Explosive, fast-twitch muscle work would make sense for him as a martial artist. That lat spread though. 😮

I base as lot of my training from his book, The Art of Expressing the Human Body. It's simple, yet highly effective.

AWESOME :D my Boy Bruce inspires me on the daily!

Brilliant vid,,,,as a youngster in 70s Bruce Lee & Ali were our heroes,,,,,, Have a great week

According to Dan Inosanto and others Bruce trained with, he typically was about 145 pounds when he wasn't shooting a movie, then cut down to 132-135 to be super shredded for filming. That's probably why some people disagree on how much cardio he was doing, and maybe explains a couple of the changes in his routine.

The Isometrics have helped me so much for blocking strikes. I have also practiced a lot of his cable exercises and my kicks evolved so fast with speed , power and accuracy. Another thing I have used a lot is the weighted bar for getting a great snap to the punch. I have been doing this snap exercise for a few years now and it is still a staple to my punching exercises.

This is one of the best and most concise videos on Bruce's training I have seen, and I have seen and read a lot. Thanks for making this!

The most complet , clear and elegantly shown examples of Bruce's training . Bravo and big Thanks .

Wow Bruce was the perfect weapon, master, inspiration, LEGEND. 👑

Always enjoy watching your videos I get alot of ideas watching your channel!

Very well done. I think you nailed some of the gaps in the book, great work!

Congratulations on 50k subs man you deserve it 👊

this channel is an absolute goldmine.

Fantastic thanks for taking the time

Well FYI you got a remember something the man only weighed 135 pounds So Him curling 80 pounds is quite a lot

To be honest with you, I never knew Bruce lifted weights until I started watching your videos. I always imagined him to be a strictly calisthenics guy.

This entry was fantastic and thought provoking. I became a Bruce Lee fan when I was 10 years old...unfortunately one month after his death. At that time I didn't care for or thought about his training methods (my love for lifting was four years away when the first Rocky movie came out), but I remember that everyone wanted to learn his "crazy" fighting methods. I think it's great that we are exploring this now and the only person I would trust to investigate this is...the Bioneer...

great insight into bruces training, enjoyed it!

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Awsome video mate. Thank you so much!

Good video thanks.... I'm a trainer and Bruce Lee fan.... always studying and gaining knowledge... so thank u 👌👋☺💯

Good breakdown. Appreciate the real life involed in your narrating

You have an excellent way of describing details and not assuming something without proper evidence. And when your guessing you let the viewer know. Being a man so skinny in structure as Bruce was the question of why was he so strong with such a small frame is what many don’t understand. They measure strength by its size but it# by its density. He was solid. Bones ligaments everything was developed and ready to go.

Great video. Thank you so much 🙏

Thanks for this helped a ton~

My theory on the isolation bicep curls without the same for the tricep curls was the result of avoiding elbow injuries. Much of my approach to training is similar to what is described in that book, and I find that bicep curls compliment the high frequency "grease-the-groove" method of a variety of pushups and his hand strikes (which are driven by the triceps, deltoids, and lats in his backfist-esk and wing chun approach early on). Training in a similar way to what is described in that book, I find that bicep curls help prevent elbow pain and tendonitis.

Ive been following all of bruce lees training and its amazing I do train forearm, wrist and abs everyday

I think the idea behind the spring at the end was to push his body to react at any given moment especially when you are most fatigued, it's a mental drill if anything else to keep his body perpetually moving and not allowing the lactic acid to pool in one area...

Respect for your work.

Great video and analysis! About the forearms, I trained wing chun too and I can tell for fact that its practice uses the forearms a lot in blocking and hitting, making the forearms really hard. Besides, the chisao training used in wing chun develops insane agility and speed in the arms.

Can we just appreciate you have Bruce Lees Gym card... Impressive

Execellent explanation and analysis !! Thanks..

His weights program was presumable balanced by martial arts training also. You can't extrapolate only from the gym routine to his physique and performance,

Thanks for the Video

Again, you have produced another excellent video on the king of martial arts. I thought that i, at 51, knew everything that could possibly be known about Mr. Lee. I read every interview written, watched and listened "hanging" on his every syllable of every word that i was fortunate enough to hear that man's voice speak. You have come up with freight train loads more. I don't know how, or where you aquirre such an amount of information on this man's life!?! Excellent work! Please do not stop this work that you do. If i was to have any questions for you..it would be these.....What are your physical comparisons as to Bruce Lee's? ( Height, weight, body fat)? For example...i'm 5' 9" tall, at my best, i weighed 160lbs. (Remember i'm 51 as we speak), Also you look, in your arms, especially the biceps, to be much bigger than Bruce Lee's, is that just the way you're training, or is there some other reason for this? I personally always thought that Bruce Lee should've been maybe 160 instead of 140. I wonder if the extra 20 pounds, doing the exact training routines would have made his punches even stronger, or do you think it would have slowed his punches down? Thank you , Chris.

