Beer and Ice Cream In The Corner For Everyone

[MikeBjerum]

LOS ANGELES - Jack LaLanne, the fitness
guru who inspired television viewers to trim
down, eat well and pump iron for decades
before diet and exercise became a national
obsession, died Sunday. He was 96.

In memory of Jack I am providing a special diet in the corner tonight.

Jack was a good guy, but it just brings to mind all the jokes I've heard and told over the years concerning "dying healthy."

In the release Jack is quoted in 2006 just before his heart valve replacement surgery "I can't afford to die.  It would ruin my reputation."

[tombogan03884]

It did make Euel Gibbons look like a fool

[MikeBjerum]

 

Oh your watching.  I was just working out.

[twyacht]

I think his long life has proved healthy diet, and exercise, nets results, and a few records.

    * 1954 (age 40): swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, underwater, with 140 pounds (64 kg; 10 st) of equipment, including two air tanks. A world record.
    * 1955 (age 41): swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco while handcuffed. When interviewed afterwards he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which reduced his chance to Star Jump significantly.
    * 1956 (age 42): set a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on You Asked For It,[27] a television program with Art Baker.
    * 1957 (age 43): swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a 2,500-pound (1,100 kg; 180 st) cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6 km) swim into a swimming distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).
    * 1958 (age 44): maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile (48 km) trip took 9.5 hours.
    * 1959 (age 45): did 1,000 star jumps and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes and The Jack LaLanne Show went nationwide.
    * 1974 (age 60): 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 1,000-pound (450 kg; 71 st) boat.
    * 1975 (age 61): 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 1,000-pound (450 kg; 71 st) boat.
    * 1976 (age 62): 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.[28]
    * 1979 (age 65): towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with 6,500 pounds (2,900 kg; 460 st) of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.[18]
    * 1980 (age 66): 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.
    * 1984 (age 70): Handcuffed, shackled and fighting strong winds and currents, towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from the Queen’s Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary, 1 mile.[29]

RIP

[alfsauve]

RIP:  The Godfather of Fitness

I miss Walter, too.

[Sponsor]

[crusader rabbit]

Back in the '70s I was invited to the Grand Opening of one of Jack Lalanne's European Health Spas in Southern California. He happened to attend.  I first saw Jack from the back, all shoulders and a very narrow waist, dressed in a plaid sport coat that accented the amazing "V" he sported.  He would have been in his 60s then.  When I was introduced, he was very cordial, and spent several minutes talking with me about getting more from my own exercise routine and the value of not eating take-out food, and the value of a little wine every evening. 

I saw him again at the Lifestyle Fitness Center here in St. Petersburg just a few years ago.  He was then in his late 80s or early 90s.  He still had most of that amazing physique.  And again, he graciously spent several minutes talking with me.  He was still having his evening glass of red.

Jack was certainly substance, but he had a marvelous style.  The man did what he believed--and it worked for 96 years.  But, I'm thinking if the Grim Reaper could collect Jack, the rest of us ain't got a chance.  RIP, Jack. 

[billt]

We bought one of his "Power Juicers". It works just as advertised.  Bill T.

[ratcatcher55]

From " View from the Porch"

"In his latest feat of strength, Jack LaLanne just towed 10 boats across the River Styx..."

I think he would get a chuckle about that.

[crusader rabbit]

"In his latest feat of strength, Jack LaLanne just towed 10 boats across the River Styx..."

Is it a conflict when you smile WHILE there's something in your eye?  Ya made me grin Ratcatcher.

[twyacht]

From " View from the Porch"

"In his latest feat of strength, Jack LaLanne just towed 10 boats across the River Styx..."

I think he would get a chuckle about that.

The ferryman paid Jack for the ride..