Here's the guy to emulate, He'll tell you how, too.
Chuck
Merry Xmas, Happy Hanukak, Feliz Navidad, etc, etc, etc
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Timeline: Jack LaLanne's feats
As reported on Jack LaLanne's website, and as documented
contemporaneously when they happened:
* 1954 (age 40): Jack swam the entire length of the Golden Gate
Bridge in San Francisco, underwater, with 140 pounds of equipment,
including two air tanks. A world record.
* 1955 (age 41): Jack swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's
Wharf in San Francisco while handcuffed. When interviewed afterwards
he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was
being handcuffed, which reduced his chance to star jump significantly.
* 1956 (age 42): Jack set a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23
minutes on You Asked For It, a television program with Art Baker.
* 1957 (age 43): Jack swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a
2,500-pound cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this
one-mile swim into a swimming distance of 6.5 miles.
* 1958 (age 44): Jack maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from
Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile trip took 9.5
hours.
* 1959 (age 45): Jack did 1,000 star jumps and 1,000 chin-ups in 1
hour, 22 minutes. His well-known white German shepherd, Happy, was
born this year, the same year The Jack LaLanne Show went nationwide.
* 1974 (age 60): For the second time, Jack swam from Alcatraz
Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time
he was also shackled and towed a 1,000-pound boat.
* 1975 (age 61): Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier,
Jack again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge,
underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a
1,000-pound boat.
* 1976 (age 62): To commemorate the "Spirit of '76", United States
Bicentennial, Jack swam one mile in Long Beach Harbor. He was
handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13
original colonies) containing 76 people.
* 1979 (age 65): Jack towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo,
Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with
6,500 pounds of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.
* 1980 (age 66): Jack towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The
boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile in less
than one hour.
* 1984 (age 70): Once again handcuffed and shackled, Jack fought
strong winds and currents as he swam 1.5 miles while towing 70 boats
with 70 people from the Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to
the Queen Mary.
* 1992 (age 78): Jack received the Academy of Body Building and
Fitness Award.
* 1994 (age 80): Jack received the State of California Governor's
Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award.
* 1996 (age 82): Jack received the Dwight D. Eisenhower Fitness
Award.
* 1999 (age 85): Jack received the Spirit of Muscle Beach Award.
* 2002 (age 88): Jack received a star on the Hollywood Boulevard
Walk of Fame.
* 2004 (age 90): Jack celebrated his 90th birthday in New York,
San Francisco, and Los Angeles. ESPN Classic ran a 24-hour marathon of
the original Jack LaLanne television shows.
* 2004 (age 90): Jack became the official spokesperson for
Covenant Reliance Producers, LLC, a Financial Marketing Organization
based in Nashville Tennessee
* 2005 (age 91): Jack received the Jack Webb Award from the Los
Angeles Police Department Historical Society, the Arnold Classic
Lifetime Achievement Award, Interglobal's International Infomercial
Award, the Freddie, and the Medical Media Public Service Award, and he
was a Free Spirit honoree at Al Neuharth's Freedom Fo
On 12/31/2008 2:41:52 PM, Wayne Fugitt ([email protected]) wrote:
> Good Morning Dan,
>
> >> At 05:22 PM 12/30/2008, you wrote:
>
> What a short, wise, and powerful statement.
> And I agree.
>
> >>You only write that you know things, you never teach us what you know.
> What good is that?
> Teach us something...
> I have thought about that, long and hard. Not an easy undertaking, but I
> will try.
>
> First, consider my early days, and the era in time.
> This was the 1950's, and early 1960's.
>
> There was not much technical information available then.
> I have said
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