Jack LaLanne's Forever Young

In the 1950s Jack LaLanne had a fitness program that my mother and I watched and exercised with on Channel 11 during the late 1950s in Los Angeles when we lived there as I grew up. My mother and I would do his exercises sometimes between my ages 8 and 12 years of age. We even bought his "Glamour stretchers" which were sort of like Los Angeles "Whamo Frisbees" at the time. They were a new type of rubber bands about  the size in diameter of your little finger and about 6 or 7 feet long with built in rubber handles. If you put these rubber band "Glamour Stretchers" on your feet and hands you could simulate lifting weights and do a lot of other stuff with them as well.

I found a jewel of a program on KQED this sunday morning so I programmed my DVR to record it and when I woke up I had a new exercise program that reminded me of when my mother was still alive and of us exercising together with Jack LaLanne in Glendale, California while watching on our black and white TV (Color sets weren't good yet) from about 1956 to 1960. Great Memories!

The specific name of this video is: Jack LaLanne's Forever Young (just like his book name)

If you want to watch this program you will  find it on:

http://www.jacklalanne.com/store/catalog/DVD_VHS_Videos-3-1.html

I guess I was just lucky enough to find it on the PBS schedule so I could once again (over 50 years later)  DVR and work out with Jack LaLanne and his wife Elaine from one of his many many videos.

quote from Jack LaLanne's site at wikipedia:

Jack LaLanne (born September 26, 1914) is an American fitness, exercise, nutritional expert, and motivational speaker who has been called "the godfather of fitness".^[1][2] He has published numerous books on fitness and hosted a fitness television show between 1951 and 1985. He has 4 children.
LaLanne gained recognition for his success as a bodybuilder, as well as his prodigious feats of strength. He has been inducted to the California Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. end quote from wikipedia.

He is still going strong today and is still an amazing character who actually lives his beliefs every day.

Jack was 95 in 2009 and still going strong.

second quote from wikipedia "Jack LaLanne" site.

At the age of 96, LaLanne continues to work out every morning for two hours. He spends 1½ hours in the weight room and half an hour swimming or walking. LaLanne and his wife Elaine (84) live in Morro Bay, California.^[12] When interviewed by Katie Couric on NBC's Today show, LaLanne said his two simple rules of nutrition are: "if man made it, don't eat it", and "if it tastes good, spit it out." He often says, "I cannot afford to die, it will ruin my image." Interviewed on his 93rd birthday, he said his feat of strength was going to be "towing my wife across the bathtub."

Much Later: Jack LaLanne passed away on January 23rd 2011. He will be missed by all the people he kept healthy since the 1940s:

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Jack LaLanne

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jack LaLanne
LaLanne in 1947
Born	Francois Henri LaLanne September 26, 1914 San Francisco, California, United States
Died	January 23, 2011 (aged 96) Morro Bay, California, United States
Cause of death	Pneumonia
Residence	Morro Bay, California
Nationality	American
Occupation	Chiropractor, fitness expert, television host, inventor, entrepreneur
Years active	1936–2011
Home town	Bakersfield, California
Height	5'6"
Television	The Jack LaLanne Show
Spouse	Irma Navarre (m. 1942–1948) Elaine Doyle (m. 1959–2011) (his death)
Website
jacklalanne.com

Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne (September 26, 1914 – January 23, 2011) was an American fitness, exercise, and nutritional expert and motivational speaker who is sometimes called "the godfather of fitness" and the "first fitness superhero."^[1] He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was 15. He also had behavioral problems, but "turned his life around" after listening to a public lecture by Paul Bragg, a well-known nutrition speaker.^[2] During his career, he came to believe that the country's overall health depended on the health of its population, writing that "physical culture and nutrition — is the salvation of America."^[3]