Bruce Lee and his weight training

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Hey I was reading this magazine that my friend lent me in Tenchi Kenpo and I did not know this but Bruce Lee aparently not only used compound workouts but he also did a few isolation workouts as well. I had no clue that he used regular old fasion weight training that body builders used to train with. Just throwing that out their. comment if you like
 
I heard he used ballistic training also, to boost up his speed
 
Its kind of like resistance training for example. If you were to bench youput on like 70-75% of 1rm and you rep that as if it were a max so it slingshots of your chest, building up your twitch muscles. in turn it wouldnt make you as strong as you were if you were doing 80-90% of 1rm but it would be like punching 3X as fast



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From what I have read, Lee's training was very eclectic.He would go through all the bodybuilding literature of the time and experiment with the various programs.At one time, he adopted a full body routine which he performed three non-consecutive days per week.I believe it consisted of squats, good mornings, power clean and presses, pullovers, curls and bench presses.At or near the time of his death, he was primarily doing circuit training on a Marcy home unit.He also experimented quite a bit with isometric training.I think John Little has written a book specifically addressing Lee's training.Might be worth looking at if you are really interested.
 
Bruce lee was good at the 1 inch punch, but he impressed girls with his 1 inch *****!

just kidding i love bruce
for an example, i will literally love bruce so hard into the ground
another joke

yeah i knew he used weights, i saw a documentary on him, but most of it was jeet kwan do!
 
70% is a bit to heavy for the ballistic method. The ballistic method would be around 30% of your 1RM and yes, as stated, you would use it as a projectile move...squat jumps and ballistic bench being the most common. The ballistic bench is usually prescribed in a smith machine so that when the your throw the bar up and try and catch it it won't smash into you.
 
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30% of 1rm thats nothing?!?! It does makes sense though.
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The point in ballistics is to prime the CNS. In order to take advantage of the stretch-shortening cycle, we cannot use high intensities or we neglect what we set out to do--train explosion. It's the whole inverse relationship to weight and speed....the heavier and object gets, the slower our speed is even though we maybe exerting maximal pressure and visa-versa.
 
I'm not quite sure what you're asking. When you see an individual lifting a maximal load, they appear to be slow but that's only because of the weight of the object. There's a big difference between applying maximal force to an object and lifting slowly.
 
ooo the more 1rm% the slower.
 
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