Most Extreme fitness nut in the last century is.............?

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Same as the last question. But instead of pure raw strength, this is more pure endurance/health/quality of life/fitness kind of question.

This question is geared up to answer the question when it comes to overall fitness...

...who is "the man"?

(or woman)

and again, don't be a smart ass and go looking it up. Anyone can look it up. Just off the top of your head, who do you think it is?

[dk94]

Jack Lalanne! he juiced hard

[DAAS]

http://a57.foxnews.com/global.fncsta....jpg?ve=1&tl=1

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Jack Lalanne! he juiced hard

I have the utmost respect for Jack. back in the sixties, he had a TV show. KTVU, channel 2. A local show in the beginning. I was this little shit back then. turn on the show. he'd be in his leotards. his woman would come out for a bit, and with her this big white dog. And I'd be exercising right along with him, I was only maybe six....

fugger could do thousands of pushups, situps. he holds world records to this day that no one would be crazy enough to even attempt.

how's this (and I haven't peeked at wiki to verify, all from memory)

in his 70's, handcuffed, chained to a dozen row boats, and against the current, swam from ft. point to Alcatraz. this is notable, since there for along time, many speculated that no one could possibly survive the swim (too cold, current too strong), let alone all the constraints he voluntarily placed on himself. Alcatraz was supposed to be the jail on an island no one could ever escape from......................

[dk94]

he pulled 70 row boats on his 70th birthday. To say he was an incredible athlete would be an under statement. Now everybody and their dog tries to make money off of fitness, Jack lalanne was a pioneer in the "industry" of fitness, a man very ahead of his time.

Do you think he was natural?

[Euroholic]

It can only be franco columbo.

He could out lift anyone, out box anyone and looked the best with his shirt off.

[davesah1]

seems like cross-fit athletes would meet all your criteria.

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he pulled 70 row boats on his 70th birthday. To say he was an incredible athlete would be an under statement. Now everybody and their dog tries to make money off of fitness, Jack lalanne was a pioneer in the "industry" of fitness, a man very ahead of his time.

Do you think he was natural?

absolutely. to a fault. I think he was against TRT, as it was something you had to inject, and he felt the body had everything it needed already. All you had to do was feed it the right food and with the proper maintenance protocol..............

and btw, I knew it was some gawdawful number of row boats, but I kept true to my word and didn't look it up

[Venom]

Bruce Lee

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Bruce Lee

and why would you suggest Mr. Lee?

[Times Roman]

It can only be franco columbo.

He could out lift anyone, out box anyone and looked the best with his shirt off.

Here is Mr. La Lanne's resume. Do you honestly think yer candidate could even do a fraction of what Mr. Lalanne accomplished:

Timeline: LaLanne's feats[edit]

(As reported on Jack LaLanne's website) These accounts are not necessarily entirely accurate descriptions of what LaLanne actually did. See the 1974 Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf swim (below) for an illustration of the difference between the website account and objective reporting of the same event.[citation needed]
1954 (age 40): swam the entire 8,981-foot (1.7 mi; 2.7 km) length of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, under water, with 140 lb (64 kg; 10 st) of air tanks and other equipment strapped to his body; a world record.[35]
1955 (age 41): swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco while handcuffed. When interviewed afterwards he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which significantly reduced his chance to do a jumping jack.[citation needed]
1956 (age 42): set what was claimed as a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on You Asked For It,[36] a television program hosted by Art Baker.
1957 (age 43): swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a 2,500 lb (1,130 kg; 180 st) cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6 km) swim into a swimming distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).[35]
1958 (age 44): maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile (48 km) trip took 9.5 hours.[citation needed]
1959 (age 45): did 1,000 jumping jacks and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes, to promote The Jack LaLanne Show going nationwide. LaLanne said this was the most difficult of his stunts, but only because the skin on his hands started ripping off during the chin-ups. He felt he couldn't stop because it would be seen as a public failure.[35]
1974 (age 60): For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a 1,000 lb (450 kg; 71 st) boat. At least that's according to his website. However, according to an account of this event published the day after it occurred in the Los Angeles Times, written by Philip Hager, a Times staff writer, LaLanne was neither handcuffed nor shackled if each of those terms has the unconventional meaning of "tightly binding the wrists or ankles together with a pair of metal fasteners" although that's not how handcuffs or shackles work. Hager says that LaLanne "had his hands and feet bound with cords that allowed minimal freedom". But "minimal" clearly did not mean "no" freedom, since elsewhere in the article Hager describes LaLanne's method of propulsion through the water as "half-breast-stroke, half-dog paddle" which is how you swim with your hands tied.[citation needed]
1975 (age 61): Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a 1,000 lb (450 kg; 71 st) boat.[citation needed]
1976 (age 62): To commemorate the "Spirit of '76", United States Bicentennial, he swam one mile (1.6 km) in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.[37]
1979 (age 65): towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with 6,500 lb (2,950 kg; 460 st) of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.[38]
1980 (age 66): towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6 km) in less than one hour.[citation needed]
1984 (age 70): handcuffed, shackled, and fighting strong winds and currents, he towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from the Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary, 1 mile.[39]

