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Old 08-25-2006, 07:39 AM
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My word! An 86 year old great grandmother who is a body builder!



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.
"She kept coming in day after day, week after week, and month after month," Brown remembers. "She didn't want to do 'girly' workouts. She wanted to train with us fellows."

Read the rest here: http://www.citypaper.net/articles/20...03/naked.shtml & to see the picture
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Old 08-25-2006, 08:51 AM
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just beautiful. Can I be like her when I grow up
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Old 08-25-2006, 09:21 AM
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Daaaaaaaaaaaaayum. Me too!
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Old 08-25-2006, 09:34 AM
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WOW!!!!! You go grandma!!!
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Old 08-25-2006, 10:03 AM
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Is BajanDelta still on this site?? If so, girl you all must have those good genes. I might have to move and try to get in where I fit in.
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Old 08-25-2006, 12:47 PM
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yeah, i read that edition of cp when it came out.

it was inspiring...i was like damn!

now, if i could look that good...
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Old 08-27-2006, 12:37 PM
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I knew it, she had to be a Bajan!! We is some hard working people, LOL. Shoot, as a matter of fact I've lost 10 pounds in the last 3 weeks and am training for a 5K in October. I'm going to print this and save it for inspiration when I feel like giving up.

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Is BajanDelta still on this site?? If so, girl you all must have those good genes. I might have to move and try to get in where I fit in.
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Old 08-25-2006, 07:03 PM
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I would LOVE to look like that her when and if I am blessed to see 86.
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Old 08-25-2006, 09:02 PM
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She looks fantastic for 86!!!
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