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Lynda wrote:
> 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.

I do that on the coutertops...lol  I can do a few pushups that way.



> 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.

We have some free weights..the kid stores his stuff here.


> 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

I haven't done that.  That sounds like a good idea.


> 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).

So does canoeing, and we have two of them, but it hasn't helped me do 
pull ups...I guess we aren't doing it frequently enough or enough reps 
or something.



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