Betty Pariso started weight training in 1986.
At that time, she says on her social media under the username @parisobetty, there was no other woman who ventured into the free weights area. The men looked at her strangely, the trainers ignored her, and she kept showing up, week after week, year after year, without anyone paying attention to her or asking her to explain herself.
Forty years later, she uploaded two photos: one from 1996 and another from 2026. The physical transformation is obvious, but what she herself highlights is not the muscle she has gained, but the gym surrounding her today, filled with young women training with the same freedom it took her so long to claim. She says they inspire her. And perhaps the real curiosity is not how she looks in her 60s, but understanding what made her never stop showing up.
