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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Start with doorway pushups.  They build arm strength.  O.K., so to answer 
your question, "what the heck are doorway pushups?" <g>  Open a door.  Start 
by stnding about 6-12" outside the door.  Place your hands at shoulder level 
on each side of the door and "lower" yourself through the doorway as though 
to do a pushup.  Then push yourself back up.  Now, this will do two things. 
1) builds upper body strength and 2) stretches the achilles tendon and calf 
muscles.  Start with 5 and build your way up.

Now, if you do free weights (curls, palm up and curls, fist down; shrugs, 
lifts [kinda like you are doing snow angels while stand up <g>], and the 
above your head and then down behind your back thingy) and the doorway 
pushups, won't be long before you can do *real* pushups!  Get a barbell 
(they weigh about 25 pounds) and do lifts.  As you get better, add weights 
to it.  Those are often on Freecycle.

For the pull-ups, again with the doorway thing.  Get a bar that isn't 
stationary and that you can move.  Put it low, lay on the floor and do upper 
body pull-ups to start.  Also, if you can round up a

As to your DH, get him a Weider.  He can do rowing, leg lifts, butterflies, 
and lifts.  You can do the rowing (again, adds to the upper body strength).

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>

Done. I have some tai chi tapes, too.  I'm not into ballet...sorry.  I
am more of a martial arts kinda girl.  I planned on doing tai chi in
addition to regular stuff, and the dancing<G>.  I have to keep things
low impact, but I have found that skipping(easier than jogging) and
walking backwards is good, too...( wish I could jump rope-that would be
fun)
The thing is, I don't know how much yoga or tai chi I can convince dh to
do...and he hates dancing.  He really wants to lift weights, though.

I probably should say that while I say I want to lose 50 pounds, 25 will
do.  I am finally under 200 pounds again, under my smoking weight
finally(I weighed 205 a year ago, then up to 235, now back down to 198).
 Most charts say that I should weigh between 155 and 175 pounds.  I
picked the lower number just to give myself a big goal to shoot for, and
because dh also wants to lose 50 pounds.  But if, by this time next
year, I only weigh 175, then I will still feel like superwoman. <g>

I'm never had much arm strength.  I can only do two pushups and no
pullups or chin ups.  Back in the day, the kid hung a pull up bar in the
barn-it is still there, and I've been trying now for over a month to
pull up on it-every time I walk by it..but no luck.  I've tried just
hanging and starting from the up position and letting myself down
slowly, but I am just not strong enough.  I really need some
help....maybe in the form of making myself 50 pounds lighter?!?!

I know Lynn? once said that she works out to avoid injury, and that's a
goal for me, too.  I can lift feed bags easily enough, and even toss
them a ways when I need to, but in doing that I use my back and legs
more than my arms, I think.  My legs are plenty strong, and make up for
what my arms lack.

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“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda
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