16 March, 2010

Excersize for those over 50

EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 50

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.

:-)

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23 Comments

Armando Salas 16 Mar 2010

Thank you, Trixi.

Beatrix Jahn 16 Mar 2010

OMG!!! OMG!!! OMG!!! I know a good hand/arm surgent!!!!!! ;-)

Armando Salas 16 Mar 2010

jerry carlin 16 Mar 2010

Trixi and Armando, you have me looking for your posts each day! I know a lot about excersize and every time I get the feeling I should be doing it, I lie down until the feeling goes away!

Beatrix Jahn 16 Mar 2010

hahaha...love the cartoon, Armando. You are so fast with these wonderful creations :-))

Jerry------I know what you mean.

But Im trying to take an example of how my mom lived, and Im doing the nordic walking, which is fun and healthy. Just have a problem with the sticks at the moment, cause of the hand. Still not up to par totally.

16 Mar 2010

Martha Miller 17 Mar 2010

morning trixi. thanks for the laugh. i loved that joke a great start of my day.

Beatrix Jahn 17 Mar 2010

Glad you enjoyed it Minnie and Minverva!

Have to pay back some of the wonderful smiles I get from you :-)))

xox

Beatrix Jahn 17 Mar 2010

MARTHA is what I wanted to write ........... sorry about that... and double dutching Minnie wasn't a bad deed, so Im good to go, right?!

17 Mar 2010

Beatrix Jahn 17 Mar 2010

the d-d was, cause I wrote "Minnie AND Minerva" instead of Minnie and Martha :-)))

18 Mar 2010

Armando Salas 18 Mar 2010

This usually happens when there are VERY common names involved:

Mrixi, Marmando, Minverva, Merry Marlin...

you already know.

Armando Salas 18 Mar 2010

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Armando Salas 18 Mar 2010

Moët & Chandon

Armando Salas 18 Mar 2010

... and then...

YABBA

DABBA

DOOH!

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Beatrix Jahn 18 Mar 2010

hehehehe-------you guys kill me :-)) I guess Im the SPECIALIST with fumble fingers! *sigh*

Mary Janosik 19 Mar 2010

HEEHEEHEE!!!! My kind of excersise, too!! Good thing my hubby keeps me going.... :-) Gotta get om shape for the summer of hiking!!!

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