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Oh, and be sure to sign up for the e-zine Starting Strong to get monthly strength training, exercise, and diet tips e-mailed to you - and access to the free e-book Train Smart, Eat Smart: Exercise Nutrition Hacks! Now get out there to your gym and get ripped like Bruce! It's a great workout with 8 basic isometric exercises. Then, push upward with your thighs and glutes (butt muscles). Get under the bar, as if your were about a quarter of the way down into your squatting positionįrom there, get the bar over your shoulders. Place the bar at about 4 inches below the altitude it would be at if it were on top of your shoulders, as if you were doing a squat.

Bending over at the hip and bending your knees slightly, grasp the bar and pull upward as if you are in the middle of doing a deadlift. Set the bar at about two inches below knee altitude. Grasping the bar with hands at shoulder width, shrug your shoulders upward as much as possible. Set the bar up in the power rack at hand altitude when your arms are fully extended downward. Squatting down and getting your shoulders under the bar, push upward with your legs and butt. Place the bar in the position it would be in at the bottom of your squat with your thighs parallel to the floor. Rise on your toes slightly and pull up on the bar with all your might! Set the bar about six inches down from your hip altitude (while standing). Tensing your body, get under the bar and push up by flexing your ankles and rising up on your toes. Place that bar at shoulder height (when standing) in the power rack. Use the same body and hand position as in 1. Set the bar at about chin altitude, right where the bar starts from, and push up against it like you're starting a bench press. Push up against the bar like you're doing a bench press, with your hands shoulder width grip. Set a bar in the power rack at about three inches below the position your arms would lockout in a bench press. Just click and wait for it to download, or right-click and select 'Save Link As.'

My source for this was The Art of Expressing the Human Body by Bruce Lee and John Little, an excellent book about Bruce's strength training.Ĭlick HERE to download a PDF of this isometric workout. This workout is the same one that Bruce Lee used to develop his impressive musculature.

Full body isometric workout