She then started her seventh decade, by becoming an author: Josefina has had three books published under her Vibrant at Any Age, theme, the latest one called Vibrant Relationships for Healthy Powerful Living.Īll books build on the advice she has to impart from her lifelong journey of self-improvement - using her coaching skills, but also her own personal journey, to inspire people to achieve their goals, just as she has - regardless of age.Īlthough she clearly has a strong spiritual faith, her commitment to a particularly healthy lifestyle - through diet and exercise - is obviously half the battle too. She was also already running and practising yoga, before she embarked on the bodybuilding routine before her 60th birthday, which led on to her successful acclaim. She later obtained a master’s in education and after that a PhD in adult personal development.
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Through this sport, she says she has also learned the science of how to master health and control eating habits, but Josefina’s transition to body-building champion, however, wasn’t from a totally blank canvas: As a child, when growing up in Venezuela, she participated in gymnastics and later graduated with a degree in PE. So far I have done awesomely and right now I am also an author - which I didn’t know I could do that’s the magic of lifeĪ successful competitor in the Natural National Physique Committee (NPC) events - staged by the largest amateur bodybuilding organisation in the US - she has had victories at state and national competitions. People limit themselves by age, nationality, gender it’s very frustrating. “I keep reinventing myself, but it doesn’t have to do with the number of years – your chronological age, it has to do with your development,” the Florida-based former educator, and mother of two daughters, tells Feelgood.
That first step may have been taken 13 years ago, but Josefina’s award-winning trajectory as a bodybuilder - and her amazing physique for her age - has been gathering increasing attention online.
That’s the advice of 72-year-old of Josefina Monasterio, who says she didn’t even think of how many years she had clocked up on this planet when she first took to bodybuilding at age 59.
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