Saturday, April 18, 2009

Exercise for people over age 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.

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.

2 comments:

Richard W Gorski, M.D. said...

Don't give up your day job; as a standup comic you may just not make it. Good one Gus.

Gus said...

Thanks, but credit belongs to the unknown person who originally wrote it. I received it by email.