I had these VHS tapes from Panther Productions, i miss the info in them. I was a underweight person, i trained with these tapes, made me very strong, These videos are worth their weight in gold as they say. I thank the channel here for uploading this information.
This is very real. I learned about isometrics years ago. A yoga man was stronger than all of us. He never lifted weights! He was smaller, yet he was super strong. He taught me that yoga builds strength through isometric principals. He would say something like “strength in movement is developed in stillness”.
I still have a bullworker im going to start using it again for you young folks a bull worker is a dynamic tension device that came out in the 1970s and it works.
Paul is SO correct on this. I used 5o do these types of exercises in the 80's and it greatly increased my strength and my friends and people in my martial arts class, even my Sensei were surprised when they noticed I had gotten surprisingly stronger over time, because I, like Bruce had a thin frame so he was my idol and I did everything I could that he taught in his books. Also, isometrics I widely used by Olympians and it has been for many years so that should tell you something too. Great info right here
@@solomonstello you will need to take lots of steroids for that, even shawn michaels and jean claud van dam had to take steroids to get their physiques and they are considered small
Anyone who says isometrics are outdated needs to read The USMC manual "Marine Physical Readiness Training for Combat - MCRP 3-02A", the version of which I have being last updated in 2004. Specifically page 3-99. A lot of the wrestling or "combative" exercises are also isometric in nature. In addition, pushing cars with your fists, holding a push up position, and hanging from a bar are all wholly or partly isometric exercises.
this actually clears a lot of things on my opinion. For an example Masahiko kimura used to practice his special osoto-gari against a tree, and usually knocked out pro judokas with ease. Cool video + Vunak looks like mac gyver.
this is revolutionary for me. i always have done just a little weight training every day and never saw much progress. doing isometrics with it seems to be the way.
2) that response was, that individual covering and checking for damages. Buying me time to follow up with something that would cause the stopping damage I was HOPING for.. We can battle over which techniques are the best, then we can talk about whether Bruce Lee could have beat Ali, but when it come down to it, superior techniques do not win fights, superior people do.. ~ Guro Billy Brown
1)Bouncing in New Orleans for 7 years as well as working other high risk security details,I have had the very unfortunate opportunity on more than 1 occasion to be confronted by individuals under the influence of both alcohol and drugs,including PCP!The few times that I have attacked the eyes, the result was the same,drugs or no.Did it ever stop anyone, NO, It's not designed to. It is merely a gap bridging tactic. Whether it causes immense pain or not,every time I got the same visceral response.
@login76 To a point your right. Lifting and throwing excersises are the real deal for the most part. But strong tendons help with the lifting and throwing movments. I lift weights and throw tires for my strength. But I do isometrics for my tendons and joints wich in turn helps my lifting and brute strength workouts.
@xylnathien about five reps, in 3 to 8 elbows positions, 5 to 9 sholder positions and 5 wrist positions, do as much variations as possible an never do isomethrics for 3 days in a roll, it could be day in day out or two days in and one day rest, but never 3 days in a roll, by the way only begin counting when you are pushing it hard enought to lock your muscles ^^
He was also instrumental in training law enforcement even at the SWAT levels and our nations special forces. Hes definitely not all talk and show if that's what you were implying.
@@imakebigsmiles He probably baffled them with bullshit and talking like he does in the video. Back then they bought that kind of nonsense. Today Police train with more talented and knowledgeable people.
Krav Maga is an israeli military self defense style meant for the street and in war which is great. Boxing / Muay Thai / Kyokushin / Jujitsu ARE practical as it trains and season you to be hit and keep on fighting back in a compose yet reactive nature. Jeet Kune Do is a great style as its flexible and much like Krav Maga but not exacty , as Krav Maga trains you to combat multiple scenarios in the least time possible whilst JKD needs some time to master the basics.
Well, you pretty much answered your own question, if you have access to cqc, K.maga or JKD instruction then go for it, because karate and TKD are more of a long range style, muay thai has the klinch and all but for the street you need alittle more than that, but don't let go of the classics like boxing because you learn what is like to get hit and still fight and in my opinion THAT is the main thing: don´t panic.
Good explanation. I do a lot of different gym stuff. For multiple things judo boxing muay Thai bjj wrestling. Dead lift different squats version's body weight pull ups sit ups push ups chin ups and other exercises assault bike mountain hiking
Yup. gene lebell said he was incredibly strong for a little guy too. Bruce f*king side kicked a 300lb heavy bag and made it move considerably. Eye jabs n leg kicks it's over.
@kelly980 i disagree because they tested his one inch punch and it had 1000psi wich is the same amount of pressure as a heavyweight boxers right straight wich could give u a concussion
This is really good information here and no, it's not outdated. Look up isometric strength training. Everything he said here is accurate from all the research I have read. Basically isometrics recruit more muscle fibers whereas your normal type of resistance weight lifting targets less percentage of your muscles used. And isometrics only target a specific joint position like he said. (sometimes a bit more) of course, combining isometrics with resistance training is the best.
@kelly980 well like the vid says to there are different types of strength also bruce hitting with the same amount of power as a heavyweight boxer when hes the size of wat a light weight? thats alot of strenght if u ask me jus saying he has jus as much strenght especially for his size he could push limits well beyond his ability wich is strenght i would say i say he would stand a pretty good chance against olympic lifters and such
@iceblue4u i think he used certain concepts of lifting... but found a way to maintain the strenght and speed without actually looking buff etc. But im not sure about what paul is saying here about isometric strenght training... i think a combination of isometric and lifting.. would be better cause if you lift just for the strenght and not so much like power lifting or body building... u should be oke... and with isometric training.. u will get that strenght that paul is talking about
@kelly980 ya but look at bruce lee he wasnt big at all but he could take i think it was a 60 lb dumbell and hold it straight out for like 20 mins or somehting liek that even half the bodybuilders cant do that so u have to take that into consideration to
Dan Inosanto is one of the big gest frau dst ers in martial arts. His "as many arts as possible" (his words). Was designed to keep students coming in paying him money. Sc ammer.
