I have tried to stay fit since my teens, and four decades later, I was still training at the same intensity until pain in my joints creeped in. Like any stubborn person in denial, I ignored it and suffered. Then I spent a weekend with my sister and her husband, who showed me an innovative approach to strength training that would put less stress on my joints and at the same time increase my strength.
As my brother-in-law, a professional trainer, described this approach and shared the tools to try it, the researcher in me filtered his words. Don't get me wrong, I think he is terrific, but his approach just sounded too good to be true and I hadn’t heard about it before.
