Where the Magic Is

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

The University of Michigan football team has a new
head strength and conditioning coach.

It's Kevin Tolbert.

Those of you who have been following the strength
training field for the past 30 years are probably very
familiar with Kevin.

He's been featured in numerous articles by Dr. Ken
Leistner in Hardgainer, Muscular Development, and
Dr. Ken's own newsletter, The Steel Tip.

Dr. Ken began training Kevin when he was just 12
years old -- and used his rugged, old-school training
methods to transform the muscle-less kid into 185
pounds of unstoppable running back.

After a terrific high school career, Kevin went to the
Naval Academy, where he pushed his weight to a
solid 225, played fullback, and was known as the
strongest man on the team.

After he graduated, he served his full military
commitment, seeing 3 1/2 years of combat duty
in the Mediterranean. He brought his weights on
board ship, and famously trained on heavy, high
rep squats while the ship rolled from side to side.

He would stand with the bar on his shoulders until
the ship came to "level" -- and then squat and
come up -- and then stand and wait until the ship
rolled and came back to level before completing
the next rep.

It's sort of like heavy squats on a wobble board,
except you're using a ship in the middle of the
ocean for the wobble board.

It worked pretty well, too. Kevin ended up pushing
his weight all the way up to a soliud 240 pounds --
at 5'9" -- and that's pretty big and pretty thick.

Kevin went on to work as an assistant strength
and conditioning coach at the University of
Michigan, Stanford, and the San Francisco
49ers. He was the strength and conditioning
coach for the University of Miami for the past
three years.

So he's been teaching Dr. Ken's style of hard,
heavy, high intensity training for a long time --
and to a number of great football teams.

And like Dr. Ken, he knows how to make the
magic happen.

It's very simple.

You load the bar -- and you get to work.

Do the work, and the magic happens.

If you want his exact words, go here:

http://www.cstv.com/printable/schools/mich/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/011215aad.html

If you want to know more about Dr. Ken's
strength training methods -- and more about
Kevin Tolbert's training -- grab the complete
set of back issues of The Steel Tip from my
buddy, John Wood:

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/products/steel-tip-newsletter-collection-dr-ken-leistner

And if you want to make the magic happen,
start by loading the bar.

That's where the magic is.

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. You'll also find lots of magic in the new
quarterly Dinosaur Files. Go here to grab the
first issue:

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

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

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

P.S. 3. Thought for the Day: "Think it through,
make a plan, and take action." -- Brooks Kubik

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The Iron Game Time Machine -- Back to 1985!

Hail to the Dinosaurs!

It's geting close to 30 years since January 1985.

Many don't know it, but that was an important
time in Iron Game history.

January 1985 was when Dr. Ken Leistner launched
his now legendary newsletter, The Steel Tip.

It was a wonderful little publication. Each issue
was 4 - 6 pages long, with some issues running
a full 8 pages.

It had a sharp looking but simple layout, and
each issue was nothing but text -- no photos
and no drawings. Dr. Ken probably wrote about
95% of the material.

It was pretty much all about strength training
the way Dr. Ken taught it: "high intensity
training" in the true sense of the word.

Short, brutally hard, as heavy as possible in
good form workouts built around the basic,
compound exercises. Lots of squats, stiff
legged deadlifts, Trap Bar deadlifts, pressing
and pulling. Nothing fancy. Just good, old-
faashioned stuff that really worked.

The Steel Tip ran for three years. A total of 36
issues. Those are worth their weight in gold
now. They're hard to find, and hardly anyone
has a complete set of all 36 issues.

That's why I wanted to let you know about
something pretty darn good. It's been out
for a few years, but it's sort of under the
radar screen for some reason.

Back in 2010, John Wood celebrated the 25th
Anniversary of The Steei Tip by working with
Dr. Ken and his wife, Kathy, to put together a
complete set of all 36 issues of The Steel Tip
in book form -- including updated commentary
from Dr. Ken as he looked back on the high-
lights of each issue.

The end-result was a mammoth 8 1/2 x 11,
330-page book. And that's a lot of book.

You can read more about it -- and grab a
copy right here -- directly from John Wood:

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/products/steel-tip-newsletter-collection-dr-ken-leistner

Tell John I sent you. And say "HI!" to Dr. Ken when
you place your order.

Yours in strength,

Brooks Kubik

P.S. In the spirit of The Steel Tip, I'm doing a
new quarterly Dinosaur Files -- and you can
reserve your copy of the first issue -- which will
be shipping sometime next week -- right here:

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

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