The Old Gym and the New Gym

 

John Grimek hitting a heavy press at an exhibition in the early 1940's.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

There was a time, back in the 1930's,
40's and 50's, when the old York Bar-
bell Club gym was probably the most
famous gym in the entire world.

It was on the second floor of the old
Strength and Health building at 51
N. Broad Street in York.

It was the home of the York Barbell
Club, the perennial winner of the team
title at the Senior National Weightlifting
Championships each year.

Every Mr. America winner, every USA
World and Olympic champion, and
every USA World record holder had
trained there at one time or another.

The bars, benches, squat stands and
platforms carried the DNA of the
greatest strength athletes in the
history of the United States.

John Grimek had trained there since
the 1930's. He loved the place.

But one day, he overheard a couple
of top-name, visiting bodybuilders
talking about the gym after they
finished their workout.

They said it was a dump.

Old-fashioned.

Out-dated.

Dark.

Dirty.

Gritty.

Nasty.

"It's a s--t house," said one of them.

"Who would want to train here all
the time?" asked the other man.

"Not me!" the first replied, and the
two men laughed.

That got Grimek thinking - and he
decided to raise the issue with Bob
Hoffman.

So he did.

Told him that visitors were complaining
about the old gym. Saying it was old-
fashioned. Even laughing about it.

"It's bad for business, Bob," Grimek
concluded.

Hoffman didn't agree - not at first. But
Grimek was persistent, and over time,
he wore Hoffman down.

They built a new gym in a modern
building, and and stocked it with all
new equipment.

It was bright and shiny and well-lit. A
thoroughly modern, up to the minute
sort of place.

Grimek went over and took his first
workout in the new gym.

He didn't like it.

He tried again.

Still didn't like it.

The new gym lacked something.

It lacked memories - and it lacked
character.

So Grimek did the only rational thing.

He snuck back to the office building
when no one else was there, and
trained by himself in the old gym.

Of course, Hoffman found out - and
made Grimek stop.

So Grimek ended up training in the
new gym that he had pestered
Hoffman to build - and probably
kicked himself for ever raising the
idea of a new gym.

If you're a Dinosaur, you probably
know exactly how he felt - and you
understand that a place with good
memories and plenty of character
is the best possible place to train.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. You can learn lots more about
John Grimek and how he trained in
my John Grimek training course. It's
available in your choice of hard-copy
or Kindle editions:

Hard-copy

http://www.brookskubik.com/johngrimek_course.html

Kindle

http://www.brookskubik.com/grimektraining_kindle.html

P.S. 2. My other books and courses
are right here at Dino Headquarters:

Hard-copy and PDF

http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html

Kindle

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

P.S. 2. Thought for the Day

"Treasure your equipment, your
training quarters, and the memories
they bring you."

-Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

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http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

Steve Stanko and the 1,000 Pound Total

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Just wanted to be sure you
heard the big news.

We just released Legacy of
Iron 3 - The 1,000 Pound
Total in the Kindle bookstore.

This volume continues the
story of Jim Miller, Jack Ryan,
and their adventures with John
Grimek, Steve Stanko, Bob
Hoffman, Harry Paschall and
the rest of the York champions.

And it focuses on one of the
most incredible true stories
in the history of the Iron
Game - Steve Stanko's epic
quest to break the 1,000
pound total in weightlifting.

Go here to grab the little
monster:

http://www.brookskubik.com/legacyofiron03_kindle.html

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

Mr. America's Last Gym

 

Clarence "Clancy" Ross - 1945 Mr. America.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

One quick note, and then we'll talk
iron.

1. The Original Dinosaur Files

Way back in 1997 I started the
original Dinosaur Files newsletter.

The first issue was 8 pages, and it
quickly grew to 20 or 24 pages per
issue.

I did 61 issues from 1997 through
2002, and then had to stop because
I was too busy at work to keep up
with them.

Anyhow, they're great - tons of info
in each issue - but they've been out
of print for a very long time.

Two days ago I gave John Wood the
green light to publish them in the
Iron League member site.

If you missed them the first time
around, this is your chance to
get a look at one of the best little
publications in the history of the
Iron Game - along with all the
other great stuff at the Iron
League.

