Thanks for the comments. It feels good to be training again and I am happy to have all of this great support.
I'll keep things up to date with goals and progress on the other thread!


CelticRanger66, I'll agree with that. I had a lot of success when I first done games by training with olympic lifts. It's just a matter of getting the weight!!!

I'm hoping that more weight training stuff will come up on freecycle soon but in the meantime I'll use what I've got.


vmac3205, I don't have any buckets but I might go ahead and use one of the seating benches in the yard and see how that helps out. Thanks!

Mipi, I'm going carefully and making sure to use good form and not strain anything with proper warm-ups and cool downs. As far as strength training goes, though, it's better to have more weight and less reps. It's just that line between building overall strength and power and just building muscles that look nice.