08/19/2026
Over the past several weeks and I have been taking a hard look at www.baye.com/hit-list/ —how it is organized, how easy it is to find information, how new members get started, and how I can do a better job of helping you apply what you learn here to your own training.
There is already a tremendous amount of information here, and in some ways, that has become part of the problem. If you can’t quickly find what you need, or if you aren’t sure where to start, having more information doesn’t necessarily make this community more useful.
So I’m working on a number of improvements.
Make the HIT List Easier to Navigate
• Reorganize material so related topics are easier to find.
• Simplify and clarify the names of spaces where necessary.
• Add brief, clear descriptions to each space so you immediately know their purpose
• Improve the index posts so important articles, videos, and discussions are visible without unnecessary clicking.
• Move older posts into more appropriate sections when they are currently difficult to locate.
• Make better use of the existing search function and show members how to use it effectively.
The goal is simple: you should be able to find what you need easily and quickly.
Improve the Start Here Section
I’m going to update and reorganize the foundational material in Start Here.
Some of the older videos contain good information, but my current video and audio quality is much better, and I can present much of the material more clearly and concisely now.
I plan to:
• Replace older videos with shorter, updated versions.
• Put the material into a more logical learning sequence.
• Make it clearer what you should watch or read first.
• Archive older material rather than simply deleting it.
• Update the program-design material and terminology where needed.
You should not feel that you have to consume everything in the HIT List before you can benefit from it.
The objective is to give you a clear path through the fundamentals and then allow you to go deeper into the subjects that are relevant to you.
Create a Short HIT List Orientation
I’m going to record a brief walkthrough showing exactly how to use the community.
It will cover things such as:
• Where to start.
• How the spaces are organized.
• How to search.
• How to use the indexes.
• Where to ask different kinds of questions.
• How to create and use a training journal.
• How to tag me when you want my input.
This should be especially helpful for newer members, but I suspect some long-time members will discover things they didn’t realize were already available.
Put More Emphasis on Member Training Journals
I want to encourage all of you to keep a training journal inside the HIT List.
This isn’t just about recording workouts.
A journal gives us one place to keep all the information on your training together—your program, diet, progress, questions, problems, and adjustments over time.
Instead of asking a question in isolation, you can say:
"Here’s what I’ve been doing, here’s what has happened, and here’s what I’m considering changing."
That allows me to give you a much more useful answer.
I’m going to:
• Make Member Training Journals easier to find.
• Encourage new members to start one early.
• Encourage members to keep questions about their own programs there when appropriate.
• Make it clearer that you can tag me when you want feedback.
• Show examples of how journals can be used effectively.
I think this can make the HIT List considerably more useful for people who want ongoing help with their training rather than simply access to articles and videos.
Make It Easier to Get Help With Your Own Training
One of the most important benefits of the HIT List is that you can ask questions about your circumstances.
I want to make that more obvious and easier to use.
You can ask about things such as:
• Program design and adjustment
• Exercise selection
• Exercise performance
• Workout frequency
• Progression
• Equipment selection and use
• Breaking plateaus
• Building muscle
• Losing fat
• Useful supplements
If you are unsure what applies to you, ask.
Improve the Organization of Exercise Information
I’m continuing to clean up how exercise related material is categorized.
This includes clearer sections for subjects such as:
• Exercise Performance
• Program Design
• Exercise Selection
• Exercise Equipment
• Bodyweight and Static Exercise
• Nutrition and Supplements
• Bodybuilding and Physique Competition
• How to Teach Exercise
This should make it easier to distinguish between questions about how to perform an exercise, how to design a program, and how to apply these things to a specific goal.
Expand “How to Teach Exercise”
I want to put more emphasis on material for personal trainers/exercise instructors, gym owners, and others who teach exercise professionally.
Being able to perform an exercise correctly and being able to teach someone else how to perform it correctly are different skills.
I plan to expand material on:
• Teaching exercise principles
• Correcting exercise performance
• Communicating with clients
• Exercise selection
• Program design
• Equipment selection and modification/improvement
• Troubleshooting client problems
• Professional practice
I want the HIT List to be useful not only for improving your own workouts, but also for improving the quality of instruction you provide to others.
Continue Sharing My Own Workouts—With Better Focus
I’m going to continue posting my workouts.
Some will simply be workout footage. Others will include commentary on things such as:
• Why I selected particular exercises
• Changes I’m making to my program
• Exercise performance
• Progression
• Equipment selection
• Problems I’m working around
• Questions that come up during training
For the more detailed commentary videos, I’m going to try to keep them tighter and more focused.
Improve the Presentation of the Community
As I reorganize things, I’ll also clean up titles, descriptions, covers, and internal references so the community feels more consistent.
I’m not interested in redesigning everything just for appearance.
The purpose of these changes is to make the organization easier to understand at a glance.
Make It Clearer What the HIT List Is Really For
I also want to do a better job of explaining the purpose of the HIT List.
There is already an almost unlimited amount of fitness information available online.
The problem is not a shortage of information.
The problem is knowing:
• What is correct (most of the information elsewhere is not)
• What matters
• What applies to you
• How to put it into practice
• How to determine whether it is working
• What to change when it isn’t
My goal with the HIT List is not simply to give you more things to watch and read.
It is to help you understand exercise well enough to make better decisions about your training.
That means helping you train effectively, safely, and efficiently, get the best results you reasonably can, and avoid wasting your time on things that are unnecessary or counterproductive.
Improve the Public HIT List Page
I’m also going to completely update the page at baye.com/hit-list/ so prospective members have a much clearer idea of what the community actually contains and how it works before joining.
I plan to add:
• Screenshots of the community
• A short walkthrough video
• A clearer explanation of Start Here
• Examples of Member Training Journals
• A better explanation of how members can ask me questions
• More information for personal trainers and exercise professionals
• Better answers to common questions about HIT
• More member experiences and success stories
I think the current page undersells what is actually available inside the HIT List.
I’ll Be Asking for More Member Feedback
As I work through these changes, I want your input.
If there is something you have had difficulty finding, something that has confused you, something you think deserves more attention, or something that would make the HIT List more useful to you, please tell me.
The community should be organized around helping you get better results and make better decisions—not around making you adapt to an unnecessarily complicated system.
And if there is something you particularly value about the HIT List, I want to hear that too. It helps me understand what I should keep and expand rather than accidentally changing something that is already working well.
The Overall Goal
I want the HIT List to become:
• Easier to navigate
• Easier to understand
• Easier to use
• More personalized
• More interactive
• More useful to trainers and instructors
• More useful for solving real training problems
• Better at helping you turn information into results
There is already a huge amount of extremely valuable material here.
My next priority is making sure you can get even more value from it.
And as always, if you have a question about your own training, don't hesitate to ask!
Train smarter. Join now → Baye.com/HIT-List/
