Dinosaur Training: Lost Secrets of Strength and Development [Paperback]

Brooks D Kubik (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Brooks D. Kubik; 5th edition (August 1, 2006)
• ASIN: B0006RAMBO
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #521,498 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rain Forecast, January 14, 2009

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J H (LA, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dinosaur Training: Lost Secrets of Strength and Development (Paperback)

I don't want to be the guy who rains on the parade, but ... *everyone* gave five stars? Mercy. It's an okay book, with a very important message. Lift hard and heavy. Kubic spends 160 pages saying this. No citations, no science -- lots of sarcasm, which is fine, and lots of personal experience slash expertise, which is also fine -- but hardly any actual information. It's a long pep talk from coach. About lifting HARD with HEAVY weight!!!

The author is a lawyer, and absolutely in love with saying the same thing eight slightly different ways in the same paragraph. Cuz, like, that makes it better. Two possibilities. Either he is a writer, and so he writes a lot; or he's not a writer, and so he writes a lot. Alas, he needed an editor. The book should have been a fifth of its current length. Chapters are about 6 pages long. What does that tell us? He's collected his rants, and shared them. A good thing, if you need to be motivated, or if the philosophy is new to you, of lifting HARD with HEAVY weight like the oldtime REAL MEN used to do.

If you have a background in real strength training, there's nothing new here for you. If you've messed around with the prettyboy pilates weights and it hasn't made you pretty yet, turn away from the mirror and take a look here. Kubic is right. He's just very very long winded, in an amusing way if you don't mind hearing the same ideas again and again.

Anyway, I found the book free online in PDF form. I would have been pretty irritated if I'd payed for it. It's not bad. It just is no way great. The fact that it gets rave reviews from knowledgeable people is a surprise.

J

17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get this classic at ironmind.com, September 24, 2005

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MJ van der Pas (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dinosaur Training: Lost Secrets of Strength and Development (Paperback)

Some people don't seem to realize that this book is still available, although not at amazon.
Go get it!
It is an inspirational book written for people who care about good health, dinosaur strength and who want to achieve their fitness goals the natural way. I mean without roids!
Be aware though that this is not a quick fix. It will take you up to 10 years to attain the strength of a mammoth, but it will be worth it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the All-time Greatest Strength Training Books, July 23, 2008

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Wottasnozzle (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dinosaur Training: Lost Secrets of Strength and Development (Paperback)

In writing Dinosaur Training, Brooks Kubik has blessed us with the finest strength training book written in more than thirty years, and one of the greatest and most inspirational strength training books of all time. If you want to learn the real, no-nonsense secrets to building true, functional strength that will last a lifetime, each page of Dinosaur Training is packed with those secrets. No gimmicks here, just hard work and how to do it the right and most productive way.

Kubik is no armchair authority. A former world record holder in the bench press, he is a lifetime drug-free lifter and athlete who practices the tried-and-true, old-school strength-building methods he details in Dinosaur Training. Today, past the half-century mark in age, Kubik is far stronger and fitter than the vast majority of much younger athletic men, a living testimony of Dinosaur Training's effectiveness.

In conclusion, I give Dinosaur Training my highest recommendation, and I strongly urge you to do yourself a special favor and purchase a copy. It will be the best strength-training investment you will ever make.