Good Stuff for Dinos!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I know that weekends are a good time to
grab a book or course and expand your
knowledge of real-world, no-nonsense
strength training and muscle-building.

So I thought I'd make it easy by giving
you an email with some links that might
be of interest.

Some of them are hard-copy and some
are e-books. Even if you don't read e-
books, follow the links and check out
the rankings, the ratingas, the feedback
and the reviews. They change all the
time, and they're always interesting.

And it shows Amazon that there's a
real interest in old-school, Dino-style
strength training and muscle building.

And that's a good thing.

I'll give you seven links -- because, well,
seven is a lucky number.

1.  All About Strand Pulling

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/about-us/news/2015-04/1155-all-about-strand-pulling-syd-devis-new-edition

2. American Weightlifting (Movie)

Amazon Instant Video -

http://www.amazon.com/American-Weightlifting-Greg-Everett/dp/B00SHKRGP2/

Amazon DVD -

www.amazon.com/American-Weightlifting-Documentary-Mike-Burgener/dp/B00FV6XK2I/

3. Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 1.

"Exercises, Workouts and Training
Programs"

http://brookskubik.com/dinosaursecrets01_kindle.html

4. Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 2,
"How Strong Are You?"

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets2_kindle.html

5. The Training Secrets of John Grimek

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

6. The Dinosaur Military Press and Shoulder
Power Course

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

7.  Sig Klein's Handbalancing Course

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LYM5I6E/ref=r_soa_w_d

So have fun checking things out, looking
things over, and making a wish list. Hope
you find something you like!

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. My courses are items 3 - 6 above. If you
prefer hard-copy courses, go here to grab
them:

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

P.S. 2. Thought for the Day: "The more you
learn, the better you will be." -- Brooks
Kubik

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An Old-School Secret of Upper Body Strength and Development

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

One quick note, and then we'll talk training --
and cover an old school secret to upper body
strength and muscle mass.

1. Dinosaur Training E-Books

Our e-books have been an off the chart success.
We're getting great reviews, and all four of the
little monsters have made it into the Amazon Top
10 at one time or another. Some days we have
two or three of them in the Top 10. And the new
"How Strong Are You?" course made it all the way
up to the number 1 position.

We'll have more coming soon, but for right now,
you can run on over to the Kindle bookstore and
grab these little monsters:

1. Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 1.
"Exercises, Workouts and Training
Programs"

http://brookskubik.com/dinosaursecrets01_kindle.html

2. Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vol. 2,
"How Strong Are You?"

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets2_kindle.html

3. The Training Secrets of John Grimek

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

4. The Dinosaur Military Press and Shoulder
Power Course

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

If you prefer hard-copy courses, all of the
little monsters are available in hard-copy,
as well -- along with my other books and
courses. You can find them right here
at Dino Headquarters:

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

Be sure to post a review for each book on our
Kindle pages. The reviews really help.

2.  An Old-School Secret of Upper Body Strength
and Development

If you're familiar with the old-time strongmen,
weightlifters and bodybuilders -- meaning the
men from 1890 through 1950 or so -- you know
that they had tremendous strength and rugged
muscular development.

They tended to be particularly good at feats of
overhead strength -- at arm and grip strength --
and at one-hand lifting.  Witness the old-school
strength standards I cover in my "How Strong Are
You?" Course and my Military Press course.

From a bodybuilding point of view, the old-
timers had tremendous development. Good
muscle size, excellent proportions, shapely
muscles and terrific muscularity.

They looked like classical statues -- and many
of the top men (Otto Arco, Sig Klein, and John
Grimek) actually posed for the leading artists
of the day.

When they posed, they moved with lion-like
power and supple strength. They exhibited
remarkable control of their muscles. Indeed,
many of them (such as Grimek) were true
masters of what they called "muscle control."

And many of them -- perhaps most of them --
used what is now a largely forgotten tool that
supplemented their weight training perfectly.
They used cables. (Or rather, they used what
we now call "cables". They called them "strands"
and "chest expanders".)

