JACK LALANNE R.I.P.

96 YEARS YOUNG

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Well damn. Must have done something right!

it's amazing to think that he started broadcasting on TV 60 years ago and founded his first gym 75 years ago. truly a groundbreaking figure at a time when modern notions of health and fitness had barely entered the public consciousness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxcq1HJios0

Aw man, would have been awesome if he'd hit 100. I met him once at a family friend's house - really nice man. RIP fitness guru.

Incensed at the growing visibility of gay men in Los Angeles, the former king of television (Jack LaLanne) announced in 1979 that he planned to march down a one-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard with a 350-pound barbell on his shoulders in order to protest the "damn queers and homos and little boy prostitutes" who has "taken over Hollywood."

-The Gay Book of Lists

:(

What a strange protest....

I only know him from that Divine lyric...

"Incensed at the growing visibility of gay men in Los Angeles, the former king of television (Jack LaLanne) announced in 1979 that he planned to march down a one-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard with a 350-pound barbell on his shoulders in order to protest the "damn queers and homos and little boy prostitutes" who has "taken over Hollywood."

he should have pulled a boat full of homos thru the ocean with his teeth instead. naked. that would have shown them.

will his remains be juiced?

still back in the game like Jack Lalanne

total proustian friggin' cookie thing when i think about jack or see an old picture of him cuz my mom would exercise to his t.v. show when i was a tot. i mean, i didn't actually SMELL jack lalanne so maybe its a little different then the cookie thing, but you get the idea.

At 60 he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman’s Wharf handcuffed, shackled and towing a 1,000-pound boat. At 70, handcuffed and shackled again, he towed 70 boats, carrying a total of 70 people, a mile and a half through Long Beach Harbor.

why

to protest the "damn queers and homos and little boy prostitutes" who has "taken over", obv

it worked too there are no longer any gayz in the ocean

great lolz

Once, he demonstrated a technique he called the American flag: With both hands gripping a vertical pole a few inches apart, he extended his body horizontally, his arms ramrod-straight. He said no one else could do it.

Damn!

I haven't chased down a story that gives a cause of death. Possibly he was ashamed that he had to die of anything.

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cause of death was complications of pneumonia iirc?

Ah, now that Simpsons episode makes more sense. I'd always be like "who is this old geezer and why's he towing the boat with his teeth?" and even when I wiki'ed him it didnt explain much, but the boat-towing feats explain it.

Damn, the man looked fit and young even when old! Suprised he was still alive tbh

"Once, he demonstrated a technique he called the American flag: With both hands gripping a vertical pole a few inches apart, he extended his body horizontally, his arms ramrod-straight. He said no one else could do it."

I've seen that on the Ghetto Workout You Tubes! Jack Lalanne is a liar!

Once, he demonstrated a technique he called the American flag: With both hands gripping a vertical pole a few inches apart, he extended his body horizontally, his arms ramrod-straight. He said no one else could do it.

my dad could do it when he was younger! or at least he and his brothers claim he could, i never witnessed it myself. he saw porky pig do it in a cartoon once and was like "hmmm".