Fitness Tip - Time to get ready for the season

[scububa]

This actually works!!

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.

Eventually, try to get to where you can lift a 100-LB potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight out for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level now.)


After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each sack.

[brettbyers]

I'm going to have to give that a try. I need to get in better shape.

[JGordon]

Buba,

I commend you for a very clever use of normal household items in your fitness regimen. I myself follow this routine, but have not yet reached your level of fitness. I'm currently limited to 2 Brussel Sprouts in ziplock bags (but they are the big freezer bags).

Jeff

[Captain Caveman]

Right now I'm doing 12oz curls 3 to 4 times a night

[h2odragon1]

This actually works!!

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.

Eventually, try to get to where you can lift a 100-LB potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight out for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level now.)


After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each sack.


Do potato chips count?

[h2odragon1]

Right now I'm doing 12oz curls 3 to 4 times a night

I'm at the 1/4 lb level now. Sometimes with cheese.

[jasolow]

Im doing lazy boy abdominal crunches one hour every weekday...............getting ready.

[Captain Caveman]

Cant wait. Just finished my first set. With dinner and Tv I think I might do a extra set.

[scububa]

Okay, I see were this is going...

I suppose there ought to be a SPUD-Lite joke in here.

[JGordon]

... I think I might do a extra set.

Go for it, Chris. You gotta push through the pain if you want to see real progress...:D

[Captain Caveman]

Wow after this morning I realized I've should have not done that extra set. TGIF and I start work later than normal.

[SLIM]

Hmm wonder how my curls would work out to be. Guess I need to weigh my glass when full and empty. SOme times it is corn or another grain thathas been framinting for atleast 4 years or more.

SLIM

[Captain Caveman]

My poison is Oatmeal Stout's and Dark Lagers. But for the real topic, I do not watch what I eat or drink. My work is very hard and keeps me on my feet all day. Being a heavy duty diesel mechanic I have no time to sit at a computer until I get home.

[scububa]

My poison is Oatmeal Stout's and Dark Lagers. But for the real topic, I do not watch what I eat or drink. My work is very hard and keeps me on my feet all day. Being a heavy duty diesel mechanic I have no time to sit at a computer until I get home.

Unlike me, who is a heavy duty computer user :eek: I have feet ???

I am wondering, "Are the Oatmeal Stouts better for your cholesterol?"

[Scuba Kat]

Buba,

I commend you for a very clever use of normal household items in your fitness regimen. I myself follow this routine, but have not yet reached your level of fitness. I'm currently limited to 2 Brussel Sprouts in ziplock bags (but they are the big freezer bags).

Jeff


Hi I am new to the scuba board and just read this post. Love this comment, made me laugh out load. I am female with a very thin build. Not sure the 100lb of potatoes is a realistic goal for me. I think I will just add one Idaho potato at a time.

[dive4you82]

Hmm wonder how my curls would work out to be. Guess I need to weigh my glass when full and empty. SOme times it is corn or another grain thathas been framinting for atleast 4 years or more.

SLIM

4 years???
Slim.. Please step away from the cheap stuff...