Drew Baye’s High Intensity Training

Fitness and weight loss “experts” like to recommend finding ways to incorporate more physical activity into daily life, usually exchanging efficiency or convenience for increased physical exertion, based on the mistaken belief that doing so makes a meaningful contribution to health, fitness, or fat loss. They claim these little changes add up to a lot [...]

My friend Anthony Semone informed me the ACSM have posted a press release titled “Experts Debunk Myth About Exercise, Weight Loss” in response to the Time Magazine article covered in my previous post. The following is the full text of their press release (inset) along with my comments: EXPERTS DEBUNK MYTH ABOUT EXERCISE, WEIGHT LOSS [...]

The August 17, 2009 issue of Time Magazine contains an article that is going to piss off a lot of people in the fitness industry, because it challenges one of the biggest myths that have been lining the pockets of gyms, trainers, and equipment companies for years: that exercise will make you lose weight. The [...]

21 Convention founder Anthony Johnson came over Saturday to go through a negative-only workout on the Hybrid machine and brought his video camera with him. The workout consisted of negative-only squats, dips, low rows (first video), calf raises, presses and pulldowns (second video). When performing negative-0nly on the Hybrid machine, the rep starts with a [...]

Chris Highcock just posted an excellent interview with Luke Carlson on functional training at ConditioningResearch.com Luke does an excellent job of explaining the relationships between proper strength training, skill training and functional ability and dispells many popular misconceptions about training to improve athletic ability.

I recently posted a link on Facebook to Arthur De Vany’s Top Ten Reasons Not to Run Marathons, to which a friend who runs replied, Everyone has their opinion. I run because I like to. Not because I want to run 26.2 miles every day or even 13.1 miles every day. I think it’s a [...]

I have a few more sections to finish, plus photos, illustrations, and layout. I’ve been writing when I have time between clients and on the weekends, and it’s coming along well, but I’m still not 100% happy with it. The book started out too formulaic – general principles, applications, sample routines, etc. and it started [...]

Chris at ConditioningResearch.com just notified me he posted an interview with Doug McGuff, MD. Check it out at http://conditioningresearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/interview-with-doug-mcguff.html You can also view several videos of Doug speaking at a book signing on his web site at www.bodybyscience.net

Drew, The NSCA posted this article showing that studies have proven that multiple sets are superior to single set training programs at times and I’m curious what your thoughts are on this subject. Are there instances where more sets do elicit a greater response? Here is the link: http://www.nsca-lift.org/HotTopic/download/Single%20vs%20Multiple%20Sets.pdf Austin Austin, I consider Rhea’s paper [...]

I just received the following article from Ken Mannie, head strength and conditioning coach at Michigan State University, with permission to post it here. Exercises, Equipment Modes and Rep Duration: The Question of Superiority by Ken Mannie The training landscape is in a state of continual flux, and the ongoing changes, updates, and emergence of [...]