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| Today's post covers the true story of the old guy at the Muscle Beach Gym - sometime back in the 1940's. We don't have a photo of him - except maybe we do - he might be somewhere in the crowd, watching John Grimek at a lifting exhibition out in LA in 1940! |
Hail to the Dinosaurs!
Two quick notes and then we'll talk iron.
1. The Old-School Kettlebell Shirt
John Wood is having waaaay too much fun
designing shirts and hoodies. His latest is a
great looking shirt featuring an old-school
kettlebell lifter - from an old photo dating
all the way back to 1905.
Check it out:
https://www.oldtimestrongman.com/kettlebellshirt01.html
2. Strength and Health magazine
Because Trudi and I want to move to
the Pacific Northwest sometime in the
not too distant future, I'm selling all of
my duplicate books and magazines -
and that includes many issues of Bob
Hoffman's wonderful Strength and
Health magazine.
If you're interested in grabbing some,
shoot me an email, let me know where
we'll be sending them, and we'll let you
know what's available and what they
cost.
Also, let me know how you prefer to pay
for them.
Strength and Health was one of the best
ever strength training, weightlifting and
bodybuilding magazines - with tons of
awesome photos in every issue. And the
issues from the 1940's were just plain
wonderful.
I think you'll really like them.
So, as I said - if you're interested in buying
some of these timeless classics to add to
your Iron Game collection, shoot me an
email.
First come, first served - so don't sit on
the fence, think about it, scratch your
head, or kick the tires. Take immediate
action.
3. Important Advice for Older Trainees
Here's some important advice for older
trainees - courtesy of someone who, at
age 61, qualifies as an older trainee.
And don''t think, "Yeah, yeah, I've heard
this before."
The odds are good you haven't.
Today's advice isn't about exercises, sets
or reps.
It's not about workouts.
It's not about recovery and recuperation.
It's not about diet and nutrition.
Those are all very important, of course -
but this is something even more important.
It's about how the world looks at older
trainees - and about how you see yourself
as an older trainee.
When you're an older trainee, you tend to be
more or less invisible.
You fly under the radar screen.
No one notices you.
No one cares what you do at the gym - or
what you lift.
Instead, they focus on the current crop of
young champions, be they bodybuilders,
powerlifters, weightlifters, strongman
competitors, or whatever.
You often end up training alone - because
no one your own age is there, and the young-
sters never even think about working in with
"the old guy."
If you're not careful, that kind of thing can
start to wear on you.
It can start to make you feel "old."
But it doesn't have to be that way.
I often share the story of Bob Hoffman going
out to the West Coast on a business trip in
the 1940's, and seeing an old man training
by himself in the back corner of a huge gym
that Vic Tanny opened in an old airplace
hanger.
All of the young guys were hitting benches
and pull-downs together - and then there was
the old guy, all alone, training with just a barbell
and running through all four of the York courses
exercise by exercise.
In other words, training by himself - invisible
to everyone else - doing an "old-fashioned"
training program that no one else in the
place even remembered.
Hoffman noticed all that - but he also noticed
something else.
The old guy was in pretty good shape for
his age.
He was strong and well-coordinated. He
moved well. He was loose and limber. He
didn't handle huge weights, but he did
handle respectable weights - and he did
all of his exercises in perfect form.
He was having a very good workout - and
he worked up quite a good sweat doing it.
He also looked like he was having a pretty
good time.
In fact, as the end of his workout he had a
great big smile on his face.
It was very obvious that the old guy in the
back of the gym didn't think of himself as
old - and if he was invisible to the younger
guys, it didn't matter one bit.
He was there to train - and to have fun when
he did it - and to get a great workout that made
him feel like a million dollars. And that's exactly
what happened.
The moral to the story is pretty clear.
Be the guy at the back of the gym - and focus
on having fun - and getting a great workout
that makes you feel like a million dollars.
Do that every time you train - one workout
after another - and you'll find that your actual
age doesn't matter at all.
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 have tons of advice for older trainees
in Gray Hair and Black Iron:
http://www.brookskubik.com/grayhair_blackiron.html
I also have a terrific mini-course for older
trainees. It's Mini-Course No. 1 - in the
special section for PDF courses on our
products page:
http://www.brookskubik.com/products.html
P.S. 2. My other books and courses --
including 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/oldschool_01-kindle.html
P.S. 3. Thought for the Day
"Regular training helps keep you young -
and if you do it with a smile, it works even
better."
- Brooks Kubik
Brooks Kubik's Kindle Books
http://www.brookskubik.com/kindle.html
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