Excercise for over 30's

[Dodger67]

I came across this exercise suggested for the over 30's to build muscle strength in the arms and shoulders.
The article suggested doing it three days a week.
1. Begin by standing on a comfortable, flat surface, where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 2kg potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to hold for a full minute, then relax.

2. Each day, you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 5kg potato bag. Then a 25kg potato bag and eventually try to get to where you can lift a 50kg potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute (I'm at this level).

3. When you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the bags...

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[amigirl]

Hahahaha, you're so hilarious! I love this one, I'm gonna share it with my mom!!!!! :):clap2:

[Holly]

Okay, I just turned 30. That was so not funny lol!! I hate working out but do it anyway lol

[pebbles_7676]

Hi,

I got a workout video last November at rehab institute of chicago. All it deals with is being active for teens and adults. The music is stupid though so I mute it and listen to my own ipod while watching and working out.The dvd is 14.95 so thats not bad for a dvd. So if your a teen or like me 30 yr. old adult I suggest giving this dvd a try. If anyone see the video 'm talking about On the Move and think it helps like I do. Let me know. Thanks, Tammy

[angel]

A few years ago i tried the tai bo tapes that my mom had. LOL it don't work so good when you can't stand up. I hate to work out delibritly so i just do those extra things through out my day. I take the stairs (not optional for everyone i know but i am good at stairs with my crutches) I carry my laptop eventhough my husband offers to carry it to the car for me. I moved furniture this weekend (the boys now have seperate rooms) etc.... Just to burn some extra calories here and there. I think it is really important that people who are disabled stay in as good a shape as possible!!
I find now that i have hit 30 everytime i eat chocolate or cake i can almost feel my ass getting bigger!!!!!!!!!! UGh:2aa:

[Gymp]

I think it is really important that people who are disabled stay in as good a shape as possible!!
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Most definitely!!!
Since I'm no longer standing beside a printing press and plate burner all day and the work I drum up now is in front of a computer getting out of shape is easy.

To avoid getting out of shape I work in the yard,mowing the lawn trimming branches bla bla bla...

I've also started a vegetable garden plot about 7 years ago.I dug out an area that's about 6 foot X 30 foot and basically grow all our own veggies.It's great,I don't use any pesticides whatsoever.I grow tomatoes,peppers,
onions,cucumbers,swiss chard,parsley,dill and chives.This year all the harvesting is done and I've done all the canning,blanching and freezing to tide us over during the winter months.Now I'm waiting for all the leaves to fall off the trees so I can rake them up and dig them into the veggie plot along with what's accumulated in the compost bin,I try to waste nothing.

I've put down 3 fresh coats of wax on the floors of the house to deal with my partners wheelchair's winter residue that it drags in during winter.

After I've dug all the leaves into the garden all I have to do is wait until the snow flies so I can get the snow shovel out and dig us out of what old man winter has to offer.

Then spring begins and seeding season starts and another cycle begins.

Yeah I'd say I'm reasonably fit....for now anyway.

Gymp

[angel]

I tried to grow a garden for 3 years and I finally figured out i don't have a green thumb!!! I can grow flowers with no problem but veggies are a whole different story. The first year i was able to grow cucumbers, bell peppers and jalipnio peppers. That was all i got out of probably 15 different vegatibles i planted. The second year i didn't even do that good!!! The last year i babied that garden. Out on my hands and knees every day picking weeds and checking to see how they were doing. Still no good. I had carrots and they looked like they were doing well on top. When i dug them up OMG it was just odd. One grew into a ball ( i assume the soil was to hard or there was a rock underneath or something) none of them grew straight and i wasn't to sure about eating them lol so the bunnies ate well!!!

Now that we have moved and I no longer live in the country i have no space for a garden. Now i just stick to flowers!!

Angel

[Dodger67]

I have a few succulent potplants on top of a bookshelf.
I tried growing herbs last year - only the coriander (cilantro) and ONE miserable parsley survived. They didn't sell well at all at the flea market.

[Gymp]

I finished turning the soil in the veggie garden the other day.It was beautiful outside too,sunny and a high of
18 Deg.C (64.4 Deg F.) normal for this time of year is ~10 Deg.C (50 Deg.F).

I dug in 3 large bags of leaves that I had raked a few days earlier.It took all afternoon to dig these leaves in where only 4 years ago it would have taken about 2 hours.Had to sit all evening long with a heating pad strapped to my lower back to help relieve the nagging ache.

This old age is creeping in a little quicker than anticipated lol...

Gymp

[Dodger67]

Consult an orthopeadic specialist or physiotherapist - I think a lumbar brace/corset might help when you're doing hard manual work.

[Gymp]

Dodger...I forgot to mention I have a cacti and succulent collection that I had started when I was about 14yrs. old.Back then a friend of mine had a few tiny cacti and gave me one and it's been a competition between the two of us ever since.I've one cactus in my collection that's as tall as I am and weighs a ton,I may give it to to that friend as pretty soon I won't be able to lug it inside or outside when the seasons change.

No specialist in this area will even look at me because of that stupid broken harrington rod
I may look into the back brace though!


Gymp