One Wyoming woman is showing that you can learn anything at any age. 68-year-old Suzanne Lur is a national weightlifting champion. She began her fitness journey just a few years ago following an accident where she was hit by a truck. Well, I was coming home from work one very stressful day and was distracted and crossing our busiest street in Little Larmy and got signals crossed between a driver who stopped for me to wave me on and me thinking I saw both ways and a truck came out from behind the big SUV and smacked me, sent me flying, broke my femur, fractured my pelvis in three places. So that put me out of work for about a month and put me out of commission for several months and got into PT. I was

functioning for the next decade and thought I was doing well until I realized one day that I wasn't. Frantically got back into PT saying I need to do something about this. I had no strength in my left leg and I've been compensating so long I had I didn't even realize it. That's what started this journey. And then this free strength training class for seniors came up well 2024. So just two a little over two years ago. So that's when I just started the weight training. Got into the gym. My PT with my weak leg got me deadlifting and that's the first time I'd ever lifted weights at all. Then getting into the weight training class was actually pretty enjoyable.

Suzanne has always been an active person who has gone caving, skydiving, hiking, horseback riding, and getting on motorcycles. But going to the gym never crossed her mind. Exercise. It was just like I just didn't like the word. I just thought that was never for me. And I found out differently. I can't really explain other than the camaraderie. The class is full of amazing older people, some younger than me, some older than me. It's just fantastic how everybody encourages each other. It's keeping me going for however long my life is. I want to be independent. I don't want to be in a wheelchair.

Her motivation to keep going at the gym led her to competing in various weightlifting competitions in Wyoming and then around the country where she has won medals. She is also a sponsored athlete from AARP and one of five people who are senior ambassadors. Suzanne, who says she weighs just 110 lb, can bench press 75 lb, squat 145 lb, and deadlift 207 lb. While the numbers are impressive, she remains humble, but wants to inspire others to get out there and move and get people to think, if she can do it, I can do it. And that's what I want them to believe. Anybody can get up and start moving. They just need to take the first step. It's never too late. You're never too old to start moving. They get

up and get moving and persist that good things will happen. Good changes will come. For Inside Edition Digital, I'm Sal Bono.