Have a Great Weekend, Everyone!

Wherever you are, I hope you've been having a great weekend full of sun, fresh air, good fun, great company and some terrific workouts! 

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I hope everyone is having a very happy
Memorial Day weekend here in the USA -
and a very happy weekend wherever you
may be as you read this.

I also hope you're getting some sun and
fresh air, eating plenty of good food, and
doing some hard and fun training.

Here at Dino Headquarters, we've been
having a lot of fun - working on a big
project - working on the May issue of
The Dinosaur Files strength training
newsletter - and having some great
workouts with a pair of terrific dumb-
bells that a friend put together for me.

He has a lot of old York equipment,
including lots of collars, and he used
them to put together the best set of
adjustable dumbbell handles I've ever
seen.

My new dumbbells look just like the ones in this advertisement for a York Big 10 Special - and they feel great - perfect balance - solid, rugged and totally old-school.

They look just like the old dumbbells
that Bob Hoffman used to sell - the
ones that John Grimek is using in all
the photos you see in the old issues of
Strength and Health.

They're a link to the past - and they
work great - and feel perfect for any
exercise i do with them.

So I've been having a very, very good
time in my workouts.

Lots of sweat and lots of fun.

Anyhow, as I said, I hope YOU have
been having a great weekend - and
I hope that today is another good
one for you.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

The Mail Truck Caught on Fire!

I've been running a mail order business (now mostly an internet order business) for over 20 years, and this is the first time it ever happened - but as they say, there's a first time for everything.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

We shipped an order to one of our
Dinos in south Florida last week - and
the package still hasn't gotten there
even though we shot it out the door
by USPS Priority Mail.

According to our Endicia tracking
system, the package was "en route
to its destination."

And that's all the tracking said.

For a very long time.

Which sounded like it was not en
route.

And we weren't sure what was up.

And then we learned that a mail
truck had caught on fire some-
where around Gainesville.

Was our package on the truck?

We don't know.

But today - finally - the tracking
system shows that the package
been delayed - and that it would
be late - but that it had processed
through the USPS facility in Opa
Laka and was heading toward its
destination.

So perhaps the fire had something
to do with it.

Anyhow, since it's the Holiday Season
and lots of people are placing Christmas
orders, I thought I'd mention this - and
urge everyone to place their orders as
early as possible.

We want everyone to have a Dino
book or course of their choice (or
a couple of them) under the tree
on Christmas morning - and you
can help us make it happen by
getting your orders in right away.

Because sometimes, no matter
how hard we try, Life throws us a
curve-ball - or a USPS mail truck
with some Dino books on board
inexplicably catches fire . . .

Anyhow, please get your orders
in - it will help us get them to
you as fast as possible!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. Strength, Muscle and Power

makes a heck of a good present:

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

P.S. 2. My other books and courses -
and links to all of my e-books on Kindle
- are right here at Dino Headquarters:

Hard-copy and PDF

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

Kindle

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

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

Attack of the Killer Spiders!

 

I've been off line for a couple of days - and here's the reason why.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I've been off line for several days,
and missed most of the post Turkey
Day shopping frenzy.

But I have a good excuse.

I've been bad sick.

We think it was a spider bite - on my
right ear.

I don't remember being bit - but my
right ear swelled up like a big red
balloon on Friday night - and I had
all the symptoms of a spider bite:
fever, sweating, shivering, headache,
sore joints, and a general "got hit by
a truck" feeling.

But my right ear was the worst part
of it by far.

My right ear has always been a little
bit thick and mangled from my high
school wrestling days. It's not a true
cauliflower ear, but it's definitely been
through some battles.

But when it swelled up, it went right
into full cauliflower mode.

So what hundreds of wrestlers my size
weren't able to do over a period of six
years of junior high school and high
school wrestling, a wee little spider
did in about one second.

And he probably didn't work up a
sweat doing it.

I ended up in the urgent care center
on Saturday. The doc checked me out
and put me on some heavy duty anti-
biotics.

And then I spent most of Saturday
and Sunday resting and sleeping.

Trudi has been serving me tons of
high nutrition, anti-inflammatory foods
to help the healing process - along
with plenty of anti-inflammatory green
tea with lemon juice, fresh grated
ginger, and cinnamon.

It's all helping, and I'm feeling better
today. Nowhere near 100 percent, but
better. And my ear is starting to shrink
back down to its regular size.