[Euroholic]

Here is Mr. La Lanne's resume. Do you honestly think yer candidate could even do a fraction of what Mr. Lalanne accomplished:

Timeline: LaLanne's feats[edit]

(As reported on Jack LaLanne's website) These accounts are not necessarily entirely accurate descriptions of what LaLanne actually did. See the 1974 Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf swim (below) for an illustration of the difference between the website account and objective reporting of the same event.[citation needed]
1954 (age 40): swam the entire 8,981-foot (1.7 mi; 2.7 km) length of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, under water, with 140 lb (64 kg; 10 st) of air tanks and other equipment strapped to his body; a world record.[35]
1955 (age 41): swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco while handcuffed. When interviewed afterwards he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which significantly reduced his chance to do a jumping jack.[citation needed]
1956 (age 42): set what was claimed as a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on You Asked For It,[36] a television program hosted by Art Baker.
1957 (age 43): swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a 2,500 lb (1,130 kg; 180 st) cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6 km) swim into a swimming distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).[35]
1958 (age 44): maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile (48 km) trip took 9.5 hours.[citation needed]
1959 (age 45): did 1,000 jumping jacks and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes, to promote The Jack LaLanne Show going nationwide. LaLanne said this was the most difficult of his stunts, but only because the skin on his hands started ripping off during the chin-ups. He felt he couldn't stop because it would be seen as a public failure.[35]
1974 (age 60): For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a 1,000 lb (450 kg; 71 st) boat. At least that's according to his website. However, according to an account of this event published the day after it occurred in the Los Angeles Times, written by Philip Hager, a Times staff writer, LaLanne was neither handcuffed nor shackled if each of those terms has the unconventional meaning of "tightly binding the wrists or ankles together with a pair of metal fasteners" although that's not how handcuffs or shackles work. Hager says that LaLanne "had his hands and feet bound with cords that allowed minimal freedom". But "minimal" clearly did not mean "no" freedom, since elsewhere in the article Hager describes LaLanne's method of propulsion through the water as "half-breast-stroke, half-dog paddle" which is how you swim with your hands tied.[citation needed]
1975 (age 61): Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a 1,000 lb (450 kg; 71 st) boat.[citation needed]
1976 (age 62): To commemorate the "Spirit of '76", United States Bicentennial, he swam one mile (1.6 km) in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.[37]
1979 (age 65): towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with 6,500 lb (2,950 kg; 460 st) of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.[38]
1980 (age 66): towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6 km) in less than one hour.[citation needed]
1984 (age 70): handcuffed, shackled, and fighting strong winds and currents, he towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from the Queen's Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to the Queen Mary, 1 mile.[39]

Suck me sideways!!!!!!!
Now thats a man

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Suck me sideways!!!!!!!
Now thats a man

he'd make most Seals look like pussies, even when he was an old man!