If there was ever an effective advert for fitness motivation, this would be it.
Meet Ernestine Shepherd - the 75-year-old bodybuilder who runs 10 miles every morning and cites exercise as her own personal anti-ageing pill.
‘Miss Ernie’, the world’s oldest female bodybuilder, insists that age is ‘nothing but a number’ which she proves by getting up at 2:30am every morning to run and train in the gym.
The fit-as-a-fiddle pensioner from Maryland, US, set the record as the oldest competitive female bodybuilder in 2010 to 2012, but claims she doesn't come from a family of fitness fanatics and only started training when she hit her 50s.
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"When I was younger, I was never, ever considered athletic. I was too prissy," Shepherd told the BBC.
“My sister died of a brain aneurysm in 1992, I was so sad. She came to me in a dream and she said I wasn’t doing what I said we would do. So I did it.”
Shepherd teaches a fitness class in her local church, helping women decades younger than her to keep fit and healthy. She claims her fitness mantra is simple...
“I always practice what I preach. I don't teach bodybuilding. I teach health, happiness and prosperity - that's the formula!”
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