Talk:Jack LaLanne
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"He spends one and a half hours in the weight room, and half an hour kicking tigers." Is there any evidence of this?
"for example at the age of 61 he swam the length of the Golden Gate Bridge 20 feet underwater handcuffed and shackled, towing a 2,000 pound boat (a world record)."
- The Golden Gate Bridge is 1.2 miles long. I sincerely doubt that Mr LaLanne did this so I've deleted it from the article. Lisiate 04:35, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Um, it said he had air tanks. A fit enough swimmer could certainly do it with air tanks. 4.238.20.46 20:03, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
The idea isn't to delete something you just don't believe. You're supposed to fact-check. In fact, the event did happen, more or less--except he was towing just a 1,000-pound boat, not a 2,000-pound boat. I have added a list of Jack's accomplishments, as fact-checked on his own Web site. The various feats listed there that he has accomplished are not speculation; these are all well-documented. Whenever he did the many amazing things listed, there were always witnesses, journalists, and cameras to capture it. They're all quite 100% true. Indy 14:33, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
Umh whats up with his spouse dying at six years old? Thats got to be a typographical error. Or else... What state are six year olds married in? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jane Lorn (talk • contribs) 21:53, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm not an expert in the field but a couple of sentences bother me.
The first may be a matter of composition or left out words. "He studied Gray's Anatomy and concentrated on bodybuilding and weightlifting which, in the 1930s, was a revolutionary technique." What was a revolutionary technique? Weight lifting? (I don't think so.) Bodybuilding? (Maybe) or something else. Can anyone clarify?
I think it might have been applying his knowledge of human anatomy to bodybuilding. Knowing where specific muscle groups existed allowed him to specifically choose exercises which targeted and isolated otherwise neglected muscles. Previous bodybuilders (I guess Atlas and Sandow) probably had only a rudimentary knowledge of the body and might have done "arm exercises" whereas Lalanne would have targeted biceps, triceps, forearms, shoulders, etc. I'm semi-speculating, though Lalanne mentions it a bit in some videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6bO1ELatrk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ATcUEZR20&feature=related 67.159.70.74 (talk) 16:17, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
The second seems plain wrong, but "gym" maybe is misused and what is meant is perhaps a uniqe kind of spa. I don't know, except that gyms have been around a long time. "but in 1936, at the age of 21, he opened his own health spa in California (the first gym in the United States)" Phil ABQ --Phil ABQ 04:18, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
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I am wondering about calling his spa the first gym in America. I have seen photographs of a weightlifting center complete with proud musclebound men in the NY city area that were probably taken in the 1890s. I would think that would certainly qualify as a gym.
Weight lifting or strength training has been around for longer than any of us will ever be. Do a little research on ancient Rome and Greece. What one needs to realize is that Jack LaLanne opened the first gym in the United States that was a full service gym. He was a personal trainer when trainers did not exist. He advocated cardio as well as strength training and he integrated proper nutrition as well. Jack was the first to open a modern health club! Prior to Jack, nobody had combined all of these techniques together. Take a look at boxers from the 1930's. They had very defined physiques but for instance, their biceps were smaller, proportionally to the rest of their upper body. The trained themselves for endurance but did not utilize strength training with weights. Every modern health club in the United States owes Jack because he did it right, right from the start and he was met with resistance from the medical community and profesional athletes and coaches. But like many things in life, in the long run, Jack was right. Today it would be tough to find a profesional or olympic athlete that did not strength train with weights. One more point, Jack invented many of the cable pulley weight stack machines, you see today in gyms everywhere, that isolate muscles and muscle groups that would be very hard to work otherwise.
Dan B.
[edit] Question about machine inventions/designs
He designed the first leg extension machines, pulley machines using cables, and weight selectors, equipment which is now standard in the fitness industry.
I recently saw an interview with him where he said that he didn't have time to get patents on the exercise machines he invented (patents worth millions, maybe billions); he was too busy paying the rent and feeding his family, or something like that. Should this be mentioned? I'll try to find a citation. -- weirdoactor t|c 20:02, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] No images of him in that stylish outfit?
No one has one? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.184.241.144 (talk) 01:51, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
I think it's copyright issues that prevent us from putting images of him on. There was a good-one of him up a few months ago, but alas, no longer. 05:49, 13 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.159.67.164 (talk)
[edit] Is Jack Lalanne Vegetarian?
The short answer is no, he is not. He was a vegetarian for six years. Nowadays, he eats fish and eggs. See this website for an interview revealing these facts: http://www.shareguide.com/LaLanne.html I removed the false statement that he is a vegetarian. His diet can be discussed elsewhere in the article. Raoulduke25 (talk) 22:40, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
== Was he in the military during WWII? If not, why? He looks like a marine.
