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Ladies, if this doesn’t inspire you to workout, then nothing will!!!  Morjorie Newlin is an 86 year old great grandmother, retired nurse and body building champion to this day.

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Great-grandmother Morjorie Newlin, now 86 years old, began pumping iron fourteen years ago, at 72, and has been dedicated to her regimen ever since. reports Tasha Ho-Sang

According to the Philadelphia CityPaper.net, Morjorie started working out after an incident while shopping at her neighborhood supermarket and having to struggle to carry 50-pound bags of kitty litter back home by herself, the retired nurse decided to do something about her deteriorating physical capabilities.

“I want to be as independent as I can be, for as long as I can. I just want to do things for myself,” says Newlin, The daughter of very active Barbadian immigrants who says athleticism is in her genes.

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