Brooks Kubik Bottom Bench Press 206kg (455lb) DRUG FREE

[eduardofck]

pathetic lol

[MrWednesday101]

Forearms like popeye!

[AlexAlexandroff]

yeah Brooks is the real dinosaur :))

[TheDuke1011]

Yeah I dont know how i feel about Dino training. Brooks has insane strength, but I dont know about the quality of physique... But his forearms are beastly though, like tree trunks hanging from his elbows

[kingschnitz]

brooks is the man

[bronco200005]

he looks like that nerd from nepolean dynamite lol

[GARAGEGORILLA71]

@bronco200005 He looks like a nerd from Revenge of The Nerds!!

[olliestraining]

I love the intensity of this video, brooks is just an animal!

[bulldog9899]

I was just wondering. Did he only competed bench only or did he do full Meets? I was just wondering because he never mentions in his books about his total.

[masanf]

It is fucking hilarious reading comments from people knocking this guy over his routine. Kubik is a freakin legend. The fact he is wearing a "bench shirt", something that one douchebag felt the need to point out in about five or six comments, doesn't mean anything. I guarantee not one person knocking him can bench even half of what he can.

[baozytools]

wow this guy is tough (:

[TheBradTobin]

invisable lat syndrom when he walks.

[LazarusStirs]

Also, why would someone care how the guy gets himself up to do a lift. It's not like he made this video to show off to people. This video was made over a decade before the internet or youtube even existed. He was in his 30s in this vid. He's now in his mid 50s

I guess if you're not impressed you must be benching 500 from the chest, drug free, at a bodyweight of below 200. Just don't grunt too much when you do it, otherwise we'll all just be really unimpressed

[thoTRISTOS]

@LazarusStirs he is one of the founders of youtube so he did make this vid to show it off to the people

[LazarusStirs]

This video is from 1992 or 1994. Brooks was still a competitive lifter at that point. This is well before he wrote "Dinosaur Training". I believe he might have been below 200 pounds in this vid as well.

At any rate, a drug free lifter (which I do believe he is) benching over 450 from a dead stop off of pins, at a relatively low body weight, slightly above the chest is impresive. Period.

[Satonamill]

WHAT AN IDIOT!!! Whats with the facade and dramatization?! It cringeworthy- hes so tough he needs to "get in the zone"- a serious trainer- his manly grunts. All the accesories of a pri with the wraps and bench shirt. In reality he looks like a moron-Pausing as if he just accomplished some amazing feat of strength! And that deep exhale at the end lol. what the fuck is with his acting! seriously Unimpressed.

[mydogsbiteu]

@Satonamill You clearly have your head up your ass. Go read Dinosaur Training, then open mouth insert foot. This IS fucking impressive as hell. He's like 180 lbs and in those days the bench shirts were barely anything. Benching from a bottom position like that is also much harder than a regular bench.

[malikrich94]

@Satonamill no....just no -_-

[masanf]

@luciphoenix

Hey douchebag, we fucking get it. You don't have to write the same fucking comment over and over.

[ultimatedarkgod]

Why he is wearing a belt??? :( , still amazing... and he start the rep. down..

[rstyree]

That type of bench press is designed to increase your max bench. he has the bar set too high

[jaybie0408]

What is up with this crap!?! He is always righting how Dino's don't wear all this shit. And 455 with any kind of shirt???? Come on I can press that with my dick.

[TheBukkakeTsunami]

@jaybie0408 "...I had finished a bench press session where I worked up to 435 pounds from the chest for a single rep (using a bench shirt - something I used to use but no longer use or recommend)" -Dinosaur Training, page 83. Judging by the visual quality of this clip, I'd put the date at sometime in the late '80s. One's opinion can surely change in 20+ years. Plus, he's not exactly a huge, menacing man. Brooks looks like he's around 5'8", 180-200lbs, thus 455 is still very impressive.

[matrix1240]

@TheBukkakeTsunami Around Dinosaur Bodyweight Training, I had gathered that he was 6'4" and 220 lbs. I find that VERY light for his height and how muscular he was. I was thinking he weighed more than that, but his bodyfat looked VERY low. I don't have his older stuff, but yeah I do think this is from the 80s. Brooks is in his early 50s right now, still has a full head of black (not gray) hair and is a lawyer by trade. Lately I haven't gotten to read many of his hotlist e-mails though.

[TheBukkakeTsunami]

@matrix1240 Thanks for the information! I had no idea he was that tall. Well, 220lbs matters more than the 6'4" aspect for sure. He surely looked light in this video. I'd like to see any other 220lb guy lift as much as Brooks.

[matrix1240]

@TheBukkakeTsunami Glad to do it! I've actually noticed how UFC fighters would look big even though in a sense they aren't because it isn't big for their height and there's so little bodyfat on them that the defined muscles make them look bigger. As far as the weight issue (him being so strong for his size), I think I've read once about some poeple 220 and below actually able to benchpress more than this; but I don't know if their overall health is as good as Kubik's is.

