You pay attention because he is a LaLanne, the grand-nephew and possible heir apparent of the godfather of health and fitness, Jack LaLanne. Read ARTICLE!

From Chronicle Staff Writer Julian Guthrie

I was excited about the workout. I had been warned that it's not unusual to vomit after.

A group of 16 "students" of trainer Chris LaLanne -- the grand-nephew of fitness legend Jack LaLanne --- took off right at noon, jogging from Second and Howard Streets toward the Embarcadero. It was hot, about 83 degrees. The sidewalk was filled with workers on their lunch break. We were treated as a spectacle, like a sweaty flash mob.

Chris LaLanne has the look: shredded abs, shaved head, intense blue eyes. He has the degree in kinesiology, the years spent training elite athletes, and a new workout studio in downtown San Francisco. He was also born with the right name. Chris LaLanne, 32, is the grand-nephew of Jack LaLanne, the reigning "Godfather of Fitness," who ran his first gym out of his backyard in Berkeley in 1933, once did 1,033 pushups in 23 minutes, swam from Alcatraz to Fisherman's Wharf handcuffed, and at age 93 still works out two hours a day.

Jack LaLanne is believed to have opened the first modern health club in downtown Oakland — at 409 15th St., to be exact — in 1936. Initially, the concept went so poorly that LaLanne had to perform massages on the side to pay his rent.
Seventy-two years later, with the blessing and encouragement of the 93-year-old Godfather of Fitness himself, another LaLanne is carrying on the family tradition of improving and lengthening lives through fitness and nutrition. With any luck, he'll be just as successful and carry on just as long.
Employing some fresh twists on the CrossFit training methodology, Castro Valley's Chris LaLanne and his wife, Maribel, officially christened LaLanne Fitness at 590 Howard St. on Saturday with his world-famous and still-vibrant great uncle by his side.
"Chris listens to me, and he knows what he's doing, so he should do well," the elder LaLanne said prior to leaping on a podium to inspire a crowd of admirers with one of his familiar pep talks. "I'm very proud of him."...

CrossFit was created in the 1970s by a Californian named Greg Glassman, a former gymnast. He started tinkering around with the back-to-the-basics concept when he was working in a weight-lifting gym. He noticed that a lot of the exercises the bodybuilders were doing would make them bigger but not more effective...

This. Is. Sparta's Workout.
Would you have believed 300 flabby, overindulged actors could hold off an angry horde of invading Persians? Me either. So the producers of the movie "300" had a choice: whip their cast into fighting shape, or use inexperienced gym rats who looked the part, but couldn't talk and hold a shield at the same time.

With a huge Hollywood budget on the line, they wisely decided having to listen to their actors whine and moan their way through a grueling fitness regimen was easier than trying to teach a bunch of jacked-up meatheads to emote. And the program they chose was CrossFit.

Developed by a former gymnast as a way to create the "quintessential athlete" - equal parts gymnast, weightlifter and sprinter - CrossFit doesn't use fancy equipment, but rather your own body's resistance with exercises such as squats, running, pull ups, sit ups, etc. performed at high intensity. Really high intensity. A typical workout lasts only about 20 minutes, but looks something like this: Three rounds of 21, 15 and 9 repetitions of Dumbbell Bench Press, Weighted Sit Ups, Push Ups, Kettlebell Snatches and Push Presses, back to back, as quickly as you can complete them. And your goal each workout is to beat last session's time.
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Best Shape of Your Life in 20 Minutes
Old-school gym moves and a stopwatch combine for some of the fastest results ever.... Okay, go!
Lots of exercise programs this time of year claim to get you in the best shape of your life. But how many can claim to get some of the top trainers in L.A., thousands of badass cops, and a large number of Navy SEALs in the best shape of their lives?

Such are the specs for the fitness plan you'll find on the next two pages. Adapted from a program called "CrossFit," which has developed a vast underground following on the Web, the plan is not only scarily effective, it's the most time-efficient workout you've ever seen. This double espresso of a cross-training regimen takes familiar functional multijoint exercises such as squats, pull-ups, and medicine ball throws, preaches perfect form and full range of motion, tosses in bursts of cardio, and has you crank up the intensity by clocking it all with a stopwatch. Most days you'll blitz through it in 20 minutes or less. The world record for one benchmark drill (number one on the next page) is seven minutes, 35 seconds.

Easy, right? Well, as you're standing there, ready to vomit, easy probably won't be the first word that springs to mind. So amazing will do.
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