Fitness Exercise

Ernestine Shepherd has been into fitness and bodybuilding since she was 56 years old.

At 73, she has no plans to quit.  She is taking this God given determination and helping other women and some men to achieve their dreams of fitness.

You’ve got to get up pretty early in the morning to keep up with Shepherd.  She is up at 3 a.m. everyday.  Before her first run of the day she has a breakfast of two boiled egg whites, a bagel and 16 ounces of water.

She goes to Druid Hill Park and runs from 5:30 until 8 – 9 a.m. After running for hours,  she drinks liquid egg whites and eats two more boiled egg whites.  From there she heads to the gym to instruct her fitness classes from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. She takes time for lunch which is usually some sort of protein and carbohydrates and of course water.  “Later on I eat roasted chicken, and that’s Subway chicken because I’m lazy, I don’t cook…a baked potato and spinach, later tuna fish and more egg whites…and vegetables,” said Shepherd.

Shepherd is very patient with the participants of her class.  “First of all you have to start off slowly, you can’t jump in gung-ho.  What you have to do is find what you like to do and when you find what you like to do make it fun…when you see the slightest change that will motivate you and make you keep going, she says.

Diet and exercise is really paying off for Shepherd.  She has beautiful, clear skin, lovely silver-grey hair and her body is toned to perfection.  Women have said they do not want to use weights and bulk up.  Shepherd shows that with moderation anything can be achieved.

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Snow Motion

The blizzard of 2010 has really gotten the best of a lot of people concerning sitting home and adding pounds.  I must admit, I love to cook and when I heard that the blizzard was coming I was motivated to get into the kitchen.       

After watching the snow continually fall for about two days boredom set in, not because I was bored, because I could not get out.  I want to get out of the apartment.  Finally we were able to go out and shovel.  That was the exercise of necessity for days, besides walking to the store.

If you really think about it, walking in the snow is a really tough thing to do.  Think of how you must lift your legs to get one foot in front of the other.  There are the lunges performed while trying to leap over puddles and how about the weight training while carrying bags from the store to your destination.  So if you did get a chance to get out, you got some good exercise in.

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