Brooks Kubik - Bodyweight Training Manual

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[quote]FightinIrish26 wrote:
uberswank wrote:

They train for hours each day for many, many years to attain their bodies and strength.

Ha! I use bodyweight exercises because I feel the save me time.

I have steadily been adding weight to my pullups, pistols, OAPs, and HSPUs. Pullups and Handstand pushups build big muscular arms, no doubt about it.

One benefit I feel bodyweight exercises have over tradional weights is that of increased agility. I feel more nimble than I ever did with weights, and I can actually dance and not look like a dorky white guy. You are training your body to move more cohesively as a unit as opposed to training your body to move something else.

There you go lads. Pushups make you a great dancer. Weights make you look clumsy and dorky. Case closed.[/quote]

I just can’t believe that Matt Furey is a better dancer than me. A better grappler sure. But dancer, no way!

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[quote]ZEB wrote:
I just can’t believe that Matt Furey is a better dancer than me. A better grappler sure. But dancer, no way!
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If we’re talking swing dancing then YES Matt Furey is an incredible dancer, no doubt.

Correct me if I’m wrong ZEB, but you specialize in ballroom with a minor in hip-hop. Furey cannot hold a candle to you in either of those.

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[quote]derek wrote:
ZEB wrote:
I just can’t believe that Matt Furey is a better dancer than me. A better grappler sure. But dancer, no way!

If we’re talking swing dancing then YES Matt Furey is an incredible dancer, no doubt.

Correct me if I’m wrong ZEB, but you specialize in ballroom with a minor in hip-hop. Furey cannot hold a candle to you in either of those.

[/quote]

Lol…good stuff!

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[quote]gottatrain wrote:
I have Matt Furey’s book. After years and years of performing any and all various forms of squats, I don’t think I’ve ever experienced such intense, DEEP muscle pain as that which is elicited from hindu squats…plus they get your heart pounding. I love them, and I still incorporate them into my training when there is an opportunity, particularly in a hotel room when I’m traveling. At one point, I was up to 45 min. straight. Hindus will bring the biggest, baddest mofo to their knees…no pun intended. [/quote]

Very true! I used to train (in TKD)with an ex-NFL lineman who could squat with the big boys. I challenged him with Hindus and he collapsed after 65. He soon quit TKD and went back to lifting – damn shame.

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No one has mentioned BW exercises done by convicts. They do burpees, handstand pushups, pullups and probably would rip the living shit out of most of us.

I went to a site about Prison Workouts and the author, a sociologist, was overwhelmed at how huge and ripped these guys were. They also had prison food, sometimes supplemented with Ramen Noodles and pastry — and got massive (not fat).

Thoughts, anyone? Links of interest?

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What was the site?

[quote]Headhunter wrote:
No one has mentioned BW exercises done by convicts. They do burpees, handstand pushups, pullups and probably would rip the living shit out of most of us.

I went to a site about Prison Workouts and the author, a sociologist, was overwhelmed at how huge and ripped these guys were. They also had prison food, sometimes supplemented with Ramen Noodles and pastry — and got massive (not fat).

Thoughts, anyone? Links of interest?[/quote]

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
No one has mentioned BW exercises done by convicts. They do burpees, handstand pushups, pullups and probably would rip the living shit out of most of us.

I went to a site about Prison Workouts and the author, a sociologist, was overwhelmed at how huge and ripped these guys were. They also had prison food, sometimes supplemented with Ramen Noodles and pastry — and got massive (not fat).

Thoughts, anyone? Links of interest?[/quote]

I always have a fascination with how these guys pull it off like that.

I have read stuff by ex prisoners, not to mention buddies that have always been in and out of the county jail (one of the worst in the country is where I am in New Jersey).

Working out takes on a cultural thing in prison, as size = respect. One who doesn’t work out in some form is automatically pinned as a new guy, and he’s very likely to get fucked over, and fucked with.

Being white in prison is even worse, as they auromatically get fucked with MUCH more than anyone else- if they don’t work out, they are screwed. One of my buddies was telling me that he had a good five or six month stay, and he was doing pushups and pullups constantly, and he was in the best shape of his life (ironically) while he was in there (no booze, no McDonald’s either).

They would rip the shit out of most of us because they become far more accustomed to violence all the time then we are, living in the outside. In prison, fighting is the most important thing one can do- if you win, that says something. If you lose, at least you fought (depending how you did). If you walk away, you are FUCKED. Kind of like the opposite of the outside, where the winner of the streetfight gets the assault charges.

