Jack LaLanne

Godfather of Fitness
Creator of the "Jumping Jack"

About Jack LaLanne
It is hard to believe that Jack LaLanne is 93. Wherever Jack appears in public, young people flock to him, older people think he has found the fountain of youth.

Jack LaLanne is 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.

Energetic and flamboyant as ever, LaLanne is still coming up with new exercise programs. He and his wife travel worldwide inspiring people to greater levels of fitness.

Jack's Programs

  • Energize With Exercise—There’s No Other Way

  • The World’s Greatest Single Exercise

  • From Fat To Fit—A Minor Adjustment

  • Aerobics, Great As Far As They Go

  • The Surest Way To Stop Smoking And be A Year Younger By Next Month

  • Turn Coffee Breaks Into Exercise—Take Five For Fitness

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