Jack LaLanne, fitness pioneer, dies at 96

Jack LaLanne, fitness pioneer, dies at 96.Jack LaLanne, the Bay Area native whose gospel of fitness stretched 75 years and changed the way Americans thought about working out and eating right, died Sunday at his home in Morro Bay (San Luis Obispo County). He was 96.

The Godfather of Fitness died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia, his family said.

"It's kind of a shock," said his nephew, Thomas LaLanne of Mill Valley. "I didn't think Jack was ever going to die. He would tell people, 'I can't die. It'll ruin my image.' " Jack LaLanne, fitness pioneer, dies at 96