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| World and Olympic Champion John Davis hitting a heavy split snatch. Amazingly, Davis was almost completely self-trained - and often trained alone, with no coach or training partners, even when he was the top weightlifter in the world. |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Let me give you 12 different workouts
and ask the same question for each:
"Will this work?"
Read through the list and decide what
you think.
1. Training your legs by walking up many
flights of stairs while carrying dumbbells
or kettlebells - or while carrying a training
partner on your back - and not doing any
heavy squats.
a. As in - no heavy squats ever.
2. Training your deadlift by doing five
low rep or single rep sets, working up
to a heavy weight for one rep - and
doing it five days a week.
3. Doing 100 power cleans with a barbell
loaded to your own bodyweight - and 100
pull-ups - every single day.
4. Doing 1,000 pushups every day.
5. Squeezing a bag of sand or a bag of
grain between your legs to devleop leg
strength.
6. Training your bench press once a week
for five to seven progressively heavier
singles - and doing nothing but bottom
position bench presses.
7. Training to be a World and Olympic
weightlifting champion - and hitting the
iron for just 60 to 90 minutes three times
a week.
a. Or four times a week.
8. Training 3x a week - and doing 6 to 10
exercises for one set each - to momentary
muscular failure on every set - using a
combination of free weights and machines.
9. Doing nothing but heavy partials in the
power rack - or heavy supports in the
power rack.
10. A program where you do two-dumbbell
squats and push a football blocking sled -
and do nothing else.
11. Doing one set of 12 to 15 reps in 15 or
20 different exercises - using perfect form -
and training 3x a week, using total body
workouts.
12. Doing one exercise 2x a week - with
many sets of low reps - working up to
heavy singles - and focusing on that
one exercise for several months at a
time.
a. Which means you're doing the exact
same workout every time you train - for
several months - with no changes other
than increasing the weight on the bar
whenever you can.
Will any of these programs work?
I'll tell you tomorrow - and yes, you
may be surprised at the answer.
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. Here are some great courses that
focus on old-school training methods -
the kind that have been proven over
and over again by trainees like you
and me:
Dinosaur Strength and Power -
Course No. 1 - Strength Style
Arm Training with Doug Hepburn
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurstrengthandpower-01.html
A complete - and brand new - training course
that teaches you how to build strong, powerful,
and muscular arms - using the training methods
of the legendary Doug Hepburn.
The Bone Strength Project
https://www.oldtimestrongman.com/bone-strength-projectPDF.html
John Wood's unique program for building
your bones in order to increase your
potential for maximum muscle mass.
Dinosaur Strength and Power -
Course No. 2 - Heavy Partials
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurstrengthandpower-02.html
Another way of building your bones -
and strengthening your tendons and
ligaments - a must read for anyone
interested in maximum strength and
power.
The May-June Dinosaur Files
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles-mayjune2018.html
Feature articles include:
The World's Simplest Bodyweight
Program
The Deadlift from Hell
The Valhalla Challenge
Bob Hoffman's Favorite Training
Program
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. 3. Thought for the Day:
"Some things work better than others,
but many things work very well - and
no one thing works best for everyone."
-- Brooks Kubik
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