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To the youngins out there, Jack was the biggest fitness guru for four decades.

Discuss if he was a guru or charleton.

RIP Jack.

1 posted on 01/10/2024 12:13:36 PM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Jack was the original.

What do you get when you cross Jack Lalanne and Richard Simmons?


2 posted on 01/10/2024 12:17:25 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: DallasBiff

Braggs ACV is some awesome stuff.


3 posted on 01/10/2024 12:19:53 PM PST by waterhill (I Believe all you need for home defense is an 870 and a Catahoula)
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To: DallasBiff

“If it tastes good, spit it out!”
— Jack LaLanne

Some of my earliest memories as a kid was watching his exercise show in the morning.....even that young I wished he woulda lost the balarina slippers though......not a good look. 😏


5 posted on 01/10/2024 12:25:44 PM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: DallasBiff

As a little kid, I still remember seeing Jack on black and white TV with his chair doing all sorts of exercises.


6 posted on 01/10/2024 12:26:48 PM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: DallasBiff

Stay at home moms loved to watch his morning show.
I don’t think any of them actually exercised.


8 posted on 01/10/2024 12:28:26 PM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: DallasBiff

Watched him as a kid, he was all the rage with the stay-home Moms. They didn’t do the exercises but they watched religiously while “doing chores”. Had his wife with him on the show, IIRC.


9 posted on 01/10/2024 12:29:01 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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Well, if I could go back in time and tell my dad ONE thing, it would be to look up this LaLanne fellow and do exactly what he tells you to as regards your health. Then my dad might not have had a serious stroke when I was 6 and dementia by the time I was 10 or 11.

I don’t care for the word ‘Guru’, with the religious connotations, but if a person followed what Jack was talking about, they would probably live a lot longer, and healthier, than the typical adult in the 1960’s and 1970’s.


12 posted on 01/10/2024 12:37:44 PM PST by Republican in occupied CA (We had enough government in 1789)
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To: DallasBiff

Debbie Drake had plenty of appeal.


13 posted on 01/10/2024 12:38:07 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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Lived in a way that would have been suitable punishment for a felon—

—that would have had me begging for death in weeks if not days—

—died anyway.


16 posted on 01/10/2024 12:46:04 PM PST by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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caused by a sugar addiction...

Sugar is the root of a lot of evil. Big Sugar fought it out decades ago with the meat industry (bacon/butter/etc). Big Sugar one, even gets its own line on nutrition panels with "added sugars".

Sugar equals inflammation, the bane of a healthy body.

17 posted on 01/10/2024 12:47:47 PM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: DallasBiff

Jack was the most fit human in history.

Nobody else comes close.


18 posted on 01/10/2024 12:50:01 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: DallasBiff

Have you got anything on Mitch Miller?


19 posted on 01/10/2024 12:50:17 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: DallasBiff

Met him a few times when he still lived in Hermosa Beach, he was a pretty nice guy


24 posted on 01/10/2024 1:09:01 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: DallasBiff

You can still purchase the Jack LaLanne power juicers.


25 posted on 01/10/2024 1:11:01 PM PST by gattaca (Once a nation loses control of its borders, it is no longer a nation...Ronald Reagan)
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26 posted on 01/10/2024 1:15:08 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: DallasBiff

Jack LaLanne is dead?

/s


27 posted on 01/10/2024 1:19:25 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: DallasBiff

I miss him. Watched him for years as a kid. A positive influence and was always learning something.


28 posted on 01/10/2024 1:23:50 PM PST by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
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To: DallasBiff

100 pullups? 1000 situps? swim bays and channels. that little guy was super human. yes watched him on black and white tv. got me going on athletics.


31 posted on 01/10/2024 1:31:16 PM PST by dadfly
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My dad would say, “If you think he is faking, just keep up with him for 10 minutes. 1/2 of a show from commercial to commercial.”

Jack LaLane was the MAN! We even did some juicing. Jack LaLane was the fix to your ‘big dude kicking sand in your face’ and taking your girl on the ads in the comic books.

Priceless stuff!


36 posted on 01/10/2024 2:52:15 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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Thanks for the post:; link


41 posted on 01/10/2024 3:45:54 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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