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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, ...
Jack LaLanne's 10 Strangest Stunts
By David Moye - AOL NewsFew people have taken physical fitness as seriously as Jack LaLanne -- and few have taken it to the extremes he did. LaLanne died Jan. 23 of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at the age of 96 at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast. LaLanne, who ate healthfully and exercised daily up until the end, leaves behind a legacy of physical feats, some of which may never be replicated. Ariel Hankin, AP Jack LaLanne inspired TV viewers to trim down and pump iron for decades before exercise became a national obsession. In 1954, at age 40, he swam the entire ...
Jack LaLanne Dead at 96
By FanHouse Newswire - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (AP) -- Jack LaLanne, the fitness guru who inspired television viewers to trim down, eat well and pump iron for decades before diet and exercise became a national obsession, died Sunday. He was 96. LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast, his longtime agent Rick Hersh said. LaLanne ate healthy and exercised every day of his life up until the end, Hersh said. "I have not only lost my husband and a great American icon, but the best friend and most loving partner anyone could ever hope for," Elaine ...
Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne, 96, Dies at Calif. Home
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- Jack LaLanne was prodding Americans to get off their couches and into the gym decades before it was cool. And he was still pumping iron and pushing fruits and vegetables decades past most Americans' retirement age. The fitness fanatic ate well and exercised - and made it his mission to make sure everyone did the same - right up to the end at age 96, friends and family said. LaLanne died Sunday at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast, longtime agent Rick Hersh said. The cause was respiratory failure due to pneumonia. ...
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 -- ...
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 ...
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