I can't add to Carbonfiberboy's recommendations in post # 6. However, WRT blood pressure, I just learned about the best exercise to reduce Blood pressure, which is very surprising and counterintuitive, but the research supports it.

I would go with Carbonfiberboy's recommendations, but you may also want to include some isometric exercises to help lower blood pressure as much as possible. And isometrics are also a great exercise for strengthening connective tissues/joints.


Believe it or not, isometrics beats all other exercises, by far, on reducing BP.






This attempts to explain the why in how isometrics is the best exercise to lower BP, but really we don't really know yet