A Super Nutrition Drink

Eating the right kind of healthy, nutrient-rich foods is one of the keys to lifelong strength and health. 

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Two quick notes and then I'll share Trudi's
Super Nutrition Drink. It's great for keeping
your immune system in peak condition
during the winter flu season.

1. Dinosaur Training Secrets, Vols 1, 2 and 3

I just ordered more copies of Dinosaur Training
Secrets Vols. 1, 2 and 3. So if you missed them
the first time around, now's a good time to grab
them:

These little monsters are available in your choice of hard copy, Kindle or PDF.

Vol 1 - Exercises, Sets, Reps and Workouts -
with 20 Detailed Workouts 

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Vol. 2 - Poundage Goals and Measuring Where
You Stand - and How You Compare to the Great
Champions of the Past

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_secrets_02.html

Vol. 3 - Old-School Progression Systems - How
to Make Steady Progress Without Going Stale or
Burning Out

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All three courses are also available in Kindle and
PDF editions - see the links for Kindle and PDF
courses in P.S. 2. at the bottom of this email.

2. The Strength Secrets Facebook Group

I believe in hard work and heavy iron - and so do the members of the Strength Secrets Facebook group.

John Wood has created a special, members only
Facebook group focusing on old-school strength
training and muscle building, Iron Game history,
old time physical culture, and everything else that
Dinos like.

Go here to apply for membership - and be sure to
tell him I sent you:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/strengthsecrets/

Join up, head over, and say hi to your fellow
Dinosaurs!

3. Trudi's Super Nutrition Drink

It's the middle of the flu season - and Trudi
works at a health care facility - so she's
extra careful to do everything she can to
stay healthy.

One of her secrets is the Super Nutrition
Drink.

Use a juicer to make it.

If you don't have a juicer, a hand-mixer or
blender will work fine - except you'll have
more of a smoothie than an actual juice.

If you make a smoothie, you'll need to
add water before mixing or blending.

For superb good health, always eat plenty of foods packed with antioxidants and phytochemicals - and supplement your meals with Trudi's super nutrition drink.

Here's the recipe:

1. Juice some fresh ginger root. Use one or
TBS of ginger juice for your drink. Pour it into
a glass and set it to the side until you mix the
other ingredients.

You'll probably have extra ginger juice. If
you do, set it aside and save it separately
for later use.

Ginger is highly anti-inflammatory and
is great for your immune system.

CAUTION: fresh ginger is strong stuff -
so don't go wild and overdo it the first
time! Start with a TSP or two - not a
TBS - and get used to it. From there,
build up to one or two TBS of ginger
juice.

I got inspired as I typed this Blog post, so I whipped up a quick Super Nutrition Drink with an apple, strawberries, a teaspoon of fresh squeezed lime juice and a tablespoon of fresh ginger juice. 

2. Now juice any fresh fruit of your
choice.

Trudi likes apples, oranges, lemon,
grapefruit, or berries.

You can use one fruit or two fruits that
would work well together. For example,
oranges and berries go well together -
and so do apples and berries, or apples
and lemons.

Fresh fruit is packed with antioxidants
and phytochemicals that will work with
the ginger juice to help rev up your
immune system.

Health warriors.

NOTE: if you're short on time, just mix
the ginger juice in some unsweetened
100% fruit juice. Berry, cherry and
pomegranite juice are VERY healthy.

NOTE 2: Here's a bonus for you! One
8 oz. glass of pomegranate juice every
day for just a couple of weeks increased
testosterone levels in men by almost 20
percent! (And they weren't even training -
so imagine what would happen if you
were doing regular Dino-style workouts
while drinking pomegranate juice every
day.)

3. Optional - juice one or two carrots.

These go well with citrus fruit or berries.
They also go well with apples.

Carrots provide additional antioxidants
and phytochemicals which will increase
the health benefits of the drink.

4. Mix the fruit juice (or fruit and carrot
juice) with the ginger juice - give it a stir -
and enjoy!

As far as amounts go - two pieces of
fruit, two carrots and two TBS of ginger
juice will make a small (4 to 6 oz) serving.

That's all you need, because there is so
much concentrated nutrition in this drink.

