Billy Blanks — best known for developing the fitness craze Tae Bo while running a karate studio in Quincy — is back on TV, punching up the latest catchy commercial from GEICO insurance. Blanks, 65, is ...

Billy Blanks, who has a black belt in karate, created Tae Bo in 1975. "Fitness to me is not a trend. I'm 63 years old but I've been working out since I was 11 years old," said Blanks. The workout went ...

Billy Blanks, 60, was inducted into the King Cobra Karate Open Hall of Fame on Saturday during this weekend's 40th annual tournament at the Avalon Hotel. John Barton, promoter and founder of the King ...

Billy Blanks created a global fitness phenomenon with Tae Bo, still going strong after nearly 40 years. (Getty Images; designed by Caitlin Murray) For Billy Blanks, true fitness is as much about ...

From the birth of the Super Nintendo and the Walkman to the rise of the Information Age, the 90s was an iconic era. We can reminisce about many of the interesting fitness trends of the 90s, like ...

Muscular African American sports star, actor, media identity and inventor of the phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fitness system, derived from his extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in ...

As a boy, Erie native Billy Blanks idolized martial artist Bruce Lee. "That's what really started him,'' said Erie resident Winnie Blanks-Leggett, 62, who is Billy Blanks' oldest sister. "He would say ...

"A lot of people, when they hear Tae Bo, they say, 'Oh, that was done a long time ago,' " Billy Blanks tells PEOPLE. "But it's still one of the most popular exercises that people do. And I'm going to ...

For Billy Blanks, true fitness is as much about building spiritual strength as it is about the physical. “Life is not easy,” the creator of the martial-arts-based workout Tae Bo tells Yahoo Life.