09-12-07 10:03 PM - Post#348685    

Has Brooks Kubik disappeared? I haven't seen any new posting on his blog for quite some time. Does anyone have any information about him?

09-13-07 07:34 AM - Post#348756    

He no longer lifts as benching, et. al., trashed his shoulders. His new interest is bodyweight movements, complete with an extremely pricey set of publications.

09-13-07 11:14 AM - Post#348851    

He's gone space-age with the weightless.

Life's too short to worry about longevity.

09-13-07 11:25 AM - Post#348868    

• Stan Jaffin Said:

There's a surprise.

"When [defeat] comes, I won't even notice. I'll be too busy looking good."

09-13-07 11:28 AM - Post#348876    

Apparently, there's a reason why "dinosaurs" became extinct.

Sorry.

I hate it when I do that....

Wicked

"I'm in good shape for the shape I'm in." "Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me." John 14:6

Brooks Kubik
09-13-07 12:02 PM - Post#348907    

A Far Side cartoon entitled "Why Dinosaurs Became Extinct" showed them smoking cigarettes. Did Gary Larsen get it wrong?

09-13-07 12:22 PM - Post#348919    

• Stan Jaffin Said:

As in Mike Mahler type stuff, or MMA stuff like Matt Furey et al? I've been doing that for the last 6 months, taking a hiatus from the weights. Good stuff, but I'm about to grab the heavy iron again.

"A person should not believe in an -ism" Ferris Bueller All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter,'bout schmatte, schmatte, schmatte

09-13-07 12:48 PM - Post#348929    

For his own commercialized words, click here.

09-13-07 01:11 PM - Post#348941    

• Stan Jaffin Said:

Woah ... $697 for the top end "courses" ?!

I think I'll pull my old Charles Atlas course out of the trunk, and dust it off. It comes out to about the same price, given the rate of inflation over the years, and my childhood lawn mowings .25 cents at a time that purchased it each week -- and it probably has about the same information in it about body weight exercises at that !



Trance

09-13-07 02:15 PM - Post#348966    

• Stan Jaffin Said:

Excuse me while I hide my wallet.

09-13-07 02:35 PM - Post#348978    

I love it when they contradict in their statements..

“But a few years after writing Dinosaur Training, my body began to fall apart ..... and it wasn't age that was causing the pain.”

“I concluded that there was a time when I was younger that those deadlifts and some of the other exercises that I had always done worked fine for me... But that was then, and this is now. It was time to start listening more closely to what my body was trying to tell me.”

He should use spell check too.

OK that placed aside, he doesn’t look all that muscular at least from the pic I saw. Yeah he looks lean and regular and probably better than some people his age. However at that price…. Not worth it when you can search for most of the info for free on the net if you want an all out bodyweight exercise routine.

He should have switched to DBs for bench, it would have saved him a world of trouble and our cash.

aka SAVAGE/JDIDAN/Dan the Protein Man You can't choose your parents however you can choose your lifestyle Earn your supplements The most important stack you can do are big plates.- Sweatn

09-13-07 02:37 PM - Post#348982    

• Trance Said:

I'll give you some advice for half the price...

09-13-07 02:54 PM - Post#348990    

'Scuse me while I diss this guy.

That price is way too high.

Life's too short to worry about longevity.

09-13-07 03:19 PM - Post#349012    

• Neander Said:

hey... I'm willing to negotiate..

09-13-07 05:38 PM - Post#349110    

Cha-ching! Sorry, Brooks, but that is freakin' outrageous. Here were my sources for the past several months, ALL FREE! I do respect Brooks though for Dinosaur Training, an instant classic!

www.mikemahler.com

http://www.trainforstrength.com/workouts.shtml

http://www.dragondoor.com/articler/mode2/Workou ts

"A person should not believe in an -ism" Ferris Bueller All this chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter, chitter-chatter,'bout schmatte, schmatte, schmatte

09-13-07 08:57 PM - Post#349193    

I don't normally criticize...but this time I'll make an exception.

It's obvious that Brooks is either of graduate or co-instructor at the Matt Furey "School of Hyperbole and Outrageous Pricing." I tend to object to this style of advertising and it lessens my respect somewhat for those engaged in it.

As to Brooks' injuries:

It's not the weights or the bodyweight movements...both can and will injure you. It's the GONZO application of exercise movements and modalities that results in injury. People forget to train, rather than strain. A little correct training goes a long way...maybe not as quickly as the more "intense" approaches but certainly more safely.

You can accumulate a number of injuries by doing 500 Hindu squats daily...or by doing 20 reps with 400 lbs. Either one hints at excess.

Wicked

"I'm in good shape for the shape I'm in." "Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man comes to the Father, but by me." John 14:6

09-13-07 10:07 PM - Post#349220    

Okay, I have to chime in. I object to Brooks' implication that once you reach a certain age, you will break down and you should no longer lift weights. Excuse me, but I resent that! There are too many guys in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s still going strong with the iron. Yes, recovery will not be as rapid as we age. But to give up the iron just because something hurts? Maybe Kubik is not as tough as his writing would indicate.

09-14-07 01:15 AM - Post#349279    

• 1959RAW Said:

Agreed. If one has been lifting from a relatively early age, there will definitely be a decline over the years. But that decline can be slowed forestalled by intelligently adjusting and adapting one's training methods. It's the same as in every other sport: if you want to perservere you must change.

[I ran into Sammy Snead in the 1979 at the Del Monte Plantation golf course in Bukidnon, Philippines. He had played in a few tournaments on the Asian circuit and was doing an exhibition for his former Masters' partner and club pro Celestino Tugot before returning to the US.

During the post-exhibition bellying up to the bar discussion, he said that his short game was the best it had ever been. From 50 yards and in he had become absolutely deadly. His driving was down considerably due to advancing years so he had to make the necessary adjustments to continue to play at the level people, and himself, expected. (He was only doing exhibitions and private matches for the most part by then, outside of selected overseas tournaments for lucrative appearance fees).]

Bill2 Integrity is what you do when you think nobody is watching.

09-14-07 08:38 AM - Post#349336    

I love Dinosaur Training and would recommend it to anyone interested in serious weight training - it's also very reasonably priced!
But I agree, he's gone way over the top with his latest stuff. It does make a cautionary tale though - dinosaur training recommends heavy singles, lockouts, mental toughness, never-say-die attitude, isolation exercises are for pretty boys... then he says he's got injured and is giving up.

If you are in a minority of one, the truth is still the truth (Gandhi).