His show, The Jack LaLanne Show (1951) debuted in 1951 and was the first ever television exercise program. It ran until 1985, in spite of the fact that critics said the show would be off the air in six weeks.

Opened the nation's first health club in 1936.

Adopted his wife Elaine Doyle's two children, Daniel Doyle and Janet Doyle as his own.

Began his own gym in 1936, which included a health food store and a juice bar.

As a Pioneer, Lifelong Instructor and Living Example of the Physical Fitness Lifestyle, he was inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame (2005); that being the inaugural class of inductees for that organization.

LaLanne was a Professional Wrestler and was named Professional Mr. America (1955).

For his 70th birthday, he pulled 70 boats across the Long Beach, California harbor with one person in each of them, swimming while shackled and handcuffed.

Some of his amazing feats of strength include: at age 41 proving it possible to escape from Alcatraz by swimming to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco while wearing handcuffs; at age 45, completing a thousand push-ups and a thousand chin-ups in an hour and twenty-two minutes with blisters under his calluses; at sixty, swimming from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf handcuffed, shackled and towing a thousand-pound boat, and at seventy, battling currents while handcuffed and shackled, towing seventy boats holding seventy people for a mile and a half across Long Beach Harbor.

Appeared on You Asked for It (1950), where he performed 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes.

Hasn't had dessert since 1929.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on September 26, 2002.

Son, Jon Lalanne (born 1961), has his own pool maintenance company, which cares for stars' pools.

Inducted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver into the California Hall of Fame (2008).

Daughter Yvonne Lalanne (born 1944), with first wife Irma Navarre, is chiropractor in California.

Following his death, he was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles, California.