Jack Lalanne Appreciation Thread(gospel / inspiration "For Serious Lifters" )

[Serious]

Basically this cat was a classical body builder,
Nothing about his physique screamed use of PEDs

Jack on Dieting:

It's [organic food] a bunch of bull," he said. "How do you know what's really organic? Today, there's all these impurities in the water and the air. The water for the fruits and vegetables has junk in it. If you get enough vitamins and minerals out of normal food and whole grains, and you get enough proteins and exercise (that's the key), then nature builds up a tolerance to all of these things. It's survival of the fittest. You can't have everything perfect, that's impossible, but the fit survive."

Jack LaLanne: The first fitness superhero | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don't realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating. Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up

He ate two meals a day and shunned snacks.

Breakfast, following his morning workout, usually included several hard-boiled egg whites, a cup of broth, oatmeal with soy milk and seasonal fruit. For dinner he took his wife, Elaine, to restaurants that knew what he wanted: a salad with raw vegetables and egg whites along with fish — often salmon — and a mixture of red and white wine. He sometimes allowed himself a roast turkey sandwich, but never a cup of coffee.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/s...l=1&adxnnlx=1356210081-RhiCTR9fvhqEMJ2OSQ5W1g

Make sure it tastes bad. LaLanne passed on processed foods. "If man makes ithe liked to say, "don't eat it." But even more draconian was his stance on flavor: “If it tastes good,” he ordered, “spit it out.

Jack's routine:

Mr. LaLanne, 5-foot-6 and 150 pounds or so with a 30-inch waist, maintained that he disliked working out. He said he kept at it strictly to feel fit and stay healthy. He built two gyms and a pool at his home[n] in Morro Bay, and began each day, into his 90s, with two hours of workouts: weight lifting followed by a swim against an artificial current or in place, tied to a belt.

Exercise the whole body. “There are 640 muscles in the human body,” LaLanne said, “and I take every one of them into account as I plan each exercise routine.”

No matter who you are, you’ve got to work out. LaLanne revolutionized fitness by advocating weight training for women, but he didn't stop there. He insisted that exercise was for everyone, from the disabled to the elderly. “The only way you can hurt the body is not use it,” he liked to say. “Inactivity is the killer, and remember, it’s never too late.”

Don't skip the cardio. Though he was known for his weight training, after he pumped his iron, LaLanne would go for a 30-minute run, followed by a 30-minute swim either against a current or restrained in place by a belt.

I train like I'm training for the Olympics or for a Mr. America contest, the way I've always trained my whole life. You seelife is a battlefield. Life is survival of the fittest. How many healthy people do you know? How many happy people do you know? Think about it. People work at dying, they don't work at living. My workout is my obligation to life. It's my tranquilizer. It's part of the way I tell the truth — and telling the truth is what's kept me going all these years.

Living is a pain in the butt. Dying is easy. It's like an athletic event. You've got to train for it. You've got to eat right. You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out. Exercise is king and nutrition is queen: together, you have a kingdom

Breh lived to be 96 years old, and never became inactive...

 

[Jesus]

:wow2:

 

[HoustonHeat]

He died from pneumonia last year cause he refused to see the doctor and refused to stop doing his daily workout routine.

 

[semtex]

just motivated me to have a late nighta

 

[Serious]

He died from pneumonia last year cause he refused to see the doctor and refused to stop doing his daily workout routine.

He died doing what he loved. Breh was a fighter. He dedicated his life to health and fitness; spreading awareness. I plan to do the same.

Doesn't get any better, than getting paid to be fit, especially if it's something an individual believes in


The sh*t he was doing, through his 40-60's, is straight macgyver / chuck norris status...

Jack LaLanne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Insensitive]

@ That physique.
That man

 

[jalamanta]

all these nikkas are taking copious amounts of chemical substances

 

[Kayla Fortenberry]

Reading through his biography (OP's posts)..what's wrong w/ coffee?