IDEA Fitness 30th Anniversary & Jack LaLanne Lifetime Achievement Award

Friday I was awarded the Jack LaLanne Life Time Achievement award from the IDEA Health and Fitness Association, the leading resource for fitness and wellness professionals which celebrated it’s 30 anniversary at their San Diego convention.

Here I am With Elaine LaLanne, Jack’s amazing widow, who is 86 years old and did 10 straight-body pushups when she came out on stage to introduce me. She swims and lifts weights every day. “Jack would never forgive if I didn’t stay fit,” she told me. A new role model.

6000 personal who trainers and those who teach classes from all over the country were there. I tried to take a picture of the conference hall (couldn’t even see to the back of it !) but they didn’t come out. These did though.

Torque Method Acrobats!

It was a very moving experience for me. I addressed IDEA’s 2nd and 4th convention years ago. It’s come a long way and is a fantastic resource for people in the Industry. One thing I was happy to learn is that IDEA has incorporated nutrition and diet into their programs. There were 3 days of seminars and classes on everything from boot camp to pole dancing. In my speech, i made a plea for trainers to learn how to train older people. In my PRIME TIME fitness DVD’s which I began releasing in 2010 I geared the workouts to older people, and learned that you can’t just do the same moves but lighter. We often need different moves entirely.

With Erica Davis, only woman to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair!

With 3 of the 48 staff members who organized the convention of 6000 people!

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  1. Ms. Fonda:

    I just read your comments today on MSN about how much you still regret the Vietnam photo. I believe that you do, but I also believe that one iconic photo, more than anything else, is what fuels the Republican mantra about how “Democrats don’t respect the military, they hate America, etc.” They’ve been using that thread to beat us for 40 years now. It’s been somewhat defused with the killing of Bin Laden, but is still a potent issue for them.
    I really believe that if you went on tv (maybe even paid for with your own money, I don’t know), and made a sincere apology to all Vietnam veterans for what was, at bottom, a foolish mistake of youth, it would go a long way -toward healing some still-festering wounds, and maybe finally take that sword out of their hands.

    I know you’ve said more than once that you were wrong…but to my knowledge you’ve not made an express apology to those soldiers and their families, and if you do so in a very public way, I think it’d be a good thing for them, the country, and you.

    Sincerely,

    Randall W. Cain
    Kansas City Mo.

    • Actually, Randall, I have apologized to U.S. service men and their families for that photo many time on national television…over and over.

  2. Hi Jane,

    Congratulations with the award. It is really amazing how good you still look and how fit you are.

    I recently read on your blog that you jogged from Nice to Cannes when you were some years younger. Well, I am 44 and started jogging 1 year ago and still I can only do 3 kilometers 3 times a week. How on earth did you manage that?

    By the way, there was an extremely enthousiastic review on Tous Ensemble in the Dutch newspaper of today. We will watch it this weekend!

    Nancy

  3. Congrats on the award. And I have a feeling you can prepare for an other award show because of your performance on The Newsroom (time to get that second Emmy). My God. You blew me right f-ing away. Besides, I don’t think I ever saw you swear on screen. 🙂 Such a character is not what we usually see from you and that’s especially delicious. I absolutely loved it. I wish you could play parts like Great Glenn does on Damages. You should play bitchy characters more often. 🙂

    Would you like to have a very own tv series?

  4. I totally agree with Daniel. Your performance in The Newsroom was outstanding. I love the show and am hooked already. I can’t wait to see any other episodes you will appear in. You will be in more, right? I think I heard the creator in an interview say he would love to write you into every episode if he could. As for your own series, wouldn’t that be fantastic!

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