Go here to join the Iron League -
and tell John I sent you:

https://www.ironleague.com/

2. Mr. America's Last Gym

Clarence "Clancy" Ross won the Mr.
America title in 1945. He was one of
the top three bodybuilders in the
entire world, along with John Grimek,
and Steve Reeves.

The three men had a big showdown
at the 1949 Mr. USA contest. Grimek
won, Ross took second, and Reeves
had to settle for third.

After winning the Mr. America title,
Ross opened a gym in Alameda,
Calif. He ran the gym until he retired
in 1981.

In April, 2008, Ross was living at
The Heritage, a special complex
in Concord, Calif., for residents
age 55 and older.

In other words, a retirement home
or senior citizen's center.

Ross was 85 years old - but he
still trained five days a week.

He worked out in a small exercise
room at The Heritage.

There wasn't very much equipment.

An old-fashioned Schwinn exercise
bike and a small pair of dumbbells.

A reporter for the East Bay Times
did a story about Ross and the other
old-time bodybuilders and weight-
lifters in the Bay area.

In the article, the reporter noted
that Ross didn't have very much
exercise equipment, and that he
asked anyone with some extra
equipment to donate to do so.

Pulleys, rowing machines, barbells,
dumbbells or anything else.

The reporter included a phone
number to call to arrange any
equipment donations.

The article ran on April 21, 2008.

And Bay area residents responded
with a huge show of support for
their longtime local hero.

The equipment came pouring in.

Enough for a great little gym.

It was perfect.

But Clancy Ross never got a chance
to use any of it.

He passed away on April 30, 2008.

The Heritage dedicated the new
weight room to him - and for many
years, other residents put the
equipment to great use.

And that's the true story of Mr.
America's last gym.

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. We're running low on Strength,
Muscle and Power, and because we're
moving to the Pacific Northwest,
we're not going to do another
printing.

So if you want a copy, grab it now:

http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.html

P.S. 2. My other books and courses
are right here at Dino Headquarters:

Hard-copy and PDF

http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html

Kindle

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

P.S. 2. Thought for the Day

"You only have a certain number
of days in your life. Make the most
of each and every one of them -
especially your training days!"

-Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

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What Would Happen If . . . ?

 

The garage gym at Dino Headquarters was the best-ever place to train. What would happen if everyone had a small home gym or a local neighborhood gym to use?

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Two quick notes, and then we'll
talk iron.

1. Legacy of Iron 3 - on Kindle!

Yesterday we released Legacy of
Iron 3 - The 1,000 Pound Total
in a Kindle edition. You can find
it right here:

http://www.brookskubik.com/legacyofiron03_kindle.html

Of course, if you prefer hard-copy,
all of the Legacy of iron books are
available in hard-copy editions.

You can find them here:

http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html

2. The Iron League

I talked to John Wood the other
day, and he's putting up some
great new stuff at the Iron League.

That includes - drum roll - the original
Dinosaur Files newsletter from 1997
through 2002 - a total of 61 killer
issues.

If you missed them the first time
around, or if you read them but
don't have them any more, this is
your chance to grab a very big slice
of Dino-riffic training advice and
Iron Game history.

Go here to join the Iron League:

https://www.ironleague.com/

 

The outdoor lifting area in back of our apartment.  You can get a great workout anywhere.

3. What Would Happen If . . .?

On the training front, I was asking
myself what would happen if every-
one in the USA owned a basic barbell
and dumbbell set and trained for 45
minutes to an hour three times
a week.

I bet it would take care of a whole
lot of health problems.

And that got me to thinking about
other "What if . .  ." questions.

So I thought I'd share some of them
with you.

1. What would happen if there were
no more steroids and everyone trained
100% drug-free and natural?

2. What would happen if there were
no more super supplements and
everyone relied on hard work, regular
training and a healthy diet?

3. What would happen if every
household had a small home gym?

4. What would happen if there was
an old-fashioned, old-school gym on
every corner in every town and city
throughout the world?

Knife, Fork, Muscle may be the best book out there on how to eat for lifelong strength and health. It should be mandatory reading for all doctors - and for everyone in medical school.

 5. What would happen if everyone
had a small garden, and grew plenty
of fresh, healthy, local, organic and
inexpensive food?