Give it a try, and let me know how you
like this super-nutritious and super-
healthy drink!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. I have plenty of other recipes and
nutrition tips in Knife, Fork, Muscle:

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaur_nutrition.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. 4. Thought for the Day: 


"Strong is good, but strong and healthy
is better."

-- 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

The No Tofurky Diet

 

Hitting it hard in the Dino Dungeon, and earning my dinner. That's important, because we've been having some great meals here at Dino Headquarters.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Ever since I updated you on Trudi's
30 Day Diet Challenge - where she
challenged me to join her in 30 days
of nothing but home cooked vege-
tarian meals for 30 days - I've been
getting a lot of emails.

Some of you have been thinking
about doing the same thing, and
wanted to know how it was
working and what we are
eating.

Others asked if I was dead yet -
working on the assumption that a
meat-free diet would kill me. (So
far, that hasn't been the case. In
fact, I feel really good.)

There were many common questions
and concerns.

A lot of you asked if we were eating
Tofurky or other faux meats.

The answer to that question is a
great big "No, double no and triple
NO!"

The whole purpose of the 30 Day
Challenge was to try new meals,
new menus and new foods. Trudi
thought that going meat-free would
force us to do that - and she was
right. It made us think outside the
box.

We don't eat any faux meats, and
we eat no refined, packaged or pre-
pared meals. That would defeat the
whole purpose.

Instead, we scour cookbooks and
the web for interesting meals - and
then we prepare them from scratch.

If we like them, we may try them
again, perhaps using a slightly
different recipe. If we don't like
them, we find and try something
else. There are tons of wonderful
dishes to try, and life is too short
to eat food you don't enjoy 100
percent.

We eat lots of fresh vegetables,
including plenty of leafy green
vegetables. We add kale, spinach,
beet greens or collard greens to
almost everything we cook. And
all or almost all of it is fresh and
locally grown. We have some great
farmer's markets here, and we
make the most of them.

Trudi served this terrific fruit and veggie plate the other day. To round out the meal, we had toasted Ezekiel bread with hummus.

We eat lots of fresh fruit - and
try to keep it as varied as
possible.

We both love mushrooms, and
we've been having fun with sauted
or stir fried mushrooms over whole
grain pasta, brown rice or (Trudi's
favorite) barley.

Stir-fried mushrooms with onions and garlic, served over barley. This is one of Trudi's favorite meals. We often add kale or spinach for extra fun.

We also grill portabella mushrooms
and serve them like burgers. Those
are pretty tasty. Of course, we use
lots of onion and garlic with any of
mushroom dishes, and that's pretty
hard to beat.

Homemade veggie burgers with hummus, avocado and tomato.

We've found some great recipes for
homemade veggie burgers made from
beans, grains, garlic, onion, and various
spices. They're surprisingly good, and
high in protein (14 to 17 grams for
one burger).

One day, I added some acorn squash
to the veggie burgers, and didn't like
them as much - so for dinner I took
the same mix (I had lots of it left-
over) and made a veggie meatloaf
that we baked in the oven and topped
with tomato sauce for the last 10 min-
utes of baking. That was delicious.

Veggie meatloaf with oven-baked potato wedges. This was simple and delicious.

We get our protein from a variety of
beans and legumes. We also have
lentil dishes, and we'll try some split
pea  dishes soon.

Today's breakfast - oatmeal with cherries, topped with a ton of nuts and seeds.

We eat nuts and seeds, which have
fats and extra protein.  Our breakfast
today was oatmeal with cinnamon,
three kinds of cherries, hemp seeds,
sun-flower seeds, pumpkin seeds,
flax seeds, walnuts and almonds.

Trudi found a great-tasting pasta made
from brown rice and chickpeas. It has
11 grams of protein per serving. We
like it a lot, and it's a good way to
add some extra protein.


We also use Ezekiel bread for sand-
wiches. It's made from sprouted grains
and legumes, and has six grams of
protein per slice.

We have lots of hummus with our meals.
It's made from chickpeas, and is high
in protein. I use it as an all-purpose
sandwich spread.

We eat a variety of fresh-cooked whole
grains: brown, red and black rice; quinoa;
barley; couscous; wild rice (which is
actually a grass seed rather than a grain);
buckwheat (also a grass seed) and whole
corn meal.