Correct. Lee's isometric routine described in "Tao of Jeet Kune Do" comes straight from "Functional Isometric Contraction" published by Hoffman/York in 1961.
never said he did im saying look at the stats from bruce lees psi in his punch and look at a heavyweight boxers psi in a punch also bruce has speed wich is a great advantage against a heavyweight
Blowhards/Know-It-Alls tend to do that. Like Arthur Jones, Rippetoe is responsible for a virtual revolution in training, and is, for the most part, correct in what he says. However, like Jones, he's apparently come to think he's all-knowing & infallible, and, like Jones before him, he's wrong. (Ironically, Rippetoe often criticizes & insults Jones, apparently not realizing that, in some respects, he's a virtual carbon copy.)
I don't know if that's the best way to train tendons... but I know working on a farm for years does... I think tendon strength takes years to develop. But in reply to you there ARE different types of strengths... Muscle fibers are fast twitch or slow twitch... and fast twitch are broken down into 2 other categories. So he is at least right about that...
No, he was saying: In non-Isometric lifting, when doing 10 reps, the last 1 or 2 is where your body gets the most benefit. To do an isometric is to do one “rep” holding for 10 seconds. A great example of this is the plank.
Not difficult at all to hit the eyes! Eye shots in a fight come quick and often. How many times do you see a street fight where both guys come out with black eyes and cuts? Now,it might not always come out so clean, but nothing ever does in real fire. It could be a thumb,hell it could be a pinkie that hits the eyeball,the target that is being hit..When you hit nerves like that,you get the same response each time. Might not stop him, but it will give you a easy in to land stopping shots.
Yes, the 80s -- when men actually wore MEN'S shorts, instead of something they stole from their great-grandmother's underwear drawer (while insulting those in the past who dressed better).
in theory, isometric strenght ideal proportion is 50% of your entire body strengh, but the development of this condition require not just a trainer but a fisitian once that it is almost a medical condition, that is the diference between army push ups and gym push upps ^-^
Uhhh Vunak has trained at least 20 or more Military/Government agencies-Most notably Seal team six. Sure he makes videos, but so do a lot of the BJJ guys out there. Michael Jordan made videos and made lots of money-does that make him any less of a Basketball player? UFC has a nice caged ring, with gloves and a ref. Not so with the Seals or any of the government agencies that Vunak has trained. UFC is still very good though. Dont get me wrong, UFC is great, but it is still a sport
Those of you who wear the women's capri pants / granny bloomers popular for the last few years need to take a dull, rusty straight razor & do literally what you've already done figuratively.
@troy11691 Like i said, before in my last post, he probably could do weird things which no-one else tried (e.g. the one inch punch) and was good at them. But if he was measured doing the same thing as everyone else, he wouldn't have been super-strong by comparison. E.g. If he'd been measured doing a boxer's straight right, I'm sure it would have had only the same amount of power as other boxers' straight rights.
I don't know if there is such a thing as tendon strength BUT you will agree that there are different "types" of strength ...Isometrics develops one "type"..and that type just might be very useful for combat. I am with Vunak. There is a very good reason that power lifters in my experience usually DON'T hit as hard as you would think and many not hard AT ALL.
Swole Jitsu no he wasn’t. He fought once in his life. Gtfo here Unless you were with him 24 hours a day from 1940 to 1973, that's not something you're capable of knowing. For all you (or I) know, he could have dozens of fights -- or hundreds. Or, he could have only a few. Whatever the number, it's not something you can possibly know. Your remark is a load of gas -- YOU "gtfo here."
@truthfilter Untrue. GSP does Romanian power lifting and dominates every MMA athlete he faces. Not to mention , nearly 100% of all boxers, wrestlers, and MMA fighters do weight lifting routines. Nothing wrong with isometrics, but that is one very small part of strength training.
@guitarfetish342 OK look at the Olympic lifters. The bigger guys with bigger muscles lift more. I.e, they are stronger. That's why they have weight divisions.
Isometrics have been used by Olympic lifters for decades to increase strength & power. (The fact that one type of training works doesn't mean that another type of training doesn't.)
"EVERY prominent athlete in the modern world trains dynamically." Wow, how could any of these other guys in this thread disagree with you knowing that you know the training programs of every modern athlete in the world(except for the entire US military, and maybe a few MMA fighters)?
I doubt Mohammed Ali would cope against the likes of kicks and headbutts, its not the style of fighting he was trained to deal with. Also remember F=ma Bruce Was very fast, the velocity of his hits meant the deceleration on a body was HUGE, the force could be bigger than Ali's when he hit because of this. Don't count size to be everything because in a fight with no rules its not the prime factor, technique is.
@thomaskrypton uhm... bruce lee was a master in many styles an faster than shutter speed in his day. His kick had enough force to break any mans back in about .7 seconds. Which is still faster than either "boxer" boxing is good for street fighting. But in mma, they get ripped... your point is invalid.
@ThomasKrypton isometric strength is useless for lifting, throwing, etc,... its is only useful in striking... leverage (or 'real') strength can be used for lifting and other brute strength moves.
isometrics for punching is not the best method. For puching the key is timing acceleration/speed for that you need to have different fibers that you develop with isometrics. And strenght is at the bottom and almost unnecesary to train if you know to have balance which precede all of the latter qualities i mentioned and also if you know how to align your body behind the punch. But again timing/presicion makes the difference in striking.
