Hail to the Dinosaurs!
One of my all-time favorite weight
training articles is John McCallum's
account of watching Reg Park train.
This was in Vancouver, British
Columbia, and it happened while
Park was on a big tour of North
America. He gave lifting and posing
exhibitions at various shows, and
trained at all of the famous gyms
across the USA and Canada.
He also met all the top bodybuilders
and lifters, and all the famous people
in the Iron Game -- and was invited
to a gazillion or so dinners featuring
all the steak or roast beef the Iron
Gamers wanted. I think it caused a
trans-continental beef shortage.
Now, if memory serves correctly, this
was back in 1957 or 58 -- a long time
ago, and a time when bodybuilders and
weightlifters had much more in common
than they do today.
There were bodybuilders who placed
high in weightlifting contests -- and there
were weightlifters who placed high in
bodybuilding shows.
And then there was Reg Park. At almost
250 pounds of solid muscle, Park was the
top bodybuilder in the world.
He also was one of the strongest men in
the world. He proved it many times, perhaps
most famously by becoming the second man
in history to bench press 500 pounds --
shortly after the Canadian Hercules, Doug
Hepburn, had broken the 500 pound barrier.
McCallum's account of Park's training was
great.
Get this -- the workout lasted just one
hour and five minutes!
But it was one hour and five minutes of
hard, heavy training -- focusing on the
BIG exercises.
It would have been great to have seen
it -- or to have trained with Reg Park.
But here's the next best thing.
Reg Park wrote a number of great training
courses back in the day. The originals are
very rare and almost impossible to find --
but my good friend, Bill Hinbern, has
reprinted SEVEN of them in high quality
modern editions -- including many new
photos, some you probably have never
seen.
They're the next best thing to training
shoulder to shoulder with Reg Park back
in that gym in Vancouver -- and you can
find them right here:
http://superstrengthtraining.com/reg-park
Note that Bill is offering a special deal if
you order all seven courses together.
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. After you grab those Reg Park courses
from Bill, jump over to The Dinosaur Training
site and grab Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 1,
2 and 3. We offer them in hard-copy editions,
Kindle e-book editions, and e-books with
immediate electronic delivery:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
We've added special sections to our products
page to make it easy to find the links to our
Kindle e-books and the links to the electronic
downloads. Of course, if you have any questions,
shoot me an email.
P.S. 2. Thought for the Day: "Train hard and
make it count!" -- Brooks Kubik
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