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| There's a very important secret to great gains - and it's something you just don't see on social media. |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
We'll talk iron in just a minute - but first,
let me cover a few quick updates.
1. The May-June Dinosaur Files
We ran late with the May issue of The Dino-
saur Files strength training newsletter, so we
did a combined May-June issue. It's an extra
big issue, with a ton of great articles -
including:
The Valhalla Challenge
The Deadlift from Hell
The Simplest Bodyweight
Workout in the World
Bob Hoffman's Favorite
Training Program
Go here to grab the little monster:
May-June Dinosaur Files
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles-mayjune2018.html
2. Strength-Style Arm Training
I'm doing a new series of courses. Each one of
them gives you a new and different training
program, with detailed instructions on how to
train for maximum results.
The goal is to give you a comprehensive
encyclopedia of old-school, super-
effective workouts.
No. 1 in the series covers Doug Hepburn's
strength-style arm training. It gives you a
complete program with three different work-
outs - plus four printable workout sheets to
keep track of them:
Dinosaur Strength and Power - Course
No. 1
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurstrengthandpower-01.html
3. Dinosaur Tee-Shirts
Many of you have been asking if we carry
Dinosaur Training tee-shirts. We do - but
you need to order them from the Retro-
Strength Shop.
Trudi and I live in a small apartment now -
after selling the house and downsizing when
the kids grew up and moved out - and we
don't have room to keep a big inventory of
shirts here.
Which is why we're offering them at the
Retro-Strength Shop. They do the
printing and the shipping for us. Works
way better - and for overseas Dinos, it's
much, much less expensive - because
they can print shirts in Europe and ship
them for much less than we can do it
from Louisville.
Go here to check out the new Dino shirts -
and all the other great shirts and other
strongman swag:
Dinosaur Training 3/4 sleeve shirt
https://www.retrostrength.com/product/dinosaur-training-cover-3-4-sleeve-raglan-shirt/
The Retro-Strength Shop
https://www.retrostrength.com/shop/
4. The One Workout Fallacy
We seem to be bombarded with images
of strongmen, weightlifters, powerlifters,
MMA pros and other martial artists, body-
builders, wrestlers, football players, and
everyone else who has an I-phone and a
social medium account.
All of them are doing what appears to be
the hardest, heaviest most Herculean
workout in the history of the world -
and many of them are legitimately hard-
core and impressive.
They do everything - hill sprints, running up
stadium stairs, kettlebell swings, log lifts,
tire flips, sledge-hammer smashes, squats,
snatches, clean and jerks, handstand
gymnastics, chains, bands, box jumps,
circus dumbbells, stone lifts, amazing
feats of grip strength and other stuff
that shouts "Strength, Power, Fitness!"
so loud that they can hear it in Outer
Congolia.
It's great stuff - and it fires you up to go
out and train like a madman - and that's
fine, as far as it goes.
But the uber-workouts on social media
can't show one very important thing.
In fact, it's the single MOST important
thing . . . and you don't even see it.
It's the day to day, workout to workout,
non-heroic grind of slow, steady, gradual
progression.
You go from 300 pounds to 302 1/2
pounds.
You go from five reps to six reps with a
given weight.
You go from one single with a given weight
to two singles with the same weight - and then
you go from two singles to three singles.
You progress from one set of five reps
with a given weight to three sets of five
reps with the same weight.
You do one more tire flip.
You do one more sprint - or one more
jump - or one more of anything.
You include stabilizing workouts - where
you don't try to progress, but merely stay
where you are and consolidate your gains.
You even do lighter workouts where you
back off and give your mind and body a
much-needed rest from the maximum
intensity stuff.
You do it according to a predetermined,
systematic plan.
You set a goal, work back by 30 percent,
and then plan how to work up to your goal
in slow, steady, manageable increments.
Step by step, little by little, bit by bit.
Pound by pound, rep by rep, set by set.
And the thing is - you stay with it until
you achieve your goal.
Then you set a new goal, drop back, and
work up to it.
And you don't go looking for new things -
or new exercises- or new add-ons - you
focus on what you are doing and you
work relentlessly toward your current
goal.
That's the secret - and it's what you don't
see in the social media videos and selfies,
however inspiring they may otherwise be.
You don't see it because there's no way to
show it - and it would be BORING to watch -
because it's the same thing, over and over,
with very slow and gradual improvements.
So don't look for it on social media. It's just
not there.
But it means everything when it comes to
building strength, power and fitness.
Progression - it's the key to great gains.
Always has been and always will be.
As always, thanks for reading and have a
great day. If you train today, make it a
good one - and make it part of that long,
slow, gradual march to achieve your goals.
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. Progression is so important that I
wrote an entire course on it.
It's Vol. 3 in the Dinosaur Training
Secrets series - and it's one of the
best and most useful courses I've
ever offered.
Go here to grab a copy:
Hard-copy and Kindle:
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_03.html
Go to our products page and scroll
down for the list of PDF books and
courses:
http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html
IMPORTANT - if you want to grab all three
of my Dinosaur Training Secrets courses, you
can grab them in hard-copy at the Dinosaur
Training website - or as a special three-book
package at the Kindle bookstore - or as a three-
book passage in PDF format at my website.
Three-book set on Kindle:
P.S. 2. Thought for the Day
"Inch by inch, rep by rep, pound
by pound."
- Brooks Kubik
