Enjoy
Lew
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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.
"Jimmy Mac" wrote:
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You do the math - what
seemed like "yesterday" at Gilley's ..................was 30 years
ago!
I remain older and dummer .....
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There was an old bull and a young bull standing on top of the hill
looking down on a pasture full of heiffers.
Etc, etc.
These days, I walk.
Lew
On Jan 4, 9:23=A0am, "Lew Hodgett" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Enjoy
>
> Lew
> ---------------------------------------------
> 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.
>
> =A0Each 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)
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> =A0 After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
Now THAT'S funny Lew! I actually began working out again after 6
years. I have the home gym and have actually lost 21 pounds and
several inches. The "guns"
are back and at the tender age of 59, I actually intimidate some of
the younger guys around the office at the jobsite.
The downfall: You think you can still do what you did in the
"younger" years. At church on New Year's Eve, the youth had a party.
Of all things, they had a mechanical bull. I rode the heck out of it
at the original Gilley's in Texas when I lived there (at the age of
29.) I figured I could still do the same. The big "guns" helped but
I finally got thrown after a very loooooong 15 seconds. No problems
until I woke up yesterday and it feels like someone took a steel rod
from my neck down through my shoulder! LOL! You do the math - what
seemed like "yesterday" at Gilley's ..................was 30 years
ago!
I remain older and dummer .....
Jums
aka Jummy
aka Minwax Mac
www.brazosriverband.com
Lew Hodgett wrote:
> Enjoy
>
> Lew
> ---------------------------------------------
> 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.
Tennis is good exercise for the body. Swiveling your head to and fro
watching the ball is more than ample.
As for exercising the mind, golf is the game. By concentrating, you can
sometimes make golfers miss putts on TV.
On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 14:08:11 -0800 (PST), Jimmy Mac
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>Now THAT'S funny Lew! I actually began working out again after 6
>years. I have the home gym and have actually lost 21 pounds and
>several inches. The "guns"
>are back and at the tender age of 59, I actually intimidate some of
>the younger guys around the office at the jobsite.
>
>The downfall: You think you can still do what you did in the
>"younger" years. At church on New Year's Eve, the youth had a party.
>Of all things, they had a mechanical bull. I rode the heck out of it
>at the original Gilley's in Texas when I lived there (at the age of
>29.) I figured I could still do the same. The big "guns" helped but
>I finally got thrown after a very loooooong 15 seconds. No problems
>until I woke up yesterday and it feels like someone took a steel rod
>from my neck down through my shoulder! LOL! You do the math - what
>seemed like "yesterday" at Gilley's ..................was 30 years
>ago!
>
>I remain older and dummer .....
>
>Jums
>aka Jummy
>aka Minwax Mac
>www.brazosriverband.com
yeh I seem to remember a country song to the effect! :-]