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| The best way to do it is to keep on training and never stop (aside from short scheduled lay-offs here and there) - but if you're coming back after a long lay-off, here's a very good way to do it. |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Not long ago I sent an email about how to
get started in your training - and about how
to get back into it after a long lay-off.
If you missed it, you can find it at
The
Dinosaur Training Blog. I post all of my
emails there.
You can access the Blog from the menu
bar on the front page of the
Dinosaur
Training website at www.brookskubik.com.
And to make it easier for you to find that
particular Blog post, I'll send a link a
little later in the day.
Anyhow, one of our longtime readers,
Paul Murray, read the email and sent a
very interesting reply.
Paul said that if he hasn't been able to
train for a while due to life, injury, work,
or whatever, he always follows the same
basic approach to getting back to it.
He begins with
ONE exercise.
It might be Trap Bar deadlifts.
It might be the one dumbbell clean and
press.
Or the two dumbbell clean and press.
Or snatch grip high pulls.
Or some variation of squats.
Or the farmer's walk.
Or military presses.
Or curls.
Or a bodyweight exercise.
Or whatever.
It doesn't really matter.
He just picks something he kinda,
sorta, maybe might feel like doing
again.
And he does
ONE set.
In other words - he gets back to it in a
ridiculously easy way.
A way so easy that there's no room for
even the flimsiest of excuses.
Because you can always find time for
ONE set of
ONE exercise.
And you always have enough energy
for
ONE set of
ONE exercise.
Plus . . . . even if you hurt like heck -
and your body is one big dented ding
(or one dinged up dent) - you can
always manage
ONE set of
ONE
exercise.
You do it every day . . . . or every other
day . . . . or three times a week, or what-
ever works for you.
And you smile and stay happy and enjoy
the feel of training - and you start to pick
up your old books and magazines and re-
read them - and you dig your favorite pair
of training shoes out of the closet - and you
find your favorite training shirt (the one you
wore when you set that big PR a long time
ago) . . . .
And you keep on doing the
ONE exercise,
and you start to think that adding a second
set might be fun . . . .
And you see a great looking poster that
would be killer on the wall of your home gym -
so you get it and put it up - and it really does
look great.
Funny thing - you've seen that poster a
dozen times, but for some reason you
never actually got it.
Strange . . .
And you add a third set of your exercise -
because, after all, that's what you always
used to do - and it just seems to make
sense.
Then you wake up one morning and decide
it would be fun to add a second exercise
to your workout.
And before you know it, you're back in the
groove, and the engines are humming and
purring and firing on all cylinders.
That's the Power of One Workout - and
what it can do for you.
As always, thanks for reading and have a
great day. If you train today, make it a
good one!
Or a good
ONE . . . .
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. For some great workouts for older Dinos,
grab
Gray Hair and Black Iron:
http://www.brookskubik.com/grayhair_blackiron.html
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. 4. Thought for the Day:
"There are thousands of different
exercises, but the only ones that
count are the ones you do."
-- Brooks Kubik
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