Joining Elaine and the LaLanne family at IDEA World to lead the jumpers included IDEA CEO and owner Amy Thompson, and such esteemed fitness and entertainment leaders as:
● Jon LaLanne, Professional Surfer, Surf Board Manufacturer, and Jack & Elaine LaLanne's Son that previously appeared with his father on the Jack LaLanne TV Show
● Fitness TV Star & Publisher of “Fit Over 50” Magazine Denise Austin
● “Bodies in Motion” & 2024 IDEA Jack & Elaine LaLanne Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Gilad Janklowicz
● “P90X” Star & 2016 IDEA Jack LaLanne Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Tony Horton
● "Tai Bo Nation" Star & 2022 Jack LaLanne Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Billy Blanks
● “Fitness Quest Ten” & 2017 Jack LaLanne Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Todd Durkin
● Motivational Speaker & Healthy Lifestyle Personality Dr. Forbes Riley
● CNN, Fox News & Univision Health Expert Dr. Fab Mancini
● “The Curvy Girl” & 2022 IDEA Emerging Trailblazer of the Year Lacee Green
● National Fitness Foundation Board Chair, Olympian & Sports Illustrated “Sportswoman of the Year” Dr. Judi Brown Clarke
● Multiple Fitness Equipment Inventor & 2022 IDEA Fitness Leader of the Year Pete Holman
● National Fitness Hall of Famer & Celebrity Trainer Dan Isaacson
“IDEA’s global community of fitness professionals have greatly benefited from the legacies of Jack and Elaine LaLanne,” states Thompson. “Their guiding principles of lifelong health and fitness at every age, are as true and important now, as they were when Jack first launched ‘The Jack LaLanne Show.’ So, when the idea was presented to honor them by breaking the world jumping jacks record, we literally jumped at the chance! It was an incredible, history-making effort; and we are proud to have facilitated the main event!”
Also in attendance and filming the LA event was a documentary film crew from Actor/Producer Mark Wahlberg’s Unrealistic Ideas Production Company. The LaLanne Family and Mark Wahlberg are co-producing an upcoming documentary about Jack LaLanne’s life and career; followed by a feature film starring Wahlberg as the Fitness Pioneer. While Wahlberg was out of the country filming on location, he sent the jumpers a special “Good Luck” video in support of the world record attempt.
As the JLJJC was also a fundraising event for the National Fitness Foundation, benefiting the President’s Council on Physical Fitness, Sports & Nutrition (of which Jack LaLanne was an inaugural member), the NFF and other health and fitness advocates and organizations (such as the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress and the YMCA USA and Y’Camps nationwide), health clubs, studios, and fitness groups, led virtual JLJJC events – coordinating their participant jumping with the JLJJC leaders at IDEA World.
Subsequently, date and time stamped videos and photos demonstrating the simultaneous JLJJC participation have flooded volunteer leaders’ communications - and shared on dozens of social media platforms (including Facebook, Instagram, X, Tik Tok, YouTube, etc.).
In total, the JLJJC campaign inspired people of every age, ethnicity, nationality, and ability, in over 40 U.S. States and 19 different countries, to celebrate physical activity through simple (and fun) Jumping Jacks!
Overall, the JLJJC is considered by the volunteer organizers, LaLanne Family, and IDEA Health and Fitness Association to be an overwhelming success – meeting and exceeding the leadership’s every goal! As eloquently captured in an email sent to JLJJC organizers by New Jersey Yoga Instructor and JLJJC virtual participant Jennifer Rivelli Anderson:
“This was such a cool event. I loved learning more about Jack. I shared with my various classes what he did for his 70th Birthday. It is inspirational to push back against the things we hear about what you can do at different ages, that sometimes we blindly accept without wondering if these limitations are actually true….’I’m 40 now so I am too old to XYZ.’ People accept these as gospel, then settle - including me. When I hit 39 (years), doctors said I was too old to be running half marathons!! He said, ‘neither of us is 20 anymore!’ However, I WAS racing them. I was beating people younger than I was. Even if I wasn’t, I was still plenty capable of running such distances. Jack kept exploring his potential and encouraged others to do the same! My students (many of them over 40) were completely energized by what Jack did. It made them curious about what they could do, that they didn’t think they could. That’s a beautiful way for his legacy to continue!!”
To hear “Behind-the-Scenes” commentary about the planning and execution of the JLJJC, please check out Elaine LaLanne’s “Pass it On” Podcast. View Podcast