[TheBukkakeTsunami]

@matrix1240 A lot of us cut weight, too. I fight at 155 even though I'm 185 when I walk around. I couldn't imagine benching anywhere near that at my current weight. I'm still stuck in the 280-290 range for 5 reps, but I started weight training in late '08, so I've got a long way to go before I fulfill my potential.

[docdoom187]

@matrix1240 The main reason Brooks is so much stronger than his build suggests is because he trains to have a lot of strength in his tendons and joints and he doesn't train for hypertrophy. People who train like that have deceptive strength. There are tons of people below 220 who easily bench more than this because all they do is bench. Kubik does all of the old school lifts, and he's a master at bodyweight workouts. He trains like the Golden Age lifters who were good at many things.

[matrix1240]

@TheBukkakeTsunami P.S.: I just realized that some of the information I wrote probably isn't necessary. Sorry. Also, I could be wrong.

[IvanichVanya]

Shit, it's not a full-amplitude benchpress in a benchshirt and with wrappes wrists. I can't believe it's Kubik, he disappointed me, that's really confusing

[velocity253]

Brooks could do about 320 -350 without a shirt id say... still not bad but nowhere near 400.....he never did a 400 bench raw....not really dinosaur lifting in my opinion

[velocity253]

whats with the shirt?....dinos dont wear shirts or belts i thought? not to mention wrapping up his wrists.

[luciphoenix]

@velocity253 it really hurt me when i found this video. i was reading his stuff and so close to believing him too. well shit screw him i guess.

[MultiGreat1]

he has the most fucked up body i have ever seen

[dnj23]

Dinos didn't use bench shirts or belts for presses, Brooks

[ANZACJugger0]

Prove it!

[loucrusher25]

gotta love the glasses

[Lamarto]

Well, he indeed sold out with the whole bodyweight thing. I mean, it was 200$ for a fucking book . He said that weight training had fucked him up.

It was a bad move, but one wrong doesn't discredit all the good. I think...

[MrJasonBkn]

his a nurd on the juice

[uberduke]

absolutely not. nerd, yes; juice, no

[BodyByGamma]

Looks like a blast shirt, one of the wimpy bench shirts

[velocity253]

It is a bench shirt and the man is one of the biggest hippocrates ive ever read about.....i love dino training but when he publicly stated "dinosaur training destroyed my body" to sell bodyweight training he pretty much destroyed his credibility...and i doubt very much he natural...more like a natural hippocrate

[Rustybarbell]

@velocity253, where can I read this?

[billysue2]

@velocity253 whats a hippocrate?

[MikeDunn]

@billysue2 - It's a thing they use to carry hippos.

[ironguru777]

Can he do this raw?

[alex708]

i do not think he is wearing a bench shirt. This is most definately raw.

[ironguru777]

The shirt he is wearing most definitely looks like a Bench Shirt. Still a very good bench at any age...and his bodyweight appears to be low.

[maldaathi]

thats the beuty of it, muscle strength must go through tendon strength, if you have muscles that can bench 800 pounds and tendons that can bench 100, then you can only bench 100 pounds, your muscles are only as strong as your tendons, which in most peoples cases, is not very strong. If you go through dino training, it works out your tendons

[billysue2]

@maldaathi that my friend is a bunch of bollox.A tendon has a tensile strength far greater than muscle,thats how they can be so thin compared to muscle.A tendon cant lift anything since its non contractile.Its possible that a tendon may not be conditioned to handle high stresses so tendonopathy may develope if you havent done prep training before lifting heavy loads.Thats cumulative though,not an acute injury .

[NiXPredator]

Youre right, the tensile strength of a tendon is immense even compared to what a welltrained muscle can put up, BUT thicker, stronger tendons conditioned to pull HEAVY help immensely overcome your mechanoreceptory inhibition reflexes and thus increase the neurochemical efficiency between what you want to do and what your body ends up doing.

[RonMeijers]

@ironguru777

It's not a bench shirt, which has it's sleeves more in front. It's just a really tight shirt I reckon. I train in 'em all the time. Definitely not a bench shirt. Google 'bench shirt' and you can tell.

[luciphoenix]

@RonMeijers that is a bench shirt. there are various degrees of bench shirts and if you look at how it makes his arms out to the front. it's meant to aid you in your bench press.

[cellpump1]

Half chrome, no dungeon that time. Brooks is a living legend!

[eireger]

i dont think the random dude knows what to make of it at all. Brooks looks a lot bigger these days judging by his website. Must be an old video.

[yatin883]

DAMN! thats the Dino man, author, national champ, n one helluva Dinosaur!!

[asesino1]

Brooks is a beast, a living dinosaur

[MikeDunn]

Wow. That's Kubik? I just got the Dinosaur book a month ago. I see that he puts a lot of emphasis on mental rehersal.

[mensacyclist]

I'd love to see more videos of the lead Dinosaur. As loved as his book is you'd think there'd be dozens of videos of him on Youtube.

[jamspastic]

Love how that guy's just sitting there silent on the bench while Brooks is grunting whilst walking past him lol.