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Jack LaLanne, a TV pioneer who urged couch potatoes to intend fit daylong before Richard Simmons and others, has died, his longtime businessperson told The Associated Press. He was 96.

Rick Hersh told the AP that LaLanne died of respiratory failure from pneumonia Sun at his bag in Morro Bay on California's bicentric coast.

LaLanne ate healthy and exercised every day of his chronicle up until the end, Hersh said.

"He never forfeited chronicle for chronicle and physical fitness," Bob Barker, the 87-year-old past Price is Right host told the AP Sunday. "I saw him in about 2007 and he ease looked remarkably good. He ease looked like the aforementioned avid guy that he always was."

LaLanne's show was on broadcasting regularly from the 1950s to the '70s. He kept things simple and upbeat on his programs, informing children to drag their mothers in front of the TV set and demonstrating exercises that utilised meet a lead or a towel instead of fancy, pricey equipment.

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He also supported a concern of namesake fitness studios and in recent eld marketed Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer. He maintained a youthful physique and joked in 2006: "I can't afford to die. It would ruin my image."

Arnold Schwarzenegger once credited LaLanne with attractive exercise out of the gym and into living rooms.

LaLanne said his possess daily routine commonly consisted of digit hours of weightlifting and an hour in the tearful pool. "It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How daylong are you feat to ready breathing? How daylong do you ready eating? You meet do it."

Elaine LaLanne, his spouse of 51 eld who ofttimes appeared with him on television, said: "I hit not only forfeited my economise and a great dweller icon, but the prizewinning friend and most doting partner anyone could ever wish for."

Besides his wife, he is survived by digit sons, Dan and Jon, and a daughter, Yvonne.