My new excercise program

Having reach the old age of 60 with most of my motor skills intact I though it would be good for me to get back to some exercising.  This looked pretty good and not too complicated so I thought I would pass it on.  If you have any you enjoy doing let the rest of know what it is.

EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 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. (I'm at this level.)
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(Highlight between the (*) to see last instructions)

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

So what do you think?  I really feel the 'Burn' with this exercise.

 

 

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Reply #1 Top

:rofl:

But then I'd actually have to get off the couch. So, Philly...I'd have 'to bag' that idea.  X|

Reply #2 Top

....trying to figure out what you're going to do with two 100-lb bags of potatoes when they start to rot.  (Rotting potatoes smell just awful!)

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But then I'd actually have to get off the couch
You'd still be a couch potato.:grin:

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EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 50

I am not over 50. So I cant tell you my experience.

 

....And even if you lift 100 lb potato bag = 50 kg potato bag, you should consider that you are lifting 1 kg for each year of your life, when you didnt exercise...hehehe k1 ...1 kg is too low-weight.

....Also you might reduce the weight by repllacing 100 lb potato bags with 100 lb cotton-wool bags  k6

 

 

 

Reply #5 Top

Ah k10w3, did you highlight the last instructions? :-"

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@ angus: Listen, Spud...I resemble that remark!  XO

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(Highlight between the (*) to see last instructions)

Hehehe, you folks need to read the last instructions. :rofl:

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*doc didn't wanna give it away.  ;)

Reply #9 Top

Last instructions are yet to be anounced?

Clever Crazy Cupid Man...

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Superman...put your cursor inside the * left click and drag the cursor to the other *. Philly typed a message there in white 'ink'.

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Reply #11 Top

Hehehe, you folks need to read the last instructions.
I did Philly.  However I was using my potatoes in my swim trunks at the beach to impress the girls, until a friend told me to put it in the front.  I wondered why all the girls ran.

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Quoting angus1949, reply 11
Hehehe, you folks need to read the last instructions. I did Philly.  However I was using my potatoes in my swim trunks at the beach to impress the girls, until a friend told me to put it in the front.  I wondered why all the girls ran.

Martha and the Vandella's: "Mashed Potatoes"

Reply #13 Top

Even better exercise - eat the potatoes...

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Quoting Fuzzy, reply 13
Even better exercise - eat the potatoes...

Nope, let the girls eat

Reply #16 Top

Hmm, I wonder what the empty 100lb bag/sack  that potatoes come in weighs?  I don't want to 'over exercise' and change my total figure, I've grown accustomed to looking like a 'pear". :O :-" :rofl: \o/ :rofl: \o/

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Potato exercise:-

Home made Cottage Pie (my own recipe) for 1 person.

Boil 800g of potatoes. While they are doing, cook your minced beef as follows...

Melt a knob of butter in a small pan, add in a cup full of minced beef.
When the mince has browned, add in a heaped teaspoon of plain flour, then add in a tablespoon of tomato puree.
Mix some beef stock: Take 1/3rd pint of water, add a beef stock cube and 1/2 teaspoon of gravy granules and stir.

Add the stock to your minced beef and simmer until thick.

All that takes about 25mins to cook. When the potatoes are done, add in a knob of butter and some cream (or condensed milk) and mash until creamy.

Put the mince in a small baking dish and put the potatoes on top. Cook in an oven pre-heated to 220C for 20-25 mins.

Eat when done! :thumbsup:

 

Reply #18 Top

How many times have you eaten your cottage pie ?

 

Reply #19 Top

Quoting Philly0381, reply 5
Ah k10w3, did you highlight the last instructions?


:blush:   Obviously not.  In my defense, I did just find out yesterday through a postcard in the mail that my oldest child is getting married* three months earlier than he informed me of before (new date just three weeks away), AND I'm multi-tasking, by responding/reading these posts and creating toolbar icons for my Mardi Gras Windowblind which I would like to upload within the next week to week and a half.

 

(* for those who might be interested, this is going to be the most geekiest wedding ever.  He's presently awaiting an e-mail back from a company that makes game dice, to quote him a price on fifty 16-sided dice, the 16th side with he and his bride's name on it to give as wedding tokens to the guests.  He proposed to her over a game of Dungeons and Dragons.)

Reply #20 Top

Philly LOL BUT.. IF the bag is a 100 lb pound, that means the bag itself weighs in at that amount, reguardless of what may or may not be in it :-" :grin:

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:O  :rolleyes: :-"

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Reply #22 Top

hehe Remember the old joke Philly? 'Which is heavier, a ton of rocks or a ton of feathers?'

They are equal, as they both weigh a ton.:grin: