Showing posts with label abbreviated workouts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abbreviated workouts. Show all posts

Look What Just Landed!

The December issue of The Dinosaur Files strength training newsletter has landed - and it's another good one!


Hail to the Dinosaurs!

The December issue of The Dinosaur
Files strength training newsletter just
landed - and it's a good one.

Go here to grab the little monster
in a downloadable and printable
PDF format - with immediate
electronic delivery:

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles-december2018.html

This month's issue has four feature
articles (all written by yours truly).

1. My Amazing Uncle and the
Pendulum of Death

2. How to Build Strength and
Muscle with Abbreviated Training
Programs

3. How William Boone Trained to
Set a World Record in the Jerk

4. Build Strength and Muscle the
Dino Way!

Good stuff - with rock solid training
advice - and several brand new and
very effective workouts.

Here's the link again - sprint on
over and grab it:

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles-december2018.html

Happy reading!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

Dull and Boring Is Fun and Exciting!

I don't do Funky Monkeys, Himalayan Curls, Pogo Stick Presses or One-Legged Ball Bounces - but I still have fun when I train.


Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Are your workouts dull and boring?

Or are they fun and exciting?

I was thinking about my own work-
outs the other day.

They don't make very good social
media posts because it's pretty much
the same thing in every workout.

I have two workouts - Workout A
and Workout B - but every Workout
A looks like the previous Workout A -
and every Workout B looks like the
previous Workout B.

In other words, I stick to the same
exercises, the same sets and the
same reps.

I don't mix things up, and I don't
change things around, and I don't
add new stuff very often.

For many people, a program like
that would be dull and boring.

They couldn't stand it.

But for me, it's the reverse.

My workouts are fun and exciting.

I enjoy the challenge of working on
a small number of movements and
trying to master them - and on trying
to do them better every time I train.

I don't think either approach is wrong,
as long as you don't change things up
too often. You need to stick to a given
program long enough to let it work
for you. Many people change programs
far too often, and that usually doesn't
work very well.

Of course, there comes a time when
changing to a new workout or a new
program can be the best thing in the
world for you.

You just have to know when to do it -
which is largely a matter of training
long enough to understand both your
body and your mind, and to learn
what works best for you.

Anyhow, I'll be training today, and it
will be dull and boring - pretty much
the same thing as always - but it will
be fun and exciting for me.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. Here's something different that's
also fun and effective:



Dinosaur Dumbbell Training

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

2.  My other books and courses are
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P.S. 3. Thought for the Day:

"The iron doesn't get bored,
and neither should you."


Brooks Kubik

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The World Record Workout

Setting any kind of record - from a personal record to a World record - requires hard work, hard training and a mountain of determination. And, of course, it also requires the right kind of training - which is what we're going to cover today.


Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Yesterday I mentioned a famous old-timer
who went on a special training program to
increase his deadlift.

He trained once every six days.

That was it.

Nothing else.

Did it work?

Yeah, you could say that.

He gained 20 pounds of muscle and built
so much strength that he ended up setting
a World Record in the deadlift!

You can find the World Record program right
here in Chalk and Sweat - it's program
no. 49 - and it's pretty darn effective:



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

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

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Try this Unusual But Very Effective Training Schedule!

If you can make good gains on a sane, sensible program that lets you fit your training into a busy workweek or a super-hectic schedule, why even think about training more often?


Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I received a ton of responses to last week's
email about how training less and resting
more can help you avoid over-training -
and thus, lead to better gains in strength
and muscle.

Some responses were from readers who
just didn't believe it - and some of them
were downright angry - and two or three
of them even said so in language that
was a little less than polite. They almost
scorched my eye-balls.

Not sure why they got so upset, but it
happens every time I say "Less is more -
try it and see."

Others agreed with the message - and
that's not surprising, because the kind
of old-school training schedules I talked
about have been helping trainees build
strength and muscle for well over 100
years.

One of the most interesting replies came
from a reader who wrote:

Hi Brooks,

I'm training two days a week now:
Tues and Thurs.

Every second Sunday I deadlift.

I feel that I am progressing faster in
deadlifts than if I did it once a week,
as I often add 5 or even 10 kilos in
every deadlift workout.