Peasant food that's fit for a King - minestrone soup with white beans and barley. Very filling, and a nutritional powerhouse.

All in all, we're getting plenty of protein,
and tons of vitamins and minerals. The
only nutrient we're not getting is vitamin
B12 (which is only available in animal
foods), we take a supplement for that.
(By the way, no matter what you eat,
all Dinos over age 50 should take a
vitamin B12 supplement. That's be-
cause we lose the ability to absorb
it as we grow older.)

Our meals are fun, we're having a good
time planning our meals and prepping
and cooking them together, and we
are definitely achieving Trudi's goal
of trying new and different meals.

So it's been working pretty well so
far.

And yes, we're 100 percent Tofurky-
free.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. For more about diet and nutrition
for strength and muscle building, grab
KNIFE, FORK, MUSCLE. It has great
ideas for carnivores and non-
carnivores alike:

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

P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: 

"Always train for real, and always
eat real food."

- 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

Trudi's 30-Day Meal Challenge

I've never been one to back down from a challenge - and this one's been very interesting.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Two quick notes and then I'll update
you on Trudi's 30 Day Meal Challenge.

1. Dinosaur T-Shirts

We have THREE of the new Dino t-shirts
left.

XL - blue with white letters.

$19.95 plus shipping and handling for
one shirt.

$49.95 plus shipping and handling for
all three.

If you want one (or all three), shoot me
an email.

First come, first served.

2. The Strength Training Q and A

We just released my Strength Training
Q and A in hard-copy and PDF editions -
and it's also out there in Kindle - so you
can grab the little monster in whatever
format you prefer:

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

By the way, the Q and A course is
no. 1 in a series of Q and A courses.
No. 2  in the series will be available
very soon.

3. Trudi's 30 Day Meal Challenge

Back in late August, Trudi decided
that she wanted to try some new and
different meals.

"We're in a rut," she said. "We need to
shake things up."

"What do you want to do?" I asked.

"I want all the flavors in the world," she
said. "I want every meal to be different
and exciting. I want to try new foods
from around the world. Things we never
eat."

"Then go ahead and do it," I said. "Try
anything you'd like."

"No, I'm not going to cook two meals
all the time - you have to join me," she
said. "And I want you to help me cook
them."

"Sure, no problem," I said. 'Let's do
burgers for dinner. I'll cook them."

She shook her head.

"No, I want to try something totally
different."

"Okay, we'll do cheeseburgers."

"No, that's not different."

"What do you want to do?" I asked.

"I want to try all vegetarian meals for
30 days," she said. "That would be
totally different."

And before I could say anything, she
made it impossible for me to say
"No."

"We can make it a 30-day challenge,"
she said. "You like challenges, don't
you?"

Challenges?

Of course, I like challenges.

That's part of being a Dinosaur.

Dinosaurs love challenges.

You can't say "no" to a challenge.

And that's how we ended up living
on nothing but plant-based meals
for the past three weeks.

You can see many of them at my
Instagram account:

https://www.instagram.com/brooks_kubik/?hl=en

So far, it's been pretty easy - and
pretty tasty.

Tuscan white bean soup.

We've had Indian curries, Thai veggie
rolls, Tuscan white bean soup,
Moroccan lentil stew, veggie pizza,
some killer veggie burgers and an
absolutely awesome hippie loaf and
oven-roasted potatoes that was one
of the best dinners I've ever had in
my life.

Hippie loaf (vegetarian meatloaf) with oven-roasted potato wedges. This was amazing. Who would have guessed?

We make everything from scratch,
and yes, I help with the meals - in
fact, I'm having so much fun that I
end up doing most of the cooking.

Moroccan lentil stew with potatoes.

We both feel great - healthy and
strong - and we're having a blast.

We're also saving a ton of money
on meals, which is always a plus.

Making our own vegetable broth for cooking.

Anyhow, that's the update on the
30-Day Meal Challenge. Let me
know if you want to hear more
about it, and if you'd like some
recipes and meal plans.

And if you have any questions
about Trudi's 30-Day Challenge,
fire them in.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. If you don't have the Strength
Training Q and A, grab it now:

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

"Train for strength, eat for health,
and welcome new challenges."

- 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