Driver - Ninja Strength Secrets: Isometric Exercise Routines for a Bruce Lee Body

Before You Begin

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Foreword

Bruce Lee was famous for saying, The height of sophistication always runs to simplicity. Well, one strength training system in particular took simplicity and minimalist principles to unchartered territory way back in the 1970s. And if you grew up reading comic books in the decade that gave us Enter the Dragon, chances are you will already be familiar with this revolutionary program.

What I am alluding to, are the adverts run by muscleman Charles Atlas. Promoting his unique dynamic tension courses, the ads showed a scrawny kid getting sand kicked in his face, and later after completing the Charles Atlas workout returning to sock the beach bully on the jaw before making off with the girls.

So what makes this type of training so unique?

Well, for a start, the exercises described in these Charles Atlas training courses didnt involve weights. Instead, they used a form of dynamic tension or isometrics. And well be casting a magnifying glass over this strength training system in the upcoming chapters, but for now, consider these benefits:

• Activate more muscle growth,
• Increase intensity,
• Super safe.

And the best part? Once adapted, these isometric exercises can become an effective element of any workout.

But why does this system work so well? In short, this type of exercise provides the biggest bang for your bodybuilding buck. In fact, isometrics are so darned effective, that they prompted the author of perhaps the most critically acclaimed book on strength training to call them the ultimate exercise.

Bodybuilding Wrecking Ball

The author of this groundbreaking book was Bill Starr; and years before he penned The Strongest Shall Survive, Starr was your quintessential 7-stone weakling.

And Starr would watch in wonder as this training system took a bodybuilding wrecking ball to world records in all sports, knocking them over like skittles:

• In the world of swimming, Indiana University students began smashing national and world records almost at will.
• In track and field, Jim Beatty broke the world record in the indoor mile.
• In competitive weightlifting, Bill March won everything in sight. At the 1963 Philadelphia Open, almost predictably, a world record followed.

Yet as remarkable as these results undoubtedly sound, they become almost unbelievable when I tell you something that will likely halt you in your tracks...

Its this:

These results were achieved with lifts that took just 6 seconds.

No. That is not a misprint.

Each of these lifts took a mere 6 seconds to build Superhuman strength.

And the really exciting part?

These lifts are guaranteed to work for you too.

Train Like Bruce Lee

During the course of Ninja Strength Secrets, youll learn how to train like Bruce Lee, as you test-drive the amazing isometric exercise system that helped precision-engineer his workouts.

• To help us in our quest, well take a trip back to the 1970s and the Kung Fu craze that swept the planet,
• Next, well peruse the programs that built and crafted the powerhouse Bruce Lee physique,
• Enlisting the help of the godfather of isometrics, well examine some amazing scientific laws and minimalist principles... and with their guidance, Ill show you how to tame the dragon workouts that made Bruce Lee a martial arts master and bodybuilding god,

• Youll then discover the abdominal exercises that guarantee a trim and flat waistline, and find out why crunches are a total waste of your valuable time,

• And finally, well review the abbreviated training variables you can use to breathe fire into your routines including the revolutionary isometric exercise system that took a bodybuilding wrecking ball to the record books.

More Muscle, Least Possible Time

So if youre tired of the same copycat routines that promise so much and deliver so little, and youre looking for a super-simple, efficient way to get stronger andbuild more muscle in the least possible time then Ninja Strength Secrets is for you And later, I promise to show you some cool Ninja tips and tricks that make isometrics even more effective for you.

But before I do, we first need to hitch a ride to the decade when everybody was Kung Fu fighting.

Back in the decade that gave us bellbottoms, platform shoes and white disco suits, something very cool was causing a stir. Its name? Kung Fu. Busy taking the world by storm, there was simply no hiding from this martial arts maelstrom.

To better understand what this Kung Fu universe looked like, fasten your seat belt as we hitch a ride to the 1970s:

• On TV there was Kung Fu. This action/adventure series starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine a Shaolin monk who travels through the American Wild West, armed only with his spiritual training and kick-ass martial arts skills. If you watched the show as a kid, I bet you and your grasshopper friends still carry the playtime scars from your schoolyard skirmishes.

• Flying high in the music charts was the disco ditty Kung Fu Fighting. Riding the martial arts craze like a surfboarding Ninja, the song would swiftly chop its way to the top of the UK and US hit parade. Anyone who heard the Carl Douglas song would find the catchy lyrics indelibly tattooed on their brain: Everybody was kung fu fighting. Those cats were fast as lightning. Winning a Grammy, the song would go on to sell over 11 million records worldwide.

• In comic-books, the Kung Fu influence was everywhere. Magazine giants Marvel had Shang Chi The Master of Kung Fu, and son of infamous Fu Manchu. Then there was my personal favourite, Iron Fist. Created by Roy Thomas and Gil Kane, Thomas wrote that he had... started Iron Fist because Id seen my first kung fu movie, even before a Bruce Lee one came out, and it had a thing called the ceremony of the Iron Fist in it. I thought that was a good name, and we already had Master of Kung Fu going, but I thought, Maybe a super-hero called Iron Fist would be a good idea. In light of the feverish excitement that gripped teenagers up and down the land, it proved a very good idea indeed.

• And then there were the cartoons, which included Hanna-Barberas classic Hong Kong Phooey