Begin by standing on a comfortable surface where you have plenty of room at each side.
With a 5-lb. 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 weeks, move up to 10-lb. potato sacks. Then try 50-lb. potato sacks.
Then eventually 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.)
Once you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each sack.
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A very small potato. Ha, ha.
Reminds me of my grandfather. He held my aunt, when she was a small baby, out at arm's length, and said if he did this every day, eventually he would be able to lift a grown woman that way.
BTW, your link puts unwanted software on a computer, (trojan).
Reminds me of my grandfather. He held my aunt, when she was a small baby, out at arm's length, and said if he did this every day, eventually he would be able to lift a grown woman that way.
BTW, your link puts unwanted software on a computer, (trojan).
QUOTE (Roger C H @ Sep 8 2009, 11:32 AM) 
A very small potato. Ha, ha.
Reminds me of my grandfather. He held my aunt, when she was a small baby, out at arm's length, and said if he did this every day, eventually he would be able to lift a grown woman that way.
BTW, your link puts unwanted software on a computer, (trojan).
Reminds me of my grandfather. He held my aunt, when she was a small baby, out at arm's length, and said if he did this every day, eventually he would be able to lift a grown woman that way.
BTW, your link puts unwanted software on a computer, (trojan).
Roger:
Thanks, I removed the link.
Brian
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