The benefit of cables is that the resistance
increases as you stretch them -- so you
need to constantly recruit more and more
muscle fibers to push or pull them to the
fully stretched position.

To do that, you need to establish a powerful
mind-muscle link -- and concentrate deep
and hard -- and teach your nervous system
to fire off more and more commands to
your muscles to push or pull against the
resistance of the cables.

It almost becomes a form of isometrics
with movement.

And that makes a very powerful, very
effective strength and muscle builder.
It doesn't replace weights -- but it works
in concert with them.

My friend John Wood sells some terrific
cables. He also just released a great-looking
reprint edition of one of the classic cable
courses -- a course that will give you some
great insights into old-school cable training.
It's called "All About Strand Pulling" -- and
you can grab the little monster right here:

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/about-us/news/2015-04/1155-all-about-strand-pulling-syd-devis-new-edition

I'd love to see you try a combination of
old-school cable training, Dino-style barbell
and dumbbell training, and the type of super
nutritious diet I cover in Knife, Fork, Muscle
and see what happens over the coming year.
I'm betting that we would see some amazing
results.

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 mentioned Knife, Fork, Muscle. If you
don't have a copy, go here to grab it:

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

P.S. 2. Thought for the Day: "Do anything and
everything you can to link your mind and your
muscles. The mind-muscle link is critical."
--  Brooks Kubik

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A Gym In Your Pocket!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Several Dinos have asked about how to get
a good workout while travelling.

The problem is that even if you find a gym --
or stay at a hotel with a gym -- it's usually
not a Dino-style gym.

For example, you might find a gym with
dumbbells, but they only go up to 50
pounds.

Or you might find a gym that has barbells,
but no squat racks.

Or you might find a gym with good equipment,
but the "feel" of the place drives you crazy,
and not in a good way.

Hey, I'm right there with you. The last time I
tried training on the road it drove me so crazy
I left the gym half-way through my workout
and never went back.

Chuck Sipes used to have a good way of
dealing with this sort of thing.

You may recall Chuck Sipes from "back in
the day." He was a top bodybuilder in the
1960's. Won the Mr. World contest.  He was
big, thick and muscular, with extreme
definition for a big man back then.

He was strong, too.

He could bench press close to 600 pounds,
and he moved really heavy iron in all of
his exercises. Did lots of heavy rack work
and support lifts. Trained his ligaments and
tendons. Real Dino stuff.

He specialized on forearm and grip strength,
and had the biggest, freakiest forearms
you've ever seen.

He did a strongman show where he bent
iron bars, blew up hot water bottles until
they exploded, broke heavy chains with
his bare hands, and drove a heavy spike
into a thick board with arm power alone.

So with power like that, how did he train
when he was away from the gym?

Well, get this.

Sipes worked as a counselor at a boy's
camp for what we would now call "at risk"
youth.

Sipes was an avid outdoorsman -- and
a former lumberjack -- and he knew
the California mountains like the back
of his hand.

He took the  boys on some serious hiking
and camping trips. He thought it was good
for them. He was probably right. There's
something about the great outdoors, fresh,
mountain air, camp-cooked meals, and doing
plenty of walking, climbing, and working.
It's good for the body and good for the
soul.

Anyhow, when he went on the camping
tricks, Sipes carried a gym in his pocket.

It was a set of super strong rubber cables.

And he would put in some ferocious, super
intense workouts with them.

One time, he was caught in a blizzard. He
used the cables inside his tent. Later, he said
it was one of the best workouts of his entire
life.

And remember, this was coming from one
of the strongerst and best built men in the
world.

So if you're travelling, consider taking those
rubber cables. You might surprise yourself
by how much fun they are -- and by how
great a workout they can give you.

Heck, you might even decide to use them
at home -- along with your weights. That's
what Chuck Sipes did.

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 like the heavy-duty cables that John
Wood sells. You can find them here:

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/products/chest-expanders

P.S. 2. Cables are great for older lifters. Use
them with any of the workouts in Gray Hair
and Black Iron:

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

P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "Where there's a
Dino, there's a way to train." -- Brooks Kubik

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