{"id":3343,"date":"2010-10-02T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:20:48","slug":"new-exercise-regimen-for-people-over-fifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"New exercise regimen for people over fifty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was sent to me by my friend Karen, the wife of my college roommate Mike. Here she is – the young woman without the wine in her hand. The wine drinker is Marissa (formerly) Novotny, at her own wedding this past spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here’s Karen’s breakthrough workout:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. <\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/p>\n

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.)<\/strong>    <\/span><\/p>\n

After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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This was sent to me by my friend Karen, the wife of my college roommate Mike. Here she is – the young woman without the wine in her hand. The wine drinker is Marissa (formerly) Novotny, at her own wedding this past spring.   Here’s Karen’s breakthrough workout: Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13701,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/13701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}