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LaLanne was born in San Francisco, California,{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124,0,5507436,full.story|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207193020/http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124,0,5507436,full.story|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 February 2011|title=Jack LaLanne obituary: Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement|last=Luther|first=Claudia|date=23 January 2011|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=24 January 2011}} the son of Jennie (née Garaig) and Jean/John LaLanne, French immigrants from Oloron-Sainte-Marie. Both entered the US in the 1880s as young children at the Port of New Orleans. LaLanne had two older brothers, Ervil, who died in childhood (1906–1911), and Norman (1908–2005), who nicknamed him "Jack". He grew up in Bakersfield, California and later moved with his family to Berkeley, California circa 1928. In 1939, his father died at the age of 58 in a San Francisco hospital,{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B3I0AAAAIBAJ&pg=2008%2C1382340 |newspaper=Berkeley Daily Gazette |title=John Lalanne |agency=Deaths |date=18 September 1939 |page=13}} which LaLanne attributed to "coronary thrombosis and cirrhosis of the liver". In his book The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health, LaLanne wrote that as a boy he was addicted to sugar and junk food.The Jack LaLanne Way to Vibrant Health (page 21, 1960 edition) He had violent episodes directed against himself and others, describing himself as "a miserable kid ... it was like hell".{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/24/MN3T1HDCIB.DTL|title=Jack LaLanne, fitness pioneer, dies at 96|last=Kuruvila|first=Matthai|author2=Demian Bulwa|date=24 January 2011|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=24 January 2011}}

Besides having a bad temper, LaLanne also suffered from headaches and bulimia, and temporarily dropped out of high school at the age of 14. The following year, aged 15, he heard health food pioneer Paul Bragg give a talk on health and nutrition, focusing on the "evils of meat and sugar".St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture vol. 3, St. James Press (2000) pp. 81-83 Bragg's message had a powerful influence on LaLanne, who then changed his life and started focusing on his diet and exercise.{{cite web

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}} In his own words, he was "born again". and besides his new focus on nutrition, he began working out daily (although while serving during World War II as a Pharmacist Mate First Class at the Sun Valley Naval Convalescent Hospital, LaLanne stated that he started in bodybuilding at "age 13")."On The Sports Front," Twin Falls (Idaho) Times News, 25 February 1944, George F. Redmond, sportswriter. Describing his change of diet, LaLanne stated, "I had to take my lunch alone to the football field to eat so no one would see me eat my raw veggies, whole bread, raisins and nuts. You don't know the crap I went through".[http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2011-01-26/article/37169?headline=Jack-La-Lanne-A-Berkeley-not-Oakland-Original--By-Steven-Finacom "Jack La Lanne{{snds}}A Berkeley (not Oakland) Original"], Berkeley Daily Planet, 25 January 2011

Writer Hal Reynolds, who interviewed LaLanne in 2008, notes that he became an avid swimmer and trained with weights; he described his introduction to weight lifting thus:

{{cquote|[LaLanne] found two men working out in a back room, who kept weights in a locked box. When he asked them if he could use their weights, they laughed at him and said, "Kid, you can't even lift those weights." So he challenged them both to a wrestling match with the bet that if he could beat them, they would give him a key to the box. After he beat them both, they gave him a key and he used their weights until he was able to buy his own.}}

LaLanne went back to school, where he made the high school football team, and later went on to college in San Francisco where he earned a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. He studied Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body and concentrated on bodybuilding and weightlifting.

LaLanne won the American Athletic Foundation Wrestling Championship in 1930, the American Athletic Union medal for wrestling in 1936, and was put on the 1936 Olympic wrestling team but was taken off the team because he was “charging money for exercise” by opening a gym and thus “considered a professional”.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said of Lalanne, “It doesn’t matter where you go, there’s a health club, and it all started with Jack LaLanne.”{{Cite web |last=Teper |first=Lonnie |date=2011-02-02 |title=Celebrating Jack LaLanne - |url=https://www.ironmanmagazine.com/celebrating-jack-lalanne/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=www.ironmanmagazine.com |language=en-US}}http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/02/01/jack.lalanne.memorial/index.html CNN. “Arnold Schwarzenegger eulogizes Jack LaLanne.” By Alan Duke. February 3, 2011.

