A new start after 60: 'I was sick, tired and had lost myself – until I took up bodybuilding at 71' | Health & wellbeing

Last modified on Fri 23 Jul 2021 17.40 EDT
Joan Macdonald has not always looked like a bodybuilder. At 71, she weighed 90kg (14st 4lb), and had rising blood pressure and kidney troubles. She was also on medication for cholesterol and acid reflux, and her doctor wanted to double the dose.
Her daughter, Michelle, expressed Macdonald’s dilemma bluntly. “You’re going to end up like your mother did in a nursing home!” she told Macdonald. “And people are going to have to look after you. Do you want that?”
“Of course I didn’t want it,” Macdonald says now. “I was sick and tired of being sick and tired.”

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