Hail to the Dinosaurs!
We'll talk training in just a minute, but first
I want to thank everyone who has ordered
a copy of my new course, Dinosaur Training
Secrets, Vol. 1, in either e-book or hard-copy
format.
If you missed the announcement, go here to
grab the little monster:
http://brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_01.html
If you ordered on Kindle or you have an
Amazon account, pls write a review on our
Amazon Kindle page. The reviews really help
us.
So far we have 11 reviews on the Amazon.com
site, 8 on the Amazon UK site, and 1 on the
Amazon Australia site. Thanks to everyone who
put up a review -- and please, keep them
coming!
On the training front, I received an interesting
question in response to yeaterday's email. It's
a question I get fairly often.
This time it came from Chris Califano. He
wrote:
"Here is an interesting question: What would
the result/benefits be if a younger lifter followed
the exact same advice that older trainees should
employ regarding "making every rep count"
and "every exercise and every set count"?
In other words, that a younger dedicated lifter
can put more hours into his or her training
should not be a "license to waste energy."
Just that we COULD do it when we were
younger does not mean that we should
have.
In fact, I am sure that if I had applied the
same methods for Progression with
Recuperation when I was in my teens,
twenties and thirties, I would have
gotten further faster. And with less
if any injuries, nagging or small!
And I would have had more balanced
development, plus better health and
more free time, to boot!
Chris"
Chris -- Thanks for your email. The question
you pose is a good one. Most trainees follow
the over-the-top high volume workouts when
they are young -- and they end up wasting
what should have been the very best years
of their training careers.
It's a crying shame -- especially when it leads
them to quit training -- or to turn to steroids
and other drugs.
If everyone started training the right way from
Day 1 of their career, we'd see many more
trainees achieve great success -- and we'd
see many more trainees stick to their program
for their entire lives.
In terms of concrete results, try these examples
of young men who started out training the right
way:
John Davis started training at age 15 -- and won
the World weightlifting championship -- beating
not one but two former Olympic gold medal
winners -- at age 17.
John Grimek went from 120 lbs. to 178 lbs. in
his his first three years of training -- and went
from a clean and jerk of 95 lbs. to a clean and
jerk with 247 1/2 lbs.
Steve Stanko gained 80 pounds of muscle in
his first 2 years of training -- and won his first
United States Senior National title later in the
same year.
Frank Spellman worked up to a 240 lb. military
press at a bodyweight of 156 lbs. -- after just
1 1/2 years of training. He went on to win an
Olympic gold medal in 1948.
Tommy Kono entered his first weightlifting
contest in 1948. He imporved his 3-lift total
(press, snatch and clean and jerk) by 195
lbs. over the next 2 years. He won his first
Olympic gold medal in 1952.
Obviously, not everyone is going to become
a World or Olympic Champion, or a Mr.
America.
But if more young guys trained the way that
Davis, Grimek, Stanko, Spellman and Kono
trained, they'd make enormously more
progress.
And that's why I continue to bang the drum
for sane, sensible training -- and for training
with deep focus and pinpoint concentration.
It's an important message -- and so many
guys and gals need to hear it!
As always, thanks for reading and have a
great day. If you train today (as I will), make
it a good one!
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. Here's the link again for the new Dinosaur
Training course:
http://brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_01.html
P.S. 2. My other books and courses are right
here at Dino headquarters:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "It doesn't matter
if a hammer and nails are old-fashioned. They
still work better than anything else -- and every
carpenter needs to use them." -- Brooks Kubik
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