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| World and Olympic champion John Davis in a classic photo from 1940. Davis weighs around 200 pounds in this photo, and was ranked as one of the strongest men in the world - as well as one of the best developed men in the world. Later, he pushed his weight to 230 pounds and became the Strongest Man in the World - as proven by his string of World and Olympic championships in the Heavyweight class. |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
We'll talk iron in just a minute - but first,
let me cover some important updates.
1. Christmas Orders
There's still time to get a Christmas order
out the door and shipped to you before the
big day - but we're getting down to the
wire.
If you plan to order something for Christmas,
do it NOW - and we'll send it out the door
right away.
Santa's a great guy, and those magic rein-
deer fly pretty fast, but they can always use
a bit of help.
2. Dinosaur File Subscriptions
Speaking of Christmas presents, here's a
good one - that brings you something fun
and informative every month for a whole
year.
It's a one year, 12-issue subscription to
the new monthly Dinosaur Files.
You can purchase a subscription for PDF or (if
you are in the USA) hard-copy.
If you're interested, shoot me an email
and I'll give you the details.
If you prefer to grab each issue as it comes
out, that's fine, too. Go here to grab the Oct
and Nov issues:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_files.html
I'm finishing up the Dec issue, and it will be
ready soon. I'll send an email when it's
available.
3. Twelve Keys to Strength and Muscle
Mass
Here's part 4 in what has turned into a
mini-course on building strength and
muscle mass. This is tip no. 6. If you
missed parts 1, 2 and 3, you can find
them right here at the Dinosaur
Training Blog:
http://dinosaurtraining.blogspot.com/
By the way, I post every email on the
Blog - so if you ever miss an email, go
to the Blog to find it. You can access
the Blog from the drop-down/menu
bar on the landing page of my web-
site.
Tip No. 6 - Rest Pause Training
One of the keys to building strength
and muscle mass is to use more
weight in your exercises.
For beginners, that means you train
progressively and add weight to the
bar on a regular basis.
For intermediate and advanced
trainees, adding weight to the bar
becomes more difficult to do.
And that's where Rest Pause
Training comes into play.
Rest Pause Training was developed
in the 1950's and featured in Peary
Rader's IronMan magazine.
Interestingly, it received almost no
coverage in other magazines - so if
you didn't subscribe to IronMan, you
pretty much missed the boat on this.
The idea was simple.
Instead of doing a set of non-stop,
consecutive reps, you did just one
rep and then paused for 10 to 15
seconds - and then you did the next
rep - and so on, until you completed
the entire set.
Some viewed each set as a series of
singles - which is actually what it was.
By pausing between reps, you were
able to handle more weight in the
basic exercises - which was a very
good thing for building strength and
muscle mass.
In addition, you eliminated the effect
of momentum when you paused be-
tween reps. That meant that you had
to start each rep from a dead stop -
using muscle power alone.
You also eliminated the whole "muscle
pump" thing - which meant you were
doing pure strength training - and yet,
to the surprise of many, you could build
plenty of muscle mass on the Rest
Pause program.
And that's interesting, because everyone
*knows* you need to pump up your muscles
in order to make them bigger - or do you?
The guys who did Rest Pause Training
made big gains in muscle mass without
doing any pumping at all.
And they also built plenty of strength.
It was a great way to train - and it
still is.
I cover Rest Pause Training in Strength,
Muscle and Power - along with some
detailed Rest Pause workouts.Go here
to grab a copy:
http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.html
More to follow . . .
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. 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
P.S. 2. Thought for the Day:
"Old-school training works - and it
works much better than the modern
day stuff."
- Brooks Kubik
BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .
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