World War II as the First Pharmacist's Partner at Naval Convalescent Sunval Hospital, LaLanne stated that he started in bodybuilding at "age 13"). Describing his dietary changes, LaLanne stated, "I have to take my own lunch to a football pitch for a meal so no one will see me eating my raw vegetables, whole bread, raisins and nuts.You do not know the nonsense I went through."

Author Hal Reynolds, who interviewed LaLanne in 2008, notes that he is a diligent and well-trained swimmer, and explains the introduction to heavy lifting:

LaLanne returns to school, where she creates a high school soccer team, and then proceeds to college in San Francisco where she earned her Doctor of Chiropractic. He studied Henry Gray Anatomy of the Human Body and concentrated on bodybuilding and weight lifting.

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Fitness career

Health club

In 1936, he opened the first health and fitness club in Oakland, California, where he offered weight training and supervised sports and nutritional advice. The main purpose is to encourage and motivate clients to improve their overall health. Doctors, however, advised their patients to stay away from his health club, a business that was completely unheard of at the time, and warned their patients that "LaLanne is a workout," programs that will make them 'muscle-tied' and cause severe medical problems. "LaLanne recalled the doctor's initial reaction to her weight lifting:

LaLanne designed the first leg extension machine, a cable pulley engine, and weight selectors that are now standard in the fitness industry. He found the original model of what became the Smith machine. LaLanne encourages women to lift weights (although at the time it is considered this will make women look masculine and unattractive). In the 1980s, Jack LaLanne's European Health Spa numbered more than 200. He finally licensed all his health clubs to the Bally company, now known as Bally Total Fitness. Although unrelated to the gym, LaLanne continued to lift the burden until his death.

LaLanne gym ownership led to a brief professional wrestling career in 1938. Wrestlers are some athletes who attended weight training, and they often visit his health club. LaLanne wrestled in the Bay Area for only a few months. He was pretty well respected so he was booked to wrestle with a draw against some big name opponents rather than lose, despite his lack of experience. According to Ad Adel's grandson, David Ad Santel, the story is that Jack LaLanne wants to be champions from the beginning, but lacks the wrestling skills to become champions. LaLanne is also friendly with artists like Lou Thesz and Strangler Lewis.

Books, television and other media

LaLanne provides fitness and sports advice on television for 34 years. The Jack LaLanne Show is the longest television exercise program. According to the SF Chronicle TV archive, it first began on September 28, 1953 as a 15-minute local morning program (flanked between morning news and cooking shows) at ABC San Francisco, KGO-TV, with LaLanne paying its own airtime as a way to promoting gyms and related healthcare products. LaLanne also met his wife Elaine when she worked for a local station. In 1959, the ABC network raised the event for national broadcasting, which continued until 1985.

The show is famous for its minimalist set, where LaLanne inspires viewers to use basic home objects, like chairs, to do their workout with them. Wearing his standard jumpsuit, he urged his audience "with the enthusiasm of an evangelist," to get off their sofa and copy their basic movements, a way that is considered a pioneer of today's fitness videos. In 1959, LaLanne recorded Glamor Stretcher Time , an exercise album that provides phonograph-based instruction to practice with elastic straps called the Glitter Stretcher. As a daytime show, most of LaLanne's audience are housewives. Elaine LaLanne's wife is part of the show to demonstrate the exercises, as well as the fact that doing so will not damage their shape or muscle. LaLanne also includes her dog, Happy, as a way to draw children to the show. Later on the run, another dog named Walter used, with LaLanne claiming "Walter" standing for "We All Love To Exercise Regularly."

LaLanne publishes several books and videos on fitness and nutrition, appearing in movies, and recording a song with Connie Haines. He markets sports equipment, a variety of vitamin supplements, and two electric juicer models. These include "Juice Tiger", as seen in Amazing Discoveries with Mike Levey, and "Jack LaLanne Power Juicer". It was on the show that LaLanne introduced the phrase "That's the power of juice!" However, in March 1996, 70,000 Tiger Juice smokers, 9% of the model, were recalled after 14 incidents of injury were reported. Power Juicer is still sold in five models.

LaLanne celebrated her 95th birthday by releasing a new book titled, Live Young Forever . In the book, he discusses how he keeps his health and activity well until his old age.

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Personal health routine

Diet

LaLanne blames overly processed foods for many health problems. For most of his life, he advocated primarily a diet of meat and vegetables; eating meat three times a day with eggs and fruit in the morning and plenty of vegetables in the afternoon and evening. For six years he was a vegetarian. In his final years, he appears to advocate most of the meatless foods that belong to fish, and take vitamin supplements.

She eats twice a day and avoids snacks. The breakfast, after working for two hours, consisted of boiled egg whites, a cup of broth, oatmeal with soy milk, and seasonal fruit. For dinner, he and his wife usually eat raw vegetables, egg whites, and fish. He does not drink coffee.