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Yes, it has indeed become necessary to divide the book up into volumes; as it had become more of an encyclopedia than a book. At well over 700 plus pages of densely packed, mostly never before seen material, it was far too large to sell as a single volume.

The first volume will be available shortly and, at $20 for the ebook or $30 for print, I will let everyone judge for themselves if it is a reasonable investment.

Yours in Fitness,
Coach Sommer

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=512003

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[quote]Coach Sommer wrote:

Yes, it has indeed become necessary to divide the book up into volumes; as it had become more of an encyclopedia than a book. At well over 700 plus pages of densely packed, mostly never before seen material, it was far too large to sell as a single volume.

The first volume will be available shortly and, at $20 for the ebook or $30 for print, I will let everyone judge for themselves if it is a reasonable investment.

Yours in Fitness,
Coach Sommer

http://www.T-Nation.com/readTopic.do?id=512003[/quote]

I am really, really looking forward to this book. I can bench 70 pounds more than my bodyweight, but have a hell of a time with that frog thing in your article. I’ll be the first in line to check that thing out!

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Headhunter, is this the site you mentioned?

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[quote]Hrastnik wrote:
Headhunter, is this the site you mentioned?

Yes. There were others as well – it was a simple google search.

I’m a big believer in BW exercise. The wrestlers in my classes (hs teacher) are ripped and the higher weight guys are awesome – one kid dropped and did 20 one-hand pushups with each hand, cold. There’s even a girl who wrestles and has veins showing on her upper arms. All these kids do is BW. (Funny story time: apparently one not-too-bright girl was making fun of the girl wrestler. Just as I walked in the student lounge, to see what the hell all the screaming was about, the wrestler punched the dumb one in the chest! Wham! Sent her flying; she landed on a couch!)

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This may be one of our lone similarities HH. I love doing BW stuff. Pushups of all kinds are the favorites…especially dive bombers. They are motherfuckers…

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Okay, I used to do a ton of these when I wrestled in HS and College. But, we called these “Squat Thrusts,” not “Burpees.”

Anyone else remember them as squat thrusts?

"Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and your hands raised over your head.

Now squat down and place your palms on the floor by your feet.

Kick both of your legs back so that you’re now in position to do a pushup.

Bend your elbows and lower your body until it’s about one inch off of the floor.

Now push yourself back up and at the end of the pushup quickly pull both knees into your chest while keeping your hands on the floor.

You’re basically jumping back into the squat position found in the first step.

Stand straight up by straightening your legs and throwing your hands in the air over your head.

You’re now in the position that you started in, repeat as needed.

If you want to make the burpee more advanced by increasing the explosive power in your legs, jump about 3-4 inches into the air as you stand up in step 5"

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[quote]ZEB wrote:
Okay, I used to do a ton of these when I wrestled in HS and College. But, we called these “Squat Thrusts,” not “Burpees.”

Anyone else remember them as squat thrusts?

[/quote]

Yea man. Used to do them for football all the time. I never heard of a burpee till Mike Mahler.

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Cool camio appearance by Coach Sommer in this one. :slight_smile:

His material looks incredible, and … soundly priced.

I used to respect Brook a great deal. That is ALL GONE now. And I mean ALL gone.

Sell out.

sigh He could have charged possibly as high as $69 for the basic package with barely a murmer of complaint from the strength community. Okay, I still would have been a bit put out by even that price, but I would have been very compelled rather than repulsed. I think he would have sold a lot of his materials, and not put his reputation at risk like this.

His next pamphlet for sale will be pictures of himself moving mountains of boxes of unsold books.

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Clearly Brooks Kubik has teamed up with Matt Furey or Furey’s webmaster. I know they had some sort of alliance in the past, as Matt would plug his products, and there were some similarities in their sites, but he appears to be going all the way with this new product launch.

Furey basically teamed up with this guy (I forget his name) who put together his mega-shill site, with great success. The pages on Kubik’s new product have all the same characteristics:

  1. A big, long page, with a ton of headlines sprinkled throughout.

  2. Testomonials in the main text set off in a box with a different background color.

  3. The challenging “are you ready” headline in a different color at the end.

  4. The “here’s what you’ll receive” bulleted list that is more a detailed list of the book’s content than a list of items you’ll receive.

