Maintaining your health and achieving and maintaining a high level of functional ability should be among your highest priorities. You only live once, and both how long you live and your enjoyment of it are directly affected by your health, your physical capabilities and your appearance. Proper exercise is a requirement for living the longest,…
Author Archives: Drew Baye
Eat Better, Exercise Harder
Contrary to the typical advice of well-meaning but misinformed trainers and health organizations, the key to fat loss is not to simply “eat less, move more”, but to eat better, and exercise harder. The idea one should eat less and move more to lose fat is based on a few assumptions: that fat gain and…
The Renaissance of Exercise
A few months ago while editing Elements of Form I started investigating language and consciousness and other aspects of psychology in an effort to better explain the details of exercise performance, along with important concepts like the real versus the assumed objective and the appropriate mindset for true, high intensity effort. I decided to completely…
Defining Exercise
To effectively communicate, teach, or discuss any subject it is first necessary to clearly define your terms. Without clear definitions misunderstandings are likely, especially when there is confusion or disagreement over the meaning of a word. There are few words people are as confused about or disagree over as much as exercise, or as important…
Site Update
I apologize for the lack of updates and for not being able to answer all e-mail quickly, but all other projects are on hold while EoF is finalized. Yes, it is way behind. I’d rather be late than not be happy with it, and I’m picky. If you want to get the absolute most out…
Everything is Changing
Thanks to all of you who have been reading my articles on the web for the past 15 years, from the first AOL site, to Cyberpump, to baye.com for all the feedback and for helping spread the word about proper exercise. You rock, and I’m proud of every one of you who has taken the…
UXS15.com is now live, and miscellaneous updates
The UXS-15 Ultimate Body Weight Exercise Station web site is now live and all of the related posts and videos are being moved there. Site redesign After Elements of Form ships this web site is being completely redone to make it simpler to navigate and use and a separate subscribers area is being planned for…
High Intensity Workouts
High Intensity Workouts was written in response to the large number of requests I receive for workouts and routines. It contains 101 workouts, including full body, various splits, body part specialization, consolidation, and a few of my personal favorites, as well as general guidelines for performance and tracking. I also discuss “condensed” versus traditional pre-exhaust and…
Nautilus Bulletins Three-Volume Set
This Three-Volume set contains Nautilus Training Principles: Bulletins No. 1, 2 and 3. These high intensity training classics by Nautilus inventor Arthur Jones cover every aspect of training from the specifics of exercise performance to the general principles of program design. My goal when editing this edition of the Nautilus Bulletins was to organize and layout…
The Real Objective of Exercise
“How you perform each repetition of an exercise is far more important than how many repetitions you perform.” I’ve probably said it thousands of times over the past two decades. Whenever a client seems more focused on how many repetitions they perform than how well they perform them I remind them of the real objective…
