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Jack LaLanne Dead at 96; Watch the Fitness Pioneer in Action [VIDEOS]
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsGyms all over the country may want to observe a moment of silence today. Jack LaLanne died Sunday at the age of 96. LaLanne, "the godfather of fitness," used television to teach people about the importance of physical exercise. "The Jack LaLanne Show" debuted in San Francisco in 1951 and went nationwide in 1959. It remained on-air until 1985. LaLanne was also famous for his many feats of strength, including, at the age of 60, swimming from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf -- while tugging a 1,000-pound boat. Did we mention he was also handcuffed and shackled? LaLanne and his wife, ...
New 'Biggest Loser' Trainers Determined to Prove Themselves
By Monica Garske - AOL NewsThe new trainers on NBC's "The Biggest Loser" may come off all big and bad, but in reality the TV rookies still see themselves as underdogs. But that only adds more fuel to their fire. This week's episode of "The Biggest Loser" finally led to the big reveal viewers had been anxiously waiting for: unveiling the identities of the two "mystery trainers" who've been helping half of this season's contestants lose weight, while the other half remain with famous TV trainers Jillian Michaels and Bob Harper. The hard-bodied pair who emerged from the shadows turned out to be competitive female ...
Women's Longer Lifespans Explained: Men Are 'Genetically Disposable'
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- Women can credit their longer lifespans to genetic resiliency, says a new study that deems men to be "genetically more disposable" than the fairer sex. Us ladies tend to live five or six years longer than our male peers. In the United States, that means a woman's life expectancy is around 80 years, while that of a man is closer to 75. But surprisingly, the divergence between men's and women's relative life expectancy actually holds true in myriad locales around the world -- industrialized or not. Why? Experts still aren't sure, but an idea dubbed "disposable soma theory" is ...
Jogging With Jesus: Exercise Gets a Boost From the Man Upstairs
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 7) -- Loving the lord can help some of America's least active citizens get their sweat on, according to a promising new study on the link between prayer and physical activity. A UCLA study of African-American women over the age of 60, who get the least activity of any race-sex demographic, concluded that adding Scripture reading and and prayer to workout programs spurred the women to move an extra three miles a week. More than 95 percent of African-Americans pray on a daily basis, so the strategy makes sense. "The rationale for this study is our belief that health promotion efforts ...
Small Plane Crashes Into Building Near Chicago; 2 Hurt
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Oct. 6) -- A small plane carrying a husband and wife crashed into the roof of a suburban Chicago fitness club this afternoon, severely damaging the building and sending both occupants to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. No one in the sports club was hurt. As AOL Naperville Patch reports: Lloyd McKee, 66, and Maureen McKee, 63, of Aero Estates -- a local subdivision which includes a small residential airport -- took off shortly before noon in their private airplane and were heading to Pittsburgh, Penn., said Naperville Police Commander Mike Anders at the scene. Emergency ...
Ultra-Grueling Exercise Might Help Drug Abusers Quit
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- A drug addict and a marathon runner? Maybe not at the same time, but researchers plan to find out if such exercise can act as a healthy, effective alternative to substance abuse. With a $15.7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) , a team at the UT Southwestern Medical Center is investigating the merits of vigorous workouts when it comes to kicking a drug habit. Animal studies have already suggested that exercise improves brain function in a way that's similar to how the brain recovers from drug abuse. "Exercise would give people who abuse drugs an ...
At 96, Jack LaLanne Says He's Still a 'Nut'
By David Moye - AOL News
(Sept. 23) -- When you're turning 96 and still as fit as a fiddle, people are invariably going to ask your secret. Ask fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne his secret for a long life, and you'll get a variety of answers. One day, he might say, "I can't die. It's bad for business." On another, he'll say, "I can't afford to die. It's too expensive." Maybe it's fruitless to ask health secrets from a man who celebrated his 70th birthday by swimming 1.5 miles while towing 70 boats with 70 people from the Queensway Bay Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary -- handcuffed and shackled -- ...
Squirrels Are Getting Fatter Now, Too (Thanks to Global Warming!)
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 21) -- Some squirrels are getting a lot plumper than they used to be, but the root cause of their weight gain isn't what you might suspect (not saturated-fatty nuts, sorry!): It's global warming. That's the conclusion drawn in a three-decade-long study on the yellow-bellied marmots -- large ground squirrels also known as rock chucks -- that inhabit the Upper East River Valley in Colorado, the results of which are in the latest issue of the journal Nature. It's reportedly the first time that climate change has been linked to physical changes in an animal population. A yellow-bellied ...
Tony Horton: The New Jack LaLanne Tells the Military to Shape Up
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyI was too busy rounding up quarters to feed the parking meter Saturday morning to join the warm-up routine led by fitness guru Tony Horton. Besides, I was plenty warm enough as the temperature in downtown D.C. already registered a steamy 82 degrees as the National Press Club's annual Beat the Deadline 5K got underway. I heard Horton ask how many participants have his P90X program, and a good many hands went up among the hundred or so runners stretching and limbering up, doing what we used to call calisthenics before fitness became a multibillion-dollar industry Horton was in Washington to ...
Admiral Pushes Video Games to Get Recruits Fit
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(May 27) -- A Navy admiral suggests exercise-oriented video games as another way to rethink methods of getting recruits fit, capitalizing on skills that modern youths, for better or worse, already have. The idea would combine two recent trends in military training: a boom in video games to prep troops in skills such as flying a helicopter and interacting with foreign cultures, and a surge in recruits deemed unfit to serve for health reasons. "There are lots of programs now that people can [use to] become very physically active while they're using interactive computer games," Navy Surgeon ...
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