Celebrity Fitness Stars Jack LaLanne AARP The Magazine

Celebrity Fitness Stars Jack LaLanne AARP The Magazine

Celebrity Fitness Stars: Jack LaLanne - AARP The Magazine

Famous Fitness Fads

Jog your memory Celebrities and fitness gurus who made exercise fun

JACK LALANNE Editor's Note: On Sunday, January 23, 2011, Jack LaLanne died at the age of 96. Jane Fonda gets a lot of credit for bringing and exercise into the mainstream, but Jack LaLanne was working out while Fonda was in diapers. And no, that’s not an exaggeration: The 96-year-old LaLanne opened his first health gym in California in 1936, and from there built a fitness empire — at one point his name adorned more than 200 fitness gyms (called Jack LaLanne’s European Health Spas) around the country.

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Watch Jack LaLanne do fingertip push-ups in this clip from The Jack LaLanne Show. Related

He was also a TV pioneer: His syndicated The Jack LaLanne Show was TV’s first regularly scheduled workout program. It ran from 1951 to 1985, giving LaLanne an astounding, Guinness World Record–setting 34-year nonstop run as host of a TV program. He flexed his muscles in the marketing realm as well, appearing in commercials hawking everything from exercise equipment to juicers. His fitness exploits led President John F. Kennedy to name him a founding member of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports in 1963. Forty-four years later, the same group presented LaLanne with a Lifetime Achievement Award. LaLanne is also a member of the National Fitness Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2009, LaLanne celebrated his 95th birthday with the release of the book Live Young Forever, which focuses on his and offers advice on how to .

Audio Interview With Jack LaLanne

In May, 2007, Jack LaLanne was in Washington, D.C., to pick up the Lifetime Achievement Award from the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, of which he was a founding member. He stopped in to see Prime Time Radio host Mike Cuthbert.
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