In 1936, he opened the nation's first health and fitness club in Oakland, California, where he offered supervised weight and exercise training and gave nutritional advice. His primary goal was to encourage and motivate his clients to improve their overall health. Doctors, however, advised their patients to stay away from his health club, a business totally unheard of at the time, and warned their patients that "LaLanne was an exercise 'nut', whose programs would make them 'muscle-bound' and cause severe medical problems". LaLanne recalls the initial reaction of doctors to his promotion of weight lifting:

{{cquote|People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me{{nsmdns}}they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/sports/24lalanne.html|title=Jack LaLanne, Father of Fitness Movement, Dies at 96|last=Goldstein|first=Richard|date=24 January 2011|work=The New York Times|access-date=24 January 2011}}}}

LaLanne designed the first leg extension machines, pulley machines using cables, weight selectors, and many other inventions, none of which he patented, that are now standard in the fitness industry. He invented the original model of what became the Smith machine.{{cite web | url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/302860 | title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne has passed away | work=digitaljournal.com | date=January 23, 2011 | access-date=27 August 2015}} He invented resistance bands, which he marketed as the Glamour Stretcher for women and the Easy Way for men with different tensions. LaLanne encouraged women to lift weights (though at the time it was thought this would make women look masculine and unattractive), and he was the first to have a coed health club. By the 1980s, Jack LaLanne's European Health Spas numbered more than 200. He eventually licensed all his health clubs to the Bally company, now known as Bally Total Fitness. Though not associated with any gym, LaLanne continued to lift weights until his death.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

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LaLanne presented fitness and exercise advice on television for 34 years. The Jack LaLanne Show was the longest-running television exercise program. According to the SF Chronicle TV program archives, it first began on 28 September 1953 as a 15-minute local morning program (sandwiched between the morning news and a cooking show) on San Francisco's ABC television station, KGO-TV, with LaLanne paying for the airtime himself as a way to promote his gym and related health products. LaLanne also met his wife Elaine while she was working for the local station. In 1959, the show was picked up for nationwide syndication, and continued until 1985.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

The show was noted for its minimalist set, where LaLanne inspired his viewers to use basic home objects, such as a chair, to perform their exercises along with him. Wearing his standard jumpsuit, he urged his audience "with the enthusiasm of an evangelist," to get off their couch and copy his basic movements, a manner considered the forerunner of today's fitness videos.[http://www.jacklalanne.com/watch-jack/ Jack LaLanne Show video] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216034740/http://www.jacklalanne.com/watch-jack/ |date=16 February 2010 }}{{rp|watch}} In 1959, LaLanne recorded Glamour Stretcher Time, a workout album that provided phonograph-based instruction for exercising with an elastic cord called the Glamour Stretcher.[https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2006/01/11/fashion/20060112_FITN_SLIDESHOW_1.html Jack LaLanne's Glamour Stretcher, NYTimes Exercise Product History] As a daytime show, much of LaLanne's audience were stay-at-home mothers. LaLanne's wife Elaine LaLanne was part of the show to demonstrate the exercises and to show that doing them would not ruin the figures or musculature of women. LaLanne also included his dog Happy as a way to attract children to the show. Later in the run, another dog named Walter was used, with LaLanne claiming "Walter" stood for "We All Love To Exercise Regularly".{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}}

LaLanne published several books and videos on fitness and nutrition, appeared in movies, and recorded a song with Connie Haines. He marketed exercise equipment, a range of vitamin supplements, and two models of electric juicers.[https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703398504576100923135057068 Jack LaLanne, Media Fitness Guru, Dies at 96 – Wall Street Journal] Published 24 January 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011. These include the "Juice Tiger", as seen on Amazing Discoveries with Mike Levey, and "Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer". It was on the show that LaLanne introduced the phrase "That's the power of the juice!" However, in March 1996, 70,000 Juice Tiger juicers, 9% of all its models, were recalled after 14 injury incidents were reported.[http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml96/96086.html U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission CPSC, National Media Corporation Announced Juice Tiger Recall Program] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111115926/http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml96/96086.html |date=11 January 2012 }} The Power Juicer is still sold in five models.{{cite web|url=http://www.powerjuicer.com|title=Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer™ - Free Shipping! Exclusive New Model|work=powerjuicer.com|access-date=27 August 2015}}

LaLanne played the role of "Hercules" in the Christmas television movie, "The Year Without Santa Claus" starring John Goodman, in 2006, his last acting role.

