Dinosaur Training
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Dinosaur training is a philosophy of weight training / physical culture promoting a return to traditional strongman types of exercises and training, including:
- A repudiation of drugs and supplements
- High weights for low reps, including singles
- Bodyweight exercises
- Lifting kegs, anvils, medicine balls, sandbags and other irregular objects.
- Compound exercises with barbells (squats, deadlifts, etc.)
Dinosaur training positions itself in opposition to aerobics exercise culture and to bodybuilding and other training for cosmetic purposes. It stresses intensity, hard work, applicable strength, power and endurance and mental toughness.
The foremost voice in the Dinosaur training movement is Brooks Kubik, although Bob Whelan, Ken Leistner, and the late John McCallum are counted as allies. Historical lifters like Peary Rader and various late 19th-century and early 20th-century strongmen and physical culture proponents such as Eugen Sandow are looked on as heroes.
Kubik's Dinosaur Training became highly acclaimed by the weight-lifting community. It offered simple yet effective routines, which appealed to those who had grown weary of the complex methods offered by many authors. The book was also motivational and even humorous, and was affordable at $20.
Recently Kubik has broken with the above design. He now advocates bodyweight training in his latest book, Dinosaur Bodyweight Training. In contrast to his earlier book, this most recent one costs $197 as of August 2006 and consists primarily of variations of pushups, pull-ups, rope-climbing, bridges and deep knee bends. An annual subscription of $197 will gain one entry into his online forum.
The primary texts of the Dinosaur Training philosophy are Dinosaur Training (1996; 2nd edition, 1998), written by Brooks Kubik, and the Dinosaur Files newsletter, published by Kubik from August, 1997 to August, 2002. Ironman's Ultimate Guide To Building Muscle Mass includes a chapter by Kubik on Dinosaur Training.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Ironman Magazine (2000). Ironman's Ultimate Guide To Building Muscle Mass. McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 0-8092-2813-0.; chapter 19, pp. 201-226: Brooks D. Kubik, "Dinosaur Training: The Secret to Building Jurassic Size and Strength."
