Exercise Routine for Non-Gym Types

[rp2813]

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 of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks. Then try 50-lb potato sacks, and 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.)
After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each sack.

 

[neptuneguy27]

Hahaha

I love it! That was too funny.

Chris

 

[sudsmaster]

LOL.

My initial reaction was, before I got to the end, was "Where am I going to find 50 lb potato sacks? I can't even buy a 10 lb sack because the potatoes go bad (green skin and/or sprouts) before I can eat them!".

 

[toggleswitch2]

Exercise Routine for Non-Gym Types

Why does one seek a parking space just outside the door of the gym? And go round and round with the car wating half an hour to get one? Why is it a conquest and a satisfaction of ego to get such a spot?

I mean aren't you there to get excercise? Park a half-block away. Honestly it won't kill you. The practise just may end up saving your life over time!

 

[jeffg]

LOL Toggles, I thought that was just a Bay Area thing..

 

[alr2903]

OMG, does this mean, my ab-lounger and stationery cycle are not for drying a bath towel i plan to use a second time

 

[pturo]

My idea of exercise is 20 minuits of parallel parking downtown. Or spelling minuits.

 

[rp2813]

Actually, I got this one from my sister via e-mail. It was originally titled "exercise routine for people over 50" but I figured that wouldn't get many hits here on AW!

Rich, I know what you mean. We buy just a few potatoes and put them near the steps to the basement and since they're in the dark behind closed doors we forget about them. Of course the numbers 4, 2, and 0, don't have a thing to do with it.

 

[sudsmaster]

Ralph,

Well, I don't need any four two oh to be absent minded. I do know that potatoes left alone too long will transform themselves into either shriveled little rocks with a tangle of dried shoots, or very stinky smelly gross masses of liquid rotten potato goo.

All my attempts at keeping potatoes for more than a week or two have failed. So I just don't bother to get more than a few pounds at a time when I get a hankering for them.

I did learn that one should never keep onions in the same space as potatoes. Something in the onions causes the potatoes to go bad much quicker.

And yeah, I've had liquid onions as well. Almost as gross as liquid potatoes.

As far as exercise goes, I got out my bicycle yesterday during the brief sunny spell to run some errands in town. I was way out of breath on the first errand, but after a hour or so of recuperation the second errand went much better. It rained all day today or I would have gone out again. I did feel better with just that exercise - after a couple months of healing from the broken ribs, I really needed it.

 

[ptcruiser51]

Old joke

Two guys returning home from the beach. One sez, "All the gals are always after you at the beach, what's your secret?" Other guy sez, "Just put a potato in your trunks". Next day guy #1 tries it. They're on their way home again and he says "I tried the potato, and no luck". #2 sez, "You're supposed to put it in the FRONT".

 

[rp2813]

Sounds like that guy wouldn't have done any better even he had put the potato where it was supposed to go . . .

Rich, I know that potato smell. It used to happen a lot where we lived before, because we had the hanging basket thing in the garage right outside the kitchen door. In the summer that garage could reach 90 degrees inside so bad potatoes happened real fast.

Here at Mom's old place I moved the basket from where she had it getting indirect light all day and placed it inside the basement door, still within fairly easy reach but in a cooler and dark space. We'll see if things last any longer that way. I'm going downstairs right now and separating any onions from any potatoes.

Ralph