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February 28, 2011 at 07:00 PM
Jack LaLanne, America’s first health and fitness guru, died Sunday, Jan. 23, at the age of 96. When I read the article scroll across the newsfeed it caught me off guard. Usually, when someone dies in their
90s it’s no surprise.
But LaLanne was no ordinary person. He was something of a superman. In the spring of 2008, I had the great fortune of sitting down with LaLanne for a video interview. At the time, LaLanne, a spry 93, was in New York City promoting his new book, “Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America’s Leaders in Fitness and Finance.”
LaLanne co-wrote the book with financial expert Matthew J. Rettick. They explained to me how seniors can best upgrade their physical and fiscal health and how those two seemingly diverse topics actually go hand in hand.
In the July 2008 issue of Senior Market Advisor, we ran a story entitled “Super Seniors.” It should come as no surprise that LaLanne was our lead senior in that feature.
As I wrote about LaLanne then:
“People of a certain generation–those growing up in the ’50s and ’60s–remember a familiar figure greeting them from their early morning television sets. Wearing a jumpsuit, sporting a physique carved like a Greek statue, he jumped, lunged and flexed muscles that most people didn’t know existed, all the while barking commands at the audience to get off the couch and join him in this foreign activity called exercise.”
