A Great Assistance Exercise for the Military Press!

World and Olympic champion John Davis set many records in the military press. I cover his life and training in Black Iron: The John Davis Story.

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

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Two quick notes and then we'll talk training.

1. Coming Soon - My eBay Store.

If you missed yesterday's email, here's some
very big news: I'm going to set up an eBay
store this week and start to sell old books
and magazines from my research library.

I have doubles and triples of many great
books and magazines, and there's no
reason to keep them to myself. I know
that many of you would love to see
them.

I'll send an email as soon as the eBay
store is ready to go. Be looking for it!

2. The March Dinosaur Files.

We're running a little late because my
lay-out and design guy has been under
the weather. He's back on his feet now,
so we should be able to get it laid out
and ready to go very, very soon.

Thank you for your patience, and I know
you'll enjoy the March issue! It's a good
one.

3. A Great Assistance Exercise for the
Military Press!

One of the Dinos asked about ways to
increase his military press. He wondered
if presses from eye-level in the power
rack would help.

In other words, you would set the pins so
you could begin each rep from a dead stop
with the bar at eye-level.

I thought that was a good question, so I
thought I'd cover it with all of you.

Some of the best pressers in the history of
the Iron Game have used presses from eye-
level or from forehead-level.

Paul Anderson and John Grimek come to
mind immediately.

In fact, they both thought it was one of the
very best assistance exercises for the press.

I agree with that.

But it is NOT an easy exercise!

It's a VERY difficult exercise - and a humbling
one. You'll be surprised at how hard it is,
even with a relatively light weight.

Paul Anderson always advised doing full range
military presses to maintain your groove and
your pressing form - and I think that's a good
idea.

So if you want to try presses from eye-level,
do your regular military presses first - and
then do your eye-level presses.

You probably have lots of untapped strength
potential in the middle position of the lift - so
presses from eye-level should be a very
effective training tool.

Give them a try, and let me know how they
work for you!

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. For more training tips and complete
training program for building a massive
military press, grab my Military Press and
Shoulder Power course:

Hard-copy

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

Kindle

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

P.S. 2. My other books and courses are right
here at Dino Headquarters:

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

P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "Lifting heavy
stuff over your head is fun and it's good for
you - so do it!" - Brooks Kubik

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Paul Anderson on Physical Culture Radio!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I do a podcast every week with Carl Lanore,
the host of SuperHuman Radio.

The show is called Physical Culture Radio.

We normally air on Thursday at 12:00 noon,
but sometimes we move the show to a
different day or time. This week's show aired
yesterday.

We talked about the best lift(s) to measure
your strength.

We also talked about Paul Anderson.

Carl had selected a photo of Paul Anderson
to preview the show. I think I freaked him
a little because I knew where the photo was
taken -- and when -- and I knew something
else that I believe happened on the same day.

It was a very famous impromptu lifting contest.

I heard about it from not one, but TWO gold
medal winners in weightlifting.

I also heard about it from one of our longtime
Dinos. He was there. He witnessed it.

Plus, there was a story about other events of
the same day in an old issue of Iron Man.

So we covered it on the show. It's a fun story
and a great piece of lifting history.

If you missed the live show, you can listen
to the download right here. That also let's
you see the photo of Big Paul:

http://superhumanradio.com/shr-1823-science-for-humans-huge-forearms-calves-physical-culture-radio-strength-power-botox-knee-pain.html

And here's some more fun for the Dino
Nation.

Trudi took some candid photos of yours
truly while we were doing the podcast.

I've shared them on Facebook, Twitter
and Instagram. So check them out on one
or the other. I'm on Facebook at Brooks
Kubik and on Twitter at #brookskubik
and #dinosaurtraining.

You can find me on Instagram right here:

https://www.instagram.com/brooks_kubik/

Both photos show you how I talk with my
hands even when I'm on radio -- which
Trudi thinks is hilarious.

And one of them shows a side view of an
old wrestler's neck -- mine -- and I was
surprised to see how thick it is. I guess
that goes to show that barbell built muscle
lasts a long time.

