Some of my friends call me “Granny”.
Perhaps it’s because I like to go to bed at 8:30PM, wake up at
5:30AM. Or maybe it’s bc I prefer to sit at home and read rather
than go out to a club. Or maybe they are all just sluts and I’m a
lil “conservative”. lol
Well, nonetheless, after hearing about 74 year old Granma,
Earnestine Shepard, I will wear my Granny moniker with pride!
Just days ago, the Guiness World Records
named Ernestine, the Oldest
Competitive Female Bodybuilder. She will appear in the 2012
Guinness World Records book coming out this September.
I am so inspired by her. Sometimes I make so many excues to not
work out. And after you have kids, it’s really easy to lose focus
on staying healthy and in shape.
And here is a 74 year old who wakes up at 3 a.m. every
morning, and runs 10 miles a day, before hitting the gym for
pushups, pull-ups and a regimen of free weights. Earnestine runs
about 80 miles per week and bench presses 150 pounds.
After hearing about her healthy eating regimine of a
1,700-calorie daily diet of egg whites in the morning, vegetables, chicken and brown rice, boiled egg
whites, and a liquid egg white drink I vowed to be a better
eater.
I polished off my 2nd Krispy Kreme
donut and decided to skip my nightly bedtime snack of
Skittles and Gelatto
(Yum!).
One of the keys to working out is finding your
inspiration. Earnestine’s came from fulfulling a
promise to her late sister, who died in 1992 of a brain anuerysm
just over a year into the training that she believed would drive
them to become the oldest living fitness competitors in the
world.
“I kept up everything she said we were going to do,” Shepherd
said. “That’s kept me so close to her.”
In addition to working out, she volunteers at Baltimore’s Union Memorial United Methodist
Church, works as a personal
trainer, and appears as a motivational speaker all over the
country.
I am sure her son, 13 year old grandson, and husband of 53 years
are super proud of her.