Bruce Lee was well ahead of his time in terms of fitness knowledge and focus. He was doing plyometrics before it was even a term, literally. Plyometrics as a term was first used in 1975 and Bruce incorporated them into his training the 50’s and 60’s. Bruce was conceiving of training equipment and one of his earliest students / good friend / craftsman George Lee would build them long before personal athletic equipment was an industry. Grip strengtheners, dip bars, wrist rollers, you name it. He pioneered the concept that pre-determined fitness training was as important as simply going to class and doing repetition of techiniques and forms. Below is Bruce Lee’s personal gung fu training program (Source: Bruce Lee: The Tao of Gung Fu, Tuttle Publishing, Edited by John Little About $13.00 on Amazon). I am passing it on to you as anything from the “just good to know” category to a baseline for your own personal daily training program.
Enjoy!
“My personal gung fu training program
a. Air punching–3 sets of 50 each
b. Sand plate– 3 sets of 50 each
a. Leg stretching
-Forward stretch–3 sets of 12 each
a. The classical form of 108
b. Individual technique training
4. Form Practice
5. Individual technique practice
6. Sticking hand training
