Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Everybody over a certain age has memories of
the old-school muscle magazines: Bob Hoffman's
Strength and Health, Muscular Development (a
Hoffman magazine that was edited by John
Grimek), and a host of other publications from
back in the era of ink on paper.
Most of us who were young in that era look back
most fondly to Peary Rader's wonderful old
IronMan magazine.
It was the best of the best.
The reason why is two-fold.
Peary Rader believed in basic, simple workouts
and what he called "limited exercise programs."
Lots of squats and a few other basic exercises.
And not much else.
He printed articles about longer, more complicated,
high volume programs because he felt that his job
as editor was to provide a forum for different ideas
about training rather than to censor the things he
disagreed with -- but the over-all message of the
magazine was simple: "Work hard on the basic
exercises."
Second, Peary Rader tended to focus on the
average trainee, NOT the "champions."
The other magazines ran one feature after
another telling us how so-and-so bombed,
blitzed, and blasted his biceps, powerized
his pecs, or carved those washboard abs.
And they topped that with the gossip columns,
where the insiders gave us the monthly scoop
on everything that was happening at Muscle
Beach.
But IronMan gave us articles about real people
who trained and lived in the real world -- and
who discovered interesting new exercises,
designed new pieces of equipment, or
figured out new and better ways of doing
things to build strength and muscle.
Their contributions to the Iron Game were
immense, immeasurable and invaluable --
and we would never have known about them
had it not been for Peary Rader's IronMan.
I'm trying to continue that tradition in the
Dinosaur Files Quarterly.
It's a strength training journal that's much
like Peary Rader's old IronMan.
It doesn't focus on the "champions." It doesn't
cover the big contests. If you're interested in
that sort of thing, there are plenty of places
to find it.
It's not a supplement catalog, like the other
magazines. We have some small classified ads,
but that's it. Not page after page of endless ads
with look-alike bodybuilders pushing protein
supplements, pre-workout energizers, post-
workout recovery drinks, herbal concoctions,
glandulars, metabolic this or optimize-me
that.
The Dinosaur Files features my own original
articles, as well as articles from your fellow
Dinosaurs. Thus, it serves the same function
that Peary Rader's IronMan served -- it gives
us a clearing house to share ideas about the
kind of training that works for people like us --
people who live and train in the real world.
We launched The Dinosaur Files Quarterly in
December 2014. The second issue came out
in March 2015. The June issue will be available
very soon.
Because it's a quarterly, and because it's now
available as a Kindle e-book, we offer single
issue purchases rather than a one-year
subscription. So you need to grab each
issue as it comes out -- just as if it were
a new book or course.
Let me repeat that to avoid any possible
confusion. We're offering the Dinosaur
Files Quarterly issue by issue, NOT as a
subscription.
The December issue was hard-copy only. However,
we just released a Kindle e-book edition, which I
know many of you prefer. It's especially good for
overseas Dinos because you don't have to pay
an arm and a leg for postage.
We're going to release the March issue as a
Kindle e-book, and then release the June issue
and all future issues in your choice of hard-
copy or Kindle e-book.
Go here to check out the table of contents for
the December 2014 issue and the March 2015
issues, with a link to grab the back issues of
each in hard-copy format:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles_quarterlyorder.html
If you prefer the Kindle e-book edition, go
here to grab the December 2014 issue:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurquarterly_01_kindle.html
In the meantime, we're working to get the March
2015 issue up on Kindle -- and to finish the June
2015 issue.
I like to think that Peary Rader would like what
we're doing. I sure hope so.
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. If you grab the Kindle edition of the Dinosaur
Files Quarterly, or if you've read the hard-copy
edition, please post a review on our Kindle page.
The reviews really help us.
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