LaLanne says the two simple rules about nutrition are "if humans make them, do not eat them" and "if they taste good, remove them." He offers his opinion on the average diet of people:

Exercise

While exercising, LaLanne worked repeatedly with the burden until she experienced "muscle fatigue" in whatever muscle group she practiced, or when it became impossible for her to continue with a particular routine. This is now a common practice and is most commonly referred to as "training for failure". LaLanne moved from practice to practice nonstop. Contrary to critics who thought this would keep him confined and uncoordinated, LaLanne likes to demonstrate a one-handed balance. His house contains two gyms and a swimming pool he uses every day. He also dismissed the heating, calling them "shtick" and "something else to sell". He said, "15 minutes to warm up? Is a lion warm when he's hungry?" Uh oh, here comes antelope. No, he just went there and ate the suckers. "

He continued with his two hours of practice into the 90s, which also included walking.

"When I was asked about sex, LaLanne had a standard joke, saying that despite their old age, he and his wife still making love almost every night: "Almost on Monday, almost on Tuesday, almost on Wednesday..." He explained his reasons for exercising:

He also added, "I know so many people in their 80s who suffer from Alzheimer's or are in a wheelchair or whatever, and I say to myself" I do not want to live like that. I do not want to be a burden to me. family. I have to live my life. And I hate to die; it will damage my image. '"

LaLanne summed up her philosophy of nutrition and good sport:

Views on food additives and drugs

LaLanne often stresses that artificial food additives, medicines, and processed foods contribute to making people mentally and physically ill. As a result, he writes, many people turn to alcohol and drugs to cope with symptoms of the disease, and notes that "the flow of pain and pain seems to cover us as we get older." It refers to the human bloodstream as the "River of Life", which is "polluted" by "junk food" filled with "preservatives, salt, sugar, and artificial flavors".

Relying on evidence from the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness, he also agrees that "much of our pain and pain comes from a lack of physical activity." As an immediate remedy for symptoms such as constipation, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, shortness of breath, or high blood pressure, LaLanne states that people will use various drugs: "We look for crutches like sleeping pills, pill pills, alcohol, cigarettes,

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Family

LaLanne is married to his second wife, Elaine Doyle LaLanne, for more than five decades. They have three children: a daughter named Yvonne LaLanne from her first marriage, a son named Dan Doyle from Elaine's first marriage, and a son named Jon LaLanne 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. Another daughter of Elaine's first marriage, Janet Doyle, died in a car accident at the age of 21 in 1974.

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Death

LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at her home on January 23, 2011. She was 96. According to her family, she had been ill for a week, but refused to see a doctor. They added that he had been doing his daily exercise routine the day before his death. She is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.

LaLanne's achievements

(As reported on the Jack LaLanne website) These accounts are not necessarily fully accurate descriptions of what LaLanne is doing. See 1974 Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf swim (below) for an illustration of the difference between a website account and objective reporting of the same event.

• 1954 (age 40) Ã, â € "looking along the 8,981-foot (1.7Ã, mi; 2.7 Ã, km) long Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, under water, weighing 140 pounds (64 kg; 10 st) air tanks and other equipment tied to his body; world record.
• 1955 (age 41) Ã-swim from Alcatraz Island to 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 chances of jumping jacks.
• 1956 (age 42) - sets what is claimed to be a 1,033 world push-up record in 23 minutes on You Asked For It , a television program hosted by Art Baker.
• 1957 (age 43) Ã- swim channel Golden Gate while pulling 2,500 pounds (1,130Ã,¬; kg; 180Ã, st) cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents change this 1.6 km swimming to a distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).
• 1958 (age 44) Ã, - nonstop paddleboard maneuver from Farallon Islands to San Francisco coast. The journey of 30 miles (48 km) takes 9.5 hours.
• 1959 (age 45) Ã, "doing 1,000 jumping jacks and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes, to promote the The Jack LaLanne Show will be nationwide. LaLanne says this is the most difficult of his acrobats, but just because the skin in his hand starts ripping up over his chin. He feels he can not stop because it will be seen as a public failure.
• 1974 (age 60) Ã, -For the second time, she swims from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a 1,000-pound (450 kg, 71) ship, according to news of his death in the Los Angeles Times in 2011 and his website. However, according to a report the event was published the day after it took place in the Los Angeles Times, written by Philip Hager, Times staff writer, LaLanne is not handcuffed or shackled if each of these terms has the conventional meaning of "tightly bonding" the wrist or ankle along with a pair of metal fasteners. "Hager said that LaLanne" has his hands and feet tied to a rope that allows minimal freedom. "But" minimal "obviously does not mean" no "freedom, because elsewhere in Hager's article describes LaLanne's propulsion methods through water as a "half-breast-stroke, half-dog paddle" which is how you swim with your hands tied up.
1975 (age 61) Ã, "Repeating his appearance 21 years earlier, he once again swam along the Golden Gate Bridge, under water and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and drawn £ 1,000 (450 kg; 71Ã, st) boat.
• 1976 (age 62) Ã-To commemorate "Spirit of '76", Bicentennial United States, he swims 1.6 km away in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he drew 13 boats (representing 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.
• 1979 (age 65) Ã, -Ã, towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the ships were filled with 6,500 pounds (2,950 kg, 460) of the Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.
• 1980 (age 66) Ã, -Ã, towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The boats carry 77 people, and he pulls them over a mile (1.6 km) in less than an hour.
• 1984 (age 70) Ã-handcuffed, shackled, and against strong winds and currents, he attracted 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from Queen's Road Bridge in Long Beach Harbor to Queen Mary >, 1 mile.

Awards and honor

On June 10, 2005, then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched the California Board of Governors for Fitness and Physical Sports . In his speech, Schwarzenegger paid special tribute to LaLanne, whom he believes by demonstrating the benefits of fitness and a healthy lifestyle for 75 years. In 2008, he inaugurated LaLanne to the California Hall of Fame and personally gave him a plaque inscribed on a special ceremony.

In 2007, LaLanne was awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to "individuals whose careers greatly contribute to the advancement or promotion of physical activity, fitness, or national sport." Winners are selected based on "individual careers, the approximate number of lives touched by the individual through his work, the inheritance of individual work, and the additional awards or accolades received during his career."

More awards

• 1963: Founding member of the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness under President Kennedy
• President of Physical Fitness Board of Silver Anniversary Award
• Board of Governors on Physical Lifetime Achievement Award
• The Algerian Horatio Association Dear Americans
• American Academy of Achievement
• American Cancer Society
• American Heart Association
• The American Medical Association
• WBBG Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame
• APFC Pioneers of the Fitness Hall of Fame
• Patriarch Society of Chiropractors
• NFLAÃ,-Healthy American Fitness Award
• Awarded from the Oscar Heidenstam Foundation Hall of Fame
• Receive National Television Art Academy & amp; Circle Award Gold Science celebrates over 50 years in the Television Industry
• IHRSA Person of the Year Award
• Jack Webb Award from Los Angeles Police Historical Society
• Interglobal International Infomercial Award
• The Freddie, Media Media Public Service Award
• Freedom Forum Al Neuharth Free Spirit Honoree
• Lifetime Achievement Award from Club Industry
• 1992 (age 78): Academy of Body Building and Fitness Award
• 1994 (age 80): California State Board of Governors on a Physical Lifetime Achievement Award Fitness
• 1996 (age 82): Dwight D. Eisenhower Fitness Award
• 1999 (age 85): Spirit of Muscle Beach Award
• 2002 (age 88): Stars on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. At the induction ceremony, LaLanne pushes up on her star.
• 2005 (age 91): Jack Webb Award from Los Angeles Police Department Historical Society; Arnold Classic Lifetime Achievement Award; Interglobal International Infomercial Award; Freddie Award; Medical Media Services Award; Free Spirit Honor at Al-Neuharth Freedom Forum; Inauguration of the National Fitness Hall of Fame
• 2008 (age 94): Inaugurated by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (fellow 2005 inaugurated from the National Fitness Hall of Fame) and Maria Shriver to the California Hall of Fame

Moviesography

LaLanne appears as herself in the following movies and television shows :

• You Got Your Life , (1957)
• Peter Gunn , (1960) LaLanne appeared in an episode with Craig Stevens.
The Addams Family (Season 2, 1966), episode "Fester Goes on a Diet"
• Batman (man on the roof with girls, cameo uncredited) (1966)
• Fit & amp; Fun Time (pilot TV children) (1972)
• Year Without Santa Claus (1974) Hercules
• Taken over (1990)
• Amazing Discoveries (1991)
• The Simpsons (Season 10, 1999), the episode "The Old Man and the C Student".
• Beefcake (1999)
• Hollywood Magis Island: Catalina (2003)
• "Some True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed" (2004)
• Penn & amp; Teller: Nonsense! (Season 2, 2004)

Reference

External links

Official

• Official website

Media and publications

• HBO Sports tribute on YouTube, video, January 31, 2011
• Jack LaLanne on IMDb
• LaLanne's Live Young Forever book.

Interview

• An interview with Jack LaLanne on his 93rd birthday
• An interview with Jack LaLanne
• Interview by Donald Katz
• Interview by Dennis Hughes from the Sharing Guide
• Interview with Dr. McDougall July 02, 1994
• Jack LaLanne's interview at Archive of American TelevisionÃ,12 September 2003

Miscellaneous

• CPSC Tiger Juicer Recall Page
• Jack LaLanne Power Juicer's official page
• Jack LaLanne was interviewed by Janice Hughes and Dennis Hughes

Warning and retrospective

• Life Magazine recalls slideshow Jack LaLanneÃ,
• Chicago Tribune's photo gallery from Jack LaLanne | 1914-2011

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