6. What would happen if we eliminated
sugar from our diets - all of us, every
single person, and completely?

7. What would happen if everyone
walked two or three miles a day?

8. What would happen if everyone
played sports instead of watching
sports on television?

9. What would happen if everyone
read one book a week?

10. What would happen if the most
common prescription that doctors
wrote was "Less food and more
squats"?

I'll stop now, but I could keep going
for a very long time. You can probably
think of plenty more of these - and
you can probably picture the kind of
world I want for all of us.

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 home gyms and
how to set them up - and how to get
the most out of them - see chapters
14 and 25 in Strength, Muscle and
Power:

http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.html

P.S. 2. My other books and courses
are right here at Dino Headquarters:

Hard-copy and PDF

http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html

Kindle

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

P.S. 2. Thought for the Day

"You may not realize it, but when
you train, you set a very important
example for others - and that's a
good thing!"

-Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

New on Kindle - Legacy of Iron 3 - The 1,000 Pound Total

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Just wanted to be sure you
heard the big news.

We just released Legacy of
Iron 3 - The 1,000 Pound
Total in the Kindle bookstore.

This volume continues the
story of Jim Miller, Jack Ryan,
and their adventures with John
Grimek, Steve Stanko, Bob
Hoffman, Harry Paschall and
the rest of the York champions.

And it focuses on one of the
most incredible true stories
in the history of the Iron
Game - Steve Stanko's epic
quest to break the 1,000
pound total in weightlifting.

Go here to grab the little
monster:

http://www.brookskubik.com/legacyofiron03_kindle.html

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

Steve Stanko - The Big Champ!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Back in the 1930's and early 1940's, Bob
Hoffman wrote about the York Champions
in every issue of Strength and Health
magazine.

He talked about Tony Terlazzo, the World
Champion and Olympic Champion at 132
and 148 pounds.

There was Johnny Terpak, World Champion
at 165 pounds.

John Davis, World Champion at 181 pounds.
John Grimek, also at 181 pounds - a Senior
National Champion and North American
Champion - and two-time Mr. America
winner.

And in the Heavyweight class, weighing
220 pounds, there was Steve Stanko.

Hoffman called him "The Big Champ."

It was a good name.

In his prime, Stanko was hailed as The
Strongest Man in the World.

One of his goals was to be the first man
in history to total 1,000 pounds or more
in the three Olympic lifts: the military
press, the snatch, and the clean and
jerk.

It was a feat fully akin to running a
mile in less than four minutes.

It was something no man had ever
done - and something that many
believed could never be done. They
didn't believe the human body was
capable of doing it.

I cover Steve Stanko and the other
Champions of the era in my Legacy
of Iron books.

They're available in hard-copy at Dino
Headquarters - and the first three in
the series are available in Kindle
editions, as well.

Yes, I did say the first THREE in the
series - because we just released The
1,000 Pound Total in the Kindle book-
store.

You can find the Kindle editions right
here:

Legacy of Iron 1

http://www.brookskubik.com/legacyofiron01_kindle.html

Legacy of Iron 2 - Clouds of War

http://www.brookskubik.com/legacyofiron02_kindle.html

Legacy of Iron 3 - The 1,000 Pound
Total

http://www.brookskubik.com/legacyofiron03_kindle.html

Of course, if you prefer hard-copy,
those are available as well - right
here at our products page - just
look for the special section for the
Legacy of Iron books:

http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

Why I Give You So Many Different Training Programs

John Grimek hitting a heavy military press at an exhibition back in the early 1940's. In addition to being a two-time Mr. America, Mr. Universe winner and the top bodybuilder of his era, Grimek won the USA Senior National Weightlifting Championship, and the North American Weightlifting Championship, and was a member of the USA World and Olympic Weightlifting teams. He set several American records in the military press, and even set unofficial World records in the lift. 

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I sent several emails earlier this week
about Strength, Muscle and Power -
noting that we're getting to the end
of the last printing, and we won't be
doing another one because Trudi and
I are moving to the Pacific Northwest
and I can't take a couple of thousand
books with me.

In one of the emails, I listed every-
thing I cover in the book. It was a
long list.

