Bruce Lee Workout (INCLUDES DRAGON FLAG!)

Train like an athlete…workout like Bruce Lee here!

he’s one of the most iconic symbols of strength and power at just 135 lbs today we’re going to take a look at the legend Bruce Lee and more importantly I’m going to show you guys how to start training like this [Music] guy what’s up guys Jeff cavaliere athle x. com look I don’t care who you are or what kind of Facebook page you have if you put a picture of Bruce Lee up with one of his famous quotes you are damn near sure to get a lot of likes and shares out of that why it’s one word guys it’s respect Bruce Lee is one of the most iconic athletes of all time when I say athlete this is a guy that basically represented all all that there is that’s athletic he had strength he had power he had agility he had quickness right and he did this all the body weight of just 135 lbs and was able to achieve some Feats of Strength that guys twice his size cannot so what I thought guys was why don’t we dig into Bruce Bruce Lee’s training a bit to look at some of his major principles because there’s really no singular workout around of Bruce Lee’s because it’s all sort of shrouded in mystery he there’s a lot of pieces but nothing that that spells it all out that I believe is accurate I think a lot of that stuff that you see out there is not accurate it’s uh just sort of people anecdotally putting up blogs and videos so what what I want to do is look at his training principles because that’s what he even said himself he relied on so we can get some really solid foundational uh things for you guys to start focusing on to see what it’s like to start training like an athlete to start training like Bruce Lee all right so let’s get that kick started right [Music] now okay so let’s get the first principle here underway and that is using tension to your advantage Bruce Lee used to say that tension creates control it doesn’t prevent it now guys if you remember the videos that I’ve showed you here about our energy leaks and how important it is to plug those energy leaks when we’re trying to generate strength and power then you’ll know exactly what he was talking about watch me do this uh clip here of a of a push-up standard push-up right the key here being able to have more strength than the push-up is to plug the energy leaks meaning you have to make sure that all of your muscles are engaged that there is tension throughout all of your muscles people think that tension is a bad thing because they look at it that in that negative uh sense of the word but in in weight training tension is a great thing you want to tighten up your glutes you want to tighten up your shoulders you want to tighten up your low back you want to tighten up your quads by straightening your kns that allows you to do some pretty amazing things as a matter of fact Bruce Lee was known for his finger and thumb push-ups so even if I tighten everything up here now I’m going to have a shot at being able to do those not as good as Bruce Lee of course but I’ve got a shot because I’ve got much more efficient energy transfer from my toes all the way to my fingertips by plugging up those leaks making sure my whole body is tense and therefore making the uh Power transfer up and down throughout my entire body without any loss that’s the key guys next up we got to look at the isot tension principle this is something that Bruce Lee used to incorporate after exercise to do a few different things as guys who watch our stuff here at athl X we know some of the values of time under tension right extending sets adding length of time that the muscles are under tension is one of the best ways to make them grow Bruce Lee knew that by incorporating extended tension in the form of isot tension is a great way to get those muscles to respond you can see what I’m doing here this would be the exact move that he would do following his push-ups so basically as he used to note in his journals he would find some way to engage not just the chest that’s the key guys CU it takes it to another level here again another principle of athl X maximum muscle interaction getting muscles that prefer to work together to work together so in this drill here I’m engaging chest triceps shoulders isometrically Contracting as hard as I could to not only create more time under tension but to also make those muscles work together and also to create a very important my muscle connection right reinforcing your control over your muscles was key to Bruce Lee’s training and it’s key to whatever you’re doing gu if you’re trying to be an athlete you can obviously see how important that’s going to be but even if you’re not it’s going to be very important for the ultimate development of your muscles number three this is a great one guys cuz it underscores one of my biggest pet peeves one of Bruce Le’s as well he said never lift the weight you actually can’t lift now this goes guys back to his principle of tension and wanting to have the muscles be tense right and most of the time guys will make a mistake of saying I want to get that weight from point A to point B and not care how that weight gets there and that’s a big big problem especially if you’re trying to develop muscularity see what Bruce Le used to do is he used to enforce the fact that he was in control of the weight by adding certain things to his exercises he had a particular exercise it’s was called the barbell launch curl that you can see me demonstrating here where he would basically curled this weight up to the top and then launch his arm straight out in front of him now guys I think I’ve read where he’s been doing that or was doing that with over 110 lbs 120 lbs that is absolutely insane that’s something that I am not going to be demonstrating for you today because I can’t do it but the fact of the matter is he was in control of that weight and he wanted wanted to prove it if you wanted to curl it he can curl it if you wanted to launch it out he can launch it out if you wanted to hold it out there he can hold it out there if you wanted to bring it back in he’d bring it back in the fact is guys his muscles were in control of every single thing he did and that’s something you should start to learn from make sure that you’re not just letting your ego push the weights and drive the weights that you’re using let your let your muscles do the talking all right lift that weight up using the contraction the muscles you’re intending to use again bring them ones in together that like to work together CH shoulders tries to bring them in and let them work together but make sure they’re doing the work and you’re eliminating the momentum and I’m telling you not only will Bruce be happy but I would be [Music] too no discussion of Bruce Lee’s training would be complete without addressing his AB training as a matter of fact this is a guy who was known for having one of the most incredibly powerful in carved out midsections and it’s because of the high priority he played B on them matter of fact he said that you have no business sparring unless you have abs of steel so this is another reflection guys of what we do here at athl X I placed an incredibly High importance on AB training realizing that the core is literally at the core of everything we do so much so that the guys that have our program can tell you when you get it you get an ability to create a new ab work out every single day at the touch of a button through our six-pack promise because I believe in frequent AB training and its importance just as Bruce Lee did through his daily ab workouts yes daily he used to pay attention to some aspect of his training for his abs every single day whether it be through just standard sit-ups or the more difficult version that I’m showing you here now the dragon flag is no doubt one of the most iconic exercise examples of Bruce Lee’s AB training right but it’s also one of the hardest so how are you going to get yourself from doi