Drew Baye's High Intensity Training

01/16/2026

Happy birthday !

01/12/2026

Looking forward to competing again next fall and seeing how much I can improve on my size and conditioning from 2024 while still making weight for classic physique.

Huge thanks to for contest prep and posing coaching!

01/06/2026

12/23/2025

Advice for people joining the gym for the first time, on learning new exercises, what to bring and wear, gym etiquette, and more:

Advice for people joining the gym for the first time!If you want to learn more about this topic or have specific questions about anything in this video join ...

12/20/2025

Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a gains-filled new year!

12/18/2025

Throwback Thursday! With 6x Mr. Olympia at the during the 2023 DYHIT Master Trainer course.

It was an amazing experience and I highly recommend taking the course if you have the opportunity!

12/16/2025

What did Mike Mentzer get wrong?

I discuss some of the most heavily debated guidelines of Mike Mentzer's Heavy Duty system of high intensity training (HIT) including extremely brief and infr...

12/12/2025

Be part of the reason a new gym member doesn’t quit in 2026!

12/11/2025

Pose down with Santa!

12/11/2025

Throwback Thursday!

With and at the 2023

Can’t wait for 2026!

12/10/2025

High intensity training (HIT) is not dangerous. Performing exercises with too much weight and form that is too loose is dangerous.

I'm over 50 and have been doing HIT for over 30 years with no training related injuries. I've also taught HIT professionally for over 30 years and have instructed tens of thousands of workouts, with no injuries.

Training hard is NOT dangerous IF you use strict, correct form, and an appropriate level of resistance:

How to train intensely and not get hurt: https://youtu.be/BnXh6-azGtU

How to perform HIT without getting hurt: https://youtu.be/JZIKj-TWfuc

Tips for training more safely: https://youtu.be/4V58rBRh3I8

Many repetition methods can be effective, but not all are equally safe, and this is equally important if you value your long-term functional ability and heal...

12/09/2025

Train as hard as you are physically and mentally capable of and adjust your volume and frequency to avoid overtraining, rather than assume you need a certain volume and frequency and reduce intensity to accommodate it.

To paraphrase , most of you will get much better results from your workouts if you do half as much, half as often, but twice as hard.