169: At 91 still the Queen of Fitness | Lala Lalanne
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
If Jack Lalanne is the godfather of modern fitness, Elaine "Lala" Lalanne is the Queen! Jack Lalanne revolutionized the way we work out and inspired a generation to embrace fitness and good diet. At 90 his widow, Lala, is still at it - riding skateboards and earning her breakfast with a daily workout. She's living proof that their lifelong passion for a fit lifestyle pays off! Lala shares time-honored wisdom on how to live a healthy and successful life and continues the mission to help people help themselves. If Jack Lalanne is the godfather of modern fitness, Elaine "Lala" Lalanne is the Queen! Jack Lalanne revolutionized the way we work out and inspired a generation to embrace fitness and good diet. At 90 his widow, Lala, is still at it - riding skateboards and earning her breakfast with a daily workout. She's living proof that their lifelong passion for a fit lifestyle pays off! Lala shares time-honored wisdom on how to live a healthy and successful life and continues the mission to help people help themselves.
Lessons: 1. If you do everything in moderation, you can't go wrong.
2. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
3. It's all up to you! Don't play the blame game.
Links:
Read more about Lala https://life.spartan.com/post/spartan-interview-elaine-lalanne
Lala on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/officialelainelalanne/
Lala's web site Lalanne http://www.elainelalanne.com/
More about Jack Lalanne jacklalanne.com
Lalanne on Facebook facebook.com/officialjacklalanne
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, & Dr. Delle
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
© 2017 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Spartan Up podcast. We are an absolutely gorgeous Lake Tahoe for the Spartan World Championships. This is unbelievable. This is really quite a setting. |
| 0:07.3 | And speaking of unbelievable, your guest this |
| 0:14.2 | I just want to say the old saying behind every great man is a great woman this is an incredible woman |
| 0:15.6 | la la lain yeah a la lain born in the 1920s going to blow you away we got |
| 0:19.4 | Johnny we got Joe we got broken doctor |
| 0:26.6 | Colonel nine I thought doctor because he's wrapped in bandages for those just listening and we got Sepfra. |
| 0:29.0 | And if we add in Marion our total age is almost 92. |
| 0:34.0 | Anyway, you're going to be blown away, tons of wisdom coming at you. |
| 0:36.4 | Many of you may never have heard of Jack Elaine. |
| 0:40.0 | So stay tuned. |
| 0:40.6 | You're going to get a kick out of this. We are here in Lake Tahoe with La Lala Lane for Spartan Up Podcast, and we are going to learn what |
| 0:49.9 | it takes to live a long, healthy life, active life. Right. And you know how I got |
| 0:56.2 | la la la la la la? I have no idea. Well we were being introduced to this |
| 1:01.2 | couple. This couple was introducing us and they said this is |
| 1:04.2 | Elaine Elaine Elaine I mean this is L Elaine Lelaine I mean Jack says oh just call her |
| 1:09.7 | la la so I've had that name ever since so I'm la la la lain and and it's stuck. It's stuck. |
| 1:17.0 | It's stuck. So a lot of people younger people don't know Jack right? |
| 1:21.0 | You know the young people don't know. |
| 1:24.0 | Some of them remember the juicer, you know, with the big hole and you quit the apple and the juicer and all that. |
| 1:30.0 | But they don't know anything about him, and they can learn more about him on jackalain.com |
| 1:36.0 | Tell us a little bit. Well Jack was invented the first if you've been to a gym you use the leg extension machine If you've been to a gym, you've used a leg extension machine. |
| 1:43.0 | If you've been to the gym, you've used a squat machine, which is called the Smith machine. |
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