MrPerfect
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Ernestine Shepherd, 74, of Baltimore has been crowned by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest competitive female bodybuilder.
Shepherd has impeccably toned 'six-pack' abs that are the marvel of her Baltimore fitness center
She trains rigorously with Yohnnie Shambourger, 57,a former Mr Universe who won the gold medal in bodybuilding at the Pan American Games in 1995, The Daily Mail reports.
Over the past 18 years, Shepherd has run nine marathons and won two bodybuilding contests.
Shepherd said she wasn't always so fit. She was a 'couch potato' until she was 56 years old, when she and her older sister, Mildred, discovered their bodies had started going soft.
The sisters, who grew up very close in Baltimore as the children of a carpenter and schoolteacher, started working out together at a local centre.
They liked the results, and started pushing themselves, eventually entering some bodybuilding contests.
Shepherd has impeccably toned 'six-pack' abs that are the marvel of her Baltimore fitness center
She trains rigorously with Yohnnie Shambourger, 57,a former Mr Universe who won the gold medal in bodybuilding at the Pan American Games in 1995, The Daily Mail reports.
Over the past 18 years, Shepherd has run nine marathons and won two bodybuilding contests.
Shepherd said she wasn't always so fit. She was a 'couch potato' until she was 56 years old, when she and her older sister, Mildred, discovered their bodies had started going soft.
The sisters, who grew up very close in Baltimore as the children of a carpenter and schoolteacher, started working out together at a local centre.
They liked the results, and started pushing themselves, eventually entering some bodybuilding contests.
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