EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 50Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room ateach side.With a 5-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from yoursides 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 canlift 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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