In Strength Training, Spartan Is Best!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Two quick notes, and then we'll talk training.

1. Dinosaur Training Secrets

This is a new series of training courses for
2015 and 2016. I've already launched vol. 1
in your choice of hard copy or Kindle e-book,
and we're in the middle of a short pre-
publication special for volume 2. Go here
to grab either or both of the little
monsters:

Vol. 1

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_01.html

Vol. 2

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_02.html

2. The Dinosaur Files Quarterly

Is the best hard copy training journal out there.

If you missed issues no. 1 and no. 2, go here
to grab them. We're selling them issue by issue,
not as a subscription, because that works better
for a quarterly publication:

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles_quarterly.html

If you live overseas or in Canada, email and
ask for a shipping quote for multiple items.
We can usually save you some big clams
by shipping several items together.

On the training front, let's talk about true
Spartan training -- and I don't mean the
so-called "300 workout" they did for the
movie.

There's a great book by Daniel Coyle called
"The Little Book of Talent." It contains 52
rules for improving your performance in
sports, business, job, school, or anything
else.

Coyle studied top performers in a wide
range of disciplines, and found a number
of similarities between the top performers.

They tended to do certain things in the same
ways.

One thing he noted about many highly
skilled, top performers was that they
trained in spartan quarters -- particularly
when they were climbing the ladder.

For example, a top tennis school might have
the future stars of the sport playing on courts
with cracks in them and grass or weeds pushing
up here and there.

A top ski school might look like a 1950s era scout
camp, with the future greats living in very simple,
almost primitive log cabins.

A top high school might have the smartest kids
on the planet studying in what looks more or less
like an old army barracks.

And I'm not making these up. They're real life
examples from Coyle's book.

In contrast, many "fancy" facilities didn't have
a very good track record when it came to creating
successful performers.

The parallel to effective strength training is
obvious. The so-called "fitness" industry
pushes high-tech training in opulent "gyms"
featuring lots of chrome, mirrors, fancy lighting,
air conditioning, aromatherapy, piped in music,
cardio theater, big screen plasma tv's, espresso
bars, donuts, pizza delivery, and row after of
plushly padded machines.

Spartan it is not.

And that's one of the big reasons why the
Chrome and Fern Pleasure Palace Gyms don't
deliver.

They're too fancy. Too nice. Too pretty.

And fancy, nice and pretty don't work in the
Iron Game.

And yes, it's a training day today -- and I'll be
hitting it hard and heavy out in my garage. Just
me, the iron and a homemade lifting platform.

Just the way it should be.

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. Here are the links again for Dinosaur
Training Secrets, Vol. 1 and 2:

Vol. 1

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_01.html

Vol. 2

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_02.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: "The best leaders
live simple lives. So do the best lifters."
-- Brooks Kubik

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