Another Way to Measure Progress as You Grow Older

John Grimek was healthy and strong for pretty much his entire life - and he lived a very long life. We have much to learn from the old-timers about healthy and successful aging.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

I changed doctors seven years ago,
and when I did, I collected a full set
of medical records from my first doc.

I'd been seeing him since I was 28 or
29 - and I changed docs at age 54 -
so there were a ton of records.

Anyhow, the other day Trudi had an
idea:

"You should go through all your old
medical records - and then get new
labs and blood work done - and com-
pare where you are now - at age 60 -
to where you were at age 30, 40 and
50. That would be good information."

"You could share it with the Dinos,"
she added. "They'd like to see it."

That's a good idea, so I'm going to
go ahead and do it.

My birthday is in September - I'll be
turning 61 - so I may wait until then
to get the labs and blood work.

That way I can compare age 29, 30
and so on to age 61 - a full 32 years
later.

In the meantime, I'm following a very
healthy diet - and training hard - doing
a lot of new things, that I'll be sharing
with you in the future - and working on
being as strong, healthy, fit and well-
conditioned as possible as I head into
my 60s.

I don't compete against other people
any more. I compete against myself.

My goal is to be stronger, leaner, fitter,
healthier and better conditioned at age
61 than I was at age 30 - or age 40 -
or age 50.

In fact, I plan to kick the you know what
out of the younger version of Brooks.

Not that the younger version was a bad
guy - or in bad shape - but the goal is
to always keep on improving - and the
more ways to measure improvement,
the better.

If you're  a younger Dino, get some
labs and blood work - and save the
results - and compare them to where
you are in 10, 20, 30 or 40 years.

The docs used to say that weight
training would kill us. Let's all work
together to prove them wrong!

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. Gray Hair and Black Iron has
tons of workouts and training tips
for trainees. If you don't already
have a copy, do yourself a big favor
and grab it today:

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

"Stay strong, stay young."

 -- Brooks Kubik

From Weightlifter to Mr. America!

 

Strength training is a life-long journey - and you can (and should) try many different things and have many different adventures along the way. 

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

One of the very best things about the
Iron Game is that it's a never-ending
journey - and you never have to end
up at one destination and stay there
for the rest of your life.

Case in point - Clarence Bass, a/k/a
Mr. Ripped.

Most people don't know it, but Clarence
started out as an Olympic weightlifter.

He was a good one, too.

He was one of the youngest lifters
of his generation to clean and jerk
300 pounds in official competition.

His best lifts were a military press
of 275 lbs., a snatch of 245 lbs.,
and a clean and jerk of 325 lbs.

He won city, state and regional
championships, and placed second
in the Teenage Nationals, the Junior
Nationals and the YMCA Nationals.

But by his mid-thirties, Clarence
found that his progress in Olympic
weightlifting hasd stopped. So he
decided to look for a new challenge.

He became a bodybuilder.

And he went on to win his class
in the Past 40 Mr. America contest
not once, but twice - and also to
win the title of Most Muscular Man
at the Mr. USA Past 40 contest.

He developed incredible muscularity
with a unique diet that flew in the
face of the conventional wisdom of
the era.

At the time, bodybuilders followed a
strict meat and salad diet (essentially,
a zero carb diet) to get "cut" for
contests.

Clarence ate almost no meat. He got
his protein from milk and eggs. And he
ate plenty of whole grains, beans, and
fresh vegetables. It was close to being
a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet.

It worked pretty well for him.

He ended up being one of the most
muscular men in the world - and
today, 40 years later, he's still in
terrific shape.

He also - get this - went back to
his first love - Olympic weightlifting -
when he was 60!

Clarence Bass is a great example
of how the Iron Game can be - and
should be - a lifelong journey - and
how it can take you to many different
places and bring you many different
adventures throughout your entire
life.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. Clarence Bass has written a number
of terrific training books that cover his
Iron Game journey - and his diet and
nutrition plan - as well as his training
program and workouts.

I have seven of them that I need to sell
as part of our big book and magazine
sale here at Dino Headquarters. They're
used copies, but in good condition.

If you're interested in the seven-book
set, shoot me an email. You can have
all seven for $100.00 plus s&h.