Granted, I'm still an intermediate
strength-wise, but I am not slowing
down.

Less IS more.

Thanks!

Cameron

Thanks for the feedback, Cameron -
and thanks for sharing your training
schedule.

It's a little unusual - but very interesting -
and it would probably work very well for
many of our fellow Dinos.

If anyone else is following a similar
training schedule - or if you give this
one a try - shoot me an email and let
me know how it works for you!

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. You can find many other unusual
but effective training programs in
Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 1:

Hard-Copy and Kindle editions

PDF edition

Look for the link to our PDF books
and courses on our products page -
it's a big list, but Dinosaur Training
Secrets, Vol. 1, is easy to find - it's
fourth from the bottom, with a thumb-
nail showing John Grimek doing some
dumbbell presses:

P.S. 2. My other books and courses are
right here at Dino Headquarters - including
links to my PDF courses and my Kindle
books:



Hard-copy and PDF

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

Kindle

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

P.S. 3. Thought for the Day:

"If you don't test things, you'll never
know if they work."


- Brooks Kubik

Brooks Kubik's Kindle Books

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

We have over 25 books and courses in the Kindle store - including these:








 
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Take the Dinosaur Challenge!

Reg Park built an amazing physique - and tremendous strength and power - with old-school, Dino style training.
 
Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Last week, I sent a number of what I thought
were good, interesting, informative, inspiring
and useful e-mails.

They all focused on old-school training and
old-school thinking.

Hard work, heavy iron, progressive training
on the basic exercises, persistence, dedication
and determination.

And in response,  we had several readers
unsubscribe from our email list.

Yep, they unsubscribed.

Got up, walked out, let the door slam behind
them, and kept on walking.

They decided they didn't want to hear about
old-school strength training and muscle building
any more.

And that's a shame.

The sad thing was, they were all YOUNGER
Dinos.

Last week's emails were aimed at younger Dinos --
to encourage them to give sane, sensible, real
world training a try -- and to push themselves
to make the most of their training in their teens
and twenties, rather than wasting those years on
high volume boobybuilding routines, "bombing,
blasting and blitzing," and similar silliness.

And I even gave some examples of old-school
champions who trained the right way from day
one -- and made great gains in strength and
muscle very rapidly.

I THOUGHT it would be an encouraging message
for the younger Dinos -- but apparently, some of
them didn't want to hear it. Perhaps it even made
them a little mad.

I think part of the reason for that is that so many
younger trainees have grown up hearing nothing
but bad advice -- and they've never been exposed
to the kind of training that really works.

They've only learned about the silly stuff.

So when I share stories about old-timers like John
Grimek or Steve Stanko making great gains in their
first couple of years of training, the younger readers
just don't believe it.

That's a shame, because it keeps them from trying
the kind of programs that will give them really good
results -- and it keeps them hooked on the kind of
programs that don't deliver.

So let me say this to everyone out there who's
still doing the conventional workouts and not
getting very much in the way of results.

Give Dinosaur Training a try.

Don't sit there and scratch your head and wonder if
old-school training works.

Test it.

Start in on an abbreviated training program, use the
exercises, sets and reps that I teach in my books and
courses, follow the diet and nutrition advice in Knife,
Fork, Muscle
-- and see what happens.

Give it an honest try. Work hard. Make it a 3 month
or a 6 month commitment. Don't just try it for a week
and then jump to something else. You need to stick
to a training program long enough to make some
strength and muscle stick to you.

If it doesn't work, you can always go back to whatever
you were doing.

But if it DOES work -- if you discover that LESS training
(but doing it the RIGHT way) gives you much MORE in
the way of results -- then you have learned something
very important -- and very valuable.

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're new to Dinosaur Training, start with
the book that started it all - Dinosaur Training:

Lost Secrets of Strength and Development:



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

P.S. 2. You can grab Knife, Fork, Muscle and all of
my other books and courses right here at Dino
Headquarters:



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

P.S. 3. Thought for the Day:

"Don't sit there and wonder if old-school
training works. Try it and see for yourself!"

-- Brooks Kubik

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