{"id":78152,"date":"2025-07-20T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78152\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:04:11","slug":"meet-brenda-dockendorf-grandmother-and-record-setting-powerlifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78152\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Brenda Dockendorf, grandmother and record-setting powerlifter"},"content":{"rendered":"

WAITE PARK, MINN. \u2013 Brenda Dockendorf showed no emotion when her trainer put 190 pounds on the bench press bar. No fear. No surprise. Nothing.<\/p>\n

This 64-year-old grandmother doesn\u2019t get rattled easily. <\/p>\n

Besides, benching that much weight isn\u2019t anything new for her.<\/p>\n

She had a clean rep at 185 pounds a few minutes earlier, which, it should be noted, would have set an American record for her age group had this been an official powerlifting competition and not a random weekday workout at her home away from home, Anytime Fitness. <\/p>\n

\u201cHere we go,\u201d trainer Trent Baird said, lifting the bar into position.<\/p>\n

Dockendorf brought it down, touched her chest and slowly began to lift it back up. She came close but needed Baird\u2019s assistance getting the bar safely secured. The two high-fived as she stood up. Her warmup was complete. On to the next exercise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t realize that I had strength,\u201d she had said earlier, smiling shyly.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Brenda Dockendorf warms up on the bench press during a workout with trainer Trent Baird on Friday at Anytime Fitness. (Aaron Lavinsky\/The Minnesota Star Tribune)<\/p>\n

Never in a million years would Dockendorf have predicted that she would one day own five state records in powerlifting. She didn\u2019t play sports growing up. She had never been to a fitness gym. She wasn\u2019t a competitive person. She rarely exercised beyond occasional walks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WAITE PARK, MINN. \u2013 Brenda Dockendorf showed no emotion when her trainer put 190 pounds on the bench…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1198,210,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-78152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114885942676526346","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}