The Power of One Workout

The best way to do it is to keep on training and never stop (aside from short scheduled lay-offs here and there) - but if you're coming back after a long lay-off, here's a very good way to do it.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Not long ago I sent an email about how to
get started in your training - and about how
to get back into it after a long lay-off.

If you missed it, you can find it at The
Dinosaur Training Blog. I post all of my
emails there.

You can access the Blog from the menu
bar on the front page of the Dinosaur
Training website at www.brookskubik.com.

And to make it easier for you to find that
particular Blog post, I'll send a link a
little later in the day.

Anyhow, one of our longtime readers,
Paul Murray, read the email and sent a
very interesting reply.

Paul said that if he hasn't been able to
train for a while due to life, injury, work,
or whatever, he always follows the same
basic approach to getting back to it.

He begins with ONE exercise.

It might be Trap Bar deadlifts.

It might be the one dumbbell clean and
press.

Or the two dumbbell clean and press.

Or snatch grip high pulls.

Or some variation of squats.

Or the farmer's walk.

Or military presses.

Or curls.

Or a bodyweight exercise.

Or whatever.

It doesn't really matter.

He just picks something he kinda,
sorta, maybe might feel like doing
again.

And he does ONE set.

In other words - he gets back to it in a
ridiculously easy way.

A way so easy that there's no room for
even the flimsiest of excuses.

Because you can always find time for
ONE set of ONE exercise.

And you always have enough energy
for ONE set of ONE exercise.

Plus . . . . even if you hurt like heck -
and your body is one big dented ding
(or one dinged up dent) - you can
always manage ONE set of ONE
exercise.

You do it every day . . . . or every other
day . . . . or three times a week, or what-
ever works for you.

And you smile and stay happy and enjoy
the feel of training - and you start to pick
up your old books and magazines and re-
read them - and you dig your favorite pair
of training shoes out of the closet - and you
find your favorite training shirt (the one you
wore when you set that big PR a long time
ago) . . . .

And you keep on doing the ONE exercise,
and you start to think that adding a second
set might be fun . . . .

And you see a great looking poster that
would be killer on the wall of your home gym -
so you get it and put it up - and it really does
look great.

Funny thing - you've seen that poster a
dozen times, but for some reason you
never actually got it.

Strange . . .

And you add a third set of your exercise -
because, after all, that's what you always
used to do - and it just seems to make
sense.

Then you wake up one morning and decide
it would be fun to add a second exercise
to your workout.

And before you know it, you're back in the
groove, and the engines are humming and
purring and firing on all cylinders.

That's the Power of One Workout - and
what it can do for you.

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

Or a good ONE . . . .

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

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P.S. 4. Thought for the Day: 

"There are thousands of different
exercises, but the only ones that
count are the ones you do."

-- Brooks Kubik

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Grab Some Massive Motivation for Strength, Muscle and Power!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

About forty years ago, Bradley J. Steiner
wrote something in an IronMan article
that has stayed with me ever since.

Steiner said that the most important
function of a strength training magazine
is not to provide training advice, workouts
or other "how to do it" instruction.

That's important, of course, and any
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Steiner's opinion, it was not the
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Rather, he believed, the most important
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I remember reading those words, and
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Today, forty years later, I know the
answer.

I agree with him 100 percent.

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Of course, each issue of the Dinosaur Files
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Anyhow, I'm doing my best to do what
Bradley J. Steiner said to do so many
years ago -- I'm working hard to bring
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inspiration -- as well as the best training
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The goal is to make 2016 the best year
ever for strength, muscle and might --
and together, we'll make it happen!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

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P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "If you could
hit every workout with the passion, commitment
and energy you brought to your very first workout,
imagine what you would achieve!" -- Brooks Kubik

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