Anyhow, I thought I'd update you and
let you know why I've been off-line.
Of course, we're still open for business,
and you can grab any of my books and
courses right here at Dino Headquarters:

Hard-copy and PDF

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

Kindle

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

I'm also selling back issues of Strength and
Health magazine from the 1930's through
the1980's. If you're interested in a particular
year, shoot me an email and let me know
what you'd like - where we'll be shipping
them - and how you prefer to pay for the
mags.

12 issue sets from the 1930's are $120 plus
shipping and handling.

12 issue sets from the 1940's forward are
$100 plus shipping and handling.

And that's the report. I hope YOU are doing
better than I am today - and I hope that
neither of us ever has another run-in with
one of those killer spiders.

Yours in strength,

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

"Are You Moving or Something?" He Asked

Hitting it hard in the outdoor training center at the new Dino Dungeon. The weights go with me no matter where we go.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Several readers have asked:

"What's happening at Dino Head-
quarters?

You're selling a bunch of stuff - and
discontinuing some products like
certain books and your DVD's.

Are you and Trudi moving or some-
thing?

You're not going to give up the Dino
business, are you?"

The answer is, yes, we are - and no,
I'm not!

Trudi and I have both lived here in
Louisville for a very long time. We
want to go somewhere new and
different and beautiful for our
later years. Perhaps Washington
or Oregon - we like the country
up there.

Several years ago, after the kids had
all moved out, we found ourselves in
a very big and very empty house.

So we sold it and downsized to a much
more manageable two-bedroom duplex
about 1/2 a mile away from where we
used to live.

That was step one in the plan.

We got rid of a ton of stuff in the big
move - but I still have much, much
more that I need to sell before we
can even think about heading out
to the Pacific Northwest.

I have a room full of old strength
training books, courses, and
magazines, and I can't take them
all with me - so I am trying to find
homes for them with the Dinos.

We have hundreds of old strength training magazines, books and courses for sale - and I need to sell them before we can move.

I could always sell them on eBay,
but I really want them to go to
Dinos - so I'm trying to give the
Dinos the first chance to grab
them.

That's why I've been sending you
emails offering various books,
courses or magazines for sale.

It's also why we're discontinuing
some books and other products.

We need to work with a small
inventory so we can move the
business out west when the
time is right - and so we can
move around easily once we
get out there.

For example, we've sold all of
our copies of Black Iron: The
John Davis Story - and we're
not going to reprint it.

We're getting near the end of
the last printing for Strength,
Muscle and Power, and we're
not going to reprint that,
either. So if you want a
copy, grab it now:

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

And we've discontinued our old
DVD's. I have a few left - which
I've been offering for sale on a
first come, first served basis -
but that's it. (If you want to
know what we have left, shoot
me an email.)

I am NOT going to retire and stop
running the Dino business. I plan
to keep on doing it for a very long
time. We just need to operate in
as portable a fashion as possible.

Anyhow, that's the answer to a
question that many of you have
been asking.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

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

Hitting a partial push press with 435 pounds back in the original Dino Dungeon in 1997. I cover power rack training in detail 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. 3. Thought for the Day: 

"Exercise, eat smart, and enjoy
the journey."

-- 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

Buried In An Endless Sea of Shirts

Things are super-busy here at Dino Headquarters today, and I'm not even going to be able to get outside and train! That's okay, though - it's all for a good cause - and I'll be able to hit the iron again tomorrow. 

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I'm late with today's email,
because we are buried in an
endless sea of Dinosaur
Training t-shirts.

We picked them up from the
printer yesterday afternoon,
and we've been packing and
filling orders for them ever
since.

It's funny, because we are in
a small apartment now, and
there are shirts stacked or
draped pretty much every-
where.

Trudi has stacked boxes and
packages for filled orders up
against one wall in the dining
room, and there are so many
that I can barely walk by. I
have to turn to my side and
walk on tippy toes to fit be-
tween the boxes and the
dining room table.

We'll keep on packing orders
for the rest of the day, and
then take all the packages to
the main post office and drop
them off.

I have to say this - the shirts
look and feel great. I'm very
happy with the new design,
and all the different colors,
and how well everything
turned out.

So here's a very big THANK
YOU to everyone who placed
an order during the big t-shirt
sale.

In other news:

My Old School Q and A has been getting great reviews.

