Bruce Lee's training routines

[Professor Deltoid]

[Fortress]

Guy was, like, 133 pounds.

Just drop a meaty forearm and tight fist onto his chink head and be done with it.

[joswift]

he was a film star who played martial arts

[Fortress]

His was THE WAY OF THE CHINK.

[SweetDaddySiki]

Guy was, like, 133 pounds.

Just drop a meaty forearm and tight fist onto his chink head and be done with it.

Plus that kung fu stuff don't work at all. 

[Bevo]

His philosophy of mixed marital arts is the beginning of MMA

It’s not whether he was the best. It’s his concept that people over look

[1Patrick]

[Rmj11]

John Little huh? Don't believe anything that failed con man says.

[Professor Deltoid]

When the naysayers are ripped like Bruce Lee and myself, your commentary may be of some value. As it stands presently, you look like bloated sea-lions who can't stop feeding the pie-hole.

[Fortress]

His philosophy of mixed marital arts is the beginning of MMA

It’s not whether he was the best. It’s his concept that people over look

Most looked over him.

[oldtimer1]

From what I learned he trained on whole body lifting routines. Kareem Abdul Jabbar said they would go for 5 mile runs. Then they would train martial arts.  I don't give Bruce Lee any magical qualities but his martial art philosophy was to take what worked for him from any martial art.  He was doing BJJ arm bars long before anyone in the US knew anything about the art. I assume Bruce Lee got his arm bars from Judo and Japanese jui jitsu. 

[Fortress]

He was doing BJJ arm bars long before anyone in the US.

I believe he was doing BJs. Certainly once he got to Hollywood.

Anyway, you know what works better than arm bars?

A steel bar to the arm.

And head.

[mops]

[Sustanation]

The Book “The art of expressing the human body” by John Little explains what Bruce actually did as he had access to his records that Linda Lee cadwell authorised.

[joswift]

The Book “The art of expressing the human body” by John Little explains what Bruce actually did as he had access to his records that Linda Lee cadwell authorised.

that he fucked his Chinese co-star and took too many headache tablets?

[G_Thang]

Short Ax did most of the choreography for the Shaw Bros. I think he is better than Bruce Lee.

[Moontrane]

I have an old issue of MuscleMag Int’l somewhere with Vince Gironda’s column.

Someone wrote, asking for the routine that he developed for Bruce Lee, and he responded with something like, “Why the fuck would I give it you for free, since Lee paid for it?”

 

[Rmj11]

Plus that kung fu stuff don't work at all.

It sure doesn't.

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[Donny]

Bruce Lee studied even fencing techniques but his first style was Ving Tsun ( Wing Tsun)&  it evolved into Gung fu ( was Thai boxing influences).
He also liked western boxing, his ground work was from Japanese Jui jitsu & Judo but he also learned about Russian Sambo. There was also western wrestling influences in there, in other words anything he found worked.
If you read his books you can see what he was doing & his later idea of Jeet kune do ( flexibility nothing carved in stone, use what works for you)

The strong Kali influences come from his friend Guru Dan Inosanto   

[Donny]

He also included neck techniques that's banned in modern Judo.

[Donny]

His ideas were brilliant & this is why I posted sword fighting in the martial arts section.
Fencing & western boxing were a cornerstone in his system
https://www.jkd.gr/westernfencing.html

[Humble Narcissist]

His ideas were brilliant & this is why I posted sword fighting in the martial arts section.
Fencing & western boxing were a cornerstone in his system
https://www.jkd.gr/westernfencing.html

Yes they were. As far as his physique is concerned, just drop your calories to 1200 a day and you can get ripped like him.

[Donny]

Yes they were. As far as his physique is concerned, just drop your calories to 1200 a day and you can get ripped like him.

He was actually very interested in bodybuilding & diet.
As mentioned in the thread his training was a full body workout with very basic exercises but he also used other training sessions to target specific muscles such as his abs ( along with diet of course)
His cardio was daily running, rope work, stationery bike & also sometimes on the streets.
Basically his regime was high volume training, not the weights but with all the other methods.

[Humble Narcissist]

He was actually very interested in bodybuilding & diet.
As mentioned in the thread his training was a full body workout with very basic exercises but he also used other training sessions to target specific muscles such as his abs ( along with diet of course)
His cardio was daily running, rope work, stationery bike & also sometimes on the streets.
Basically his regime was high volume training, not the weights but with all the other methods.

I'm just saying he didn't have very much muscle. He was less than 135 at his peak.

[Donny]

I'm just saying he didn't have very much muscle. He was less than 135 at his peak.

No he wasn't big but built what he thought fitted his goals.
At one stage he even commented that he needed to be careful as he noticed he was " too muscular ".
On the other side of the spectrum we had Joe Lewis who was muscular & a great kickboxing champion.