Bruce Lee - Why you shouldnt be a permabulker - case study

[Army of One]

Bruce Lee simply wasnt Bruce Lee unless he was at a low bodyfat, his whole charisma and aura was different.

[Kwon]

Bruce Lee simply wasnt Bruce Lee unless he was at a low bodyfat, his whole charisma and aura was different.

He was never FAT though!

Everyone is allowed to be chubby when young!

[Army of One]

He was never FAT though!

Everyone is allowed to be chubby when young!

Of course he wasnt fat, but his looks were all over the place if those pic ages are accurate, had he been in the condition he was in at 32 at 22, he'd likely have made it much sooner.

[harmankardon1]

That's just the puppy fat coming out of his face..

[oldtimer1]

From what I have read he use to use basic whole body routines when it came to weights. He hurt his back really bad doing good mornings though. I never thought it was a safe exercise. He also ran for distance. Him and Kareem Abdul Jabbar would go for five mile runs.

[Fortress]

The guy was 135 pounds.

I drop turds close to that.

[Moontrane]

Of course he wasnt fat, but his looks were all over the place if those pic ages are accurate, had he been in the condition he was in at 32 at 22, he'd likely have made it much sooner.

Some of those pix were off by several years.

Hollywood came came calling based on his martial arts demonstration in Long Beach, CA in 1964, when he was 22.  The Green Hornet followed,
as did other roles for domestic projects, but he was fully dressed.  Pix from that period show he'd already developed a nice physique.  Not the
ripped one of '73, but a good one nonetheless.   Sadly, the physique of '73 didn't last long...or did it last forever?    

[Bevo]

The guy was 135 pounds.

I drop turds close to that.

Aren’t you 300 pounds of blubber?

[Teutonic Knight 1]

Bruce Lee simply wasnt Bruce Lee unless he was at a low bodyfat, his whole charisma and aura was different.

Army of None, must be that fatso Steven Seagal 

[pellius]

From what I have read he use to use basic whole body routines when it came to weights. He hurt his back really bad doing good mornings though. I never thought it was a safe exercise. He also ran for distance. Him and Kareem Abdul Jabbar would go for five mile runs.

Bruce Lee was my idol growing up. From the Green Hornet to all the articles featuring him in Black Belt magazine. I tried to find out everything thing that he did in his training. Things like barbell curls, wrist rolls, push-ups of various styles.... he stated very specifically that he went on 3 mile runs with his Geat Dane, BoBo. I remember having my mom drive from our house down the road to use the odometer to measure out 1.5 miles which I used as a marker which was in front of a green house. So I would run up to that house and back to make the 3 miles and I recruited my dog, Tonka, an Alaskan Malamute bred to run, to serve as my "BoBo". I was at the age that I believed that if I could do everything Bruce Lee did as much as possible that I could be like
him.

Pic of Bruce running with BoBo. And a picture of Tonka, the white one on the left, as my companion. Note the bench at the right which I used with my Sears weight set. Also, if you look behind the fence you can see my blue punching bag, with the name "BuiltTough" blazen on the front. That was a premium bag at the time and not just those sand bags where all the sand sinks to the bottom. It costs me $60 which was not cheap in those days (early 1970s). Spent many hours pounding away at that bag over the years.

[BossBoss]

He was also using Steroids. This is well known.

[Stephano]

From what I have read he use to use basic whole body routines when it came to weights. He hurt his back really bad doing good mornings though. I never thought it was a safe exercise. He also ran for distance. Him and Kareem Abdul Jabbar would go for five mile runs.

That picture...

Your average female crossfitter has larger and more muscular arms than that.   

[pellius]

He was also using Steroids. This is well known.

"Well known"? No it's not. Do you have any evidence for this claim? You just made that up. Nobody was talking about steroid use at that time nor was it mentioned after he died except by those who think it is impossible to have abs without drugs. Just go to any inner-city basketball court and see how many crack addict nigs that don't train and only eat fast food crap with physiques more ripped and developed than Bruce Lee.

5'6" , 135 lbs, training like a maniac everyday and he can't possibly have that kind of massive development and definition without gear.

Oh brother. 

[pellius]

That picture...

Your average female crossfitter has larger and more muscular arms than that.   

Truth.

To claim he was jucing is just beyond ignorant. Even Woody Allen would have a more muscular physique than Bruce if he juiced.

"This is well known." I love when people speak nonsense with such absolute authority.

[BossBoss]

A Profesional Cyclist is also using and has nothing to show. That Argument is Pointless. I am not impressed by his Muscle Mass, but my Information is that he was using. I did not say that to offend you, even if i think you are the furthest away from his physique than a Human Being can be..

[pellius]

A Profesional Cyclist is also using and has nothing to show. That Argument is Pointless. I am not impressed by his Muscle Mass, but my Information is that he was using. I did not say that to offend you, even if i think you are the furthest away from his physique than a Human Being can be..

