Bruce Lee : Incredible Running Potential

I heard he was so hardcore when it came to workin' out that he used to lift dumbells at stop lights in his car. He didn't weigh much though.

He also admitted to taking steroids, etc. before his early death.

II. Aerobic capacity. Lee was known to advocate running as the best

cardiovascular exercise (Lee, 1975) and is reported to have run 2 miles in 15

minutes or 6 miles in 45 minutes (Storm, 1986; Lee, 1989).In either case,

this would mean an approximate pace of a 7 minute 30 second mile. This pace

equates to a VO2 max of approximately 50 ml/kg/min (Noakes, 1991). The VO2

max is a method employed by sport scientists to estimate an individual's

maximum capacity to use oxygen during extended exercise.

This article states that Bruce Lee ran a 13:50 3 miler while working out with Steve Prefontaine.

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Bruce Lee is a personal hero of mine....he's the John Wayne of martial-arts cinema.

I think his capacity was likely closer to being able to do three miles at 4:36 pace than six miles at 7:30 pace. Guys, this guy was like gerry lindgren when it came to training and he had an amazing physique as far as running potential is concerned. Considering he was lightning fast, I bet he would have been able to go under 1:55 for the 800 off of no special running training.

No amount of rippedness makes you able to run three miles at 4:36 pace. It takes a lot of running and a lot of running talent. Running for an hour every day would not be nearly sufficient.

three miles at 4:36 pace is about a 14:20 5k...i'd bet there are guys who do that off of an 'hour of running a day'

giffypop wrote:

three miles at 4:36 pace is about a 14:20 5k...i'd bet there are guys who do that off of an 'hour of running a day'

Well since that works out to roughly 60-70 miles per week (although no speedwork), then I'd say you are right.

Damn, Bruce Lee was steroid junkie. Lost all respect for the dude.

I don't think Bruce Lee was a "junkie" for anything but information. His was the mind of a philosopher, and he wanted to know all things, good and bad, dark and light, the tao of life. Your respect for him has been shallow all along, else one act, totally legal at the time, would not wipe it away.

When I was 8, 9, 10, 11, etc., my father knew well a Kung Fu instructor, Leonard Lim, then ranked 6th in the Tai Mantis style in the early 1970s and based in Oakland, Calif. He was pretty good friends with Bruce Lee who also spent some years there.

Mr. Lim knew I had gotten into running as the decades went by and how highly I had always regarded Bruce Lee's fitness level. Mr. Lim said Bruce Lee ran 4-10 miles a day along with his extensive martial arts training (4-7 hours a day!), and though Lee could run 10 miles in about 55 minutes, it was a pretty supreme effort. Not too shabby by any stretch and I'm sure Bruce Lee could have been much faster with more specific training.

Not sure I give much credence to the statement that he dabbled in steroids though. Bruce Lee was staunchly against any drugs, even cough medicine.

A couple of Bruce Lee's stats: Height tad over 5-7, weight 135-140. Lee had a punch strength of 300 lbs. (Mohammed Ali's was 280 lbs.). They had to slow his routines down in order for his movements to be seen on film when he shot certain scenes in movies, they didn't make film fast enough to capture his fight sequences at full speed.

Whatever. Bruce Lee was Buddah incarnate. Yeah.

shallow wrote:

I don't think Bruce Lee was a "junkie" for anything but information. His was the mind of a philosopher, and he wanted to know all things, good and bad, dark and light, the tao of life. Your respect for him has been shallow all along, else one act, totally legal at the time, would not wipe it away.

The Buddah was just a man, and came from the same source Bruce did.

Was Buddah a fat man?

No, Buddah was not a fat man, infact, his name was sidhartha guitima. He was very skinny.

Bruce Lee was on steroids??? is that true?