We here at Get Fit At Home are so sad today to see Jack Lalanne's death posted around the world. For he was the pioneer to home fitness. If you think back to his television shows, which were a staple on the tube from the 50s through to the 70s, he was really the founder of our idea - in-home personal training. Long before the DVD, he was with you every step of the way making fitness a personal obessesion for you via him as your trainer.
Way back in 1936 Jack Lalanne opened a studio in California aimed at weight lifting, for both men and women. It was truly pioneering. Even paid athletes at the time didn't use free weights - let alone women. "Even now, some women have a stigma with free weights,"says Christo Geldenhuis, one of Get Fit At Home's leading personal trainers. "Lalanne was the man that started to break that barrier."
Lalanne started his fitness routine with simple equipment, using often nothing more than a chair and a towel. His dog, Happy, and his wife were his two usual star pupils. Arnold Schwarzenegger, one of our century's fitness icons as well, has discussed how Lalanne took fitness out of the old, tired, and dusty gymnasium and brought it into our livingrooms for all of us to enjoy.
Lalanne was certainly ahead of his time and only now are we seeing just what he was all about with the growth of in-home fitness and in-home personal training.
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