This 77-Year-Old Grandma Can Deadlift Twice Her Weight

A few years ago, 77-year-old Willie Murphy started weightlifting after seeing a sign about a weightlifting competition at the Carlson MetroCenter YMCA in Rochester, New York.

While 5-foot-tall, 105-pound Murphy started her fitness journey by lifting 5-pound dumbbells, she can now "dead-lift more than twice her own weight, bench press 125 pounds, and run through push-ups like there's no tomorrow," according to CBS News.

Last year, Murphy won her division in the deadlift competition at the 2014  World Natural Powerlifting Federation (WNPF) Championships, while also earning the WNPF Lifter of the Year award. She also went home with first-place awards in power curl, bench press and bench press repetitions.

"I'm old -- If I can do it, get with it," she told CBS News. "It's not that hard. I'm that new senior and I got it going on."

Check out the video about Murphy's fitness journey above!

- Janice Daniels KHTK/Sacramento