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> *Subject: EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 40
>
> **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 of the sacks.*
>