LaLanne celebrated his 95th birthday with the release of a new book titled Live Young Forever.{{cite web|last=LaLanne|first=Jack|title=Live Young Forever|url=http://www.jacklalanne.com/store/products/Live_Young_Forever-57-2.html|publisher=Robert Kennedy Publishing|year=2009|access-date=28 January 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617213615/http://www.jacklalanne.com/store/products/Live_Young_Forever-57-2.html|archive-date=17 June 2010}}

One of LaLanne's sayings was "If man made it, don't eat it."Live Young Forever: 12 Steps to Optimum Health, Fitness and Longevity. By Jack Lalanne. Publisher: UNKNO. September 16, 2009. {{ISBN|1552100642}}, {{ISBN|978-1552100646}}.

LaLanne blamed ultra-processed foods for many health problems. For most of his life, he eschewed sugar and white flour while eating many fruits and vegetables,Reuters. Jack LaLanne, 93, still spreads gospel of exercise. March 19, 2007. and he ate a mostly dairy-freehttp://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html Shareguide: Holistic Health Magazine & Resource Directory. Interview with Jack LaLanne

Legendary Fitness Expert, Health Pioneer, Diet and Nutrition Innovator (1914-2011). Interview by Janice Hughes and Dennis Hughes, Share Guide Publishers. and meatless diet that included lots of egg whites and fish.{{cite news| url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/19/LV107553.DTL | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | title=Raising the bar / At 88, fitness guru Jack LaLanne can run circles around those half his age | first=Sam | last=McManis | date=19 January 2003}}{{cite news| url=http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html | work=Share Guide | title=Interview with Jack LaLanne / Legendary Fitness Expert, Health Pioneer, Diet and Nutrition Innovator | first=Dennis | last=Hughes | access-date=26 January 2016}} He also took vitamin supplements[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-24/jack-lalanne-fitness-guru-dies-at-96-learn-10-of-his-habits/full/ Jack LaLanne's 10 Health Habits]. The Daily Beast. Published 24 January 2011. Accessed 31 January 2011.[http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-03-14/lifestyle/9603120380_1_exercise-upper-arms-workout/2 Jack Lalanne: 81 Going On 60] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207065101/http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1996-03-14/lifestyle/9603120380_1_exercise-upper-arms-workout/2 |date=2011-02-07 }}. The Sun Sentinel. Published 14 March 1996. Accessed 31 January 2011.[http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/17/lkl.00.html CNN Transcript – Larry King Live: Jack La Lanne Discusses a Life of Health and Fitness] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629060445/http://archives.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0007/17/lkl.00.html |date=2011-06-29 }}. Aired 17 July 2000, 9:00 p.m. ET. Accessed 31 January 2011. and protein supplements.{{Cite web |date=2011-01-24 |title=Life Lessons from Jack LaLanne |url=https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19527902/the-first-man-of-fitness/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=Men's Health |language=en-US}}

The NY Times reported in his obituary that he avoided snacks and ate two meals a day, although he once said that he ate three meals a day.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-29 |title=The Father of Fitness Just Keeps Going and Going and ... - Los Angeles Times |website=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-08-he-36830-story.html |access-date=2023-11-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029140413/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-08-he-36830-story.html |archive-date=2020-10-29 }} His breakfast, after working out for two hours, consisted of hard-boiled egg whites, a cup of broth, oatmeal with soy milk, and seasonal fruit. Other sources say that breakfasts were homemade protein shakes: one was protein powder shake with wheat germ, brewer's yeast, bone meal, juice, and handfuls of vitamins and minerals consisting of “100 liver-yeast tablets, 15,000 milligrams of vitamin C, 2000 units of B, some boron and some zinc, also 75 alfalfa and kelp tablets”.{{Cite web |date=2018-02-05 |title=David Rensin, '20 Questions with Jack Lalanne', Playboy Magazine (October, 1984). - Physical Culture Study |url=https://physicalculturestudy.com/2018/02/05/david-rensin-20-questions-with-jack-lalanne-playboy-magazine-october-1984/,%20https://physicalculturestudy.com/2018/02/05/david-rensin-20-questions-with-jack-lalanne-playboy-magazine-october-1984/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=physicalculturestudy.com |language=en-US}}