I started to count up the different
training programs, but there were
too many, so I gave up.

Most of my books and courses have
a lot of different training programs.

There are over 30 in Strength, Muscle
and Power.

50 in Chalk and Sweat.

At least 50 in Dinosaur Dumbbell
Training.

Over 50 in Gray Hair and Black Iron.

Over 50 in Dinosaur Bodyweight
Training.

And well over another 50 - maybe well
over 100 - if you add in the programs
from all of my other books and training
courses.

Add The Dinosaur Files and you have
another 100 or more - probably a
couple of hundred.

And that's a lot of training programs.

There's a reason I give you so many different
training programs.

It's because no one program works best
for everyone.

In fact, no one program works best for
everyone at every stage of his or her
career.

You need different programs as you
progress - and as you grow older.

And your programs will need to change
if your goals change, as they often do
over the years.

Heck, sometimes you need a new program
just for a change of pace!

Anyhow, I "get" that - and that's why
YOU get so many different programs.

I want you to have the right program
for YOU - at every stage of your career.

I also want you to stick to sane, sensible,
Dino-style, old-school training programs -
and not get sucked into the modern-day
silliness that most people do.

Sane and sensible is good. Silly is not.

Anyhow, that's why I offer so many
different training programs. And it's
why I plan to keep on doing it for a
very long time.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. We're not at the end of the line
for Strength, Muscle and Power, but
we're getting there. It's a great book,
so if you don't have a copy, grab
one now:

http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.html

P.S. 2. I have plenty of old issues of
Peary Rader's IronMan magazine for
sale - from the 50's through the 80's.
Shoot me an email if you're interested.
(I'm at info@brookskubik.com).

IronMan was probably THE BEST of the
old-time magazines - and today, the
old issues from Peary Rader's era are
getting awfully hard to find.

I'm offering them to the Dinos because
I want YOU to have a chance to grab
and read them. They're something very
special.

P.S. 3. I also have ONE copy of my old
Dinosaur Training DVD, Strength Training
Basics. $20.00 plus s&h. Email if
interested.

P.S. 4. Thought for the Day

"It starts with a plan. After that, it
requires plenty of hard work and
sweat."

- Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

The Magic Number

World and Olympic champion John Davis trained with multiple sets of low reps. He favored 8 x 2 and 5 x 5 for most of his exercises. In his prime, he was hailed as The Strongest Man in the World - at a bodyweight of just 225 to 235 pounds.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Two quick notes, and then we'll talk iron.

1. Strength, Muscle and Power

We're getting near the end of the road
for this little monster - and because we're
moving soon, I'm not going to do a second
printing - so if you want a copy (and you
should), grab it now:

http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.html

2. Peary Rader's IronMan

I have plenty of old issues of Peary Rader's
IronMan magazine for sale - from the 50's
through the 80's. Shoot me an email if
you're interested.

IronMan was probably THE BEST of the
old-time magazines - and today, the
old issues from Peary Rader's era are
getting awfully hard to find.

I'm offering them to the Dinos because
I want YOU to have a chance to grab
and read them. They're something very
special.

3. The Magic Number

Over the past couple of weeks I sent
you a number of emails about Bradley
J. Steiner's advice on sets and reps for
strength and power training.

You may have noticed that the total
number of reps in any of his suggested
set/rep schemes was pretty low compared
to modern programs with super-high sets
and reps.

That's consistent with most old-school
training programs. The volume for any
one exercise - and for the total workout -
was pretty low compared to most modern
programs.

Bob Hoffman wrote an article once where
he noted that 15 reps in any exercises
was about the right number for most
trainees.

Of course, there were different ways to
get there.

You could do 1 x 15 - which was okay for
beginners, but it didn't let you use heavy
enough weights for real progress.

Hoffman thought 1 x 8 followed by 1 x 7
was better.

Same number of reps, but you were able
to train heavier.

Or, you could do 1 x 10, then add weight
to the bar and do a second set of 1 x 5.

Or you could do 3 x 5. (Or 5 x 5 with two
progressively heavier warm-up sets - for
a total of 15 reps on your three work
sets).

Or, to go even heavier, 5 x 3.

