High Intensity Training Book Update
Sun, Feb 8, 2009
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.
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8. February 2009 at 2:26 pm
Mr. Baye,
I have followed your post here and at Dr. Darden’s HIT site for a very long time. I look forward to your new book with great anticipation. Good things come to those who wait,so wait I will. Good Luck, I am sure it will be Great!
Respectfully,
Mark Shear
8. February 2009 at 2:34 pm
Hi Drew,
Just my thoughts…..
I’m sure you’ve already thought about this and may well have reached the same conclusion, but when you shoot exercise demonstration videos I would love it if you covered compound freeweight movements first.
Whilst it is possible to use poor form when using machines, I see it every time I go to the gym, I feel that the risk of injury is far greater when using free weights, especially on compound movements where heavier loads are used.
I understand as well that you can use poor form on shrugs, calf raises and wrist curls, but poor form on those may not have the same consequences as poor form on squats and deadlifts for example.
Videos focusing on compound free weight moves will be far more beneficial to far more people than small moves or machines.
Videos I would love to see you make, are:
1. Barbell Squat
2. Barbell Deadlift
Definitely more detail on those two than any others. In Rippetoe and McRobert’s writings, more detail is given to them than any of the others.
Then the other obvious choices as far as I’m concerned are:
3. Barbell Overhead Press
4. Barbell Row
5. Barbell Bench Press
6. Parallel Bar Dip
7. Chinup
8. Pulldown (if you have access to the basic cable pulldown that every gym has, not something like a MedX pulldown that most people will never have the good fortune of using).
8. February 2009 at 8:12 pm
Hi Drew,
I hope you have some books sent to Australia it seems like HIT is finally getting it’s message(even if slowly)across to the mainstream fitness community. On the weekend a newspaper “Get Fit” column recommended HIT as part of weight loss. The only problem is that the exercise program wasn’t HIT when your HIT book is published I will send the newspapaer a copy.
Thanks
Steven Turner
8. February 2009 at 10:26 pm
Steven,
Thanks, the book will be available for order in Australia as well.
9. February 2009 at 4:56 pm
Hi Drew,
I live in Venice, Italy and I hope the book will available for my country.
Keep up the good work.
9. February 2009 at 11:29 pm
drew,
will you have a ‘venue’ to address questions regarding the book when it is published?
i have a couple questions that i would like to ask, but will wait to see how they are addressed in the book.
also, will the book go in to further detail on your planned fitness organization?
9. February 2009 at 11:44 pm
Nate,
Once the book is up I will set up a forum here for discussion of it. The organization is not discussed in the book.
9. February 2009 at 11:44 pm
Thanks Fabio, and yes, the book will ship to Italy.
13. February 2009 at 12:40 am
Thank you,
Looking forward to picking up a copy.
19. February 2009 at 1:21 am
Very exciting stuff. The new McGuff/ Little offering was spectacular and I am expecting your book to be as good and possibly even better. Like an earlier poster said; HIT is finally catching on!