1936: Doctors claim Jack Lalanne's fitness program will cause medical problems

[Paco Dennis]

This man life is AMAZING. He is the Father of healthier diets and exercise. Now we know that it is primary for us to be healthy.

Here's to Jack!!

Doctors, however, advised their patients to stay away from his health club, a business totally unheard of at the time, and warned their patients that "LaLanne was an exercise 'nut,' whose programs would make them 'muscle-bound' and cause severe medical problems."[11] LaLanne recalls the initial reaction of doctors to his promotion of weight-lifting:

People thought I was a charlatan and a nut. The doctors were against me‍—‌they said that working out with weights would give people heart attacks and they would lose their sex drive.[5]

 

[Paco Dennis]

Great interview...includes a famous Indian Guru.

 

[WhatInThe]

Was way ahead of his time. He lived the life and practiced what he preached. He was truely enthusiastic about fitness and health.

 

[Della]

I watched that old video on Youtube a few years ago and thought how, if I had just started eating that way and doing his simple, safe calisthenics, back when I used to watch him during school vacation, I would never have had a weight problem.

 

[rgp]

I read once that he spent , on average two hours p/day working out/exercising. Added up, and divided out, that means he spent six years of the eighty he lived after starting his life of exercise & nutrition, dedicated to it.

I don't think there are many of us that have sort of conviction.

And somewhere along the way he created a way for it to become income as well. I think we'd all exercise more if it were also our paycheck <grin> He was indeed a different sorta guy !

 

[chic]

I loved Jack. Hey, he lived to be in his mid nineties. Pretty good I'd say.

 

[rgp]

I loved Jack. Hey, he lived to be in his mid nineties. Pretty good I'd say.

True but, keep in mind that George Burns, never did any exercise, drank everyday, lived on casino food, & admitted to smoking 6-7 Cuban cigars everyday ............... And he lived to be 100 !

So ....... which is really better for you ???

 

[terry123]

I remember my mother doing his exercises or trying to. Never cared for him. A group of us used to gather to do the Jane Fonda workouts and those were tough.

 

[chic]

True but, keep in mind that George Burns, never did any exercise, drank everyday, lived on casino food, & admitted to smoking 6-7 Cuban cigars everyday ............... And he lived to be 100 !

So ....... which is really better for you ???

I wouldn't put that stuff in my body. No offense to George Burns. Besides. He was not ripped and muscular like Jack Lalane was he?

I want to be slender and fit and I'm willing to work hard for it.

 

[Aunt Marg]

True but, keep in mind that George Burns, never did any exercise, drank everyday, lived on casino food, & admitted to smoking 6-7 Cuban cigars everyday ............... And he lived to be 100 !

So ....... which is really better for you ???

You can't base one persons longevity and good health purely on lifestyle choices.

In the case of George Burns, it boiled down to good genetics.

 

[chic]

You can't base one persons longevity and good health purely on lifestyle choices.

In the case of George Burns, it boiled down to good genetics.

That's true Marg, but Jack Lalane was in MUCH better shape. I think if we are all honest we will admit that.

 

[rgp]

You can't base one persons longevity and good health purely on lifestyle choices.

In the case of George Burns, it boiled down to good genetics.

It always boils down to good/bad genitics.

Life style,[ short of LaLane comittment ] has little to do with it.