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Gradually, she saw her body transform and today she boasts abs of steel and toned arms to match. Murphy began lifting five-pound weights 2011 after seeing a sign about a local weight-lifting competition at the at the Maplewood Family YMCA. I'm that new senior and I got it going on.' In a previous interview with CBS the sprightly octogenarian quipped: 'I'm old - If I can do it, get with it. Murphy is already somewhat a local celebrity, known for her impressive one-handed pull-ups, fingertip push-ups and racing five-year-old children in running sprints. Powerhouse: Murphy can lift almost double her body weight and out of the gym she has no trouble shoveling snow, carrying groceries or bouncing her grandchildren around She said even emergency responders wanted to take selfies with her after the incident. Murphy works out at the local Maplewood YMCA and received a hero's welcome when she returned to the gym. 'He picked the wrong house to break into,' Murphy said. Murphy says the man was trying to make his way out of the property after she fought back and she even tried to help move him along but she struggled with his dead weight.īut soon after police arrived at her home. 'I picked up the table, and I went to work on him. 'I'm thinking, what the heck was that? The young man is in my home. 'I hear a loud noise,' she told Fox News. She had already called police but picked up the nearest things to her to keep the assailant down until cops arrived to detain the man who tried to persuade her to let him inside because he was sick. Yes, I did.Murphy is only 5 feet tall and weighs 105lbs, according to the Today show, but she can deadlift 225 pounds. "I think he was happy when he went in the ambulance because I sent him in the ambulance. Murphy thinks he was probably relieved to be out of the house. "He's laying down already because I had really did a number on that man. He's dead weight."Īt that point, the police arrived in response to Murphy's earlier call. And I'm trying to help him get out of the house, but he's too heavy. Though Murphy said she can deadlift 225 pounds, she struggled to drag the man out of the house. Next, she said, she took a broom and whacked him some more.īy that time, the intruder was ready to leave. Unphased, Murphy said, she used the metal legs of the table to keep hitting him.Īfter jumping on him a couple times, Murphy ran to the kitchen, grabbed a bottle of baby shampoo and squirted it on the man's face as he tried to get up. "I took that table and I went to working on him," she said.
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Who said she works out at her local YMCA almost every day.Īs Murphy tells it, she used a barrage of household items to attack the intruder, beginning with her own table.
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"He picked the wrong house to break into." But guess what, I'm tough," she said, bearing her muscular arms. "It's kind of semi-dark and I'm alone, and I'm old. Then, she said, he became angry and broke through the door. Murphy told WHAM she called the police but wouldn't let the man in her house. Willie Murphy said she was getting ready for bed Thursday night when a man began pounding on her door, urging her to call an ambulance for him, CNN affiliate WHAM reported. A man broke into the Rochester, New York, home of an 82-year-old grandmother.