I CAN'T SHAKE THIS FREAKIN OVERCUMBERMENT!! SOMEONE HELP!!
Also you can enhance your strenght by taking Buffouts (but this will help only for a short time, and you can get addicted too) or getting a Power Armor.
Who will almost certainly die in the wasteland because he is standing right in the middle of a gunfight, leaving you behind with too much stuff to carry and a twitching hand reloading the latest savefile in anger over nice Ian dieing on you again.