Jack LaLanne, Fitness Guru, Dead at 96.

On our first TV ever, my mom used to watch Jack do his daily show. So, I have been aware of him about 56 years. Seemed like a good guy. Just a few months ago, I saw him peddling something, a juicer, perhaps, on one of the channels that shows old TV series repeats. He still looked pretty good.

Some of his feats of physical strength, at an age when many people are just sitting around, were simply amazing.

there is an ad for jack's powerjuicer at the bottom of this page...
watched his show when i was a youngin'.
RIP...

Rest, Jack. You must be tired from all that activity.

Ok, so who picked him in the dead pool?

Wasn't so healthy after all, was he?

He exercised his option for a different existence.

We all make our own choices. I guess I misspoke. He probably died in the best of health.

BAD RAT

I remember his German Shepard, King, wandering around the set of his TV show while he exercised

I recall a white German Shepherd or am I off-base?

Jack made it to 96 - pretty damned good no matter how you look at it. But he also had a great sense of humor:

"If asked about sex, he had a standard joke, saying that despite their advanced age, he and his wife still made love almost every night: "Almost on Monday, almost on Tuesday, almost on Wednesday..."

No, I believe his dog was named Happy or Hap.

http://www.jacklalanne.com/store/products/Happy_The_White_German_Shepard_Poster-42-7.html
King was Sgt Preston's of the Yukon's husky.

"The main dog was Happy; Smiley and Walter also made appearances"

Well at 96 - he could have had a whole slew of dogs by the time he finished being on TV.

The ones that I wrote about previously were the one's on his show. The white German Shepherd was the main one and his name was Hap/Happy.

Some of his amazing feats of strength include:

at age 41 proving it possible to escape from Alcatraz by swimming to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco while wearing handcuffs; at 45, completing a thousand push-ups and a thousand chin-ups in an hour and twenty-two minutes with blisters under his calluses; at sixty, swimming from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf handcuffed, shackled and towing a thousand-pound boat, and at seventy, battling currents while handcuffed and shackled, towing seventy boats holding seventy people for a mile and a half across Long Beach Harbor.

Well the dog does look happy...

wow, you're right, it was Happy.

Where did I get King from?

Maybe it was in an alternate universe.

Look at this.

Jack's sample menu for a day.

Pretty wild and wacky, huh?

Yeah, King was Sargeant Preston's dog - I listened to it on radio..

I watched Jack LaLanne a time or two when I was a teen and we lived at my aunt's. I thought he was, er, nuts. Shows what I knew, as exercise has proven out as a good thing in general, where I was taught to never get overheated. (My mother and aunt used to go to Slenderella, where the machines did the jiggling.) In my memory, I have had him in there with Lawrence Welk and that guy who pushed yogurt (Gordon something?) and the nuts and seeds fellow. (No, not my brother in law). Now, of course, I like nuts and seeds and even eat yogurt.

Well, Rest in Peace, Jack, and thank you for being with us.

Here's Hap when he was a pup!