Bruce Lee Isometric Exercise

The Secret Behind the Power of the Dragon?

By Paul J.O'Brien
B.A., N.C.E.H.S., Dip. Acu., Dip. OBB, Cert Clin. Med. M.A.F.P.A., M.C.Th.A.

Not only did his physique influence the average school kid, but experienced weight lifters, athletes, and even bodybuilders – the men who spent their every waking moment in the pursuit of physical perfection where in awe…

But how did Bruce Lee develop such an incredible physique? I mean that’s what we all want to know right? Well the answer, comes for his widow, Linda Lee Cadwell…

Intense Training, part of which included Isometrics. Now Bruce Lee was on the cutting edge of fitness and physical exercise. He obsessively ordered every course and book, learned every exercise he could and used them all. He then subjected them to critically evaluation. If any given exercise did not produce results it was dropped. Thus Lee stripped away the non essential, those exercises that weren’t good enough.

Only one system of exercise was so successful that Lee practiced it DAILY. That’s right he trained every day in these particular exercises because they produced incredible and dramatic increases in his strength and his muscle density. That system, of course, was isometrics, the same isometrics I teach in my course 7 Seconds to A Perfect Body!

In fact Bruce Lee isometric exercise produced the quickest increase of raw strength and dense muscle in Lee's total training experience. After many years the Bruce Lee isometric exercise routine was paired down to 8 exercises that he performed only once each day.

That’s it, 8 exercise’s held for between 6-12 seconds (I explain the reason for such brief hold times in my course). Lee strongly felt that each session should be approached with nothing less than 100% intensity. Then what are the Bruce Lee isometric exercises? Based in the early work of Bob Hoffman, Bruce performed

• Press lockout
• Press start
• Toe raise
• Pull
• Parallel squat
• Shoulder shrug
• Deadlift
• Quater squat

That was it. However each of these exercises require a solid base of full body isometrics behind them, and they also require specialised equipment to perform. Rather than have people risk injury (much like Bruce did), I teach the full body course with equipment free versions of those techniques in my 7 week isometric course - 7 Seconds to A Perfect Body! and you can see my perform some of Bruce Lee's strength feats having used those same methods.

In addition to his regular martial arts training and workouts, these simple 8 isometric exercises built the body of a Dragon and can do the same for you.

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Bruce Lee was a huge inspiration of mine, and as Arnold says above to many more kids and athletes today. Isometrics were a core part of his training program and helped him build one of the most inspiring, functional physiques of our age.

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