Jack
LaLanne
In
Memoriam
September
26, 1914 – January 23, 2011
About
Jack LaLanne
Jack
LaLanne was America’s Number 1 Physical Fitness Expert and
Guru, often called the “Godfather of Fitness.” It was not
always this way with Jack. “As a kid, I was a sugarholic. I
was a junk food junkie! It made me weak and it made me mean. It
made me sick. I had boils, pimples and I was nearsighted. Little
girls used to beat me up. Mom prayed...The church prayed. At the
age of 15 when I heard pioneer nutritionist Paul Bragg speak at
the Oakland City Women’s Club in the San Francisco Bay Area, I
finally realized that I was addicted to sugar.” Bragg further
promised that if Jack would exercise and eat a proper diet he
could achieve good health. He set out to do just that.
Jack
discovered that the YMCA had a set of weights and began
experimenting with them. Before long Jack achieved the muscular,
healthy body of his dreams.
Resolving
to help others find the secrets to health and fitness, LaLanne
opened the nation’s first health studio in 1936, at age 21.
“I was 40 years ahead of my time but by then I knew more about
the workings of the muscles in my body than most doctors. 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; women would
look like men.”
As
the years went by Jack began to formulate a basic approach to
physical fitness and nutrition. Jack developed the first models
of the exercise equipment that are standard in the health spas
of today, and invented the “Jumping Jack.” He was the first
to have women work out with weights, and encouraged invalids and
the elderly to exercise. Jack’s reputation began to spread and
by the early 1950s, he was on TV.
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