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| Like all champions - and all successful trainees - John Grimek made plenty of mistakes when he was getting started - but he learned from them! |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
One of the unique things about strength
training is that it's a physical activity that
most of us learn without a coach or
teacher.
If you think about it, that's very unusual.
When we're kids, and we start to play
sports, we learn the fundamentals from
coaches.
Football coaches.
Wrestling coaches.
Basketball coaches.
And so on.
If you want to learn how to box, you don't
try to learn it on your own - you go to a
boxing gym, and learn it there - from a
genuine, real world boxing trainer.
If you want to learn a martial art, you don't
learn it on you own - you go to a gym or a
dojo (or a school or academy) and you learn
it there - from a sensei or master or other
real world, legitimate expert.
But almost all of us learn strength training
more or less on our own.
Certainly that was true of my generation of
trainees (I'm 60, soon to be 61 - and I started
weight training 50 years ago).
We had magazines, which were more or less
useful in showing us how to do some of the
basic things - and in giving us more or less
useful workouts to try.
We had very short, very basic training courses
that came with our barbell sets.
We had friends or older brothers to watch -
or to teach us how to train.
But most of it was trial and error.
We pretty much taught ourselves how to train.
We tried different things. Some of them worked.
Most of them didn't.
If they worked, we kept on doing them.
If they didn't we tried something else.
And that entire process - learning on your own,
by trial and error, making mistakes and learning
from them - is not a negative.
It's actually one of the very best things about
strength training.
It teaches you important things that go far
beyond strength training:
Self-confidence.
Self-reliance.
Problem-solving.
Persistence.
Tenacity.
Perseverance.
Not giving up.
Independence.
Creativity.
Overcoming obstacles.
The things I learned as a young trainee have
helped me immeasurably in all other parts
of my life - and I'm sure they've done the
same for you.
So don't be afraid to try new things - or to
test new things - just to see if they work
for you.
It's called learning by trial and error - and it
works pretty darn well in the Iron Game.
Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik
P.S. Here are some great courses with some
very interesting things to try:
Dinosaur Strength and Power -
Course No. 1 - Strength Style
Arm Training with Doug Hepburn
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurstrengthandpower-01.html
A complete - and brand new - training course
that teaches you how to build strong, powerful,
and muscular arms - using the training methods
of the legendary Doug Hepburn.
The Bone Strength Project
https://www.oldtimestrongman.com/bone-strength-projectPDF.html
John Wood's unique program for building
your bones in order to increase your
potential for maximum muscle mass.
Dinosaur Strength and Power -
Course No. 2 - Heavy Partials
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurstrengthandpower-02.html
Another way of building your bones -
and strengthening your tendons and
ligaments - a must read for anyone
interested in maximum strength and
power.
The May-June Dinosaur Files
http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles-mayjune2018.html
Feature articles include:
The World's Simplest Bodyweight
Program
The Deadlift from Hell
The Valhalla Challenge
Bob Hoffman's Favorite Training
Program
P.S. 2. My other books and courses 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. 3. Thought for the Day:
"You learn more from your mistakes than
from the things you do right - so don't be
afraid to make mistakes."
-- Brooks Kubik
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