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[8 Pages] Much of the response to the retrospectives that I’ve penned to date has come from younger lifters. I’m including anyone under the age of forty and from this younger generation of media-saturated lifters, their primary observation, question, and source of amazement is that they believe “everyone trained the same” or close to it in “my day.”
The truth is that in the 1960’s in Powerlifting’s early years, there would be one individual or small group of trainees who had a major influence on the training of others in a particular town, city, state, or region....
[5 Pages] One of the exercises that I've included in almost all of my own routines, and in many used by the athletes that I've trained over decades, is the stiff-legged deadlift (SLDL). There are a number of ways that this exercise can be done, but we use a variation that has given us very consistent and good results. More importantly, none of my trainees has ever been injured doing the stiff-legged deadlift as we do it....
[9 Pages] In the October 2000 issue of the Dinosaur Files, I reiterated the need for simple, unadorned training and related comments about the time I lived and worked in Maine. One of my long time readers contacted me and reminded me, not that I needed reminding, that I had omitted the regrettable fact that I also had to begin to eat cat food after my first three months or so up there....
[6 Pages] I think the vast majority of trainees are looking for an easy way out and they justify their position with a litany of pseudoscientific rhetoric (read that as bullshit) to allow them to rationalize their inability or unwillingness to pay the price.
This has nothing to do with manhood- but after more than 39 years of lifting, and many of those years training and coaching others from Olympic gold medal winners, pro football players (home grown- kids who started with me in high school and made their way to the NFL, not taking college seniors or NFL guys and then taking credit for making them-), and just plain average guys, if you don't train hard, if you don't train at a high level of intensity where you are going at or close to your momentary ability to go with a particular weight, you just aren't going to get where you want to....
[4 Pages] Now, when you walk into your basement or garage and look at your "paucity" of equipment, having "only" a bench, power or squat racks, adjustable dumbbells, all the weight you need, a good, safe, efficient power or Olympic bar and a training atmosphere that you've tailored to your emotional needs with "your" music, "your" choice of photos or posters on the walls, being able to train when it best suits you, think about those in most foreign countries, even those that are relatively prosperous....
[13 Pages] ...However, I had skills in a commercial kitchen and of course, in the iron shop and with the welding background I developed by the age of twelve or thirteen, I could and did construct my own set of dumbbells. Performing what seems like a rather straight forward and mundane task correctly, like most tasks, involves more than a few simple steps if one wants and expects dumbbells to last for a lifetime of use....
[10 Pages] One of the more interesting letters I have received of late came from Anthony Ditillo. I have to think that every reader of PL-USA knows of Tony. He has written for Iron Man for many years, very. has authored a very fine book on proper training, and has had some of his work appear in PL USA this past year. I have long the held that if nothing else. Mr. Ditillo is one very unique individual. His articles were always interesting and most often thought provoking from his bulk up routines, to his infamous “Mr. Bodyweight Control” article, he has endured over time and is today, a very important contributor to many publications. I felt that my reply to his letter, only because it covered such a wide variety of areas, was suitable for this month’s column....
[1 hours, 41 minutes] The Controversy of Nutritional Supplementation Part II...
[11 Pages] In the New York City area, Olympic lifting was very popular in the early to mid-1960's. There were pockets of activity that spread from The McBurney YMCA basement on 23rd Street in Manhattan to Lost Battalion Hall in Queens, all the way out to Suffolk County's Islip Youth Center. All boasted good lifters, some like Larry Mintz, a young Artie Dreschler who is now active as the director of the Association Of Oldetime Barbell And Strongmen, and Tom Marshall were of national level. York Barbell Club lifters usually made an annual showing at the larger metropolitan area contests and the City was seen as a hotbed of Olympic lifting until the entire sport began to sag in participation by the end of the decade....
[16 Pages] In the past seven years, my office has established a reputation for providing serious athletes with excellent health care. However, if there is one aspect of strength training philosophy that I'm identified with it's the advocacy of high intensity training. For some, this catch-phrase is a red flag- representing all they do not agree with as it certainly flies in the face of the currently popular Eastern bloc-dominated train of thought. For others, it is a reminder of an uncomfortable and minimally productive way of training.
Still others view high intensity training as a system of working out invented- and developed by Arthur Jones, and will forever tie the system to his Nautilus machines.
And finally, those who understand productive, efficient and sensible weight training see it as perhaps the most effective way for the vast majority of interested trainees to approach their strength training and bodybuilding goals. However, in every case there has ...
[2 Pages] Though not necessarily the end product of the abbreviated routines very much limited to the three competitive lifts and just a few assistance movements, if any, done for 5 x 5 or triples, John Gamble certainly was a product of basic training. Utilizing the squat, bench press, and deadlift as the basis for his program, his pre-chain, pre-band, pre-board, and pre-machine workouts produced one of the most impressive combinations of muscular strength, force production, and size ever seen in the sport....
[5 Pages] ...This is just my opinion, but if I have to throw around big, ornery, guys from the mills and inner city streets in late August, I would feel better prepared doing it the Dino way than the conventional way, especially if l could add some twenty rep squats to my program.
With all the advances in science, I was chuckling when I noted that among the multi-thousand dollar weight rooms at almost all of the schools represented at this great seminar, they were also loading up on the Dino modalities and using them often....
[5 Pages] My message is always redundant and has been for years. It is the same message, over and over, because I think I've found what works best not only for me , but for the majority of my trainees. Note I did not thump my chest and scream from the rooftops, I've found the best way to train-, that's not what I'm saying. However, after forty one years of training, and a lot of time training with others, training others, and being privy to what many successful weight trainees actually do, I am of the strongly held opinion that most will benefit from doing very hard, but very limited work....
[7 Pages] What is your training atmosphere like? Contrary to what some think Dino Training,- hard training,- or real training- are, one can train in almost any environment and have a great workout....
[10 Pages] Under the influence of Gene Mozee, an excellent LA area lifter, Pat Casey severed his ties with the more organized- high school sports prior to his senior year to instead focus upon his barbell training. At the age of 17 or 18, Pat was already big and strong, tipping the scales at approximately 220 pounds and bench pressing in excess of 400 pounds when few men in the world could boast of such a lift....
[8 Pages ] Here's an exclusive for Dinosaur Files readers. One may wonder how a 53 year old man, with numerous previous injuries, full of a calcium channel blocker which limits heart rate and oxygen delivery, and at 160.5 pounds, walks into the garage and squats 407 x 23 reps. Well, no one just does that- and the training I underwent may give some guidelines to others....
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