Jack Lalanne Quotes

• Can God go to the gym to work out for you? God helps those that help themselves. You have to do it! God or some omnipotent power or whatever you want to believe in gives you the energy, the will to do it, but you have to do it yourself.

  Jack Lalanne

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• You have to take care of your 640 muscles, and the number one thing is exercise. You can eat perfectly but if you don’t exercise, you cannot get by.

  Jack Lalanne

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• How do you build up your bank account? By putting something in it everyday.Your health account is no different. What I do today, I am wearing tomorrow. If I put inferior foods in my body today, I’m going to be inferior tomorrow, it’s that simple.

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• You don’t have to call it God or Jesus. That’s religious humbug to a lot of people, but you’ve gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

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• You can’t get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you’ve got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It’s the fat!

  Jack Lalanne

• Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That’s what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?

  Jack Lalanne

• What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20’s. Then you’ll find out what your weight should be.

  Jack Lalanne

• We don’t know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we’d be bored, wouldn’t we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.

  Jack Lalanne

• They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn’t be able to throw a ball because they’d be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.

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• The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.

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• So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don’t get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

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• Remember this: your body is your slave; it works for you.

  Jack Lalanne

• Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up.

  Jack Lalanne

• Look at the average American diet: ice cream, butter, cheese, whole milk, all this fat. People don’t realize how much of this stuff you get by the end of the day. High blood pressure is from all this high-fat eating.

  Jack Lalanne

• If you’ve got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You’ve got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

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• I’d rather see you drink a glass of wine than a glass of milk. So many people drink Coca-Cola and all these soft drinks with sugar. Some of these drinks have 8 or 9 teaspoons of sugar in them What’s the good of living if you can’t have the things that give a little enjoyment?

  Jack Lalanne

• I only eat fish – no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

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• I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

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• I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.

  Jack Lalanne

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That’s the key.

  Jack Lalanne

Jack Lalanne (23)

Birth:	26th September, 1914
Death:	23rd January, 2011
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Fitness Trainer, Television Presenter, Writer

About

Francois Henri "Jack" LaLanne was born in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an American fitness, exercise, and nutrition expert who is sometimes referred to as the "Godfather of Fitness" and the "First Fitness Superhero". He described himself as being a "sugarholic" and a "junk food junkie" until he was age 15. He hosted the fitness television program The Jack LaLanne Show between 1953 and 1985. As early as 1936, at age 21, he opened one of the nation's first fitness gyms in Oakland, California, which became a prototype for dozens of similar gyms bearing his name. He invented a number of exercise machines, including the pulley and leg extension devices and the Smith machine. He was inducted to the California Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He published numerous books on fitness include: Foods for Glamour, Revitalize Your Life After 50, Fiscal Fitness, Live Young Forever, and Abundant Health and Vitality After Forty.

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