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Dian Covington works out at Vision Fitness in Urbana on Tuesday.









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Dian Covington is a competitive body builder and a power lifter at sixty-one years old. She was working out at Vision Fitness in Urbana on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.









body builder

Dian Covington is a competitive body builder and a power lifter at sixty-one years old. She was working out at Vision Fitness in Urbana on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.




At 5-foot-1 and 162 pounds, Teresa “Dian’ Covington doesn’t necessarily look like someone you’d be afraid to mess with.

But beware.

The 61-year-old Urbana resident is a world record power lifter and champion body builder. She’s the Tom Brady of women’s power lifting.

“She’s a lot stronger than she looks, I can tell you,” said her trainer, John Buhs, owner of Urbana’s Vision Fitness, where she works out.

Buhs said he is

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