Hail to the Dinosaurs!
The University of Michigan football team has a new
head strength and conditioning coach.
It's Kevin Tolbert.
Those of you who have been following the strength
training field for the past 30 years are probably very
familiar with Kevin.
He's been featured in numerous articles by Dr. Ken
Leistner in Hardgainer, Muscular Development, and
Dr. Ken's own newsletter, The Steel Tip.
Dr. Ken began training Kevin when he was just 12
years old -- and used his rugged, old-school training
methods to transform the muscle-less kid into 185
pounds of unstoppable running back.
After a terrific high school career, Kevin went to the
Naval Academy, where he pushed his weight to a
solid 225, played fullback, and was known as the
strongest man on the team.
After he graduated, he served his full military
commitment, seeing 3 1/2 years of combat duty
in the Mediterranean. He brought his weights on
board ship, and famously trained on heavy, high
rep squats while the ship rolled from side to side.
He would stand with the bar on his shoulders until
the ship came to "level" -- and then squat and
come up -- and then stand and wait until the ship
rolled and came back to level before completing
the next rep.
It's sort of like heavy squats on a wobble board,
except you're using a ship in the middle of the
ocean for the wobble board.
It worked pretty well, too. Kevin ended up pushing
his weight all the way up to a soliud 240 pounds --
at 5'9" -- and that's pretty big and pretty thick.
Kevin went on to work as an assistant strength
and conditioning coach at the University of
Michigan, Stanford, and the San Francisco
49ers. He was the strength and conditioning
coach for the University of Miami for the past
three years.
So he's been teaching Dr. Ken's style of hard,
heavy, high intensity training for a long time --
and to a number of great football teams.
And like Dr. Ken, he knows how to make the
magic happen.
It's very simple.
You load the bar -- and you get to work.
Do the work, and the magic happens.
If you want his exact words, go here:
http://www.cstv.com/printable/schools/mich/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/011215aad.html
If you want to know more about Dr. Ken's
strength training methods -- and more about
Kevin Tolbert's training -- grab the complete
set of back issues of The Steel Tip from my
buddy, John Wood:
http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/products/steel-tip-newsletter-collection-dr-ken-leistner
And if you want to make the magic happen,
start by loading the bar.
That's where the magic is.
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'll also find lots of magic in the new
quarterly Dinosaur Files. Go here to grab the
first issue:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles_quarterly.html
P.S. 2. My other books and courses are right
here at Dinosaur Headquarters:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "Think it through,
make a plan, and take action." -- Brooks Kubik
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