I have just one set, so it's first come,
first served.

P.S. 2. If you're looking to change
up your training, all-dumbbell and
all-bodyweight workouts are a
terrific change of pace - or you can
combine them for some really great
workouts:

I specialized in heavy dumbbell training in my early 40's because I wanted to try new and different ways to train - and to tackle new challenges.

Dinosaur Dumbbell Training

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

Bodyweight training is a great way to change things up. You can follow an all-bodyweight program, or combine bodyweight training with weight training.

Dinosaur Bodyweight Training

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

P.S. 3. My other books and courses -
and 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/kindle.html

P.S. 4. Thought for the Day:

"Change can keep you young - and
keep you training."

- 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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An Update on the 30 Day Challenge

A delicious stir-fry with garlic and red pepper sauce - it made a terrific dinner, and we used the leftovers for lunch the next day.

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

Back in August, Trudi decided she
wanted to try as many new and
different recipes and meals as
possible.

So she challenged me to a 30
Day program of nothing but
vegetarian meals.

Being a Dinosaur, I had to accept
the challenge - so we began the
30 day program at the very next
meal.

I even helped by looking up a
recipe for dinner - and then
helping out with the prep and
the cooking - and I even did
the dinner dishes (all of which
was probably part of Trudi's
plan).

We followed a vegetarian diet for
several days - meaning that we
included eggs, butter and cheese.

No milk - I haven't used milk for
35 years. Around age 25 or so I
found that I couldn't digest it.

But I was curious to see how I
would do on a 100 percent plant
based diet, so I dropped the
eggs, butter and cheese.

Meanwhile, we started to explore
all sorts of fun meals:

Mexican dishes. (We're even
making our own tortillas, which
is lots of fun.)

Yellow corn polenta topped with black beans, salsa, sliced tomatoes and sliced avocado.

Thick soups and vegetable stews,
using recipes from around the
world - and my own homemade
veggie broth.

Roasted and oven-baked veggies.
Middle eastern dishes.


Lots of fun pasta dishes.

Pasta with broccoli and mushrooms sauted with garlic and onions.

Buddha bowls (meaning a
big bowl of all sorts of
good stuff).

Power plates (a Buddha
bowl on a plate).

A power plate consisting of raw celery; sauted onions, peppers and mushrooms; raw carrots; steamed chard; kimchi; brown rice, and baked tofu.

Homemade panini sandwiches
with veggies, black beans,
hummus, and much goodness.
(I flatten them with one of
Trudi's dumbbells or kettle-
bells.)

Oatmeal with cinnamon, nuts,
sunflower seeds, pumpkin
seeds, cherries and sliced
banana.

It worked great, and we had lots
of terrific meals - so after 30 days,
we continued to do it.

We went to Dayton one day and
had lunch with my brother, who
took us to a great little Korean
restaurant - which we loved -
so we decided to add Korean
food to the menu.

That led us to a local Asian
store - where we got all kinds
of fun ingredients for new and
different meals - including some
awesome garlic and red pepper
sauce and some killer kimchi.

Broccoli, cauliflower, red pepper, onion, garlic, kimchi, and tofu in garlic and red pepper sauce.

I even found a recipe for easy
no-knead whole wheat bread -
and baked some bread one
day.

We're about 90 days into the
new diet, and I feel great - and
I plan to continue with it - and
see what happens.

It would be fun to be stronger at
age 61 (my age next year) than I
was at age 50 - and to do it on a
plant-based diet. So we'll see what
happens over the coming year.

I've been posting photos of our
meals on Facebook and Insta-
gram - go check them out and
see some of the fun:

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

Some of you have less than
zero interest in the new diet,
and that's fine - but others are
VERY interested in it. So I'll
go ahead and write up a more
detailed report, including
some of our favorite recipes.

Anyhow, that's the update for
now. If you have comments or
questions, send them in.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. We're starting to get near
the end of our current printing
of Strength, Muscle and Power -
and I'm not going to reprint it
for awhile - so if you want a
copy, grab it now:

http://www.brookskubik.com/strength_muscle_power.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, be strong and live
long."

-- 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