The Weekly Health Challenge: Stretching and Weights
The Weekly Health Challenge: Level One
Stretch your legs three times this week
You can sit down on the floor and just reach for your toes, if you want. It's not important that you reach very far. Just keep your back straight and reach. Even if you can only go to your knees, the point is to feel the stretch, not go until it hurts or until you think you've gone far enough. Hold it for a count of ten, then relax.
The Weekly Health Challenge: Level Two
Learn to lift weights
Pick one muscle group you want to work, and then learn how to lift weights to work it. If you want to work your arms, for instance, look up arm weight exercises. If you don't have weights, improvise. I've seen people use cans of food, bags full of books, or even just a single really big book. If you can afford it, though, buying five to ten pound weights would be helpful for you.
Extra Challenge: Do those weight exercises three nonconsecutive days of the week. Three sets of eight to ten reps.
Stretch your legs three times this week
You can sit down on the floor and just reach for your toes, if you want. It's not important that you reach very far. Just keep your back straight and reach. Even if you can only go to your knees, the point is to feel the stretch, not go until it hurts or until you think you've gone far enough. Hold it for a count of ten, then relax.
The Weekly Health Challenge: Level Two
Learn to lift weights
Pick one muscle group you want to work, and then learn how to lift weights to work it. If you want to work your arms, for instance, look up arm weight exercises. If you don't have weights, improvise. I've seen people use cans of food, bags full of books, or even just a single really big book. If you can afford it, though, buying five to ten pound weights would be helpful for you.
Extra Challenge: Do those weight exercises three nonconsecutive days of the week. Three sets of eight to ten reps.
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