Brooks Kubik's Iron Game Collection - List No. 1 - Bob Hoffman's Strength and Health Magazine

Brooks Kubik’s Iron Game Collection – List No. 1 – Bob Hoffman’s Strength and Health magazine

I have 469 issues of Bob Hoffman’s Strength and Health magazine from various dates in 1933 (the first year of publication) through 1986. Other than as noted below (magazines with loose covers, no back cover, etc.), all magazines are in good or very good condition.

I have divided these magazines into sets based on the year of publication. Each set is priced individually. The prices listed below do not include shipping and handling; we'll calculate shipping and handling charges based on where you live and what you order, and give you a total that includes shipping and handling charges.

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STRENGTH AND HEALTH magazine

1933 (Vol. 1 - 1^st year of publication) - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Issue 3  – no covers

Issue 7 – loose cover

Issue 8 – loose cover

Issue 12 – loose back cover

1933-34 (Vol. 2) - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Issue 1

Issue 4

Issue 5

Issue 6

Issue 7

Issue 8

Issue 9

Issue 10

Issue 11

Issue 12

1933-34 (Vol. 3) - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

Sept. and Nov. have loose covers.

1935-36 (Vol. 4) - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

11-issue set from Dec 1935 (issue 1) thru Nov 1936 (issue 12). Missing the Feb 1935 issue.

1936-37 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1937-38 (Vol. 6) – 100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 13-issue set (not a typo – there were 13 issues from Dec 1937 through December 1938). (Hoffman changed the publication schedule in 1937, and each year began with the January issue and ended with the December issue rather than over-lapping two years, as had been the case with volumes 1 – 6. Hoffman also dropped vol. numbers, so I will identify each later set by year of publication alone.)

Note: The 1937-38 set has been purchased and is
no longer available.

1939 – 100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

Note: The 1939 set has been purchased and is
no longer available.

1940 - $30.00 plus shipping and handling

Jan 1940

May 1940

Aug 1940

1941 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

Note: The 1941 set has been purchased and is
no longer available.

1942 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1943 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1944 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1945 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1946 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1947 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1948 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

11-issue set. Missing Jan 1948.

1949 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.  

1950 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

NOTE: The 1950 set has been purchased and
is no longer available.

1951 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 11-issue set. June/July is a combined issue.

NOTE: The 1951 set has been purchased and
is no longer available.

1952 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

NOTE: The 1952 set has been purchased and
is no longer available.

1953 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1954 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

NOTE: The 1954 set has been purchased and
is no longer available.

1957 - $12.00 plus shipping and handling

May 1957 issue (this is the only issue I have from 1957).

1958 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1959 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1960 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1961 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1962 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1963- $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1964 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1965 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1966 - $80.00 plus shipping and handling

10-issues. (Missing Nov and Dec issues.)

1968 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1969 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1970 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1971 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 11-issue set (May-June is a combined issue).

1973 - $100.00 plus shipping and handling

Complete 12-issue set.

1974 - $30.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – loose front cover, missing back cover.

May

Oct-Nov combined issue (Strength and Health switched to bi-monthly issues in 1974).

1975 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – Sept

Oct – Nov

Dec 75 – Jan 76

1976 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

April – May (loose/torn covers)

June- July

Aug - Sept

Oct- Nov

1977 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb - March

April - May

June - July

Aug - Sept

Oct - Nov

1978 - $30.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb-March 

June- July

Aug – Sept (loose, wrinkled cover)

1979 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec - Jan

Feb -March

June - July

Aug - September

Oct – Nov

1980 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec – Jan

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

Oct – November

1981 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

1982 - $60.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec – Jan

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

Oct – Nov

1983 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec – Jan

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

1984 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Dec – Jan

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

Oct – November

1985 - $50.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

April – May

June – July

Aug – September

Oct – November

1986 - $10.00 plus shipping and handling

Feb – March

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Seven Reasons to Keep on Training

Strength training is one of the very best things you can do for yourself - and the older you are, the better it is!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I was talking with a guy I used to
work with but haven't seen for a
number of years.

He asked me if I was still training.

"Of course," I said. "Three times a
week, just like clockwork."

"But aren't you getting a little old
for this weightlifting stuff?" he
asked.

"I'm older, but training keeps me
young," I told him.

"How old are you?"

"I'm 60. I'll be 61 in September."

