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Maggie’s Strength Training for Seniors

BAT_Boy

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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.
 
Re: Strength Training for Seniors

hahahaha

I was just about to call you out before I read that last line...
 
Re: Strength Training for Seniors

Along the same lines: I am 64 years old, and I can do between four and five hundred pushups, without stopping.

Five is a number between four and five hundred.

Words matter.