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| Reg Park |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Two quick notes, and then we'll talk training.
1. The Dinosaur Files Quarterly, Issue No. 4
Is available in your choice of hard copy or
Kindle e-book edition -- and is getting great
reviews from readers. The Kindle edition has
made it into several different top 10 lists for
Kindle books, and was even ranked no. 1 in
Australia yesterday.
Go here to grab your copy:
Hard copy
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles_quarterlyorder.html
Kindle e-book
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurquarterly_04_kindle.html
2. Hi-Proteen Memories
I received tons of emails in response to
yesterday's email about Hi-Proteen powder.
It sounds like every Dino age 50 and up used
the stuff back in the day -- for awhile -- and
it didn't help any of us.
Real food is better and cheaper!
See Knife, Fork, Muscle for real-world, no-
nonsense advice about diet and nutrition
for lifelong strength and health:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_nutrition.html
For links to the e-book series of Knife, Fork, Muscle
books, see our products page.
3. Dinosaur Arm Training
I received an email several days ago from a
reader who wondered why I consider barbell
curls to be a basic, compound exercise.
He said they were an isolation exercise, and
seemed to think that they weren't worth doing.
And you run into many people who think the
same thing.
For example, I spoke at a seminar several
years ago, and one of the attendees was a
gym owner who told me that if someone at
his gym does curls, he "throws them out the
door."
I both agree and disagree with that way of
thinking.
On the one hand, doing a workout that is 50
to 90 percent curls is ridiculous -- but it's
fairly common.
And bunny-style isolation curls are about as
useful an exercise as lifting a small bag of
marsmallows for 10 reps at 10/10/10
speed.
But heavy barbell curls are another kind of
animal.
My best in the STRICT barbell curl -- using an
industrial strength, heavy duty easy curl bar --
was 185 for five reps.
And let me repeat -- these were STRICT
curls.
You better believe that this involved all of
the muscles in the entire body from head
to toe -- NOT because it was a cheat curl,
but because it was a strict curl with a heavy
barbell, and I had to lock the entire body
and hold everything in position while I
curled the bar.
When you do a heavy strict curl, you try to
lift the weight with a combination of arm,
shoulder and chest power -- even though
your forearms are the only part of your
body that is moving.
That makes heavy curls an important
assistance exercise for the bench press --
and a great exercise for football lineman,
wrestlers, and those who train in judo,
jujitsu or other grappling arts.
A football lineman doesn't make pancakes
on the griddle. He makes them with heavy
curls (along with heavy leg and back work).
Ditto for a wrestler, and trust me, I know
what I'm talking about here. I knocked
several opponents unconscious with hard
throws when I was in high school.
Anyhow, I hope that clears things up.
Bunny curls -- isolation exercise.
Heavy, strict curls -- a basic, compound
exercise -- and well worth doing.
And one more thing. Reg Park (pictured above)
included heavy barbell curls in his strength and
bulk course. Nuff said!
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. My Dinosaur Arm Training course will
teach you how to build some seriously
strong and powerful arms:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_armtraining.html
P.S. 2. My other books and courses -- and
links to all of my Dinosaur Training e-books
on Kindle -- are right here:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "Thinking without
acting is as bad as acting without thinking."
-- Brooks Kubik
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