Hail to the Dinosaurs!
It's a new month, so let's get started.
I'll begin with a great big THANK YOU
to everyone who responded to yesterday's
email about my new (not yet finished)
book on diet and nutrition for Dinos.
It's a big job, and I really appreciate
your support and encouragement!
On the training front, I've been getting
tons of emails from readers reporting on
the great gains they've made with
Dino-style abbreviated training.
Many of these emails have come from older
readers who note that they just don't have
the time (or the energy) to hit the longer
workouts they managed when they were
younger.
And that's a very important point. Weight-
lifters are very serious, very determined
people. We are used to pushing ourselves
very, very hard -- and we're used to setting
high goals, and then achieving them.
If we've been doing that for twenty, thirty,
forty or fifty years (as many Dinos have done),
then it becomes very difficult to ease up on
the gas pedal and take things a bit easier.
And yet, that's exactly what older trainees
need to do. (By older, I mean anyone over the
age of 40.) You need to ease up a bit -- but
you also need to make sure you keep at it.
No stopping, no quitting, no long lay-offs,
no getting discouraged, and no saying,
"Maybe I'm too old for this stuff!"
Let me share something interesting with you.
I've written before about Sig Klein, and how
strong he was. He set a professional World
record in the military press with 229.5
pounds at a bodyweight of only 152 pounds,
had other lifts in proportion, was world
class at handstand pushups, tiger bends
and similar feats, and was one of the
best built men of his era.
But much more important than Klein's super-
human strength and magnificent muscular
development was the fact that he kept
training for literally his entire life.
Sig Klein trained three times per week, as
regular as clockwork. From age 40 on, he
followed old-school, one set per exercise
workouts (much like the old Milo Courses
and York courses). He would do relatively
high reps on each set (usually 15 for the
upper body and 20 or so for the lower body).
He would use lighter weights than when he
was younger -- but NOT THAT MUCH
LIGHTER! And he was very careful to
perform every rep of every set in letter
perfect form.
He performed total body workouts, and did
a wide variety of different exercises. He
used barbells, dumbbells, iron boots, and
kettlebells -- and he performed pull-ups,
chin-ups, handstand pushups and tiger
bends.
He sometimes trained with men who were much
younger -- sometimes twenty or thirty years
younger. He would challenge them to keep up
with him. No one ever did.
At age 40, Klein had the same measurements
(and weighed the same) as he did at age 20.
At age 50, he still had the same measurements.
And he still weighed the same.
And get this -- he had the same measurements --
and he weighed the same -- at age 60.
I don't know about you, but I think that's
pretty impressive.
I also think it's pretty darn motivating. So
I'll be training tonight -- and I'll make it
an extra good one in honor of Sig Klein --
The Ageless Champion!
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. You, too, can be an ageless champion --
but you have to keep on training, and you have
to train the right way. here are three GREAT
training guides for older athletes:
1. Gray Hair and Black Iron:
http://www.brookskubik.com/grayhair_blackiron.html
2. Dinosaur Bodyweight Training
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_bodyweight.html
3. Going Strong at 54 (a Dino DVD):
http://brookskubik.com/goingstrong.html
P.S. 2. My other books and courses (and DVD's) are
right here:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "Age is a state of mind.
Pick the state you want to live in." -- Brooks Kubik