And that's when I got the "are you
kidding me?" looks.  That's because
I don't look 60.

Which is part of what I mean about
weight training keeping you young.

Of course, this is nothing new.

Bob Hoffman was saying this back
in the 1930's - but the scientists,
physicians and everyone else didn't
believe him.

In fact, the conventional wisdom
back then was that weight training
would probably kill you.

Everyone other than Bob Hoffman
and a small handful of others told
you NOT to do it.

As in, NEVER.

Not under ANY circumstances.

And that anti-weight training bias
lasted a very long time. It was still
around when I was in high school.

Many of the coaches refused to let
their athletes train with weights.
They thought it would ruin them.

But recent research proves that
Hoffman was right.

Weight training -- or any other kind
of progressive strength training -- is
good for you. It keeps  you strong,
fit and healthy at any age. And it's
probably the best thing around for
older adults.

Recent research has confirmed:

1. Progressive weight training in-
creases bone density and bone
strength in older adults.

2. Progressive weight training
improves balance, mobility and
coordination in older adults.

3. Muscular strength is associated
with a 30 to 40 percent decrease
in cancer mortality among older
men.

4. Progressive strength training
improves brain function in older
adults.

6. Muscle mass is associated with
healthy aging and lower mortality
in older men -- and weight training
helps you build or maintain muscle
mass at any age.

7. Progressive strength training
stimulates the production of male
hormones -- and maintaining high
levels of male hormones helps
keep you young, strong, vigorous
and healthy.

In other words, the medical world
is discovering "what Iron Slingers
have known for many years --
and what Bob Hoffman wrote about
way back in the 1930's:

Progressive strength training is the
best thing in the world for older
adults.

So give yourself a pat on the back
for having figured this out before
the science honchos -- and keep
on training!

Oh, and before I forget, here are
three more reasons to keep on
hitting the iron:

8. It's fun.

9. It makes you feel better.

10. It makes you younger and
stronger -- because strength is
life, and stronger is younger.

Yours in strength,
Brooks Kubik

P.S. Gray Hair and Black Iron
is the best book ever written on
effective strength training for
anyone in the age 40 and up
category:

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

I also did a terrific mini-course
with an all-new workout for older
trainees. It's available in PDF
with immediate electronic
download:

http://www.brookskubik.com/minicourse_01.html

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:

"Lifting iron keeps you from rusting
away." 

-- Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

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Try Bob Hoffman's Favorite Workout!

A classic photo of a young John Grimek performing a one-hand deadlift back in the 1930's.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

In 1941, Bob Hoffman devised a special training
program for military recruits.

Hoffman knew that America would be dragged
into World War II sooner or later – and probably
sooner than later – and he also knew that the
Armed Forces would need to whip raw recruits
into fighting shape as fast and efficiently as
possible.

Hoffman believed that standard calisthenics
wouldn’t be enough to build tough, strong,
rugged warriors.

They would need weight training, as well.

But the men didn’t have long hours to devote
to barbell and dumbbell training – and the
military didn’t have anything approaching
a large supply of barbells and dumbbells.

So Hoffman devised a special program that
would permit men to make good gains in
strength and conditioning with short, fast
barbell workouts.

As in - 20 minute full-body workouts.

Hoffman designed the program so a large
group of men could train at the same time,
using a small number of barbells, and all
of them could get a terrific barbell workout
in just 20 minutes.

Hoffman called the program The Simplified
System of Training. 

It ended up becoming one of Hoffman’s
favorite training courses.

And that's no surprise - because you can
use it to get a complete full-body workout
in less than 20 minutes - with just a single
barbell.

If you train alone and you work fast, you
can do it in 10 or 15 minutes.

Hoffman once did the entire workout in
just five minutes - to prove it could be
done.

So it's perfect for home gym training - and
for those days when you're crunched for
time and can't do a longer workout.

It's also a great warm-up for heavier
exercises - a great conditioning workout -
and a great light workout to sandwich
between your heavier days as a form of
active recovery.

And it's an excellent workout for older
Dinos - because it strengthens all of
the major muscle groups, and keeps
all of your joints healthy and strong -
and you can recover from it very
easily.

It energizes you - it doesn't wear you
down or tire you out. And that's a very
big plus for older Dinos.

I cover the Simplified System of Training
in detail in the May-June issue of The
Dinosaur Files newsletter.

Exercises, sets, reps, and suggested
weights.

