Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Two quick notes, and then we'll talk training.
1. Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 3
We launched course no. 3 in the Dinosaur
Training Secrets series -- in your choice
of Kindle e-book or hard-copy course:
Hard-copy:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_03.html
Kindle e-book:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets3_kindle.html
We're getting great feedback on the course.
I'll be sharing some of it with you. In the
meantime, feel free to do a review on our
Kindle page -- the reviews help us
enormously.
And please note -- the new courseis GREAT for
older Dinos and for advanced Dinos who've been
hitting the iron for a long time -- because they'll
help you train for long and productive cycles
without burning out or going stale or hitting
a dead end. Training is fun when you're making
steady gains in strength, muscle and power.
2. The Dinosaur Files Quarterly
We also released the December 2014 issue
of The Dinosaur Files Quarterly as a Kindle
e-book:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurquarterly_01_kindle.html
We're going to get the March 2015 issue of
the Quarterly up on Kindle very soon, and
then release all new issues in your choice of
hard-copy or Kindle e-book. We need to do
that because some of you prefer hard-copy,
and some of you prefer Kindle e-books.
Again, feel free to post a review on our
Kindle page.
And as I mentioned yesterday, I'm looking
for feedback from readers -- and training
questions from readers -- so send them
on in. The Dinosaur Files Quarterly is YOUR
magazine -- so let me hear from you!
3. The Day John Grimek Quit the Iron
Game
Now, I know what you're thinking.
"John Grimek never quit the Iron Game!
He started training when he was a teenager,
and he kept going for his entire life -- right
up until the very end. He was doing heavy
squats and dumbbell presses in his 70's!"
Well, that's true -- but it's also true that
Grimek quit the Iron Game. We know,
because he wrote about it.
Here's what happened.
When Grimek was a young trainee he was
doing what all young trainees do and trying
to build bigger arms.
So he went on an arm specialization program
with way more exercises, sets and reps than
ever before.
After a couple of weeks, he was dog-tired,
worn out, exhausted, and the bags under
his eyes were the biggest thing about him.
And his arms hadn't gained a fraction of an
inch. In fact, they were smaller than before.
He'd actually lost size!
So he got mad and quit.
Put the weights back in their box, locked it
up, threw the key in the corner, and vowed
never to do anything as foolish ever again.
After a week or two of no training, something
happened.
His arms started growing again.
Once he stopped overtraining, his body started
to bounce back and rebuild.
So he dug out the key to the weight box, unlocked
the lock, pulled out the iron -- and started training
again.
But THIS time, he did it the right way.
Not too much. Enough to coax gains -- but not
so much that he prevented them.
It worked pretty darn well -- and the rest, as they
say, is history.
So if anyone tries to tell you that "There's no such
thing as overtraining!" or "Over-training is all in the
mind!" or "You just have to give your body time to
adapt!" -- think about John Grimek and the day he
quit the Iron Game.
If Grimek could over-train, ANYONE can over-train.
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. For more about John Grimek and how he
trained, grab my John Grimek training course:
Kindle e-book:
http://www.brookskubik.com/grimektraining_kindle.html
Hard-copy:
http://www.brookskubik.com/johngrimek_course.html
P.S. Dinosaur Arm Training will help you build big,
strong and powerful arms without overtraining:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_armtraining.html
P.S. 3. My other books and courses -- and links
to my other Dinosaur Training books on Kindle --
are right here:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
P.S. 4. Thought for the Day: "Anyone can over-train,
but you don't have to keep on doing it forever."
-- Brooks Kubik
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