In the video below I discuss and demonstrate how high intensity training principles should be applied to bodyweight exercise. A more in-depth book and videos will be available later this summer. For more information on the UXS click here
Category Archives: Exercise
Q&A: Training To Momentary Muscular Failure
Question: In this Q&A I’m going to address a few common questions about training to momentary muscular failure (MMF); what it is, whether it is necessary, and if it’s more effective to train past it. Answer: What is momentary muscular failure? Your muscles fail when fatigue has momentarily reduced their strength to below the level required to…
Q&A: Bodyweight Training For Muscular Strength And Size
Question: Is it possible to get as strong and muscular with bodyweight training as you can training with weights? Answer: As long as you train hard, progressively, and consistently you can get bigger and stronger with just about anything, including your own body weight; and I think most people can get just about as big…
Positive Versus Negative Strength: Implications And Training Recommendations
In the previous article I explained why muscles have different levels of positive and negative strength. Now I’m going to discuss the implications of this for exercise performance. Over the years people have invented a variety of exercise protocols and machines meant to provide greater resistance during the negative portion of an exercise, under the…
Positive Versus Negative Strength
Over the past year there have been several arguments in high intensity training circles over whether there is a difference between positive (concentric) and negative (eccentric) strength. Some of these have been semantic arguments about the definition of strength, some attempted to provide alternative explanations for the observed difference during test results, some are still…
A Return To The Dark Ages?
If the advent of Nautilus and high intensity strength training in the 1970′s was a renaissance in exercise, the current rising popularity of so-called “functional training” is a return to the dark ages. In her recent New York Times article, Fitness Playgrounds Grow As Machines Go, Courtney Rubin writes, Simple exercises with no-tech equipment (call…
What Do We Know? What Don’t We Know?
I originally posted this to baye.com way back in July of 2004 after joining an e-mail discussion group for people teaching and using the SuperSlow high intensity training protocol. When I mentioned on my Facebook page I was updating and reposting some older articles I received a request specifically for this one, and managed to…
The New UXS Exercise Demo
I recorded a video last night to demonstrate a few of the exercises that can be performed on the newly redesigned UXS (Ultimate Exercise Station): After working out and training people on the original for almost a year I made several improvements to the design. The sides are angled in more to provide a closer…
Strength and Heroism
There is a story in the news about a man and dog who rescued two young girls who fell through the ice into the Saskatchewan river in Edmonton. Adam Shaw was in a nearby park with his family and dog Rocky when he heard the girls scream. He and Rocky ran down to the edge…
Q&A: Rest Between Exercises
Question: How long should I rest between exercises? Answer: It depends on your goals and your current level of conditioning. If you’re just starting out I recommend resting just long enough after an exercise to not feel winded when starting the next. Depending on your condition you may not feel winded at all, especially since your…
