Body Building Grandma Ernestine Shepherd Bench Presses, Runs
Marathons At 73
Grandmother Up Every Day at 3 a.m. and Says 'I Feel Better
Than I Did at 40'
By SARAH NETTER
April 27, 2010
Taut abs and rippling muscles aren't exactly the
stuff grandmothers are known for. But then again neither are marathons
and cell phones that play the theme to "Rocky."
At 73, Ernestine Shepherd is in better shape than most people decades
her junior. Up at 3 a.m. every morning, she spends her days running, lifting weights and working out other
senior citizens at the Union Memorial United Methodist Church in Baltimore.
She also works as a certified personal trainer at her gym.
"I feel better than I did at 40," she said. "I am very, very happy."
In less than 20 years, Shepherd has morphed from a "prissy" woman who
never exercised to the Guinness Book of World Records' oldest female bodybuilder.
A die-hard "Rocky" fan -- "Sylvester
Stallone is my man," she cooed -- Shepherd is preparing
for a body building competition this weekend.
"I feel now that I am a very strong, positive and confident woman," she
said. "Years ago I concerned myself about what people said concerning
me. But when you get 70-something and you don't have that many years in
front of you, you don't concern yourself with that."
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