The exact weights Hoffman used to
perform the entire workout in just
five minutes.

Bronze, Silver and Gold Medal poundage
goals.

How and when (and why) to modify the
original program.

How to combine the program with heavier
workouts.

How to use the program as part of a
fun and effective program for lifelong
strength and health.

So go ahead - grab the May-June issue of
The Dinosaur Files - and see the entire
program in detail - and give it a try:

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles-mayjune2018.html

And, of course - let me know how you
like it and how it works for you.

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

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

Did Hi-Proteen Kill Bob Hoffman?

If you're my age or older, you probably remember Hoffman's Hi-Proteen powder and Hi-Proteen tablets. (Not a typo, that's how it was spelled.) You were supposed to gain one pound of muscle for every dollar you spent on Hi-Proteen - but that never happened for me.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Back in the early 1950's, everyone started
selling protein powder.

A guy in Chicago named Irving Johnson
started the craze. He later moved to
Beverly Hills and changed his name to
Rheo H. Blair.

He made so much money selling protein
powder that everyone who published a
weight training magazine decided they
needed to do the same thing.

Bob Hoffman did it - Joe Weider did it -
and even Peary Rader did it (for a short
period of time - and then he - thankfully -
stopped).

Hoffman called his protein powder Hi-
Proteen. (Not a typo - that's how they
spelled it).

The stuff was made out of soybeans,
which were being hailed as a super food -
even though, prior to that time, soybeans
had been used almost exclusively for
animal feed here in the USA.

But the bodybuilding world began using
them for humans - as a food supplement -
and before you knew it, pretty much every-
one who lifted weights had tried the stuff
at least once.

There was a relentless advertising campaign
for all the protein powders. We were bom-
barded with articles telling us we needed
to eat more and more protein.

Three square meals a day weren't enough.

You needed six high-protein meals a day.

You needed to take protein powder at
every meal.

If you were extremely underweight and
skinny (as most beginners were), you
needed to guzzle a gallon of milk loaded
with protein powder every day.

For good measure, you were supposed
to take a thermos of high protein shake
to the gym and glug it in-between sets.

And just to be on the safe side, you were
supposed to carry high protein tablets in
your pocket and eat them like candy all
day long - just to be sure you didn't go
a single minute without an adequate
supply of protein. You didn't want to
start shrinking and lose all your gains!

I remember trying all of the different
protein powders when I was a kid.

MAN, DID THEY TASTE BAD!

A pair of dirty soaks boiled in swamp
mud would have tasted better.

If you ever tried them, you know what
I mean.

Bob Hoffman always said he ate
more Hi-Proteen than any man
who ever lived.

I don't know if that's true or not, but
if he did, it probably killed him.

That's also why - to this day - I steer
clear of any protein supplements. Been
there, done that - and don't want to do
it again.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. I cover diet and nutrition for strength
training and muscle building in Knife,
Fork, Muscle. Go here to grab a copy:

Hard-copy

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

We're also releasing Knife, Fork, Muscle in
a series of Kindle e-books. The first three
books in the e-book series are right here;
book 4 in the e-book series is coming soon:

Knife, Fork, Muscle, Kindle e-book 1

(covers protein for strength training -- how
much, the best sources of high-quality
protein, etc.)

http://www.brookskubik.com/knifeforkmuscle01_kindle.html

Knife, Fork, Muscle, Kindle e-book 2

(covers healthy and unhealthy carbs,
vegetables, starchy vegetables, grain
and gluten issues, organic foods, and
gardening)

http://www.brookskubik.com/knifeforkmuscle02_kindle.html 

 Knife, Fork, Muscle, Book 3
(covers healthy and unhealthy fats,
food and chemical allergies, and the
importance of allergy-free diets)

http://www.brookskubik.com/knifeforkmuscle03_kindle.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: 

"Heavy iron and real food works
pretty darn well."
 
- Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

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The Old Guy at Muscle Beach

Yes, I'm the old guy with the barbell. And that's okay with me!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Back in 1946 or so, Bob Hoffman
traveled to California on business.

While there, he visited a huge gym
that Vic Tanny had opened close to
Muscle Beach.

It was in a large building - an old
airplane hanger - and it wasn't at
all fancy. It had barbells, dumbbells,
benches, pulleys, chin bars, dip
bars, sit-up boards and squat
stands.

The benches and pulleys got most
of the use.