Another shake LaLanne consumed consisted of egg whites and soybean with carrot juice, celery juice, and some fruit.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2011-01-24 |title=Health, fitness guru Jack LaLanne dies at 96 |url=https://boulderweekly.com/news/health-fitness-guru-jack-lalanne-dies-at-96/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=Boulder Weekly |language=en-US}} One source reported that his lunch was four boiled egg whites, five servings of fresh fruit, plus five raw vegetables.{{Cite web |last=McManis |first=Sam |date=2003-01-19 |title=Raising the bar / At 88, fitness guru Jack LaLanne can run... |url=https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Raising-the-bar-At-88-fitness-guru-Jack-2639258.php |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=SFGATE |language=en}} For dinner, he and his wife typically ate a high-protein salad with egg whites along with fish (often salmon) and some wine. He did not drink coffee.

He once described his diet by saying, “ At least eight to 10 raw vegetables and three to four pieces of fresh fruit a day. I have natural grains, beans, brown rice, lentils, wheat. And I get most of my protein from fish and egg whites. I eat no meat of any kind. I drink my breakfast. Half carrot juice, half celery juice and then I put an apple and a banana in it and 50 grams of protein made out of egg whites and soybean. For lunch I’ll have three pieces of fresh fruit, three to six egg whites and whole wheat toast. And Elaine makes soup for me with vegetables but no cream or butter. Elaine and I eat out practically every night, but we have the restaurants trained. We call them that we’re coming in, and they’ll have a raw vegetable salad and I’ll have oil dressing loaded up with chopped garlic. I take my own pita bread made out of whole wheat with no salt or oils. And I’ll have a baked potato and fish.”

When exercising, LaLanne worked out repetitively with weights until he experienced "muscle fatigue" in whatever muscle groups he was exercising, or when it became impossible for him to go on with a particular routine; this is most often referred to as "training to failure". LaLanne moved from exercise to exercise without stopping. To contradict critics who thought this would leave him tightly musclebound and uncoordinated, LaLanne liked to demonstrate one-handed balancing. His home contained two gyms and a pool that he used daily.

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He continued with his two-hour workouts into his 90s, which also included walking.{{cite news |title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne still going strong at 89|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/19/jack.lalanne.ap/ |publisher=CNN.com|date=19 January 2004 |access-date=23 January 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070904075927/http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/diet.fitness/01/19/jack.lalanne.ap/ |archive-date = 4 September 2007}} He stated, "If I died, people would say 'Oh look, Jack LaLanne died. He didn't practice what he preached.'"

LaLanne summed up his philosophy about good nutrition and exercise:

"Dying is easy. Living is a pain in the butt. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom."Siegel M.D., Andrew. Finding Your Own Fountain of Youth: The Essential Guide to Maximizing Health, Paul Mould Publ. (2008) p. 191

He said that since the average person doesn't have the time to exercise two hours per day, he recommended 30-minute workouts, 3-4 times a week, and changing one's routine every 2–3 weeks.

LaLanne often stressed that artificial food additives, drugs, and processed foods contributed to making people mentally and physically ill. As a result, he writes, many people turn to alcohol and drugs to deal with symptoms of ailments, noting that "a stream of aches and pains seems to encompass us as we get older".LaLanne, Jack. Revitalize Your Life: Improve Your Looks, Your Health & Your Sex Life, Hastings House (2003){{rp|114}} He refers to the human bloodstream as a "River of Life", which is "polluted" by "junk foods" loaded with "preservatives, salt, sugar, and artificial flavorings".{{rp|167}}

Relying on evidence from The President's Council on Physical Fitness, he also agreed that "many of our aches and pains come from lack of physical activity". As an immediate remedy for symptoms such as constipation, insomnia, tiredness, anxiety, shortness of breath, or high blood pressure, LaLanne states that people will resort to various drugs: "We look for crutches such as sleeping pills, pep pills, alcohol, cigarettes, and so on."

