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Jack lalanne - Jack LaLanne was a pioneer of sorts.

LaLanne, who ate healthy and exercised every day of his life up until the end, according to his wife of 51 years, died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia.

LaLanne credited a sudden interest in fitness with transforming his life as a teen, and he worked tirelessly over eight decades to transform others' lives, too.

Fitness icon Jack LaLanne, a man who pushed Americans to pump iron, eat better and lose weight for more than 70 years, has died.

LaLanne was a fitness pioneer, opening the first of his many exercise studios in 1936. "Back then, women weren't supposed to use weights. "Inactivity is a killer," LaLanne once said. LaLanne is survived by his wife and workout partner Elaine, his two sons Dan and Jon, and a daughter, Yvonne.