Jack LaLanne the grandfather of fitness. The machines in your healthclub were inspired by him. He does 2 hour a day workouts at 95

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JACK LALANNE

Jack LaLanne is an American fitness celebrity, exercise, and nutritional expert, lecturer, and motivational speaker who is widely referred to as "The Godfather of Fitness." He is widely known for his incredible and prodigious acts of strength and endurance. LaLanne has won numerous awards including the Horatio Alger Award from the Association of Distinguished Americans, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Hall of Fame.

Jack LaLanne was born September 26, 1914 in San Francisco, CA and admits that during his childhood days, (as is typical of most children) to being addicted to sugar and junk foods. At age 15, young Jack heard Paul Bragg speak on health and nutrition. This experience had such a profound influence on him that it motivated Jack to focus on and change his diet and exercise habits forever.

Jack is truly a pioneer. To gain an in-depth understanding of the way the body works, he studied "Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body." From then on he concentrated on bodybuilding, chiropractic medicine, and weightlifting, something virtually unheard of in the 1930s.

In 1936 LaLanne opened his own health spa in Oakland, CA, and dedicated his life to encouraging people to better themselves through exercise and fitness. LaLanne designed the world's first leg extension machines, pulley machines using cables, and weight selectors, now a standard in the fitness industry. LaLanne also invented the widely used Smith Machine. Breaking the gender barrier, LaLanne was the first fitness expert to encourage women to lift weights, contrary to the popular belief of the time, which was that weights made women masculine and unattractive. By the 1980s there were more than 200 Jack LaLanne health clubs that were eventually sold to the Bally Company, which later became Bally Total Fitness.

In 1984, when he was 70 years old he celebrated his birthday by towing 70 boats carrying 70 people while swimming handcuffed and shackled!

And now you know why he's my hero!

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