JACK LALANNE

Jack LaLanne was/is my hero, for several reasons .
He grew up in Berkeley, CA, and had one of the first health club’ sin Oakland, not far from my home. I remember, as a kid, watching his TV program in living black and white. He was older but I loved his spirit and self-assured attitude, something perhaps lacking in myself. He would sing ‘There’s No Tomorrow’ to the melody of “o Solo Mio,’ more familiar to me then as Elvis Presley’s ‘It’s Now or Never.’

Before exercising was popular, Lalanne was perhaps the one guy you could get behind. He

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