Many bodybuilding experts will recommend doing squats along with the body part you want to grow the fastest because when you stimulate the legs and glutes, you are by default stimulating the release of more growth hormone than if you work that body part by itself. Bruce is also employing the concept of muscle energy and stretching/lengthening by alternating between curls and extensions. Working the biceps lengthens and stretches the triceps and working the triceps lengthens and stretches the biceps. It also make for a more efficient work out. You don’t really have to rest if you go back and forth between the two. This gives the workout a cardio flavor that will help to burn fat and very little muscle. It will actually get you a pump that hard to top. Thanks for these excellent videos. You certainly do your homework well and I appreciate your enthusiasm and obvious love honor and respect for Brice Lee his philosophy his fans and his family.

Bruce Lee is the man.....even in 2018/2019!!!!!

The nature of bruce lee is the best no one can be the same as him.

Awesome video !

great video,very interesting...

Good job, it's obvious that a lot of work went into this video.

Bruce Lee was on a whole different level he was naturally gifted with a body like that

well presented video

Imagine how John Little felt to visit Linda Lee and see the Marcy trainer, then her GIVING it to him! Priceless.

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Great upload of the greatest marital artist in the world.

The stretching after the workout is isometrics. Dude was really ahead of the game.

Bruce,,a genius,philosopher,unbelievable dedication,training, world class athlete.BRUCE IS BEST

well in my opinion... forearms are the most important muscle in martial arts... wanna punch? have as much mass behind the punch... the arm doesnt add mass at all it just pushes the mass from the hand, the forearm does... wanna throw someone with a judo throw? grip strenght is needed... so... it is actually the most usefull muscle for martial arts in the upperbody...

great , serious , no bullshit , just fact , good good video , nice job .

Tao of Jeet Kune Do is an amazing book you can learn alot from that book alone 👍

Beautiful Video Sir, well Done. Sijo Bruce Lee's main Goal was to Create a High Resistance to Fatigue and Failure of His Muscles, Heart and Lungs. With Proper Diet & Exercises of the day, Bruce Lee Accomplished His of Goal and His Ultimate Reality of Jeet Kune Do. One's body can only Express POWER, Only because POWER comes from The Ground. So in JKD, The Stance and Footwork are What made Sijo Bruce Lee a Powerful Weapon in The World of Martial Arts "Then & Now".

Can you make a training scheme for a week based on Bruce Lee's workouts

If you want to know the general emphases in Bruce Lee's training--look up videos of his prize student, Dan Inosanto. Dan discusses Bruce's workouts in some detail.

I thought Bruce also used flys with dumbbells to 'expand his chest'. He also did a lot of what we would term now as cross-training...on the days he was recovering from his resistance work-outs he'd also jog/sprint/run and do stretching.

Hi, I have a question about how I should divide the training day to perfect Bruce Lee's exercises. Should I divide like this? For example, 1 week includes 3 days of weight training as you said, during those 3 days I divide the following: day 1 exercise, day 2 cardio, day 3 back bucket, day 4 cardio, day 5 full body, 6th day cardio. My opinion like that do you have any better opinion? Please let me know. Because I'm not really good at English, I can't fully understand the video.

Fortunately enough, I went to the HK heritage museum where they had Bruce lees private items there on display, including a sheet of paper with his handwriting on it describing his routine for working on his martial arts. I took a sneaky pic quickly before the security guard caught me. There was also a sheet of paper with his routine for weight training which I didn’t snap a picture off

Bruce dedicated his heart and soul too martial arts I respect the legend he should if u believe in yourself and push yourself u can achieve ultimate goals and reach high levels in growth mentally, spiritually and physically a true master rip

Great stuff

bruce lee workouts are crazy, thats why he's a legend

Very nice very good information

Nice breakdown. I had the art of expressing the human body book at one time and will get it again. You know I have to wonder had he lived what would he think about today's current training methods especially in combat sports such as mma.

Honestly, Arnold and Bruce Lee are my inspirations for training.I train my forearms a lot.

How do you personally balance your martial arts with resistance training?

"Legs require more repetitions that other body parts." - Literally something you hear all the time now in days.

can you make a video about literatule u use for certan topic ??? much appriciated ,i just came across your vids and they are really informativ thank you!!