LaLanne was married to his second wife, Elaine Doyle LaLanne, for over five decades. They had three children: Yvonne LaLanne, a daughter from his first marriage, Dan Doyle, a son from Elaine's first marriage, and Jon LaLanne, a son they had together. Yvonne is a chiropractor in California; Dan and Jon are involved in the family business, BeFit Enterprises, which they and their mother and sister plan to continue.{{cite web| url=https://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/fitness/exercise/2011-01-25-lalanneobit24_ST_N.htm?csp=ylf | title=Fitness guru Jack LaLanne dies at 96|last=Weise|first=Elizabeth|author2=Nanci Hellmich|date=25 January 2011|work=USA Today|access-date=26 January 2011}} Another daughter from Elaine's first marriage, Janet Doyle, died in a car accident at age 21 in 1974.{{cite web| url=http://clubindustry.com/forprofits/1001-lalanne-lifettime-achievement-award/index3.html| title=Jack LaLanne Receives Lifetime Achievement Award|last=Goldman|first=Stuart |date=1 October 2009| publisher= ClubIndustry.com|access-date=26 January 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206014827/http://clubindustry.com/forprofits/1001-lalanne-lifettime-achievement-award/index3.html|archive-date=6 December 2009}}

LaLanne often said, "I can never die; that would ruin my image!" He died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia at his home on January 23, 2011. He was 96. According to his family, he had been sick for a week but refused to see a doctor. They added that he had been performing his daily workout routine the day before his death.{{cite news|title=Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne Dies at 96|url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/01/23/obit.jack.lalanne/|access-date=24 January 2011|date=24 January 2011}} He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, California.[https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&dq=jack+lalanne+forest+lawn&pg=PA420 Resting Places]

(As reported on Jack LaLanne's website)

• 1954 (age 40){{snds}}Swam the entire {{convert|8981|ft|mi km|1|adj=on}} length of the Golden Gate in San Francisco, under water, with {{convert|140|lb|kg st|abbr=on}} of air tanks and other equipment strapped to his body; a world record.[https://books.google.com/books?id=jxIEAAAAMBAJ&dq=jack+lalanne+awards&pg=PA95 "A Fitting Life for Jack LaLanne"] Orange Coast Magazine, August 1986
• 1955 (age 41){{snds}}Swam from Alcatraz Island to Pier 43 in San Francisco while handcuffed.{{Cite news |last=Newton |first=Dwight |date=1955-07-09 |title=Day and Night with Radio and Television |pages=14 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117467916/day-and-night-with-radio-and-television/ |access-date=2023-01-29}}{{Cite news |date=1955-07-11 |title=Swims Handcuffed From Alcatraz |pages=24 |work=Stockton Evening and Sunday Record |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117468038/swims-handcuffed-from-alcatraz/ |access-date=2023-01-29}} When interviewed afterwards, he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which significantly reduced his ability to do a jumping jack.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 1956 (age 42){{snds}}Set what was claimed as a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on You Asked For It,{{cite news|last=Grace|first=Francie|title=LaLanne: Pushing 90, Pumping Iron|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lalanne-pushing-90-pumping-iron/|access-date=24 January 2011|newspaper=CBS|date=14 January 2004}} a television program hosted by Art Baker.
• 1957 (age 43){{snds}}Swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a {{convert|2500|lb|kg st|-1|abbr=on}} cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6 km) swim into a swimming distance of {{convert|6.5|mi|km}}.
• 1958 (age 44){{snds}}Maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The {{convert|30|mi|km|adj=on}} trip took 9.5 hours.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 1959 (age 45){{snds}}Did 1,000 push-ups and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes, to promote The Jack LaLanne Show going nationwide. LaLanne said this was the most difficult of his stunts, but only because the skin on his hands started ripping off during the chin-ups. He felt he couldn't stop because it would have been seen as a public failure.
• 1974 (age 60){{snds}}For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a {{convert|1000|lb|kg st|abbr=on}} boat, according to his obituary in Los Angeles Times in 2011 and his website.[https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-lalanne-20110124-story.html Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement]. 23 January 2011. Los Angeles Times However, according to an account of this event published the day after it occurred in the Los Angeles Times, written by Philip Hager, a Times staff writer, LaLanne was neither handcuffed nor shackled if each of those terms has the conventional meaning of "tightly binding the wrists or ankles together with a pair of metal fasteners". Hager says that LaLanne "had his hands and feet bound with cords that allowed minimal freedom". But "minimal" clearly did not mean "no" freedom, since elsewhere in the article Hager describes LaLanne's method of propulsion through the water as "half-breast-stroke, half-dog paddle", which is how you swim with your hands tied.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 1975 (age 61){{snds}}Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a {{convert|1000|lb|kg st|abbr=on}} boat.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 1976 (age 62){{snds}}To commemorate the "Spirit of '76," United States Bicentennial, he swam one mile (1.6 km) in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.{{cite news|title=Bicentennial Swim|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T0YhAAAAIBAJ&pg=2224,2013273&dq=jack+lalanne+bicentennial&hl=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120728193049/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=T0YhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bH8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=2224,2013273&dq=jack+lalanne+bicentennial&hl=en|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 July 2012|access-date=24 January 2011|newspaper=Modesto Bee|date=21 October 1976}}
• 1979 (age 65){{snds}}Towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with {{convert|6500|lb|kg st|-1|abbr=on}} of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061101919.html | title=A Fitness Icon Keeps His Juices Flowing |author=Squires, Sally | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=12 June 2007 | access-date=5 May 2010}}
• 1980 (age 66){{snds}}Towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6 km) in less than one hour.{{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 1984 (age 70){{snds}}He towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from the Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary, 1 mile.{{cite news|title=Jack LaLanne Fit As Ever At 70|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HJwzAAAAIBAJ&pg=4111,2340193&dq=jack+la+lanne+queen+mary&hl=en|access-date=24 January 2011|newspaper=Lodi News-Sentinel|date=19 November 1984|agency=UPI}}