5/4/3/2/1 also was good - and look what
it added up to (15 reps).

You also could try 2 x 8 - which adds up
to 16, but that's close enough.

Anyhow, to Hoffman, the point was clear.
It doesn't take "a lot" of reps to get a
good workout.

It takes concentrated, focused effort for
about 15 total work reps on any one
exercise.

That was good advice back in the 40's
and 50's - and it's still good advice
today.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. Here's the link again for Strength,
Muscle and Power:

http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.html

P.S. 2. My other books and courses
are right here at Dino Headquarters:

Hard-copy and PDF

http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html

Kindle

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

P.S. 2. Thought for the Day

"Focused, ferocious effort and total,
complete concentration are the keys
to strength training success."

-Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html

The Lost Articles!

Strength, Muscle and Power collects 28 of my most popular training articles - covering a wide variety of old-school strength training and muscle building workouts.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

John Wood calls them THE LOST
ARTICLES.

And that's a pretty good description.

THE LOST ARTICLES are strength
training articles I wrote way back
in the 1990's.

They were published in various
magazines - Hardgainer, The Iron
Master, and Milo.

I've updated and revised these old
articles, and put them together in a
single book - along with  brand new,
special introduction that gives you
the inside story on the article and
why I wrote it.

You can find THE LOST ARTICLES
in Strength, Muscle and Power.

There are 28 of them - and they
cover an incredibly wide range of
old-school strength training and
muscle building methods:

Abbreviated training.

Powerlifting workouts.

Power rack training.

Olympic lifting workouts.

Garage gorilla training.

Old-school grip training.

Training with heavy, awkward
objects.

Finishers.

Rest Pause Training - the way
they did it in the 50's, not the
modern stuff some guys pass
off as rest-pause training.

How to design effective training
programs.

How to develop confidence and
mental toughness.

How to develop super strength
by training the tendons and
ligaments.

Specialization programs for
maximum muscle mass.

Isometrics.

Isometronics.

Training programs for hard-
gainers.

Ultra-abbreviated training
programs.

Special advice for home gym
training.

Tons of hard-hitting, Dino-style
workouts.

The EXACT program I used to
win five National Championships
in the bench press.

And much more!

I released the book in 2010 - and
we don't have too many more
copies left. We're not down to the
last dozen yet, but we're getting
to the end - and because Trudi and
I are moving to the Pacific Northwest
soon, I'm not going to do another
big printing.

So if you don't have a copy, grab
one now. They won't be available
forever - and you don't want to
miss the chance to grab a copy.

Go here to grab the little monster:

http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.html

By the way, I tried to decide which
chapter is my favorite - but it's a
three-way tie between chapters 13,
14 and 25.

Of course, chapter 18 is pretty
good. too. Joe Weider liked that
one. He even called me to tell
me - which was a bit of a
surprise.

Heck, they're all pretty good.

There's no way I can pick a
favorite. If YOU can, let me
know!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

Which Was Your Favorite?

If you're my age or older, you probably grew up reading many of the old-school muscle magazines. And you may even remember some of the articles you read in them. They were good reading - and they bring back some great memories!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

If you're my age or older, you probably
grew up reading the old-time muscle
magazines.

In fact, you may have read them so
many times that you pretty much
memorized your favorite articles.

I know I did.

To this day, I can still remember some
of the exact words I read in articles by
Peary Rader, Bradley J. Steiner, John
McCallum, and others.

Heck, I can remember Arnold Schwarz-
enegger's very first words when he
arrived at Los Angeles International
Airport way back in 1968 or 1969.

I read it in a muscle magazine -
and today, almost 50 years later,
I still remember it.

"Vut did I do?"

You see, Arnold had just won the
NABBA Mr. Universe Contest, and
Joe Weider had talked him into
coming out and training in LA -
and Arnold was bigger than King
Kong but spoke even less English.
Dick Tyler and Gene Mozee are
supposed to go meet him at the
airport - but LA traffic was just as
bad then as it is today - and they
run late.

So here's 250 pounds of very young,
very green Austrian Oak, and he's
walking around the airport with a
couple of great big, old-fashioned
suitcases - and he can barely read
or speak English, and he has no
idea where to go.

And some guy bumps into him.

