New Exercise for Older Adults
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"Michele Zeidman" toot...@frontiernet.net
Just came across this exercise suggested for older adults, to build muscle strength in the arms and shoulders. It seems so easy, so I thought I'd p*** it on to some of my friends. The article suggested doing it three days a week.
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax. Each day, you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.
After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks. Then try 50-lb potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight out for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level) After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.............
Dennis den...@bright.net
Sounds pretty tough to do if you ask me. All that standing and stuff...
"BIG C" charlieel...@msn.com
i used to do that with 1/2 gal. bottles of whiskey(really)...the only trouble was i was drinking as i was doing it....i never got stronger but i felt good as hell!!!
twinkle ...@webtv.net (Juanita Spencer)
I was about to ask if you had to have potatoes in those bags.
"Richard" rdann...@yahoo.com
I hope you don't expect me to put a whole potato in the bag.
Richard
"Leo" gaja...@mchsi.com
Now Michele...Haaaaa ...
"Leo" gaja...@mchsi.com
While reading the first paragraph I was going to ask Michele if she had checked the price of potatoes lately...:-) ...
Spice ...@webtv.net (Mary Jane)
That was funny. Gee, I"ve been going about the exercises the wrong way all these 214 days, lol!!
Mary Jane
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