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On June 10, 2005, then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. In his address, Schwarzenegger paid special tribute to LaLanne, who he credited with demonstrating the benefits of fitness and a healthy lifestyle for 75 years.[http://www.laughingplace.com/Lotion-View-89.asp "Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Announces California Council on Physical Fitness and Sports"]Lauphing Place, 14 June 2005 In 2008, he inducted LaLanne into the California Hall of Fame and personally gave him an inscribed plaque at a special ceremony.

In 2007, LaLanne was awarded The President's Council's Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to "individuals whose careers have greatly contributed to the advancement or promotion of physical activity, fitness, or sports nationwide". Winners are chosen based on the "individual's career, the estimated number of lives the individual has touched through his or her work, the legacy of the individual's work, and additional awards or honors received over the course of his or her career".[http://www.fitness.gov/news/news/news-release_lifetime_achievement-05.03.07.html Press Release] President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, 3 May 2007 {{cite web |url=http://fitness.gov/news/news/news-release_lifetime_achievement-05.03.07.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080916093948/http://fitness.gov/news/news/news-release_lifetime_achievement-05.03.07.html |archive-date=16 September 2008 |title=Lifetime Achievement|url-status=dead |access-date=1 June 2016}}

Other honors

• 1963: Founding member of President's Council on Physical Fitness under President Kennedy[http://www.aarp.org/health/fitness/info-11-2010/fitness-fads-jack-lalanne.html "Famous Fitness Fads"] AARP, 10 December 2010
• President's Council of Physical Fitness Silver Anniversary Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• Governor's Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award Everyone's Guide to Cancer Therapy, Andrews McMeel Publishing (2008) p. xxxi
• The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans Behar, Joy. When You Need a Lift, Random House (2007) p. 171
• American Academy of Achievement, 1975{{cite web |title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=achievement.org |publisher=American Academy of Achievement |url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#business}}
• American Cancer Society {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• American Heart Association {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• American Medical Association {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• WBBG Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• APFC Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• Patriarch Society of Chiropractors {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• NFLA{{snds}}Healthy American Fitness Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• Received an Award from the Oscar Heidenstam Foundation Hall of Fame {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• Received National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Gold Circle Award commemorating over 50 years in the Television Industry {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• IHRSA Person of the Year Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• Jack Webb Award from the Los Angeles Police Historical Society {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• Interglobal's International Infomercial Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• The Freddie, Medical Media Public Service Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• Freedom Forum Al Neuharth Free Spirit Honoree {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• Lifetime Achievement Award from Club Industry {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 1992 (age 78): The Academy of Body Building and Fitness Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 1994 (age 80): The State of California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 1996 (age 82): The Dwight D. Eisenhower Fitness Award
• 1999 (age 85): The Spirit of Muscle Beach Award {{Citation needed|date=August 2012}}
• 2002 (age 88): A star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. At his induction ceremony, LaLanne did pushups on the top of his star.{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/01/jack_lalanne_will_shame_you_wi.html |title=Jack LaLanne Shall Shame Us With His Old-Man Energy No Longer | access-date=24 January 2010 |publisher=New York Magazine}}
• 2005 (age 91): The Jack Webb Award from the Los Angeles Police Department Historical Society; the Arnold Classic Lifetime Achievement Award; the Interglobal's International Infomercial Award; the Freddie Award; the Medical Media Public Service Award; Free Spirit honoree at Al Neuharth's Freedom Forum; Inaugural Inductee into the National Fitness Hall of Fame[http://www.nationalfitnessorganization.com/inductees2005.html National Fitness Hall of Fame Class of 2005]. Retrieved on 23 November 2008. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113113758/http://www.nationalfitnessorganization.com/inductees2005.html |date=13 January 2009 }}
• 2008 (age 94): Inducted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (fellow 2005 inductee of the National Fitness Hall of Fame) and Maria Shriver into the California Hall of Fame{{cite web

