Start with doorway pushups. They build arm strength. O.K., so to answer your question, "what the heck are doorway pushups?" <g> Open a door. Start by stnding about 6-12" outside the door. Place your hands at shoulder level on each side of the door and "lower" yourself through the doorway as though to do a pushup. Then push yourself back up. Now, this will do two things. 1) builds upper body strength and 2) stretches the achilles tendon and calf muscles. Start with 5 and build your way up.
Now, if you do free weights (curls, palm up and curls, fist down; shrugs, lifts [kinda like you are doing snow angels while stand up <g>], and the above your head and then down behind your back thingy) and the doorway pushups, won't be long before you can do *real* pushups! Get a barbell (they weigh about 25 pounds) and do lifts. As you get better, add weights to it. Those are often on Freecycle.
For the pull-ups, again with the doorway thing. Get a bar that isn't stationary and that you can move. Put it low, lay on the floor and do upper body pull-ups to start. Also, if you can round up a
As to your DH, get him a Weider. He can do rowing, leg lifts, butterflies, and lifts. You can do the rowing (again, adds to the upper body strength).
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