Hail to the Dinosaurs!
One quick note, and then we'll talk training --
and cover an old school secret to upper body
strength and muscle mass.
1. Dinosaur Training E-Books
Our e-books have been an off the chart success.
We're getting great reviews, and all four of the
little monsters have made it into the Amazon Top
10 at one time or another. Some days we have
two or three of them in the Top 10. And the new
"How Strong Are You?" course made it all the way
up to the number 1 position.
We'll have more coming soon, but for right now,
you can run on over to the Kindle bookstore and
grab these little monsters:
1. Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 1.
"Exercises, Workouts and Training
Programs"
http://brookskubik.com/dinosaursecrets01_kindle.html
2. Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 2,
"How Strong Are You?"
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets2_kindle.html
3. The Training Secrets of John Grimek
http://www.brookskubik.com/grimektraining_kindle.html
4. The Dinosaur Military Press and Shoulder
Power Course
http://www.brookskubik.com/militarypress_kindle.html
If you prefer hard-copy courses, all of the
little monsters are available in hard-copy,
as well -- along with my other books and
courses. You can find them right here
at Dino Headquarters:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
Be sure to post a review for each book on our
Kindle pages. The reviews really help.
2. An Old-School Secret of Upper Body Strength
and Development
If you're familiar with the old-time strongmen,
weightlifters and bodybuilders -- meaning the
men from 1890 through 1950 or so -- you know
that they had tremendous strength and rugged
muscular development.
They tended to be particularly good at feats of
overhead strength -- at arm and grip strength --
and at one-hand lifting. Witness the old-school
strength standards I cover in my "How Strong Are
You?" Course and my Military Press course.
From a bodybuilding point of view, the old-
timers had tremendous development. Good
muscle size, excellent proportions, shapely
muscles and terrific muscularity.
They looked like classical statues -- and many
of the top men (Otto Arco, Sig Klein, and John
Grimek) actually posed for the leading artists
of the day.
When they posed, they moved with lion-like
power and supple strength. They exhibited
remarkable control of their muscles. Indeed,
many of them (such as Grimek) were true
masters of what they called "muscle control."
And many of them -- perhaps most of them --
used what is now a largely forgotten tool that
supplemented their weight training perfectly.
They used cables. (Or rather, they used what
we now call "cables". They called them "strands"
and "chest expanders".)
The benefit of cables is that the resistance
increases as you stretch them -- so you
need to constantly recruit more and more
muscle fibers to push or pull them to the
fully stretched position.
To do that, you need to establish a powerful
mind-muscle link -- and concentrate deep
and hard -- and teach your nervous system
to fire off more and more commands to
your muscles to push or pull against the
resistance of the cables.
It almost becomes a form of isometrics
with movement.
And that makes a very powerful, very
effective strength and muscle builder.
It doesn't replace weights -- but it works
in concert with them.
My friend John Wood sells some terrific
cables. He also just released a great-looking
reprint edition of one of the classic cable
courses -- a course that will give you some
great insights into old-school cable training.
It's called "All About Strand Pulling" -- and
you can grab the little monster right here:
http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/about-us/news/2015-04/1155-all-about-strand-pulling-syd-devis-new-edition
I'd love to see you try a combination of
old-school cable training, Dino-style barbell
and dumbbell training, and the type of super
nutritious diet I cover in Knife, Fork, Muscle
and see what happens over the coming year.
I'm betting that we would see some amazing
results.
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. I mentioned Knife, Fork, Muscle. If you
don't have a copy, go here to grab it:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_nutrition.html
P.S. 2. Thought for the Day: "Do anything and
everything you can to link your mind and your
muscles. The mind-muscle link is critical."
-- Brooks Kubik
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