Bruce Lee, the legendary martial artist and film actor, creator of martial arts style Jeet Kune-Do, based physical training on openness and flexibility. Bruce Lee's training methods organically combined the best he took from various schools of martial arts, bodybuilding, and other training styles. This was the style of a comprehensively developed athlete, aimed at transforming an ordinary body into a perfectly functioning one, possessing both speed, strength and flexibility.
The early training of Bruce Lee from the late 1950s already turned him into an incredibly strong fighter and mentor, brought his school prosperity. But everything changed in 1964 after a fight between him and the challenging Won Jae Man. In case of victory, Lee continued to teach anyone and anything, in case of defeat, he closed his school forever. Lee’s three-minute fight brought victory, but he was angry that he spent much more time and effort on it than he planned. Therefore, the entire training program of Bruce Lee was radically revised by him in the direction of complication and maximum return of forces.
His physical training is a heavy-duty crystal with five faces, without any of which it immediately crumbles to dust.
Edge of running
Among all the running exercises, Bruce Lee attached particular importance and believed that if such a load is excessive for a person, he has nothing to do in sports. Six times a week he ran for at least 15 minutes, and in the style of "torn rhythm", i.e. with frequent change of pace. In addition, right after the run, he “clocked up kilometers” on the bike
simulator at a speed of up to 50 km / h, developing endurance.
The edge of sparring
More precisely, free sparring as the best way to hone combat skills. Each sparring is carried out in protective equipment - this is training, and an athlete does not need anything extra injuries. Before you start sparring, you should work out the blows, for which you need to have wooden mannequins and bags filled with beans. Thus, the training of Bruce Lee brought Jeet Kun-Do to perfection.
The verge of alternation
Sparring alone is not enough. Lee changed the direction of the loads (arms, legs) and their focus (endurance, strength). Mandatory - exercises for the development of flexibility, abdominals, a combination of running with a bicycle, jumping rope, barbell. Every day, about two hours were spent honing the blows. Only certain muscle groups were subjected to daily stress, while the rest rested.
Edge of motion
No one has ever seen Bruce Lee outside training. It was Mr. Eternal Movement. Every minute he thought up the muscles of his body, albeit a small, but a load. Even when I read books. He did not remove weighting materials from his feet and hands. And at the same time, he was a caring family man and always allocated time for spiritual self-development.
Edge of discipline
Discipline is an unmistakable indicator of fortitude. All the training of Bruce Lee would have gone down the drain if he had at least once reduced the load or refused them for a day. The master did not give himself rest even away from home, where there was the necessary equipment. He came up with isometric training with stationary objects. For example, for several hours I tried to move the wall of the house.
Training Bruce Lee prepared the athlete for real sparring, which the master considered the ultimate goal of all exercises, which are just a tool.
The most important thing: the master himself did not consider his training a kind of template, applicable absolutely for everyone. If you want to teach a person correctly, find an individual approach to him. Find the technique to which he is inclined, it will be the most useful, and it needs to be developed. So said Bruce Lee.