 
1. The Strength Training Q
and A

We just printed a bunch of copies
of my Old School Strength Training
Q and A, Vol. 1.

That means the little monster is
now available in your choice of:

a. Hard-copy

b. Kindle

c. PDF with immediate electronic
delivery

Go here to grab your copy:

http://www.brookskubik.com/oldschool-qanda.html

John Davis - an Iron Game Immortal.

 2. Black Iron: The John Davis
Story

I thought I was sold out of this title,
but we found a box with 12 copies -
so if you want to grab one, shoot me
an email.

The price is $34.95 plus s&h.

We're not going to do a second
printing, so these are the last
copies I have.

Strength and Health - a terrific old-school magazine.

 
3. Strength and Health Magazine

We're moving soon, and I can't
take all my old mags with me, so
I'm selling the duplicate issues.
If you want to grab some issues
of Strength and Health from the
40's, 50's, 60's, 70's or 80's,
shoot me an email and ask for
a price quote for whatever year
or years you are interested in.

That's it for now - I need to get
back to those t-shirts!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

New from John Wood!

Wishing you tons and tons of strength and health on this 4th of July holiday - and forever!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

It's Monday, but for many of us in the
USA, it's part of a four-day 4th of July
holiday weekend.

Of course, I'm working full speed on
some Dino books and courses. Stay
tuned - you're going to like them.

In the meantime, we're open for
orders today and tomorrow,
although they may not get mailed
until Wednesday.

And finally, here's something new
and fun from John Wood:

https://www.functionalhandstrength.com/fhs-pulling-rope/

John's also working on a course
about how to use the little monster.
I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Have a great day, and if you
train today, make it a good
one!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

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

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

The Case of the Disappearing Dinosaur

From time to time readers drop off of our email list, and we never know why. Sometimes they assume it's because I've stopped sending emails - which is wrong. I send emails every day - and I plan to do it for a very long time.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

One of our longtime Dinos just
signed back up for my daily
emails.

He included a short note about
it.

"I dropped off your email list,"
he said.

"This has happened several time
before."

"Does it happen to other people,
or just to me?"

Well, the fact of the matter is -
it happens to everyone.

Heck, it even happens to me.

And to Trudi.

I have no idea how or why this
happens.

My email service never has an
answer.

But it happens.

If you're like me, you're built for lifting, not for hitting those teeny-tiny buttons on a Monkey-Phone. That makes it easy to hit the unsubscribe button by mistake.

 
Which reminds me - if you read
my emails on an I-Phone, there's
an unsubscribe button that pops
up and makes it very easy to
unsubscribe by accident -
and it's especially easy to do
if you're (like me) a thick-
fingered, thick-thumbed
Dino.

But however it happens, it
happens.

Obviously, it's very frustrating.

So here's what you need to do.

1. Assume I'm alive and still
sending daily emails.

a. If that ever changes, I'm sure
you'll hear about it one way or
another.

b. But don't expect it to happen
any time soon.

2. That means, if you don't get
an email from me for a couple
of days, you have dropped off
the list and you need to sign
back up.

a. It's a nuisance, but it only
takes 5 or 10 seconds.

b. The sign-up box/link is on
every page of my website, so
it's easy to find.

John Davis never had to worry about emails and email lists. He just focused on setting World records.

3. Also, be aware that I post
each email on The Dinosaur
Training Blog. I do this as a
back-up.

a. You can access the Dinosaur
Training Blog thru the drop-
down bar on the landing page
at my website.

b. If you follow me on Twitter
or friend me on Facebook, that
makes it easy - because I send
the links to the Blog posts via
Twitter and Facebook.

c. If I can figure out how to share
the Blog links on Instagram, I'll
do that, too.

Arthur Saxon revealed his secret of strength in The Development of Physical Power - but he didn't say a word about emails and email lists and why people sometimes drop off the list without knowing it. 

4. You should probably check
the Dinosaur Training Blog once
in a while anyway - because when
I post my emails, I include photos
and video - so it's even more fun
than the emails.

a. For example, check this out:

http://dinosaurtraining.blogspot.com/2017/05/what-kind-of-shoes-do-you-wear-he-asked.html

5. If you ever have any questions
about the daily emails or Blog posts,
shoot me an email.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. 2. We have tons of great books
and courses at Dino Headquarters.

Hard-copy and PDF

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

Kindle

http://www.brookskubik.com/oldschool_01-kindle.html

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - head on over and take a look:

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