Bruce Lee's Fitness Secret for Staying Fit for Life

Bruce Lee Secret for Staying Fit

A few years back I picked up an old tattered copy of actor and martial artist Chuck Norris’s autobiography The Secret of Inner Strength.

Today it’s falling apart but it is filled with gems on mastery, raising your standards and taking your fitness to higher levels — including his direct experience and training with legendary martial artist Bruce Lee.

For example: If Lee was stuck in traffic or sitting at a red light, he’d grab a mini makiwara board (similar to a striking post) from his back seat and start hitting it.

Or if he was watching TV, he’d lie on the floor and bounce his son Brandon on his belly by tightening his core muscles… while holding weights in each hand.

According to Chuck Norris:

Bruce managed to turn everything he did, even entertaining his son, into a strengthening exercise.

Now does this mean you too should be a trampoline for your kiddos?
​Or find a way to work out when you’re at a stoplight?

Not necessarily (unless you’re a glutton for punishment) but you can find a way to use this power principle in your own life.

See there are certain people I’ve crossed paths with who haven’t slaved away in the gym… or pounded the pavement on long runs… but they’ve maintained reasonable shape with low injuries just by incorporating more physical activity into their daily life.

They’ve found ways to have conversations with friends on long walks… squeeze in short walks on lunch breaks… park a little bit further away when they go shopping… bike to work… play sports with their kids…. or make it a point to regularly do physically intensive yardwork (like chopping wood).

They’ve found ways to naturally move more in their day.

Sure regular workouts have enormous power but if you are looking to push the envelope a little further (without necessarily devoting much more time) then finding ways to get more movement may help you not only get better results but just feel all around better.

This may take some creativity and thinking for how you can apply it, and connect multiple areas of life. But when you do, you realize you can knock out two… three… sometimes four tropical birds with one stone.

And the interesting thing is the sooner you incorporate these little ‘daily rituals’ the sooner they become automatic — and go from being ‘exercise’ to just the way do things each day.

For more in-depth ways to make exercise, eating healthy and staying on track more automatic — check out a free issue of my Mind-Body Breakthrough letter.

Kelan Ern