In other news, I'm working on the March
issue of the Dinosaur Files. Be looking for
it soon. If you missed the December, January
or February issues, go here to grab them:

February 2016 Dinosaur Files

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles_february2016.html

January 2016 Dinosaur Files

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles_januaryr2016.html

December 2015 Dinosaur Files

http://www.brookskubik.com/dinosaurfiles_december2015.html

That's all for now. Let me know how you like
Physical Culture Radio, and what you think
about the photos -- and, of course, give me
your feedback on The Dinosaur Files!

Yours in  strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. My other books and courses are right here at
Dino Headquarters:

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

P.S. 2. Thought for the Day: "It's important to
know how to train, but it's just as important to
know how to teach it." -- Brooks Kubik

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High Impact, Low Stress Training!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

There's a story about a man going to see
Paul Anderson back in the late 1960's or
early 1970's. This was 10 or 15 years
after Anderson had won the Heavyweight
class in weightlifting at the 1956
Olympic Games.

The man drove up to the front door of the
Paul Anderson Boy's Home, got out, knocked,
and asked to see the big man.

"He's out back," they told him. "Playing
golf."

Yes, it turns out that Paul Anderson liked
to play golf -- not a game you normally
associate with a massive mountain of muscle
widely regarded as the strongest man in the
world.

So the visitor went out back and walked
over to the little golf course they had
built on the grounds of the Boy's Home.

He went quietly, so he wouldn't disturb
the champion.

And he was glad he did.

Anderson never saw him coming, so he got
to see how Paul Anderson played weight-
lifter style golf.

Anderson was standing by a heavily loaded
barbell positioned on an old set of single
stand squat racks.

The bar was loaded to something well over
400 pounds.

Anderson chalked his hands, walked over to
the bar, took it off the squat stands, and
pressed it overhead.

He put it back on the squat stands, walked
over to his golf bag, selected a club, teed
up, and knocked the ball a mile.

He put his club back in the bag, and walked
over to find his ball -- which happened to
land fairly close to a second set of squat
stands -- which happened to be loaded to
even more weight than the other bar.

Anderson push-pressed the barbell, lowered
it, selected a driver, teed up, and knocked
the gold ball back to the first set of squat
stands.

And there he was, casually knocking the ball
back and forth, and casually manhandling a
barbell loaded to a weight that exceeded the
world record in the press.

Now, I don't play golf, but I still think
that was a pretty interesting workout.

And it's the kind of thing you could do at
home.

Do whatever warm-ups you need, load up the
bar, do a heavy single, and then walk down
the street and back (or around the yard and
back -- or whatever) and then do another
single, and keep it up for awhile.

Maybe go for 5 singles and then switch to
another exercise and do the same thing.

Or maybe do 10 singles.

Or, if you prefer, use two barbells. Load one
up and do presses - and load the other one up
and do something else -- maybe squats or
deadlifts -- and work back and forth from
exercise to exercise.

Or do sets of 3 reps -- or sets of 5 reps.

If you just have one barbell, try alternating
a barbell exercise and a dumbbell exercise --
or a kettlebell exercise. See Dinosaur Dumbbell
Training for some great ideas on hard-hitting,
Dino-style dumbbell exercises.

Or try this -- press or push-press the bar for
a single -- and alternate that with sets of
5 reps in the squat or front squat.

Lots of options here.

It's High Impact, Low Stress Training -- meaning
that you hit your muscles hard and heavy, but
you don't stress about the details. You just go
out (or into your basement or garage gym), and
you just have fun.

Fun is good -- and yes, you can have fun, and
build strength and muscle at the same time.

One of your fellow Dinos has been following a
similar sort of program with great success.
I'll give you the details tomorrow. Be
watching for it.

In the meantime, and 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. Go here to grab a copy of Dinosaur
Dumbbell Training -- which will give you
plenty of ideas for High Impact, Low Stress
(and FUN) workouts:

http://brookskubik.com/dinosaur_dumbbelltraining.html

P.S. 2. My other books and courses are
right here:

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

P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "One of the
secrets of success is to work hard, but
have fun when you do it." -- Brooks Kubik