The Wisdom of Jack Lalanne

[quote]here was a man who walked the talk and had a healthspan to prove it.

He also had a nice hairy bush.

I used to watch him. His dog always laid there and watched him exercise.

Wouldn’t you? ^

I'll always remember him for saying, "If it tastes good, spit it out!"

I always swallow

He was a homophobic shit.

^^ link or TNH.

I wonder if he ever had sex with a guy

I did your homework for you, r7.

I just know that as a late Boomer gayling when I used to wake up early and catch him on his half-hour black-and-white exercise shows doing all those calistenics and gymnast movies in those tight, half-unzipped jumpsuits (okay, despite the "ballet slippers"), even then I knew I felt something yet indescribable that made me know that I didn't want to play with my cousins' GI Joes and green army men with the same scenarios in mind as they imagined. :)

Intense homophobia is often a smokescreen for perceived "shameful" proclivities/thoughts/feelings.

Ehhh, he was a shrimp.

My mom loved him! It was the only time she ever exercised.

My mother exercised to him too.

I'm pretty sure he was a sex worker early on with male clients, like quite a few of the early "physique" models.

Which really doesn't make him all that better than a contemporary 26 year old health and wellness influencer.

Also, plenty of "gay for pay" types become super homophobic as they age --particularly if their pasts cast doubt on their percieved "always there" heterosexuality.

Just ask any other dead homophobe who sucked a lot of dick when they were young.

Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis's father comes to mind.

Anyone here commune with the dead?

I'm sure there's some mentally disturbed troll here just chomping at the bit to pretend they're a medium, especially since the last time they could squeeze into a size medium was when they were grade school age.

R9 read that link again. "Pre internet interviews"?

Cite a genuine source. Yours is bullshit.

For awhile he had some women on his show doing exercises as well. Was that a wife or girlfriend or just a reason to bring in male viewers?

As a young kid, I used to sit and watch his program, but never felt the inclination to get off the couch and do any of the exercises. To be fair, I also never felt the inclination to get off the couch and change the channel.

I was a little kid when Lalanne was on KGO-TV mornings in San Francisco. In black and white. I'd shovel Sugar Smacks, watch him exercise. I don't remember ever seeing him in color.

2 marriages, no kids, gym-dweller. Sounds gay af.

And i got to play him in a shitty movie no one saw.

Who else wore a jumpsuit besides Lalanne? Elvis. Evel Knievel. Anyone else?

Jack Lalanne was posing nude for "physique" magazines which were clearly targeting gay men. He knew exactly what he was doing.

He probably both resented being used by gay men and also couldn't reconcile his closet homo feelings. You know he had to have been putting out to get work at a time when "fitness" didn't make a lot of money.

Pathetic.

R9, your Internet grab does not even have an author or source. It is really just an anonymous post, like any post or assertion on DL.

Has anyone seen this?

[quote] Jack Lalanne was posing nude for "physique" magazines which were clearly targeting gay men. He knew exactly what he was doing.

I was young! I needed the money! They told me girls bought that magazine!

[quote] [R9], your Internet grab does not even have an author or source. It is really just an anonymous post, like any post or assertion on DL.

Bingo.

It does not even hint at a source either, just states it as part of some hysterical rant.

R23 and he posed nude with other men, granted no sex and no touching, and it was suppose to be "artistic" the fact remains he did this because he couldn't make money any other way fitness related or not??

on a sidenote, funny how I see all of these well known in their industries, male strippers, porn stars, bodybuilders who did "questionable" sexual ways to make money and as they age are now bible lovers and religious? They had a change of heart and denounce their past life? Or more like they want to forget it and ignore what they did and who they were and still are deep inside?.. Interesting how they go from one end of the spectrum and do a complete 180!

I remember boarding a plane back in the 1990s and walking through first class on the way to steerage. There was Jack Lalanne, sitting in his first class seat, and I was surprised at how tiny he was. He looked like a little frail old man and his first class seat seemed to be engulfing him. Of course, he would have been in his 80s then, but he definitely was different looking in person than on TV.

Based on R1's picture (nice uncut dick, by the way), there's no way Lalanne didn't engage in a little gay-for-pay action back in the day. I bet he could've told some great stories about some of the closeted stars he serviced in his time.

LaLane did not eat dairy products

I remember reading that somewhere - that was considered extreme and sort of odd back in the day, but it's not all that uncommon today

R31... supposedly the vast majority of people are actually lactose intolerant and don't know it? I once read a simple way to i.d. if your intolerant or tolerant to lactose is that the closer your skin color is to milk, the better you are able to digest dairy products?

Personally, I eat eggs, but they are not considered a dairy product...

R32 that doesn’t really make sense considering East Asians are the most lactose intolerant people on Earth.

His only son is a Libertarian living in Hawaii.

I recall reading that he was. It was in a San Diego gay newspaper article, which had quotes from famous people who detested gays. But when I do a search on Google and ask ChatGPT, I get nothing. Other than blogs with anonymous posts.