There is an old saying “I rather live one day as a Lion then a lifetime as a lamb.” Jack Lalanne “The Godfather of Fitness” lived 96 years as a lion. I believe that it doesn’t matter how long you live but how you live your life. Bruce Lee lived 33 years as a lion and changed the world. We were lucky enough to have Jack on earth for 96 years. That was 96 years of changing lives and his legacy will continue.
Jack is still one of my hero’s and a person that I would have loved to have met. As a young sick and weak child in the sixties living in New York I remember watching the Jack Lalanne Show and wanting to look like him. Later as a teenager I saw him in a late night talk show moving his chest muscle and explaining how to do it. Within a few weeks I learned to move my chest just like Jack. As a started to age, I’ll be 54 in April; I watched Jack’s juicing infomercial and admired his longevity and fitness. LaLanne live a remarkable life. He opened the first health club in the United States in 1936. Yet,
LaLanne was most famous for his TV show, “The Jack LaLanne Show,” which aired in San Francisco in 1951 and was nationally syndicated into the 1980s. LaLanne also had many exercise tapes and DVDs. His infomercials still run today, the Jack LaLanne Power Juicer. He wrote several books. His latest book, “Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity,” was released in 2009. Lalanne showed millions of Americans the benefits of exercise and healthy eating for three-quarters of a century.
Lalanne was a man’s man and walked the walk of a functional fitness lifestyle. LaLanne defied his age over the years by performing a number of extraordinary feats that displayed his immense strength and fitness on his birthday. At age 60, LaLanne swam handcuffed and shackled from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman’s Wharf while towing a 1,000-pound boat.
Until he died at 96 Jack lived life to the fullest, living fit and fearless. Lalanne lived life as a Lion!
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