People half her age couldn’t bench above 78-year-old powerlifter Linda Patterson.
Now, the retiree from us-regions is slated to enter her first strength competition.
“I just want to be strong, and there’s something about working out that makes me feel so good,” she told a KOAT reporter in a recent news segment.
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According to her trainer Derrick Williams, Patterson could barely lift herself when she began training a few years ago.
“She had a car accident a while back, so she lost some of her ability to extend her spine and then she had her knees replaced,” he explained.
Her first test was getting down and back up off the floor on her own, said Williams. “She wasn’t able to do it.”
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Patterson, who lives alone, said she’s working out to be able to keep up with her two granddaughters, without fear of injuring herself due to a lack of strength and mobility.
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“I went to a power meet that [Williams] had and he got me a front-row seat. He was competing and I thought, ‘Holy wow! Look what those people can do with the focus and the strength.’ I wanted to do it,” Patterson said.
On July 17, she’ll compete in the Masters 4 category at the Natural Athlete Strength Association Summer Nationals meet in Roswell, New Mexico, for contestants ages 70 years and up, Williams said, performing her best squat, bench press and deadlift.
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Patterson flubbed a practice bench pressa> last week due to “nerves” ahead of her debut, she confessed, but Williams is keeping her motivated.<to read more on the New York Post.
