I never looked like this even at 20!!

[CatWoman]

:wow:



Flex Appeal
At 86, great-grandmother Morjorie Newlin keeps pumping iron.

by Tasha Ho-Sang



Fourteen years ago, when Morjorie Newlin was 72, her neighborhood supermarket had 50-pound bags of kitty litter on sale. Without anyone to help her carry the bags back to her house, she struggled mightily under the load. Never a particularly athletic woman, but staunchly independent, she decided that she had to do something about her deteriorating physical capabilities.

Though osteoporosis was also on her mind, the septuagenarian began lifting weights — for her cat.

"I want to be as independent as I can be, for as long as I can," says Newlin, a great-grandmother and retired nurse who turns 86 tomorrow. "I just want to do things for myself."

After 13 years of weight training, Newlin is more than taking care of herself. At her two-story home in Mt. Airy, Newlin, who runs up the stairs with the sprightliness of a 10-year-old, has a room dedicated entirely to plaques, certificates and trophies (some almost as tall as her) from bodybuilding competitions that have taken her as far away as Italy, France and Germany. She's won more than 40 trophies in her late-blooming career. "There are so many, I don't know what to do with all of them," she says.

"I chuckled when I saw this little old lady walk inside the gym," says Richard Brown, a personal trainer at Rivers Gym in Mt. Airy, where Newlin began her training. "I was a little leery. I was just training young athletes at the time."

The little old lady quickly showed him what an older athlete could do.

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-08-03/naked.shtml

[dolo amber]

1. That's not real

That can't be real. Can it?

[CatWoman]

2. yes, it is

:)

[dolo amber]

3. Go granny go granny go granny go!!

Amazing. :patriot:

[Zuiderelle]

4. Cool, this means I can put off getting in shape another 30 or 40 years.

:D

[CatWoman]

7. !!

:)

[CatWoman]

8. !!

:)

[Blue_Tires]

5. make her pee in a cup!

If Barry Bonds finds out about her 'training regimen', then he might keep playing until he's 65!

[av8rdave]

6. I didn't either!

[Fran Kubelik]

9. Wow - that is some serious motivation!!

:wow:

[Forkboy]

10. I'm nervous around women who can bench press me.

:)

[CatWoman]

12. no, not you!!!!

we all know what a macho stud you are :hi:

[Forkboy]

14. macho and stud are two words that simply don't belong anywhere in my vicinity.

Wiseass hunk of delectable manmeat is better :D

:hi:

[CatWoman]

15. LOLOLOLOL

:rofl:

[xchrom]

21. you are so cute...

:spray: -- that was very funny.

[Left Is Write]

11. EIGHTY-six? No. No, no, no. That's a picture of a FORTY-six year old woman.

Right?

[CatWoman]

13. check the link -- it appears authentic.

[Nicole]

16. Amazing.

She looks fantastic.

I think I need to go to the gym. NOW.

[CatWoman]

17. Nicole

I wish I had a time machine - I would have been there 20 years ago :)

[Nicole]

18. Me too.

I should have been there 20 years ago also.

[FuzzySlippers]

19. I started 20 years ago.

Unfortunately, I lasted only about a week. :D

[bleedingheart]

20. my mother in law started weight lifting and she is really doing well

granted...she doesn't look like the lady at the link...

but she has been able to stop her osteoporosis and has gained both bone and muscle mass!
so weight lifting is very very good for you..

[Shine]

22. Wow. I need to get my ass back in the gym!

I actually do weight train fairly regularly, but damn, I don't look THAT good!

:wow: