‘Powerlifting granny’ inspires with vibrant, healthy lifestyle

CHICAGO — Ginger Mance is a Chicago area 74 year old known as the “powerlifting granny.”

Two words that are not in her vocabulary? “Granny” and “old.”

 In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone as vibrant, strong and motivated as Mance. She is in a league all her own.

Some thought her listed age was a typo when she joined the rooster at last month’s Windy City Classic.

“I’m probably shocked that they’re shocked that I’m 74, because I feel like this is how 74 should look!” she said.

More info on Ginger on her Facebook page.

She walked away with atrophy as she set another state and national record for her age group.

She also teaches about health at her local Y and has authored some poetry books.

“If you plant in your mind that ‘I’m old at 60’ and ‘I’m old at 70,’ then yes, you will be old, using a cane and a walker,” she said. “I post my lifts not to brag about what I’m doing,  but to show you what you can do.”

Lifting others is her biggest win of all.