  5. The bulleted list that alternates between bold and non-bold items.

  6. The “free gifts”.

  7. The $197 price (a favorite of Furey for some reason).

  8. A bunch of different packages.

  9. The signature at the end.

  10. The big, red “order here” button.

Well, I could go on, but you get the point…

Either this is the work of Furey’s webmaster or Kubik made a conscious effort to copy Furey’s site to the letter. Given that they’ve worked together in the past, and given that the “order here” button is exactly the same, I’m guessing it’s the former.

I’m a bit disappointed in this as I always saw Brooks Kubik as kind of the anti-Furey (despite their association) because of how he sold his Dinosaur Training book at a price that was almost too low and how he just stayed with that one product instead of rehashing it and reselling it in 50 different forms.

On the other hand, I’ve always heard that he’s a nice guy, and if this makes him some serious jack then good for him. If he comes out with a lower-priced version, I might even buy it.

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[quote]Headhunter wrote:
No one has mentioned BW exercises done by convicts. They do burpees, handstand pushups, pullups and probably would rip the living shit out of most of us.

I went to a site about Prison Workouts and the author, a sociologist, was overwhelmed at how huge and ripped these guys were. They also had prison food, sometimes supplemented with Ramen Noodles and pastry — and got massive (not fat).

Thoughts, anyone? Links of interest?[/quote]

I spent 44 months in both maximum and medium security prisons in California after weights had been removed. I incorporated the principles I learned as a competitive powerlifter and o-lifter during the 90’s. In order to continue making gains I had to find ways to raise intensity. I did drop sets using a partner for added resistance, cut rest periods, super sets, giant sets, lots of balistic movements and plyometrics, cross training, negatives, tempo modification, fast/slow reps, fast concentric, slow negatives, etc.

I diagrammed over 65 exercises and formulated programs designed to increase speed, power, stregth and endurance. We became pretty creative after being in a 4x9 foot cell for months during lockdowns. I gained 30 pounds and maintain 10 percent bodyfat. When I got out I squatted 425, benched 315, curled 135, did 23 full wide pullups and one arm snatched a 105 pound dumbbell at 205 pounds. What we did really worked. Talk about incredible GPP and what did Pavel say, real world strength or some shit. I didn’t touch a barbell in 4 years and squatted 425!

I am compiling these exercises and programs into a book that I hope to be published by Harper Collins. It is not strictly a book on training, but a story about the whole experience with this system written into it. If anyone is interested in hearing more PM me.

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Milo–

What were your stats before doing your time?

Maybe you could write an article for T-Nation.

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[quote]Milo_ wrote:
Headhunter wrote:
No one has mentioned BW exercises done by convicts. They do burpees, handstand pushups, pullups and probably would rip the living shit out of most of us.

I went to a site about Prison Workouts and the author, a sociologist, was overwhelmed at how huge and ripped these guys were. They also had prison food, sometimes supplemented with Ramen Noodles and pastry — and got massive (not fat).

Thoughts, anyone? Links of interest?

I spent 44 months in both maximum and medium security prisons in California after weights had been removed. I incorporated the principles I learned as a competitive powerlifter and o-lifter during the 90’s. In order to continue making gains I had to find ways to raise intensity. I did drop sets using a partner for added resistance, cut rest periods, super sets, giant sets, lots of balistic movements and plyometrics, cross training, negatives, tempo modification, fast/slow reps, fast concentric, slow negatives, etc.

I diagrammed over 65 exercises and formulated programs designed to increase speed, power, stregth and endurance. We became pretty creative after being in a 4x9 foot cell for months during lockdowns. I gained 30 pounds and maintain 10 percent bodyfat. When I got out I squatted 425, benched 315, curled 135, did 23 full wide pullups and one arm snatched a 105 pound dumbbell at 205 pounds. What we did really worked. Talk about incredible GPP and what did Pavel say, real world strength or some shit. I didn’t touch a barbell in 4 years and squatted 425!

I am compiling these exercises and programs into a book that I hope to be published by Harper Collins. It is not strictly a book on training, but a story about the whole experience with this system written into it. If anyone is interested in hearing more PM me.[/quote]

Seriously, I will buy your book in an instant! A program by a man who lived it!!

Maybe T-Nation would let you do some kind of preview, to whet our appetites!

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Bump,

I’m reading dinosaur training right now and this new bodyweight fad seems way off track for Brooks. What the hell? If anyone has paid the astronomical price for this tell us a little about it and if its really worth it. Brooks has a really cool mentality when it comes to training. I bet with any type of training he does he’ll get great results just because he works so hard.