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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 heavy awkward objects
- Compound exercises with barbells (squats, deadlifts, etc.)
Dinosaur training positions itself in opposition to aerobics exercise culture and to bodybuilding and other training methods geared towards cosmetic purposes. It stresses intensity, hard work, functional strength, power, endurance and mental toughness.
The foremost voice in the Dinosaur training movement is Brooks D. Kubik, although Bob Whelan, Ken Leistner, and 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 regarded as heroes.
Kubik's book 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 at times.
For a time Kubik advocated Dinosaur Training using bodyweight exercises, as described in his book Dinosaur Bodyweight Training (2006), using such exercises as pushups, handstand pushups, pullups, neck bridges, hanging leg raises, and two- and one-legged deep knee bends. In recent years however he has returned to writing about and advocating traditional weightlifting modes of training, using such exercises as squats, deadlifts, powercleans, high pulls, military presses, barbell bentover rows, benchpresses, etc. for low to moderate reps.
Kubik has elaborated further on the principles of Dinosaur training literally in a novel format in 2008's "Legacy of Iron," which told the story of a young man being tutored in basic "old school" training and manhood by the lifters of York Barbell.
The primary texts describing the Dinosaur Training philosophy are Dinosaur Training (1996; 2nd edition, 1998), written by Brooks D. Kubik; Dinosaur Bodyweight Training (2006), written by Brooks D. Kubik; and the Dinosaur Files newsletter, published by Kubik from August 1997 to August 2002, then resurrected, with revisions and updates, in 2006; and Legacy of Iron (2008), written by Brooks D. Kubik. Ironman's Ultimate Guide To Building Muscle Mass includes a chapter by Kubik on Dinosaur Training.[1]
See also
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."
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- Weight training methodologies
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