Jack LaLanne - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

On June 10, 2005, then governor Arnold Schwarzenegger launched the California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport. In his address, Schwarzenegger paid special tribute to LaLanne, who he credited with demonstrating the benefits of fitness and a healthy lifestyle for 75 years. In 2008, he inducted LaLanne into the California Hall of Fame and personally gave him an inscribed plaque at a special ceremony.

In 2007, LaLanne was awarded The President’s Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to "individuals whose careers have greatly contributed to the advancement or promotion of physical activity, fitness, or sports nationwide." Winners are chosen based on the "individual’s career, the estimated number of lives the individual has touched through his or her work, the legacy of the individual’s work, and additional awards or honors received over the course of his or her career."

Other honors

• 1963: Founding member of President’s Council on Physical Fitness under President Kennedy
• President’s Council of Physical Fitness Silver Anniversary Award
• Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award
• The Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans
• American Academy of Achievement
• American Cancer Society
• American Heart Association
• American Medical Association
• WBBG Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame
• APFC Pioneer of Fitness Hall of Fame
• Patriarch Society of Chiropractors
• NFLA – Healthy American Fitness Award
• Received an Award from the Oscar Heidenstam Foundation Hall of Fame
• Received National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Gold Circle Award commemorating over 50 years in the Television Industry
• IHRSA Person of the Year Award
• Jack Webb Award from the Los Angeles Police Historical Society
• Interglobal’s International Infomercial Award
• The Freddie, Medical Media Public Service Award
• Freedom Forum Al Neuharth Free Spirit Honoree
• Lifetime Achievement Award from Club Industry
• 1992 (age 78): The Academy of Body Building and Fitness Award
• 1994 (age 80): The State of California Governor's Council on Physical Fitness Lifetime Achievement Award
• 1996 (age 82): The Dwight D. Eisenhower Fitness Award
• 1999 (age 85): The Spirit of Muscle Beach Award
• 2002 (age 88): A star on the Hollywood Boulevard Walk of Fame. At his induction ceremony, LaLanne did push ups on the top of his star.
• 2005 (age 91): The Jack Webb Award from the Los Angeles Police Department Historical Society; the Arnold Classic Lifetime Achievement Award; the Interglobal's International Infomercial Award; the Freddie Award; the Medical Media Public Service Award; Free Spirit honoree at Al Neuharth's Freedom Forum; Inaugural Inductee into the National Fitness Hall of Fame
• 2008 (age 94): Inducted by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (fellow 2005 inductee of the National Fitness Hall of Fame) and Maria Shriver into the California Hall of Fame