Following up on our conversation about unconventional forms of diet and exercise, Martha shares an exercise regimen that turns into a paraprosdokian. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “A Strange Exercise Regiment”
Continuing on our tear about novel types of exercise, we talked about plogging, which is picking up trash while you’re jogging.
And we talked about the bean diet, which is you throw a bunch of beans up in the air and then pick them up off the ground. You bend over to pick. Yes, or you do squats.
But I found another great exercise.
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface where you have plenty of room at each side. With a 5-pound potato bag 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. Every day you’ll find that you can hold that position just a bit longer.
After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-pound potato bags. Then try 50-pound potato bags.
And eventually, you get to the point where you can lift a 100-pound potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a minute.
I’m at this level.
And then after you feel confident at that level, put a potato into each bag.
And my linguistic excuse for talking about that is that it’s sort of like a paraphrosdokian, which we’ve talked about before. An unexpected turn to something that someone is saying.
So I guess that’s the potato bag exercise.
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