Weekend Explorer- Jack LaLanne- Muscle Beach Workout, Santa Monica 

Hi Rahul, I assure you that Jack would love to know that he is still inspiring people like you that are just now discovering him. He was an amazing man. Elaine LaLanne his wife is still going strong at 91 and was just introduced to the "Fitness Hall of Fame". Take his advice and lead a healthy life. You will never regret it! Best wishes, Jeffrey

@@WeekendExplorer thank you jeffrey... absolutely true 👍

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This man has been my inspiration since I was a chubby eight year old girl living on guam and his enthusiasum and energy got my sorry self-absobed ass off of the TV and into working out. I started swimming, horseback riding, and Thank You Jack LL and his beautiful wife for their inspiration through my prettty rough childhood years. I thought Wow he's like in his 50's and can do all that... well, I'm nine so YES I can try to do these things. I have done the alcatraz swim, some triathalons, and gearing up to do the bridge to bridge swim in SF . Thank You So Much for my life !!! I would be nothing without Jack's inspiration in the mid-70's . My mom was on foodstamps and my step dad was a loser. Thank YOU and your loving wife for my life.

Love your story! I miss him too. He always encouraged me to become a vegetarian. I gave up meat in his honor for a month, when he died. After a month, I felt healthier and had lost some weight. So, I've kept it up ever since!

WeekendExplorer I’ve been a vegetarian vegan since 1980 and got severe onset diabetes at age 55 and it up in the hospital for over a week getting it under control. Dr. Richard Bernstein will tell you how to avoid it...leaving out the protein nearly killed me with all of the high carbohydrate vegetables.

@@ElectedOfficial1 I'm sorry to hear about your protein issue. I really have had no health problems being vegan at home, but I do occasionally have some fish or shrimp mixed in when I travel. This is mostly due to lack of vegan options. I definitely think you need to do your research if you are going to be strictly vegan to make sure that you have a healthy sustainable diet. I somehow have avoided all of the pratfalls that I've heard from other people, mostly through dumb luck I expect.

+Thomas Burke - yes, for sure!

Mark Innes he looks amazing but that's an overreach

+R Paz I was disappointed recently, when Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to hijack history and suggest that it was he who had inspired the health and fitness craze on the Graham Norton show. Jack is really the only person I believe who could have claimed this. But, I never heard Jack suggest that. He knew he was instrumental, but he also knew there were others with him.

+WeekendExplorer If you had Jack and Arnold standing side by side talking fitness it would be no contest. My heartbeat rose as I smiled and watched you with Jack. He was an Evangelist for fitness.

+R Paz- I totally agree!

@ThumperOne Yes, he has become a poster child for why there is no cheating on health and you pay in the long run.

An amazing guy for sure!

According to him, he never once took a rest day.

Freaking awesome guy!

He has said in many interviews he never missed a workout. He was sick with phnemona worked out when he should have been resting. Went to the hospital after he worked out and never came back home. He died the next day. You have to listen to your body, he was proud of the fact that for 80 years he worked out and never missed one workout, but he shouldn't have been working out with phnemona.

​@@lotettanypaver2069 How do you even work out with pneumonia?

+TELEVISIONARCHIVES-Yup!

Yup! Great motivation!!

He truly was an amazing guy!

LOL! I bring him up about once a week myself.

She fat? :)

Yes, he was an amazing guy!

Absolutely! He would be the base of a human pyramid 4 people high!! Can anyone today do that?!

Phelps no 1? i will never buy that rag magazine

Absolutely! ...and not just in fitness but also in how to treat all kinds of people. I saw him interact with all different races and the LGBTQ community. He was always positive, always encouraging.

I wish we had an icon like this now! We need it!!

We are two of the same. I worked out although many years later by myself with Jack LaLanne. To this day, I’m the only one in my family that regularly worksout.

Truly!

Indeed!

Doreen Pendgracs He definitely was! Thanks

A true inspiration to everyone he ever met!

His feats are legendary! We need someone like this to inspire us today.

@@WeekendExplorer We still have Chuck Norris around for that.

@@LB__1 I loved Chuck Norris films as a kid, but he is nowhere close the role model that Jack was... and in many ways still is.

Your story sounds a lot like mine. When I was 5, I would watch him on TV and workout. I created my first daily workout routine which included jumping jacks and running, as well as (laughably) bean bag target practice. I became a vegan at home in honor of his passing and have always had a primarily plant based diet... much of which I grew in my own garden.

Truly! Such a perfect blend of self confidence without being conceited.

I miss his optimism!

Total Legend!

Mine too!

Constance Rayna No! I didn't!! I'm glad you told me.

And he also invented the Leg Extension

Yep, and the Jumping "Jack."

Truly an American treasure!

An amazing man! Truly!! We kept in touch for more than a decade after this interview until he passed away. He was funny, humble, and an inspiration. He wanted me to become a vegetarian which I did for a month to honor his passing. I still am a vegan at home 7 years later!

An amazing guy. I used to watch him when I was sick as a kid. Even sick, I'd still get motivated to get up and do the exercises with him.

Yes, a really great guy.

That would be interesting

Hi Ron, When Jack was a teenager, he was in poor health. That's when he took it on himself to start working out and eating better. I challenge you to do the same thing! Let me know how things go too!! Best wishes, Jeffrey

+Jeffrey Lehmann that's interesting, I will. Thanks.

I had a coach in high school that I still now. He told me that when he was 15 years old that he felt weak and tired all the time. He couldn't even do one pushup. So, he decided he'd start doing pushups everyday. Adding one everyday until he got to 100. He did it! And, became my high school coach. He's now in his 80s in great shape. He was just showing me videos of whitewater rafting in Costa Rica with his wife. You can do it too!

+Jeffrey Lehmann That's amazing. I need to figure it out.

+Jeffrey Lehmann I want to get a gym membership and put some time into it.

Wow! Keep it up!! My mom is your age, but she has never exercised and sadly it is really beginning to show. I know many fit people in their 90's leading amazing lives. So, keep it up!

I actually have a full set of exercises on sheets of paper that a patient of mine mail ordered in 1960. It came with rubber exercise bands & guess what ? They’re still good!! I spent an entire month doing them as a tribute to Jack. Great workout !!

Not sure why you think that?

Your body is a slave to your mind, it can only achieve what you TELL it to!

Absolutely! A dynamo at 88 when I met him all the way until his death. An inspiration for all of us.

@@WeekendExplorer He actually introduced me to working out as a 11 year old kid....I am literally healthy all the way around today because of him.....I hope you can do follow ups on guys that came right after him in the 80's..... Richard Simmons, Tony Little, and others...all the way to today !!! Everyone is going back to health after crazy Covid.... look forward to it, and thank you so much for bringing this to us !!!