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DINOSAUR TRAINING LOST SECRETS OF STRENGTH AND DEVELOPMENT Brooks D. Kubik

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DINOSAUR TRAINING
LOST SECRETS OF STRENGTH AND
DEVELOPMENT
Brooks D. Kubik

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
~Henri Bergson
The purpose of this preface is threefold. First, I want to introduce myself and tell you a little
bit about my credentials for writing this book. I do so not to ìblow my own horn,î but to offer
evidence that I am not yet another of the detested and despicable race of armchair
theoreticians who plague the weight training world and who multiply like the maggots they
resemble. (You'll hear more about armchair ìexpertsî throughout this book.) Second, I want
to tell you why I wrote this book. Third, I want to publicly acknowledge and thank certain
people who made this book a reality.
WHO I AM
I am a 38 year old weight lifter. I have been training for over 25 years. I LOVE weight
training and the best that it represents, and I have always loved it. I have studied the art of
weight training for most of my life. By the way, as a brief aside, that's exactly what
productive weight training truly is: an ART...not a science. If anyone ever tries to sell you a
book, course or exercise machine based on ìscientificî weight training principles, hit him
hard and quick and run like hell.
I stand 5'9î and weigh around 225 pounds. I am a former high school wrestler, and won
numerous wrestling championships and awards. I lived in Illinois and Ohio when I wrestled. I
placed third in the Ohio state collegiate style wrestling championships and won the Illinois
state Greco-Roman style wrestling championships. I was a good wrestler in part because I
trained hard with the weights. I would have been a much better wrestler if I had known then
what I know now. The information in this book is of tremendous value to wrestlers, football
players or anyone else who competes in combat sports. The book is about the development of
FUNCTIONAL strength. If you are looking for a book for narcissistic pump artists and mirror
athletes, look elsewhere.
After high school I went to college, then to law school. I now work as an attorney at a large
Midwestern law firm. I'm like most of the guys who will read this book: someone keenly
interested in weight training, but not someone who makes his living from the field. From age
33 to age 36 I competed in drug free powerlifting and bench press competition. I lifted in two
different organizations. In one, I won three national championships in the bench press, set
three American records in the bench press and also set several national meet records,
competing in the 198 and 220 pound classes. I also won many stale and regional titles and set
numerous state and regional records. In the other organization. I won two national
championships in the bench press, set over half a dozen American or national meet records,
and set three world records in the 220 pound class. My best official lift was the one that won
my fifth national championship: 407 pounds. Not too shabby for a middle-aged lawyer.
I also spent quite a bit of time working as an official at powerlifting and bench press meets for
one organization, and was honored by being selected runner-up for ìmale referee of the yearî
on one occasion.
After winning five national championships in the bench press I decided to take a break from
competition and turn to other mattersósuch as this hook and other writing.
Although 1 do not compete in powerlifting or bench press meets at present, I continue to train
regularly and am stronger today than I was when I competed. Some of my current lifts are
detailed later on: I won't bore you by repealing those numbers here. Suffice it to say that your
author really does train, really does lift heavy weights on a regular basis, has written many
articles covering various facets of strength training, is NOT an armchair theorizer. has
demonstrated on the lifting platform that his ideas work and has provenóat the highest levels
of drug free competition ñ that he can hold his own with the best in the world. Your author is
not a pencil neck, he is not a professional ghost writer who knows nothing about physical
training and he most assuredly is not an academic babbler with no hands-on training
experience. . المزيد..