Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96

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Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96

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Jack LaLanne, Founder of Modern Fitness Movement, Dies at 96

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

Published: January 23, 2011

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/sports/24lalanne.html

Jack LaLanne, whose obsession with grueling workouts and good nutrition,

complemented by a salesmans gift, brought him recognition as the founder

of the modern physical fitness movement, died Sunday afternoon at his home

in Morro Bay, Calif. He was 96.

A self-described emotional and physical wreck while growing up in the San

Francisco area, Mr. LaLanne began turning his life around, as he often

told it, after hearing a talk on proper diet when he was 15.

He started working out with weights when they were an oddity, and in 1936

he opened the prototype for the fitness spas to come a gym, juice bar and

health food store in an old office building in Oakland.

People thought I was a charlatan and a nut, he remembered. The doctors

were against me they said that working out with weights would give people

heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive. But Mr. LaLanne

persevered, and he found a national pulpit in the age of television.

The Jack LaLanne Show made its debut in 1951 as a local program in the San

Francisco area, then went nationwide on daytime television in 1959. His

short-sleeved jumpsuit showing off his impressive biceps, his props often

limited to a broomstick, a chair and a rubber cord, Mr. LaLanne pranced

through his exercise routines, most notably his fingertip push-ups.

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