Bogie
09-23-2005, 10:20 AM
A WONDERFUL EXERCISE FOR MATURE PEOPLE
The article suggests doing it three times a week. Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room on 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 them relax.
After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb sacks. Then 50-lb sacks and eventually try to get where you can lift a 100-lb sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute.
After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each sack.
The article suggests doing it three times a week. Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room on 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 them relax.
After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb sacks. Then 50-lb sacks and eventually try to get where you can lift a 100-lb sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute.
After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each sack.