Before Richard Simmons, there was Jack LaLanne. Clad in his trademark shiny jumpsuits LaLanne was among the first fitness gurus to exhort Americans to get off the couch and get active. He led by ...

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne, a television staple from the 1950s to 1970s known for promoting exercising and healthy lifestyle choices and who is considered to be the father of physical fitness movement, ...

Fitness guru Jack LaLanne spent his life making others smile and feel better. His motto remained the same for nine decades: "Work out and eat right and you will retain youthfulness and vigor." I was ...

Decades before Jane Fonda felt the burn and Suzanne Somers thinned her thighs, Jack LaLanne was teaching viewers how to stay trim. At every stage of his 70-year career--first as a competitive ...

HOLLYWOOD HILLS — Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, fitness icon Richard Simmons and former “Hulk” star Lou Ferrigno were among hundreds of friends and family who packed an auditorium Tuesday to ...

Family, friends, celebrities and people who never met Jack LaLanne are remembering the man who seemed to be immortal. "Been watching Jack since the ‘60’s… watched him since the ‘60s,” said Elsa ...

When fitness guru Jack LaLanne opened a gym in Oakland, Calif., in the 1930s, he had to hire a blacksmith to build the equipment: fitness machines did not yet exist. As Natalia Mehlman Petrzela writes ...

Wonderfilm Media is also behind the documentary and planned narrative feature film, the latter of which is being written by 'Old School' scribe Scot Armstrong. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment ...

LOS ANGELES Decades before exercise became a national obsession, LaLanne was inspiring his viewers to get in shape. He became known as the "godfather of fitness." LaLanne's long life is a testament to ...