My theories are pulled from all theories. A little bit of Adonis, Zane,Mentzer,Reeves,Grimek,Rheo Blair,Eugene Sandow,Vince Gironda.
They also come from Science,Biology,Nutrition,History and the Food Network. hahah..I use every piece of info that I can to some extent. I am constantly reading and researching diets as well as their application as well as their relation to ease and how practical in todays society.
My theories continually are getting bigger and bigger as I take more and more notes down,experimenting on myself and others. 100 percent success rate is what I aim for and that is what I get.
I will now give you some words of wisdom from the great Bruce Lee. This is the way I approach my methods:
have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . . Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that.
There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way. Jeet Kune-Do is simply the direct expression of one's feelings with the minimum of movements and energy. The closer to the true way of Kung Fu, the less wastage of expression there is.
Finally, a Jeet Kune Do man who says Jeet Kune Do is exclusively Jeet Kune Do is simply not with it. He is still hung up on his self-closing resistance, in this case anchored down to reactionary pattern, and naturally is still bound by another modified pattern and can move within its limits. He has not digested the simple fact that truth exists outside all molds; pattern and awareness is never exclusive.
Again let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one's back.
I greatly admire Bruce Lee. And that is a wonderful speech by him. And what you are doing has nothing to do with his vision. You are trying to create a new style, adding yours to the many that are out there. You are saying "Eat and train this way and you will look like me, be like me". It is self-agrandizing. You're not setting people free, you're just trying to trap them in a different system. Bruce Lee was about simplicity, about instinct, about listening to your body and learning how to express yourself with your body and it's movements. Bruce Lee's greatest students were all origianlly members of other styles, ones they had nearly mastered. He showed them how to make the style fluid instead of rigid, how to make the style their own. That is the point of martial arts techniques and styles. You train and you learn and you practice a prescribed style so you can teach your body to move. And when your body has learned how to move, how to express itself, you transcend style. Look at Jet Li. He has mastered Kung Fu. All of it. Every style, every branch. He has transcended all styles. When you watch him practice, whether he is doing a form or sparring or just training, there is no space between thought and action. His movements are pure. That is true of all great martial artists, though none moreso than him.
My point is that it is the same with training and nutrition. When you start, you follow certain stricture or a certain path. You follow that path so that you can learn about your body, learn how to listen to it and how to control it. It is something that can only be learned through experience, through putting in the hours in the gym and sticking to your diet. I read about the mind-muscle connection for years, and I thought I knew what it was all about. But it wasn't until the past couple of months of training that I finally got it. I always thought I knew what it was and had achieved that. I was foolish and arrogant. But then one day I started to really hear what my body was telling me. It was like an epiphany. And I realise that I have a lot more to learn about my body. Everytime I workout, I learn something new about my body. I find some way to get even more out of my muscles, out of a particular exercise or training method, and out of my diet. Because of that, I am able to get the most out of all aspects of my training. And with every meal and every workout, I learn a little more, I take another step toward my goals.
I am sure that you feel very similarly when you train and when you eat. For me I know that there is very little that is more gratifying than that. But to say that your way is superior, that all others are demogogues is just arrogant and misleading. Bruce Lee hated the politics in martial arts, hated that most styles could not see the forest for the trees and kept their adherents from progressing past the style. There was too much ego in it, and it held people back. Sound familiar? Bruce Lee wanted to show people how to continue their progress, how to listen to their body and learn from it. The same principle applies to bodybuilding. Do not mistake personal truth for universal truth.
