Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne dies at 96

[Red Kittie Kat]

Jack LaLanne — who inspired television viewers to lose weight and lift weights decades before exercise hit the mainstream — died Sunday afternoon of respiratory failure caused by pneumonia at age 96 at his home in Morro Bay


http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2011/01/23/1454812/fitness-guru-jack-lalanne-96-dies.html


I can remember this guy being old when I was a kid. He had been on infomercials for the last decade at least hawking his juicer.

96 is nothing to sneeze at .. must have been doing something right ;)

RIP Jack ♥

[garricks]

I remember his exercise show from when I was a kid...always very upbeat and full of energy. :)

[Bladez]

I always thought he was on speed...

It's a big loss to the fitness world.

[Pone]

I remember his exercise show from when I was a kid...always very upbeat and full of energy. :)

Do you remember his dog on the show?

He was in such great shape for 96, no dementia, not feeble, doing his juicer infomercials. Hmmm, maybe there's something to this healthy living. Nah, must've been a fluke :p

[Nobert]

He was in such great shape for 96, no dementia, not feeble, doing his juicer infomercials. Hmmm, maybe there's something to this healthy living. Nah, must've been a fluke :p -Pone

I was thinking along the same lines then I remembered George Burns (lifelong cigar smoker, lived to about 100), Al Hirschfeld (said his only exercise was lifting a pen, lived to 98 or 99), and Sid Ceasar (several decades of alcohol and pill abuse and was, last I knew, still kicking around and pretty sharp). That made my mind easier.

[garricks]

Do you remember his dog on the show?

He was in such great shape for 96, no dementia, not feeble, doing his juicer infomercials. Hmmm, maybe there's something to this healthy living. Nah, must've been a fluke :p

vaguely...a German Shepherd?

[seamas]

I think it was a white german shepard, wasn't it?

His wife's name was Elaine, right?