Keep Fit for over 40s

EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE 40 and over...

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 for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.)
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After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.

I'll stick to mental exercise ........





..... right now, I'm thinking about "standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side".

my kind of exercise :Thumbs Up:

Ooooh Marg! You had me going here for a minute.

I do try and keep fit with the aid of two cans of baked beans but it doesn't seem to have much effect!

Marg wrote: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 for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.)

Blimey, what a relief! I had a flash mental image of a rather delicate and refined lady with huge "Popeye" arms!
Frightened the life outa me.

kidder wrote:

Marg wrote: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 for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.)

Blimey, what a relief! I had a flash mental image of a rather delicate and refined lady with huge "Popeye" arms!
Frightened the life outa me.

feathers wrote:I do try and keep fit with the aid of two cans of baked beans but it doesn't seem to have much effect!

"a rather delicate and refined lady with two cans of baked beans" ..... methinks the effect will affect all those around after a couple of hours - and that frightens the life outa me. :affraid:

Fear not Chas...I don't eat the beans...just wave the cans around hoping to strengthen a few muscles, instead of using weights.

kidder wrote:

Marg wrote: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 for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.)

Blimey, what a relief! I had a flash mental image of a rather delicate and refined lady with huge "Popeye" arms!
Frightened the life outa me.

Refined? Moi?