What's your "Information"? (Which you made a point to capitalize as if you have some special insight).

What makes your comment offensive, though not personally offensive, is that you are just giving your opinion base on nothing but a subjective hunch yet you state it with authority as if you have some special insight or inside information that the rest of us do not and if we don't believe you we are just ignorant and out of the main stream as "it is well known" as you claim, that Bruce Lee used steroids when that is just not true. Meaning it is not true that it was "well know" as I don't dismiss the possiblity as I simply don't know. In the sixties and seventies you couldn't just order gear off the net anonymously. You would need to have a source. It was well know that bber like Arnold and Franco would see Dr. Walczak in Sherman Oaks. I would see high level bbers in Dr. Walczak's office during the early 1980s when it was still legal and doctors would prescribed it to you. I am sure if Bruce Lee walked into his office during the sixites and early seventies he would have been outed by now as well as by any supplier making the trip to Mexico and being the local gym supplier selling out of the truck of their car which I've witnessed many times during the 80s. If Bruce was steroids it would indeed be well known and we'd have names of those that witness and supplied it. Bruce Lee didn't work out at commercial muscle gym at the time and was out of the loop as far as gear use and availability.

[Humble Narcissist]

The guy was 135 pounds.

I drop turds close to that.

Yeah, but he'll live longer than you.....oh, wait.

[Griffith]

The guy was 135 pounds.

I drop turds close to that.

You must be full of shit.

 

[Mr Anabolic]

When I was a kid in the early 70's, EVERY kid had his poster on their bedroom wall.  Everyone revered and worshiped Bruce, even adults.  When word got out he died, no one believed it, everyone thought it was a joke. 

[Kwon]

Bruce Lee was my idol growing up. From the Green Hornet to all the articles featuring him in Black Belt magazine. I tried to find out everything thing that he did in his training. Things like barbell curls, wrist rolls, push-ups of various styles.... he stated very specifically that he went on 3 mile runs with his Geat Dane, BoBo. I remember having my mom drive from our house down the road to use the odometer to measure out 1.5 miles which I used as a marker which was in front of a green house. So I would run up to that house and back to make the 3 miles and I recruited my dog, Tonka, an Alaskan Malamute bred to run, to serve as my "BoBo". I was at the age that I believed that if I could do everything Bruce Lee did as much as possible that I could be like
him.

Pic of Bruce running with BoBo. And a picture of Tonka, the white one on the left, as my companion. Note the bench at the right which I used with my Sears weight set. Also, if you look behind the fence you can see my blue punching bag, with the name "BuiltTough" blazen on the front. That was a premium bag at the time and not just those sand bags where all the sand sinks to the bottom. It costs me $60 which was not cheap in those days (early 1970s). Spent many hours pounding away at that bag over the years.

Great story Pellius!

I am certain Bruce inspired many of us when we were young!

[Fortress]

Aren’t you 300 pounds of blubber?

Nope. You’re thinking of your wife.

I’m 285 of blast-beating brutality, bucko! 

[Henda]

Hard to tell which one he is in some photos as he’s posing with other Chinese fellas

[Hypertrophy]

A Profesional Cyclist is also using and has nothing to show. That Argument is Pointless. I am not impressed by his Muscle Mass, but my Information is that he was using. I did not say that to offend you, even if i think you are the furthest away from his physique than a Human Being can be..

Depends on the cyclist and their discipline. Track sprinters clearly show. However cyclists are drug tested a lot so the usage is a lot harder to undertake than a casual athlete does. Steroids show up like a 1000W light bulb these days in the drug tests so the drugs of choice are hemoglobin related.

For endurance cyclists in the TdF for example there have been positive testes for testosterone patches, nandrolone, and a few others. They used them for recovery. But these have fallen out of favor for many years due to the aforementioned drug test info. The daily calorie burn for a Tour rider is in excess of 7500 calories a day (1000 cal per hour, 5 hour stages, plus daily BMR needs) and nobody builds mass at that level.

If Bruce used, (and people always toss that "inside info" shit around on here, lol) it didn't do anything for him. He had no need to recover from extreme calorie burns. And he sure didn't have any mass to speak of.  So your theory is specious.

[Kwon]

Unless there was a Steroid that could make you punch and kick twice as fast!

[Humble Narcissist]

"Well known"? No it's not. Do you have any evidence for this claim? You just made that up. Nobody was talking about steroid use at that time nor was it mentioned after he died except by those who think it is impossible to have abs without drugs. Just go to any inner-city basketball court and see how many crack addict nigs that don't train and only eat fast food crap with physiques more ripped and developed than Bruce Lee.

5'6" , 135 lbs, training like a maniac everyday and he can't possibly have that kind of massive development and definition without gear.

Oh brother. 

If Bruce was juicing to get to 135 he should have gone Kung Fu on his dealer.