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That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.
Jack LaLanne
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Jack LaLanne
Age: 96 †
Born: 1914
Born: September 26
Died: 2011
Died: January 23
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Francois Henri LaLanne
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Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest.
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Never, ever get satisfied keep the carrot in front of the horse.
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Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise - whether you're 18 or 88. But the intensity is what's lacking in most people's workouts. And there are doctors who'll give you the advice, Well, don't push it.
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Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime on the hips.
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The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy.
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The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it
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Don't talk age! Age has nothing to do with it. One of my guys who started out at my gym is 87 now, and he still does ten bench-press reps with a hundred-pound dumbbell in each hand. He's training to set a leg-pressing record. I put things in the guy's brain way back when, and now he'll never get away from it.
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If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream -- all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I?
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Remember this: your body is your slave it works for you.
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I've always liked fast cars and slow women.
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Figure out what's good for you, then create a liking for it. You've got to work at living.
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The only way you get that fat off is to eat less and exercise more.
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The crusade is never off my mind - the exercise I do, the food I eat, the thought I think - all this and how I can help make my profession better-respected. To me, this one thing - physical culture and nutrition - is the salvation of America.
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Better to wear out than rust out.
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Exercise to live. Never live to exercise.
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Be an example of what you teach. [As a personal trainer], delve into your student's life, know everything about him. Be interested.
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When I first started out, I was considered a crackpot. The doctors used to say, Don't go to that Jack LaLanne, you'll get hemorrhoids, you won't get an erection, you women will look like men, you athletes will get muscle-bound -- this is what I had to go through.
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If it tastes good, spit it out!
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If man made it, don't eat it.
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Develop a positive attitude. Think and picture how amazing you are going to be. Visualize it!
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