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Exercise thread......

17 years ago

EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 39

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side with a 5-lb potato bag 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 bags.

Then try 50-lb potato bags and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute.

(I'm at this level.)

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.

LOL, Kathy G in MI

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Comments (8)

glenda_al
17 years ago
Ha, good one!

Hey, I do 8 lb weights 3 times a week.
gemini40
17 years ago
FINALLY...an exercise program I can get excited about!!! Is it on DVD by chance....love this wooo hooo!!!!! lol
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gadgets
17 years ago
Love it, love it, love it!!

Shirley
sjerin
17 years ago
Oh! I thought the exercise thread was being revised--haven't seen it in a lonnngggg time. Of course I only read it, didn't participate, much to my shame.
OklaMoni
17 years ago
Yeah, I thought it might get revived as well... even so, I was the one that stopped posting about exercising.

It just got to boring, with no one participating.

But I LOVE this one. ;)

Moni
glenda_al
17 years ago
Moni, I posted to your exercise thread, most times!
mcmann
17 years ago
Oh that was cute and to think I nearly missed it because I wasn't going to click on a topic about 'exercise'.
OklaMoni
17 years ago
I know Glenda, so did a few others. But the overall response just didn't happen.

There aren't that many that brag about their exercise, or not that many that do any.

I know you still swim/exercise, and think, that you know I still ride, and do a weight workout. I also added walking to my regimen.

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