Forget Chuck, Pibb Zero, Mr. T, and the 24 homo

[preach]

They got nothing on Jack La Lanne:

JACK LA LANNE - FEATS




1954 Age 40: Swam the length of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge underwater with 140 pounds of equipment, including two air tanks… an undisputed world record.


1955 Age 41: Swam handcuffed from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, CA.


1956 Age 42: Set a world record of 1,033 pushups in 23 minutes on "You Asked for It, a TV Show with Art Baker.


1957 Age 43: Swam the treacherous Golden Gate Channel, towing a 2,500-pound cabin cruiser. This involved fighting the cold, swift ocean currents that made the 1 mile swim a 6 ½ mile test of strength and endurance.


1958 Age 44: Maneuvered a paddleboard 30 miles, 9-½ hours non-stop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore.


1959 Age 45: Completed 1,000 pushups and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hours and 22 minutes. "Happy" is born and The Jack LaLanne Show goes nationwide


1974 Age 60: Swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf, for a second time handcuffed, shackled and towing a 1,000-pound boat.


1975 Age 61: Swam the length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater, for a second time handcuffed, shackled and towing a 1,000-pound boat.


1976 Age 62: Commemorating the "Spirit of '76", swam 1 mile in Long Beach Harbor, handcuffed, shackled and towing 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.


1979 Age 65: Towed 65 boats filled with 6,500-pounds of Lousiana Pacific wood pulp while handcuffed and shackled in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan.


1980 Age 66: Towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida filled with 77 people for over a mile in less than 1 hour.


1984 Age 70: Handcuffed, shackled and fighting strong winds and currents, towed 70 boats with 70 people from the Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary for 1 ½ miles.


1992 Age 78: Received the Academy of Body Building and Fitness Award


1994 Age 80: State of California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award


1996 Age 82: Received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Fitness Award


1999 Age 85: Received the Spirit of Muscle Beach Award


2002 Age 88: Jack receives his very own star on the Hollywood Blvd. Walk of Fame


2004 Age 90: Jack celebrates his birthday with a major media blitz in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. ESPN Classic runs a 24 Hour marathon of the original Jack La Lanne TV Shows


2005 Age 91: Received the Jack Webb Award from the Los Angeles Police Historical Society, the Arnold Classic Lifetime Achievement Award, Interglobal's International Infomercial Award, the Freddie, Medical Media Public Service Award, and he was a Free Spirit honoree at Al Neuharth's Freedom Fourm.

Jack La Lanne's birthdate is September 26, 1914.

[95steel]

I have met him, I am surprized energizer went with a rabbit. They could have gone with Jack. Great guy, extremely energetic, and always willing to help others.

[Mo]

that dude, with the exception of his horrible juicer infomercials, is amazing

[preach]

Mo, looks like he won an award for that horrible infomercial.

Prolly owns a dog too.

[cybergeek23851]

His juicers only work because they are scared of what he might do to them if they are returned.







Seriously though, he must be the king of the retirement community with his muscular, svelt, wrinkled body!

[chris408]

And they say juicin is a bad thing

[Dieselmh]

I hate to break it to you, but Jack is actually Pibb Zero in disguise. The World was not ready for Pibb Zero in the 50's, so he took a human form. The only reason Pibb Zero a.k.a. Jack didn't dive to the bottom of the ocean and recover the Titanic is because he felt that those dumbasses deserved to die. That, and the fact that the iceberg that they hit was also Pibb Zero in disguise.