About
…this site
The purpose of this web site is to provide no-nonsense, gym-tested, practical information on training and nutrition for building muscle, losing fat, and improving all aspects of fitness and physical performance. There are tens of thousands of bodybuilding, fitness and fat loss magazines, books and web sites out there, and the vast majority of them contain information that is utterly wrong, and sometimes even harmful. I hope this web site helps to clear some of the confusion and help people train more productively, more safely, and more efficiently.
…Drew Baye
I started strength training in 1987 in junior high to build muscle and to improve my performance in sports and martial arts. Later in high school I became more interested in bodybuilding, having always been a “skinny guy” and wanting more muscle. While I made some progress, it wasn’t until I learned about high intensity training from Mike Mentzer’s Heavy Duty column in Iron Man magazine in 1994 that I was able to really put on muscle. That year I gained about 30 pounds of muscle, going from 150 to the low 180’s. Other people in the gym took notice of the transformation and started coming to me for training advice. I started training a few people, realized I had found something I had a passion for, and decided to pursue a career in personal training.
I was fortunate enough to be hired as a trainer by a Gold’s Gym in Green Bay (now Titletown Fitness) owned by high intensity trainer and bodybuilder Mike Moran and his cousin Pat Grimm. Mike taught me more about high intensity training, helped get me in condition for my first bodybuilding competition, and introduced me to two people who would end up being some of my strongest influences; former IFBB pro bodybuilder Mike Mentzer and SuperSlow founder Ken Hutchins.
I communicated regularly with Mike Mentzer, whose Heavy Duty system of high intensity training is a cornerstone of my own training philosophy, up until his untimely death in June of 2001. In 1996 I moved to Orlando, Florida to work for Ken Hutchins who has an encyclopedic knowledge of exercise science and many related fields. Over the years I have been fortunate to meet and learn from some of the most knowledgeable people in the field, including Nautilus inventor Arthur Jones, Ellington Darden, Jim Flanagan, Joe Mullen, John Little, Greg Anderson, Doug McGuff, Ryan Hall and others.
I continue to study and learn from a variety of sources to improve my ability to produce the best possible results for my clients and provide practical, no-nonsense information on training and nutrition through this web site. The training and nutrition principles and methods you read about here are the same ones I use every day helping people build muscle, lose fat, and look, feel and perform their best.