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, 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, then 50-lb. potato sacks, and 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.
After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks, but be careful!
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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
On fierce body maintenance to prolong youthful edge
As I age, I am finding it challenging to stay optimally fit but my husband of thirty years said: "I am more attractive: not by my curvature, prettiness or leanness but by keeping my chemistry alive! Where my chemistry is defined as a combination of warmth and curiosity, ease in relating to people, intelligence and imagination, wit and sense of irony."
Am I rigid and resigned? Oh no! I am soaring, and enjoying my post menopausal zest..Somehow I am finding a new version of attractiveness with my complexity and uniqueness, where I am developing a deeper core of attributes where I can accept, embrace and enjoy the roundedness and normal weight gain, wrinkles and sags that come naturally with maturity.
Somehow, I have this fear that after I have dieted, weight trained, body contoured, nipped and tucked,dyed and lipo-suctioned, that I am being prepared for mummification. Ha, ha, ha, ha..
I have accepted that my sense of well being is no longer determined by the world's evaluation of my attractiveness, therefore, I am proceeding with joy in the playfulness of the next stage of my life..I will enjoy every minute of it, whatever is best for me, hopefully becoming better, stronger, wiser, deeper, funnier, freer and more attentive to living the privileged moment, even as I am getting lumpier, bumpier,and closer to the end..Ha, ha, ha, ha..
Am I rigid and resigned? Oh no! I am soaring, and enjoying my post menopausal zest..Somehow I am finding a new version of attractiveness with my complexity and uniqueness, where I am developing a deeper core of attributes where I can accept, embrace and enjoy the roundedness and normal weight gain, wrinkles and sags that come naturally with maturity.
Somehow, I have this fear that after I have dieted, weight trained, body contoured, nipped and tucked,dyed and lipo-suctioned, that I am being prepared for mummification. Ha, ha, ha, ha..
I have accepted that my sense of well being is no longer determined by the world's evaluation of my attractiveness, therefore, I am proceeding with joy in the playfulness of the next stage of my life..I will enjoy every minute of it, whatever is best for me, hopefully becoming better, stronger, wiser, deeper, funnier, freer and more attentive to living the privileged moment, even as I am getting lumpier, bumpier,and closer to the end..Ha, ha, ha, ha..
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