![]() ![]() “Although I used to exercise, I was never pushing myself out of my comfort zone, and I was stuck in a rut with what I was doing,” Block explained. She trains six times per week, with an emphasis on weight lifting, and even boasts that before she stepped onstage for one of her shows, she was back down to 120 pounds, which is what she weighed at her wedding in her early 20s. “When I walked onstage, in my bikini, posing and feeling confident, I was just thinking to myself, ‘Am I really doing this?’ ” “Even now, I can’t believe I have managed to do this,” Block admitted. Ilene Block said that she was the oldest women in the two bodybuilding competitions she entered. She has since competed in not one, but two figure-bodybuilding shows and plans on continuing. With her newfound passion for fitness, the Maui, Hawaii, woman decided to reach out to a coach to help her get ready to compete in bodybuilding shows, and things took off from there. “I’d always wanted to do a bodybuilding show, but because of my busy career as a lawyer and bringing up my kids, I could never commit to doing it during my 30s, as the preparation is intense.” “Within a year I lost 40 pounds and felt great,” Block told Caters. She was inspired by MacDonald’s story, who began her fitness journey at age 70, so Block signed up for a macro-based program in 2020. ![]() It wasn’t until she saw pictures of Joan MacDonald, 76, a mega-fit architect on social media, that Block decided to turn things around. However, in doing this, she gained 30 pounds, which bummed her out. So, when she turned the big 6-0, she decided to take a step back from things and try to eat normally, without following any sort of plan. Ilene Block is unrecognizable after becoming a super-fit bodybuilder - at 60 years old.īlock, who is now 63, had struggled with dieting and keeping weight off for her entire life. I became a bodybuilder in my 60s and now I’m unrecognizable The footage shows Granny Guns, whose full identity has not been revealed, sharing some of the hateful comments she has received on her video before cutting away to several women lifting weights. “For all of my fellow female fitness lovers” reads the caption for the clip, which represents a growing trend among muscle-sculpting senior citizens. Her breakout video was posted Thursday - on International Women’s Day, no less - and she has racked up nearly 800,000 followers and more than 26.7 million likes on her channel. Star bodybuilder known as ‘The Freakin’ Rican’ dead at 50īodybuilder ‘Joesthetics’ final Instagram post before his death hints at health battlesīodybuilder known online as ‘Joesthetics’ with ‘kindest soul’ dead at 30Ī bodybuilding grandma is slamming haters after after a barrage of online trolls said that she “belongs in the kitchen.”Ī new social media star known only Granny Guns, whose viral TikTok features the 65-year-old pumping iron and baking cookies, is weighing in on the internet trolls who claim “women are weak.” Bodybuilder dead after 400-pound weight breaks his neck ![]()
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