Oldtime Strength Training Routine

Strength Training Routine - Dino Style

Drop your chrome dumbbells, get rid of your fingerless leather gloves, turn MTV off and get the fuck out of the poser gym and into some hardcore training establishment.

Your back yard will do or even the park, anywhere you can grunt,sweat get chalked up and swear out loud

This Strength Training Routine has it all. It will hit you from head to toe and make you stronger than ever. Forget single leg deadlifts and 100 different positions on a blow up beach ball to train your 'core' this will add strength and size to your core like nothing else and then some!

In fact I'll replace 'core' with 'trunk' from now on!

This strength routine is an old one and was brought to my attention after reading through the awesome Dinosaur Training book by Brooks Kubik

Brooks put this routine in Dinosaur Training, it was from IRONMAN magazine in 1955 and displays all the characteristics of an awesome Dinosaur Strength Training Routine.

1. Two hands deadlift, which was favorite exercise of Herman Goerner
2. Walking with weight, favorite exercise of Milo of Croton
3. Carrying the bar in a dead lift position, favorite exercise of Arthur Giroux
4. Bent Presses, favorite exercise of Saxon
5. Reverse Continental and jerk from behind neck, favorite exercise of Saxon.

This program is truly old and beautiful, workout the sets and reps for yourself, but it certainly hits all angles of the body and will hit them hard if you work to your limits.

My favourites here are walking with weights, I like sandbags, kettlebells and of course farmers walks bars. This exercise hits your heart and lungs, grip, shoulders, legs and trunk. It is could so easily place very high up on the 'Ultimate Exercise List'

My other favourite is the jerk from behind neck. Again this is an awesome all round power builder that simultaneously develops co-ordination and timing not to mention immense athletic prowess. Many world champion shot putters have done well utilising this movement.

Brooks D Kubik Dinosaur Training

Lost Secrets of Strength and Development

At sometime or other everyone needs to look back into the past and find out how things were done a long time ago.

Somethings are best left in the past and somethings are best being brought back into the present or the future.

Kettlebells are one of those training devices that have been utilised again after many years in a pile of dust (depending on who you are and where you are from)

Brooks Kubik does exactly that with Dinosaur Training

Who is Brooks D Kubik?

Brooks is a Lawyer (about 50 yrs age now)and what many may call an Oldtime Strongman.
Brooks has trained for somewhere in the region of 35 years so he know a thing or two and considers training to be an art form (not a science). He is around 5 9" tall and weighs around 230lb's, a former high school wrestler and is into FUNCTIONAL strength big time. Hence, the reason he wrote the book - Dinosaur Training.

What is Dinosaur Training?

Dinosaur Training is more of a philosophy than any one particular bodybuilding/strength training routine. If you include heavy barbells, heavy sandbags, thick bars and sledgehammers in your training minus periodization and don't train in a chrome and fern gym with a $100 per month subscription where you can watch MTV and have a nail massage whilst sipping babycham (aerobic/prissy/fancy) then you won't be far off with what is known as Dino training.

What would a Dinosaur Training Session look like?

Day One

Squat 4 x 5
Standing Press 4 x 5
Bent over Barbell Row 4 x 5
Farmer Walk (1 trip)
Bent leg sit ups 2 x 8-15
Neck, biceps and triceps work to finish

Day 2

Bent leg deadlift, Power Clean or Snatch Pulls 5 x 3
Bench press (barbell or dumbbell) 4 x 5
Sand bag walk (hug bag and walk as far as possible) 1 trip
Side bends with weight 2 x 15
Neck, biceps and triceps work to finish

So that 's it 2 days per week but heavy.

Note: the above is only an example of a dino session. You can add heavy kettlebells, thick bars, wrist rollers, big tyre's to make the routine suit your needs, the list is endless.

Will it work?

That's upto how much you're willing to put into it, but I can say this style of training has worked for me for years and packed plenty of beef and strength onto my frame.

Give it a try and don't forget elaborate scientific training doesn't always work better than something that is just plain and simple.

York barbell training courses work well and are pretty much dinosaur training in some form or other

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