NICOLA Shaw had always considered herself fit - but it wasn't until she turned 50 that she really stepped up her game as a bodybuilder. The now 57-year-old pursued the heavy lifting hobby ten years ago in a bid to rediscover herself after becoming a wife and a mum. She told the Scottish Sun how she found herself becoming a regular gym-goer after her son Hugo started going to school.
She said: "I knew I wanted to do something different for ages and there was a local bootcamp. "I had been lurking around them on Facebook, so after a glass of prosecco on January the 1st, I signed myself up for a ten week block. "I thought if I don't do it, I won't do it.
I've tried it. "That got me started again - after 2-3 years off, I made the commitment to myself. "I was going to go to 6am classes, four to five times a week - and one of the sessions was a weights session.
It was the first time I had done anything like it. "Weights was my favourite, I would have never gone to the gym and picked stuff up myself, it was better somebody telling you what to do. "It was hard, once I felt better, it was much easier, more you do it.
" "I got a bit of confidence, there were loads of others in the same boat and they missed you when you weren't there. "They ran little workshops as well, and one day they invited a professional bodybuilder down from Glasgow and I couldn't believe how athletic and feminine she looked. "And she wasn't spending her life in the gym, she looked gorgeous, and if she can do it, th.