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• 2012 (posthumously): Together with his wife, inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sportshof.org/hall-of-fame/|title=International Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2012|access-date=February 15, 2012|publisher=International Sports Hall of Fame|archive-date=February 18, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218061033/http://www.sportshof.org/hall-of-fame/|url-status=live}}

LaLanne appeared as himself in the following films and television shows:

• You Bet Your Life (1961){{YouTube|T3IBxwm2LfA}}
• Peter Gunn (1960){{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482364/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1|title=Jack LaLanne|work=IMDb|access-date=26 January 2016}} – LaLanne appeared in an episode with Craig Stevens.
• Mister Ed (1961), episode "Psychoanalyst Show" (as "Instructor"), (1963), episode "Doctor Ed"
• The Addams Family (Season 2, 1966), episode "Fester Goes on a Diet"
• Batman (man on roof with girls, uncredited cameo) (1966){{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0482364/filmoyear|title=Latest Titles With Jack LaLanne|work=IMDb|access-date=27 August 2015}}
• Here's Lucy (Season 2, 1969), episode "Lucy and the Bogie Affair"
• Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (Episode #5.14, 1971), Guest Performer
• Fit & Fun Time (kids TV pilot) (1972)
• The Richard Simmons Show (1982)
• The Chevy Chase Show {{Cite web| url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182260/credits|title=The Chevy Chase Show{{!}} Credits| website=IMDB|language=en-us|access-date=15 June 2020}}
• Repossessed (1990)
• Amazing Discoveries (1991)
• The Simpsons (Season 10, 1999), episode "The Old Man and the 'C' Student"
• Beefcake (1999)
• Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina (2003)
• "Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed" (2004)
• Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Season 2, 2004)
• The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006), Hercules
• "How To Live Forever" (Documentary, 2009)

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Media and publications

• {{YouTube|OMJFRlRsb8A|HBO Sports tribute}}, video, 31 January 2011
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• [http://www.ellipticalconsumers.com/jack-lalanne-live-young-forever// LaLanne's book Live Young Forever].

Interviews

• [http://excelsiorgroup.co.uk/blog/exclusive-jack-lalanne-interview-on-his-93rd-birthday/ Interview with Jack LaLanne on his 93rd birthday]
• [http://www.famousinterview.ca/interviews/jack_lalanne.htm Interview with Jack LaLanne]
• [https://www.outsideonline.com/1830081/jack-lalanne-still-animal Interview by Donald Katz]
• [http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html Interview by Dennis Hughes of Share Guide]
• [https://www.drmcdougall.com/health/education/podcast/jack-lalanne/ Taped interview with Dr. McDougall 02 July, 1994]
• [http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/jack-lalanne Jack LaLanne interview] at Archive of American Television{{snds}}12 September 2003

Miscellaneous

• [https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/1996/cpsc-national-media-corporation-announced-juice-tiger-recall-program CPSC Tiger Juicer Recall Page]
• [http://www.powerjuicer.com/ Official Jack LaLanne Power Juicer page]
• [https://www.rsmanuals.com/329/jack-lalannes-power-juicer-cl-003ap/page-1/ Jack LaLanne Power Juicer manual]
• [http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html Jack LaLanne interviewed by Janice Hughes and Dennis Hughes]
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Memorials and retrospectives

• Life Magazine remembers Jack LaLanne{{snds}}[https://web.archive.org/web/20110127015537/http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/54851/life-remembers-jack-lalanne slideshow]
• Chicago Tribune [http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/la-me-jack-lalanne-pictures,0,1957206.photogallery photo gallery of Jack LaLanne |1914-2011]

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