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Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Two quick notes, and then we'll talk iron.
1. The Dinosaur Files
Do you have the October, November
and December issues of The Dinosaur
Files newsletter?
If not, go here to grab the little monsters
in PDF format with immediate electronic
delivery.
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_files.html
The PDF's are printable, so if you prefer
a printed copy, all you have to do is order
the PDF and hit the old "print" button.
In the meantime, I'm working away on
the January issue - and it's going to be a
good one!
2. The Iron League
John Wood's enormous archive of rare
strength training, boxing, wrestling, self
defense and physical culture books, courses
and magazines is going great guns -- and
it's a terrific resource for Dinosaurs. Go
here to grab an Iron League membership:
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3. Hard Work, Intelligently Applied
Someone asked John Grimek the secret
of his success.
"Hard work," said Grimek.
That's a very good answer, and an important
message -- especially for anyone who might
be looking for an "easy" way to build strength
and muscle.
But hard work alone is not the answer.
It has to be "hard work, intelligently
applied."
In other words, you need to train hard but
smart.
The secret of smart training is to follow a
sensible and realistic progression system.
You start relatively light and easy, and
gradually increase the difficulty of your
workouts.
The initial workouts help you lay the
foundation for harder and heavier
workouts later on -- and for the gains
that those workouts will bring. But you
can't just jump into the hard and heavy
stuff. You have to build up to it.
This basic principle applies to any kind of
training, and any kind of equipment.
It sounds ridiculously simple -- and some
of you may be thinking, "I already KNOW
that!" or "Why are we talking about this?"
That's a fair question. Here's the answer.
We're talking about it because most
people are too stubborn to do it.
Rather than start light and easy, and lay
the foundation for big gains down the
road, they jump into a super-demanding
and ultra-intense training program
because they think they can make
super-fast gains that way.
But the gains don't come.
Instead, the over-zealous trainee does
the "Crash and Burn." He over-trains,
goes stale, burns out -- and often injures
himself.
And I'm not just talking about beginners.
This is a mistake that experienced trainees
often make when they come back from a
lay-off, or when they start doing a new
exercise or a new program, or when they
decide to go on some sort of special
program.
I've done it -- you've done it -- and John
Grimek did it. Everyone does it.
But you don't have to keep on doing it.
You can start training smarter -- and the
way to do it is to use old-school progression
methods with "slow cooking." Don't try for
overnight results, instant this, big arms in
21 days, 20 pounds of muscle in six weeks,
or adding 100 pounds to your PR in four
short weeks.
Take it slow. Slow and steady
is always better.
Remember, there's no such thing as
overnight results in the Iron Game. It
takes time to build serious strength and
muscle mass. That's where the "train
smart" rule comes into play.
In short, make haste slowly.
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. I cover old-school progression in course
no. 3 in my Dinosaur Training Secrets series.
It's available in hard-copy, Kindle or PDF
with immediate digital download:
Hard-copy
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_03.html
Kindle e-book
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets3_kindle.html
PDF with electronic delivery
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaursecrets_vol3_digital.html
P.S. 2. My other books and courses are
right here:
Hard-copy and PDF
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
Kindle
http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html
P.S. 3. Thought for the Day
"It takes time and effort. Don't try to
short-circuit or speed up the process. Give
Mother Nature the time she needs to do her
job."
- Brooks Kubik
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