Jack Lalanne, the Bay Area native whose stretched gospel of fitness 75 years and changed the way Americans thought about preparing and eating right, died Sunday at his home in Morro Bay (San Luis Obispo County). He was 96th
The Godfather of Fitness died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia, his family said.
"It's like a shock," said his nephew, Thomas LaLanne of Mill Valley. ". I do not think Jack would die, he always would tell people: "I can not die. It'll ruin my image."
Mr. Lalanne began his career with a gym in Oakland 1936 - a time when athletes should not women should not exercise and weight lifting - and hosted the show fitness longer on television .
He licensed his name to two health clubs, said the books, videos fact, gave lectures and marketed a juice machine. It was a perpetual pitchman with a sergeant of the cortex, and cadence.
"Other people work at dying," he told the Chronicle in 2004. "I work to live with!"
Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's most famous bodybuilder in the world, said that Mr. Lalanne, the exercise has been a goal for the common man and a woman.
Schwarzenegger, Mr. Lalanne, when he joined the California Hall of Fame was launched in 2008 and said he "helped inspired millions and millions of people and remain a real fitness craze with its modern life example, this active and eating right is really the fountain of youth. "
Mr. LaLanne Fitness Quest has inspired the public and his family. His great-nephew Chris LaLanne Castro Valley, opened LaLanne Fitness in San Francisco 2 1 / 2 years and five months, called his son Jackson.
"Jack is an inspiration to me my whole life," Chris LaLanne said Sunday. "The work of his life to help themselves has been."
Mr. Lalanne was on 26 September 1914 in San Francisco born, French immigrants. They lived in Berkeley, where Mr. Lalanne describes himself as a skinny, pimply boy addicted to sugar.
Behavioral problems were extreme. He grabbed his brother, made a suicide attempt and tried to burn his house. Being overweight father died of a heart attack on 50th
I was "a child cursed wretch," Mr. Lalanne told the Chronicle. "It was hell."
Then he heard a speech at the City Club of Oakland woman by Paul Bragg, who opened the first national food store.
Mr. Lalanne said: "Bragg said:" My dear friends, it does not matter what your fitness level, if you obey the laws of nature, you are born again .. "I went home and prayed," God, grant me the power of food that kills me are not welcome. "
In 1936 he opened Jack Lalanne fitness studio in Oakland. Business was slow, so Mr. Lalanne offered massages for people to enter through the door. Once they started lifting weights, it offers routines and calls on the phone when they missed two or more training sessions.
"How am I to help you if you are not there?" he asked.
In 1951 he began a live broadcast to continue KGO-TV in San Francisco. The Jack LaLanne Show "became national in 1959 and ruled for 34 years in the U.S. and Europe.
Mr. Lalanne has been known for great feats of strength. At 40, he towed a boat cruise of 2000 pounds when he swam the Golden Gate channel. When he was 42, he has a record 1033 pumps in 23 minutes.
When 60 years, Mr. Lalanne swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf was - tied up while he was handcuffed and towing a boat.
Late in life, Mr. Lalanne was fair and appropriate to his cause.
"Do your dog a cigarette and a donut for breakfast every morning?" He cried with a Chronicle reporter in 2004. "People think not only for breakfast, and they wonder why they feel not good. "
a daughter, Yvonne LaLanne of Walnut Creek, Mr. Lalanne is his wife, Elaine survived a son, Jon LaLanne Kauai, Hawaii, and one step-son, Dan Doyle of Los Angeles.
This article appeared on page A - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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