Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side With a 5-kg potato sack 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-kg potato sacks.
Then try 25-kg potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 50-kg 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 sack.
EXERCISE
FOR PEOPLE OVER 50
Begin by
standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each
side
With a 5-kg
potato sack 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-kg potato sacks.
Then try
25-kg potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a
50-kg 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 sack.