Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Back when I was a kid, all the guys I ran around with got bit by the barbell bug sooner or later.
We all pestered our parents until they bought us those 110-pound barbell sets from Sears, with the gold-colored plastic plates filled with concrete. They all came with little instruction courses to explain the exercises and give you your beginner’s workout program.
And then we took our barbells and our instruction courses into our rooms, where no one could see us, and started to train.
Everyone trained like a madman – for a week or two. And then the weather got nice, and the other guys started playing softball and baseball out in the park, and the pretty little girl in the house by the corner started to do cartwheels and summersaults in her front yard all the time (which meant you always had to find reasons to ride your bike past her house, slowly).
And it was a good time for hunting and camping and fishing, and we had to cut the grass and do all kinds of yard work, and walk the dog, and the teachers gave us more home work, and there were some great new shows on TV, and there was a new John Wayne movie at the theaters, and Spidey was fighting Doc Octopus and we all started reading comic books again – and some kids started to collect butterflies, and some started stamp collections, and all the rest of us swapped baseball cards.
And all but one kid stopped working out with his little Sears barbell set.
That one kid was me – and if you’re my age or older (I’m 54), and you’re reading this message, you were probably the only kid in YOUR neighborhood who stuck with his training.
We were always looking for the SECRET – how to get big and strong.
But we already knew the answer. Or rather, we were already doing the right thing.
We were training.
We were sticking to it.
We were keeping at it.
And when you get right down to it, that’s the most important thing you need to do.
As always, thanks for reading, and have a great day – and a great week. If you train today, make it a good one!
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
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