As far as I know, Bruce's objective was always function over aesthetics. Overtime he became more knowledgeable about the physics of his craft and every training plan had a purpose of functionality. In addition Bruce had some rather unique ways to develop his speed, one the methods he used involved using a television set. For this training a fast paced program would be on and would stand several feet in facing the screen dry washing his hands so that neither hand would be dominant, and as soon as there was a scene change, he would strike or block, kick, shuffle or whatever. The scene changes would occur without warning in the blink of an eye...and he would respond to the unfolding progress of the TV program. A very interesting method indeed!

strong forearms = strong punch. Discovered this by accident even though its always been there. But I trained my forearms with heavy and moderate weight and literally a couple of days later my punch was way stronger

Thanks!

I wanted to ask you a little clarification if you will never read this comment: do you think the cable machine circuit training he was doing could be compared similarly with AMRAP training? I mean timed circuits and do as many rounds as possible in that time? Because you said he didn't rest at all during that circuit, so it makes me think in AMRAP similarity... Thank you very much

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I got rib from his circuit. Loved it a good workout.

Really liked the quote about shadow fighting. I naturally evolved into doing this when training alone in my room after school and it really made such a different to speed and blocking during fights. Getting back into it 15 years later and I hope it comes back. Seeing this quote just motivated more and affirmed it

I feel like you are missing out a very important fact - besides his 3 times per week routines at the gym, he was doing martial arts, stretching, conditioning for 6 hours or more every single day

What happens if you add minor finger and wrist weights while punching and toe and ankle weights while kicking? I think there's a way to 'add' to the shadow boxing exercise kata movements calisthethincs and stretching exercises?

I think Bruce Lee went with Good Mornings instead of Deadlifts because he had a nerve injury on his back which required him to rest for 6 months.

Remember this was just one gym card. His training and vast variety are much more fully detailed in a number of his sanctioned books by John Little. Like taking a couple of workouts any of us do and then thinking it was what we did all the time.

I think the running at the end was to warm his blood up for stretching afterwards, which the guy most likely forgot to mention.

I do not recall which publication but one had a written schedule by Bruce showing 160 for 3 sets of 10 reps on the bench press.

Could you please do ‘How to drastically improve endurance’ Specifically unorthodox ways and supplements to improve it.

Also if you throw kicks all day you’ll understand why the good mornings. You need that exercise to alleviate the pressure in your lower back from the quick contractions of chambering the kick.

I really like your channel. I know Dan Isanto said Bruce would grab someone with one hand, demonstrating his powerful forearms, pull him inwards fast, whip lashing the other persons neck back.

"Good mornings"helped my lower back far more than dead lifts ever dog. I do martial arts. Do both though!

Nice one :)

In the list where is the repeat in the exercise!? And the time is explained the time he finish the exercise!? What about the book is it available know? And where i can found it to buy it And thanks alot

bruce lee me enseño a entrenar mi espíritu

“If you think curls aren’t functional, you’ve never wrestled before”

Is there any books that cover his work out routines

Even today there's no one as good as Bruce.He was years ahead of anyone. No one will ever come close to what he achieved.

At 11:45, which movie is that?.... Your explanation is good but if you add weekdays and explain, for example - put text Monday, next Tuesday etc... and text of workout beside your workout and pictures of Bruce Lee if available... That would be useful for better understanding the workouts. Thank you...

Very good video

good job buddy :)

1:51 -- Commenting five years after this video's release, I can authoritatively state that the light squats at the beginning of the workout would have been for the purpose of a full-body warmup. (Those insulting Lee for the amount of weight used don't understand what they're seeing. Such a warmup is SUPPOSED to be light; otherwise, it wastes energy needed for the main exercises. Also, note that this card was for one of Lee’s ARM workouts, not one for his legs. Apparently, a lot of people miss the words “forearms, biceps, triceps” written on the right side of the card.) A full-body warmup was a part of virtually every bodybuilding course printed from the 30s to the 70s, especially those from York Barbell, which Lee would have gotten with the purchase of his power rack. Trainees were usually instructed to do a set of light “flip” snatches, five or six continuous cleans & presses, or maybe a set or two of squats. (Since there's evidence that Lee ran, jumped rope, and rode an exercise bike, he likely didn't squat at all for his legs. Very few boxers/martial artists in Lee's time did so, and, in fact, most still don't.)

We can't be exactly like him but we can get at his level if we do that

So what do i have to do to get a body and flexibility, speed and strenght like him?

don't look at his workout as a bodybuilder but a martial artist which makes alot more sense, his legs are the most functional part of his body, explosive, fast, endurance, complete balance in each step, I can see why he never went super heavy on them, he used them ALL THE TIME not only muscle training, running, cycling, jump rope, kicking, calisthenics, ect

Anyone know any websites with videos showing fights (school, street fights) which I can use for reference for shadow fighting?