OllieUK
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EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 60
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 56lb potato bags and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 112lb 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.
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 56lb potato bags and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 112lb 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.