It is great to read here what us post-50's are doing with weights. I have sciatica and did a year of PT (stretches, planks, band work, squats with no added weight, etc) which made things a lot better and feel I am now ready to start on some weights. I was going to do kettlebell since the movements are supposed to be good for sciatica. See for example
https://kettlebellsworkouts.com/scia...ell-exercises/.
If anyone else has sciatica I'd be interested in what regimen you follow.