Fitness guru Jack LaLanne passed away on Sunday … at the ripe old age of 96.
Nice article in the Wash Post touting the man …
Jack LaLanne was … a fitness pioneer!
He inspired us to get off the couch and do jumping jacks.
He once swam the length of the Golden Gate Bridge while toting 140 pounds of equipment!
And, on television, he encouraged us to engage in manageable fitness — or at least to buy a juicer!
Jack LaLanne was a hero for people like me.
The world these days is more polarized than ever. The Fit People meet up once a year, slather their bodies in oil, and march around in swimsuits lifting refrigerators with their teeth. They jog distances traditionally associated with announcing that the Greeks are victorious and then dying on the spot.
The Fat People meet up every day at Chili’s and order platters of things slathered in other things that you wouldn’t think were a good combination unless your goal was to singlehandedly consume more calories than the entire population of a smaller first-world country like Liechtenstein.
There are the rest of us. We just sort of muddle along. Every year we resolve to go to the gym and lift things and jog on the machines and maybe use those giant inflatable balls for whatever it is they’re supposed to be used for.
Jack LaLanne wasn’t about just the fit people — or just about the Fat People.
During his years on television, he encouraged everyone to work out, not just the people with buns of steel or buns of cinnamon.
I’ll miss Jack LaLanne.
Washington Post, This is why we’re fat: Missing Jack LaLanne, January 24, 2011
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