You start out with an hour on the treadmill, then another hour of lifting - hell, in two weeks you're not doing anything anymore. You gotta be reasonable.

You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something.

Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom.

You've got to exercise. Your health account, your bank account, they're the same thing. The more you put in, the more you can take out.

People will set a New Year's resolution: "I'm gonna get in shape this year." But they don't set a parameter for how they're gonna measure it. Or if they do measure it, they wait until the first day of the next year. You'd never run a business that way. Document your progress.

The food you eat today is walking and talking tomorrow.

It's a lifestyle, it's something you do the rest of your life," LaLanne said. "How long are you going to keep breathing? How long do you keep eating? You just do it.