Drew Baye’s High Intensity Training

I receive daily alerts from Google whenever high intensity training is mentioned on a new web page, blog entry, or news article, and over the past several months more and more of these have been about high intensity interval training, rather than high intensity strength training. Every personal trainer and fitness “expert” out there with a web site seems to feel the need to put their 2 cents in, typically comparing the effectiveness of the two for fat loss. What nobody seems to be challenging is the belief that these things are relatively effective for fat loss at all.

Which is better for fat loss, high intensity interval training or higher volume, lower intensity steady-state training?

The answer is neither – both are a waste of time. While high intensity interval training wastes less of your time than higher volume, lower intensity aerobics, neither burn enough calories to be worth doing for that purpose. At most, the net calorie expenditure for either might be as high as one or two hundred, but probably much less (net calorie expenditure equals total calories expended during the activity minus resting energy expenditure – the amount you would have  burned had you been relaxing with a good book instead). Some “experts” claim high intensity interval training is better because of the additional calories burned post exercise due to excess post-exercise oxygen consumption (EPOC), however this amounts to very little. Read more…

Drew Baye Fat Loss

I’m behind the schedule I had set for myself since the weekend before last I had what felt like the flu and spent most of my time either puking or trying to rest and got little writing done, and I don’t anticipate getting caught up since my mother will be visiting us for the next two weeks and I have exercise equipment being delivered to the house this weekend. I am writing when I have time between appointments, but that doesn’t tend to work out as well as when I have more time to just focus on writing. My best estimate now is that the first draft will be finished by mid March, and it will take about 2 to 3 weeks after that to edit and illustrate it.

Once the book is finished, I have plans for others, and depending on how things go I will have far more time for writing and be able to finish those projects more quickly. A few of those projects will be geared more towards personal trainers, including a book on teaching exercise form including detailed sub-protocols for a variety of exercises. Others will be announced as work on them begins.

I have two other projects planned, one related to equipment, the other to diet, and will provide more details on those within the next couple of weeks. Lots to do, and hopefully once the bodybuilding book is done I will have more time to work on the rest.

Drew Baye Miscellaneous

Although there is still a bit of work to be done, at my current rate of progress I still anticipate having the first draft finished around the end of February, after which I begin the process of editing, illustrating and shooting photos, which I anticipate will take about another month.

I installed a video capture card today, so once the book is finished I will be posting videos demonstrating exercise technique, and starting video documentaries of several upcoming case studies. I already have a list of exercises in mind to begin with, but am open to suggestions.

I apologize to everyone whose e-mails I have not responded to yet. In response to the post on my current routine I have been receiving about a dozen per day, and do not have time to answer detailed questions about or design workouts, programs or diets for everyone who asks. This is part of the reason I am writing this book.  Everything is covered there. Exercises, sets, workouts, routines, frequency, and just about every variable of repetition performance you would care to know. Questions of a general nature will be answered by e-mail and as a  Q&A post on the site. Those asking more detailed questions or questions specific to an their workouts, routine or diet will be referred to the relevant sections of the book once it is released. Eventually, everybody who has e-mailed will receive some kind of a response. It’s not that I don’t enjoy corresponding or talking training with readers, there are just too many demands on my time for it right now.

I always appreciate feedback and comments from readers, and encourage you all to keep sending questions as it lets me know what subjects people want to hear about, just be patient if I don’t get back to you right away. That being said, here are a few quick answers to a some of the more common questions I’ve received about the book:

It will be available overseas. For those who asked, the company fullfilling orders does ship to the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Brazil, Israel, Iraq and a huge list of others. 

It will not be available as an e-book.

It will only be available through this web site.

Drew Baye Miscellaneous

I spent most of yesterday writing, then deleting stuff and rewriting it. Today has been pretty much the same, as will every bit of free time I have over the next month minus family time. I am trying to finish the book by the end of February, so updates on the site will be slow. I’ve got about a dozen topics in the “to write” list for baye.com, but these are on hold til either after the book is done or if I need to switch gears for a little while. The review of the Paleo Cookbook will be up later this week, as soon as I get a chance to try a few more of the recipes. So far, everything we’ve tried has been good, and easy to prepare. I have also received requests to review other cookbooks, which will come after the book is out.

I am currently way behind answering training and nutrition related e-mail. If you have sent an e-mail with a training or nutrition related question and not received a response yet, please be patient. Read more…

Drew Baye Miscellaneous