It's a small bump.

Arnold doesn't even feel it.

But the other guy is mortally
offended.

He jumps back, raises his fists, and
starts in on the big greenhorn.

"Hey, man - you BUMPED me! What
are you gonna do about it?"

"Vut did I do?" asks Arnold.

"You KNOW what you did! And
now you're gonna get it!"

"Vut did I do?"

And the guys starts moving in and
waving his hands kung fu style, and
it's gonna go down in about two
seconds.

And at that moment, Tyler and Mozee
come running in, and see what's
happening, and rush over to try
to prevent any mayhem.

"What's going on?" asks Tyler.

"This guy bumped me! Nobody
bumps me!"

And Tyler says:

"I don't know what happened, but
here's something I do know - if this
man had bumped you, you would
have stayed bumped."

And he looks up at Arnold, and across
the breadth of his shoulders - and the
other guy steps back and does the same -
and realizes that he just tried to pick a
fight with a man who has more muscle
than a silver-back gorilla.

"Uh, yeah - uh - right," he mutters.

And he slithers away, looking for some
elderly woman to mug.

Like I said - I read it almost 50 years
ago. And i still remember it.

There's a lot of great reading in the
old-time magazines. A lot of great
training advice, as well. And plenty
of great photos.

Trudi and I are moving to the Pacific
Northwest pretty soon, and I need to
clear out as many of my duplicate
magazines as possible. So I'm selling
old copies of Iron Man, Strength and
Health, and Muscular Development.

And other magazines.

Old books and courses, too.

Even some old equipment.

Here's a partial list of some of them -
check it out and see if anything looks
like fun - or if anything brings back
old memories:

List No. 9

http://dinosaurtraining.blogspot.com/2017/08/rare-old-strength-magazines-list-no-9.html

List No. 8

http://dinosaurtraining.blogspot.com/2017/08/list-no-8-more-great-books-and.html

List No. 7

http://dinosaurtraining.blogspot.com/2017/08/list-no-7-rare-books-and-magazines-from.html

List No. 6

http://dinosaurtraining.blogspot.com/2017/07/list-no-6-rare-strength-books-and.html

List No. 5

http://dinosaurtraining.blogspot.com/2017/07/rare-strength-training-books-and.html

I also have complete sets of Strength
and Health for almost every year from
1938 through 1970 - as well as some
partial sets - and some complete or
nearly complete sets of Iron Man
from the 1950's through the 1980's.

If you're looking for something, shoot
me an email.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

Steiner's Sets and Reps for the Bench Press

 

You probably know that Reg Park was a 3-time Mr. Universe winner - but did you know he was the second man in history (after Doug Hepburn) to bench press 500 pounds?

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

This will bring to a close our series
on Brad Steiner's old-school methods
for training THE POWER ZONES.

In previous installments we covered
Steiner's preferred exercises, sets
and reps for training the legs and
hops, back and shoulders.

Today we'll cover the chest.

Steiner liked two exercises to work
the chest muscles: bench presses and
dumbbell incline presses.

For sets and reps in both of these
exercises, he liked:

Beginners -

2 or 3 x 8 to 12 reps

Advanced trainees -

3 or 4 x 6 reps

or

4 x 8 reps

or

1 x 8

1 x 8

1 x 6

1 x 6

(Add weight after each set.)

or

5 x 5

I should also note that Steiner cautioned
against going "bench press crazy," as so
many trainees tend to do. He thought
that bench work was important, but
always encouraged his readers to do
plenty of overhead pressing and plenty
of back work to balance things out.

So there you have it - over the past week
we've given you a complete mini-course
in old school strength and power training -
featuring the training advice of one of the
top Iron Game authors of the 70's and 80's.

I hope you enjoyed it - and if you train
today (as I will), I hope you make it a
good one!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. For more tips on real world, no-
nonsense strength training and muscle-
building, grab Dinosaur Training
Secrets, Vol. 1.

Here's the link for the hard-copy and
Kindle editions:

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_01.html

For the PDF edition, go here and scroll
down to see all of our PDF courses:

http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html

P.S. 2. Thought for the Day

"There's the selfie generation, and
there's the Iron generation. Which
are you?"

- Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

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