At the Age of 96 Jack Lalanne passed away. The man who people love so much lot of people called him a father of modern fitness.Jack LaLanne died Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay, Calif. The cause was respiratory failure resulting from pneumonia, said his son Dan Doyle.
Mr. LaLanne start working out with wight when they are an oddity, during 1936 he open a prototype for the fitness spas a gym, juice bar and health food store in an old office building in Oakland.
“People thought I was a charlatan and a core,” he remembered. “The doctors were against me they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.” But Mr. LaLanne persevered, and he establish a national pulpit in the age of TV.
“The Jack LaLanne Show” made its first appearance in 1951 as a local program in the San Francisco area, then went nationwide on daytime TV in 1959. His short-sleeved one piece garment viewing off his imposing biceps, his props often limited to a broomstick, a chair and a rubber cord, Mr. LaLanne prance through his exercise routines, most notably his fingertip push-ups.
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