Marsha McCaulley will be Perry’s representative in the 2015 Mrs. Iowa – America Pageant. The pageant represents the contemporary married woman who strives to reach greater heights of achievement in all areas of our society and provides strength and inspiration to the family unit.
A well known figure in the Perry area, McCaulley is a personal fitness trainer at the McCreary Community Building in Perry and has trained more than 100 women and men in the last 25 years. She is a retired special education teacher and was a drug-free body-building champion in the early 1990s.
McCaulley also spearheaded last year’s Iron Women of Perry calendar fundraiser, which netted more than $10,000 for new equipment at the McCreary center. McCaulley and six of her current clients–Perry athletes Sherri Miller, Jill Dorman, JoAnn Harmelink, Cheri Scheib, Stephanie Hansen and Cindy Sohn–composed the Iron Women of Perry team, which gained notoriety promoting the calendar on Des Moines television stations.
McCaulley embraces a philosophy of lifelong fitness, a sentiment expressed in her motto: “Age is only a number.” Her commitment to lifelong personal fitness can be seen in a recent excerpt from her training blog, which also shows the rigors of the Mrs. Iowa competition :
Sunday, June 7
11 days to go
I was very happy this morning! The scenario I like best happened: weight up, body fat percentage down and muscle percentage up! Now I’m only .3 percent away from body fat percentage goal, and I have reached my muscle percentage goal! With 11 days to go, it only makes sense to go for more muscle. And I hope to meet the body fat percentage goal by next Thursday.
Two workouts today: AM I went to track and did two miles. It was not an intense fartleck. I ran the straightaways eight times.
PM: At rec. Leg Day
Elliptical warm-up: 10 minutes
Rear lunge with glute lift 20lbs DB X 15 X 3
Single Leg ext 15lbs X 15
20lbs X 12
25lbs X 10
Leg Press 180lbs X 10 X 2
Plié Squats with 20lbs.KB X 15 with 30 sec hold on last rep X 2
Squat jumps on bosu
Loop band: adductions and abductions
Today I ate:
PB sandwich
Almonds and banana
Tuna with miracle whip and relish
And I had 14 low fat chips
Protein shake after lifting
1 beef burger with the bun
6 grapes, 2 black raspberries, 6 pieces of a watermelon, 12 slices of strawberries, 5 blueberries
I may have had too many carbs to maintain my bodyfat % I had today on the scale. Guess I will find out tomorrow! Hopefully the work-out was hard enough to keep the body fat where it’s at and increase the muscle!
At 62 McCaulley will likely be the eldest competitor in the history of the Mrs. America state pageants. She is mother to three children and grandmother to six and has been married to Dr. Randy McCaulley for 38 years.
This year’s Mrs. Iowa Pageant will be held June 20 in conjunction with the Mrs. Minnesota and Mrs. Wisconsin Pageants and staged at the Bloomington Theatre and Art Center in Bloomington, Minn, The event has been telecast for 22 years and can be seen on cable television throughout the year.
The reigning Mrs. Iowa, Amy Rogalla of Cedar Falls, will crown her successor at the pageant. The winner of the Mrs. Iowa Pageant will receive a number of prizes, including the opportunity to compete in the nationally televised Mrs. America Pageant.
Entrants for the state pageants must be 18, married, a resident of their state and must have U.S. citizenship. The women will be judged in three competitive categories: interview (50 percent), swimsuit (25 percent), and evening gown (25 percent).
