Dinosaur Training: A Very Good Question!

Strength training is about basic principles - which you can adapt and apply to any kind of equipment - and to your own unique goals, interests and needs.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

In response to yesterday's email about
Dinosaur Arm Training, I rec'd an
email from Jim DeSantis, an age 62
Dino who's been training for 30 years.

Jim had a very common question, so
I thought I'd cover it in this morning's
email message.

Jim wrote:

Hi Brooks,

I've been training for 30 years. I do
squats and deadlifts, but the rest are
mostly what I guess you'd consider to
be bodybuilding exercises.

I don't do snatches, cleans, jerks and
other Olympic lifting movements.

Does Dinosaur Arm Training involve
any Olympic lifting?

I know that a lot of the exercises you
advocate are Olympic lifting movements
and what I would consider to be "strong
man" lifts, but I think that at age 62 I'm
too old to start doing those types of
exercises.

Will your arm training course work for
me?

Jim DeSantis

That's a very good question - and a very

common one. For some reason, people

think I want everyone to do Olympic

lifting simply because that's what I like

to do - or to do "strong man" training

because that's what I did in my late 30's

and early 40's.

Over the years, I've done MANY different

types of training: powerlifting, all-dumbbell

workouts, bodyweight training, strong-man

training, Nautilus workouts, "power body-

building", heavy power rack training, and

total-body workouts three times a week the

way Bradley J. Steiner used to teach back in

the 1970's.

They're all good, and they all work.

Right now, at age 61, I prefer doing Olympic

lifting workouts - although (and this is very

important), I do them in a sensible and age-

appropriate fashion, and I follow the basic

principles of abbreviated training and relatively

short, low-volume workouts that I've written

about in virtually all of my books and courses.

But does that mean that YOU should do

Olympic lifting?

Or that you HAVE to do it?

No, not at all.

If you prefer doing squats, deadlifts, and other

basic, compound exercises, then by all means

do them.

The vast majority of older Dinosaurs do basic

compound exercises - or they make basic com-

pound exercises the mainstay of their training

program.

For this reason, my books and courses offer

universal training principles that can be applied

to any kind of workouts you like to do.

And it's why most of my suggested workouts

involve basic, compound exercises rather than

Olympic lifting movements.

Dinosaur Arm Training is a good example.

It includes several excellent total-body work-

outs - but no snatches or cleans other than

very light flip snatches and very light

power clean and press used solely and

exclusively as warm-up exercises.

If you prefer to do something else for a

warm-up, that's fine. A couple of sets of

hyperextensions and some quick push-

ups and deep knee bends (bodyweight

squats) will work just as well.

So, YES - Dinosaur Arm Training will

work great for you - and it doesn't include

any heavy Olympic lifting.

Hard-copy

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

Kindle

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PDF

Go to our products page and look for the section
listing our PDF courses with immediate electronic
delivery. Dinosaur Arm Training is no. 14 on the
list.

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

As always, thanks for reading and have a
great day. If you train today, make it a
good one!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

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P.S. 3. Thought for the Day:

"Focus on the basic principles of strength
training, and apply them to your own
particular goals and needs."

-- Brooks Kubik

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