EXERCISE GUIDE FOR OLDER ADULTS
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> Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of
> room at each side.
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> With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arm s straight out
> from your sides and hold them there as long as you can.
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> 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 sacks.
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> After a couple of more weeks, move up to 50-lb potato sacks.
>
> When you have mastered this, try to get to where you can lift a
100-lb
> potato sack 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 of the
> sacks.
>
2007-08-12
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