A true inspiration to many, you'll be missed Mr Lalanne... thank you for sharing your gift of physical fitness with the world!

Jack LaLanne
 
( Harold Zinkin and Bonnie Hearn )
On the beach in Santa Monica, a young Jack LaLanne is third from the bottom. Harold Zinkin does a back bend, supporting Deforrest "Moe" Most, who supports LaLanne, with Gene Miller on top. LaLanne was the spiritual father of the health movement that blossomed into a national craze of weight rooms, exercise classes and fancy sports clubs.

From today's LA Times Obituary section:

..."LaLanne opened what is commonly believed to be the nation's first health club, in Oakland in 1936. In the 1950s, he launched an early-morning televised exercise program keyed to housewives. He designed many now-familiar exercise machines, including leg extension machines and cable-pulley weights. And he proposed the then-radical idea that women, the elderly and even the disabled should work out to retain strength.

He performed his first feat in 1954, when he was 40 and wanted to prove he wasn't "over the hill." He swam the length of the Golden Gate Bridge — underwater. (He carried two air tanks.)


Other feats in his 40s: swimming from Alcatraz to San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf wearing handcuffs; swimming the Golden Gate Channel while towing a 2,500-pound cabin cruiser; pulling a paddleboard 30 miles from the Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore.


At age 60, he upped the ante by swimming from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, handcuffed and shackled and towing a 1,000-pound boat.


The next year, he did a similar feat underwater. And at age 70, he towed 70 boats with 70 people from the Queen's Way Bridge in Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary — while handcuffed and shackled."

Does the Bullworker squeak??

I remember watching Mr. Lalanne on tv and yes the old black and white..lol. The man did some pretty amazing things in his life. Rest in Peace Mr. Lalanne.

Thanks for your many, many years of promoting health and fitness!   "the godfather of fitness"

http://www.drmcdougall.com/mcdougallcast/media/2007-05-28_1994-07-02_jack_lalanne.mp3

Philadelphia Muscle Head

Rest in Peace!!! (and yes, I watched him, too!!)

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Irishcop1961 says ...

I remember watching Mr. Lalanne on tv and yes the old black and white..lol. The man did some pretty amazing things in his life. Rest in Peace Mr. Lalanne.

Me too Gary !!! I would get up and do jumping jacks with him !!! He will be missed  and he was an icon !

Oh, man, MamaC, I remember the jumping jacks. 

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