This is Ernestine Shepard and she is the oldest female bodybuilder at a spry 80 years old. Born in 1936 she did not start bodybuilding UNTIL she was 56 years old!! NO more excuses!!!
Ron “Big Black” Garrett
Ernestine Shepherd “Oldest female bodybuilder at 80 years old”
SlowBurnMary
#4
Love her! Have followed her for a few years now - she’s living proof of the powers of mitochondria and HGH (along with melanin and mothering and a bunch of other stuff). Highly recommend her book for encouragement too.
An interesting tidbit about Ms. Shepherd is that it was the 80s film “Rocky” that inspired her fitness journey - and she soon implemented a protocol based on the film: drinking a glass of 8 egg whites every day! To me it seems really slimy and not-delish, but it’s yet another way that Ms. Shepherd proves that there are many joyful paths to truth, and life is worth living to the fullest. 
SarahSlan
(Sarah Slancauskas)
#5
Wow! What an incredible achievement. She looks fantastic to my eyes 
Anniegirl9
(LeeAnn Brooks)
#6
So you’re saying I still have another dozen years to be lazy?
Just kidding. I do need to start lifting more regularly.
charlie3
(charlie3)
#8
She has to be the queen of bodybuilding. If most seniors were doing a fraction of her effort medicaid would be a petty cash account and we’d need a lot fewer doctors and pharmacies.
BellaTella
(Bella)
#9
thats the kind of Granny I want to be - this was made 5 years ago, but have a hanky while watching this.
Q66
(KetoQ)
#11
Her physique is obviously incredible, even for a 25 year old, but in the face, she barely looks about half her age. She seems very vibrant. Whatever she is doing works.
Regina
(Empress of the Unexpected)
#12
Thanks so much for sharing this. Wish everybody could watch this. If she can do it, we all can.
BellaTella
(Bella)
#13
So true,
Regina when I turned 30 I thought I was to old too be a fitness instructor, a few decades later she has inspired me to go for it.
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