This was at the start of a big
exercise craze on the West
Coast. Trainees did endless sets
of TWO exercises:

1. Bench presses
and

2. Lat machine pull-downs

The idea was to pump their upper
bodies to gargantuan proportions.

Hoffman was used to watching the
weightlifters at the York Barbell Club
train, and he expected to see lots of
cleans, snatches, military presses
and squatting when he went to a
gym.

But not this time.

Not this gym.

Instead, he saw many gym members
doing nothing but bench presses and
pull-downs.

It baffled him.

Then he looked across the gym and
saw a lone trainee working out all by
himself in a far corner.

He was an older man, and he was
training with nothing but a barbell.

He was doing the old-school exercises
in the York training courses: squats,
presses, curls, bent over and upright
rowing, cleans, snatches, high pulls,
deadlifts, shrugs, etc.

Hoffman watched him go through his
entire workout.

The old guy finished with a good sweat
and a smile on his face.

It was the kind of workout Bob Hoff-
man liked to see.

I'll be training tonight, and my workout
will be a lot like the old guy with the
barbell.

In fact, if anyone walks by our place,
looks into the drive-way, and sees me,
that's probably what they'll think:

"It's the old guy with the barbell again."

And that's okay with me. I'm perfectly
happy to be the old guy with the barbell.

It beats the heck out of being the old
guy in the wheelchair.

Or just being "the old guy."

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. The Old School Q and A is
available in your choice of hard-copy,
Kindle, or PDF with immediate electronic
delivery.

Go here to grab a copy:

http://www.brookskubik.com/oldschool-qanda.html

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

"There's nothing wrong with being the
old guy with the barbell - in fact, it's
kind of fun!"

- Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

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

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The Old Gym and the New Gym

 

John Grimek hitting a heavy press at an exhibition in the early 1940's.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

There was a time, back in the 1930's,
40's and 50's, when the old York Bar-
bell Club gym was probably the most
famous gym in the entire world.

It was on the second floor of the old
Strength and Health building at 51
N. Broad Street in York.

It was the home of the York Barbell
Club, the perennial winner of the team
title at the Senior National Weightlifting
Championships each year.

Every Mr. America winner, every USA
World and Olympic champion, and
every USA World record holder had
trained there at one time or another.

The bars, benches, squat stands and
platforms carried the DNA of the
greatest strength athletes in the
history of the United States.

John Grimek had trained there since
the 1930's. He loved the place.

But one day, he overheard a couple
of top-name, visiting bodybuilders
talking about the gym after they
finished their workout.

They said it was a dump.

Old-fashioned.

Out-dated.

Dark.

Dirty.

Gritty.

Nasty.

"It's a s--t house," said one of them.

"Who would want to train here all
the time?" asked the other man.

"Not me!" the first replied, and the
two men laughed.

That got Grimek thinking - and he
decided to raise the issue with Bob
Hoffman.

So he did.

Told him that visitors were complaining
about the old gym. Saying it was old-
fashioned. Even laughing about it.

"It's bad for business, Bob," Grimek
concluded.

Hoffman didn't agree - not at first. But
Grimek was persistent, and over time,
he wore Hoffman down.

They built a new gym in a modern
building, and and stocked it with all
new equipment.

It was bright and shiny and well-lit. A
thoroughly modern, up to the minute
sort of place.

Grimek went over and took his first
workout in the new gym.

He didn't like it.

He tried again.

Still didn't like it.

The new gym lacked something.

It lacked memories - and it lacked
character.

So Grimek did the only rational thing.

He snuck back to the office building
when no one else was there, and
trained by himself in the old gym.

Of course, Hoffman found out - and
made Grimek stop.

So Grimek ended up training in the
new gym that he had pestered
Hoffman to build - and probably
kicked himself for ever raising the
idea of a new gym.

If you're a Dinosaur, you probably
know exactly how he felt - and you
understand that a place with good
memories and plenty of character
is the best possible place to train.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. You can learn lots more about
John Grimek and how he trained in
my John Grimek training course. It's
available in your choice of hard-copy
or Kindle editions:

Hard-copy

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

Kindle

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

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. 2. Thought for the Day

"Treasure your equipment, your
training quarters, and the memories
they bring you."

-Brooks Kubik

BEFORE YOU LEAVE . . .

We have more than 25 Dinosaur Training books and courses in the Kindle bookstore - here are several of them - head on over and take a look at the others:

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

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