Hail to the Dinosaurs!
We've had hundreds of responses to yesterday's
GUESS THE MYSTERY WORKOUT CHALLENGE.
Bob Hoffman.
Joe Weider.
Reg Park.
John Grimek.
Peary Rader.
Bruno Sammartino.
Mark Berry.
The BUR Barbell Company.
George F. Jowett.
Arthur Saxon.
Bradley J. Steiner.
Steve Stanko.
Brooks Kubik.
My father.
And many more. All of them good guesses.
But no one got the correct answer. Trudi
was right. It was impossible.
So here's the answer:
Mattel, Inc -- the toy company!
A week ago I saw something pretty cool on Facebook --
an ad for a junior barbell and dumbbell set for kids.
It was from 1961. Featured a weightlifter doing a
heavy military press, and a little boy doing the
same with the junior barbell - and a little girl
doing a two dumbbell press.
I thought that was pretty neat. Heck of a good toy.
Much better than Barbie and Ken. Even better than
GI Joe -- or Rockem-Sockem Robots.
I googled and found an antique dealer that had one of
those old kiddie barbells for sale. The bars are
hollow metal pipe. The plates are hollow black plastic,
designed to look just like real ten, five and 2 1/2
pound plates. Empty, the whole thing weighs one or
two pounds. You can fill them with water, dry sand
or wet sand. The weight will vary from 2 pounds to 20
pounds on the barbell.
Since I have grand-kids, and grand-kids like to do the
stuff that grandfather is doing when they come to visit,
I decided to grab the thing. Maybe someday they can train
with me.
The barbell arrived yesterday, and a little wall chart
came with it. The course is from the wall chart.
Hey, it's not a perfect training course, but it's not
half bad - especially for kids to use!
And that's the story of the MYSTERY COURSE. if you ever
come to Louisville and you're walking around and you see
an old guy tossing some heavy iron out in his garage --
with the grandkids using a little kiddie barbell to do
the same exercises that Grandpa is doing, you'll know
how it started.
As always, thanks for reading and have a great day. If
you train today, make it a good one.
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. We're getting close to the end of the pre-publication
special on the new John Grimek training course -- so if
you've not yet grabbed your copy, do it now so you get
the special bonuses:
http://brookskubik.com/johngrimek_course.html
P.S. 2. Save some major wampum on s and h by ordering
two or more Dino goodies at one time. You can find all
of them right here:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
P.S. 3. Thought for the day: "There's no better gift
than the gift of strength and health." -- Brooks Kubik
