19/11/2025
📢📝⚡ was well-known for his incredibly powerful and well-defined abdominal muscles, which he attained through regular, intense core exercises and a rigorous, clean diet that produced very little body fat. According to him, the body's "center or generator"—the core component for martial arts power.
📢⚡📝Bruce Lee's Abdominal Routine
Lee varied his routine often, but a typical workout focused on high repetitions and multiple sets. A common example of his daily ab routine included:
• Waist Twists: 4 sets of 90 repetitions (to help with punching stamina).
• Sit-up Twists: 4 sets of 20 repetitions (alternating elbow to opposite knee).
• Leg Raises: 4 sets of 20 repetitions (performed lying on his back or hanging from a bar).
• Leaning Twists: 4 sets of 50 repetitions (often holding a stick across his shoulders).
• Frog Kicks: 4 sets of 50 repetitions (performed by hanging from a pull-up bar and raising his knees).
⚡📝📢Key Exercises
Bruce Lee utilized several exercises to target different parts of his core:
• Dragon Flags: This was Lee's signature and most challenging ab move. It involves lying on a bench, gripping an edge behind the head, and lifting the entire body in a straight, rigid line until it's nearly vertical, then slowly lowering it.
• Roman Chair Sit-ups: Performed on an incline bench, allowing him to lie back past parallel for increased difficulty.
• Hanging Leg Raises: Done while hanging from a pull-up bar to work the lower abs and hip flexors.
📢📝⚡The Role of Diet and Conditioning
Bruce Lee maintained a very lean physique (around a 26-inch waist) through a combination of diet and conditioning.
• Nutrition: He believed proper nutrition was essential for revealing the abdominal muscles. His diet was high in protein and clean, largely avoiding alcohol, refined sugars, fried foods, and junk foods.
• Cardio: In addition to ab-specific work, he regularly incorporated running and cycling into his routine, which helped him keep a very low body fat percentage.