Re: Exercise for lifting giant pumpkins

BRAVO Dave!---how many potatoes are you up to?? Here's another poll we
should take while were waiting to harvest these "monsters"- how many of us
have pulled backs or herniated discs or some other form of "discomfort"
around the first of October??? Now - there's some statistics for ya!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Belcher" <belcherdv@earthlink.net>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 3:35 PM
Subject: Exercise for lifting giant pumpkins


> >  I thought I would let my friends and relatives in on a little secret
> > I've found for building up my arm and
> > shoulder muscles. You may wish to adopt this regime 3 days a week.
> > Start by standing behind the
> > house, and with a 5 pound potato sack in each hand, I extend my arms
> > straight out to my sides and hold
> > them there as long as I can. After a while I moved up to 10 pound
> > potato sacks, then 50 pound potato
> > sacks, and finally I got to where I could lift a 100 pound potato sack
> > in each hand and hold my arms out
> > for more than a full minute! This was real work, but the results were
> > worth it! Next, I started putting
> > potatoes in the sacks, but I would caution you not to overdo it at
> > this level.
> >
> >
> > Dave Belcher
>
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