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Ernestine Shepherd was added to the 2012 Guinness World Record book as the oldest female body builder. She may be a grandmother, but don’t call her old. Ernestine Shepherd, 74, of Baltimore has been crowned by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest competitive female bodybuilder ever.
Ms Shepherd has impeccably toned ‘six-pack’ abs that are the marvel of her Baltimore fitness centre.
Her husband of 54 years, Collin Shepherd, says he ‘has trouble keeping guys away from her’.
The Shepherds live in Baltimore with their son, 53, and grandson, 14.
Ms Shepherd does some modeling and teaches fitness classes. She also trains rigorously with Yohnnie Shambourger, 57,a former Mr. Universe who won the gold medal in bodybuilding at the Pan American Games in 1995.
Ms Shepherd wakes up at 3 a.m. every day to meditate, then hits the trails in a local park to run 10 miles before lunch. She eats only plain brown rice, bland chicken breast and vegetables, washed down with a glass of raw egg whites, three times a day.
Over the past 18 years, Ms Shepherd has run nine marathons and won two bodybuilding contests. But she wasn’t always so fit. She was a ‘couh 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.
After Mildred died suddenly of an aneurysm, Ms Shepherd was devastated. Her grief started spiralling out of control, until she remembered a promise and a ‘pinkie swear’ she had made her older sister. The sisters had promised to push themselves to be competitive bodybuilders, and Ms Shepherd decided to keep up that legacy.
So she trains, and eats a restrictive diet, and it helps her remember Mildred.

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