Getting fit with SwordsMaster

**SwordsMaster** · 09-25-2008, 22:12

Well, well, well.

You thought it was over. But it's not. Since I'm now in meatland, and I eat a lot, and I enjoy it, I've developed a system to keep the fat off as much as possible, while still doing some weights work to keep some strength. So, as usual, join me or perish trying.

Every morning: before breakfast:

2k on the rower below 10 min if you're a beginner, below 8 min if you've done this before, and, well, my personal best is 7:24.

The original idea was to go for 5k in around 18:30, but I have to work, so it's down to the bare essentials.

Then, 6 laps with sprints on the long sides of a football sized pitch (around 100m on the long side), jog through the short sides - this takes roughly 12 min.

Then I sprint up the stairs to my 7th floor, shower and have breakfast.

This first part will keep the fat off you, and if you don't eat 4 course lunches like me, you can probably be in pretty decent shape with.

By the way, I do this every morning except weekends. And yes, I wake up at 7.

I do weights 3 times a week, and I use the same principles I have already proposed higher up in this thread - complex lifts, 5-6 sets, 6-12 reps per set, supersets. I do 4 big lifts a day, changing them around to keep my body guessing.

Although if you think you need that flab for the winter, then, of course, don't do any of it and deep fry your hamburgers. Did you know that methane gas (farts) contribute to 20% of global warming. So be that guy.

**AlexanderSextus** · 09-27-2008, 05:55

sooooo. Mr. Swordsmaster...what do you think of the workout Bruce Lee Used to use? What is a good routine to get REALLY CUT while shedding fat and not having too much Bulky Muscle?

My dream is to be all Skin, Bones, and ultra defined leanness! what i mean is, Pure Speed and explosiveness with not much muscle weight or body fat.

Basically this is because i'm an aspiring martial artist, and because it seemed to work really well for Sijo Bruce!

"Speed is Power, Power is not Speed!"- Bruce LEE!

**SwordsMaster** · 09-29-2008, 09:12

Originally Posted by AlexanderSextus

sooooo. Mr. Swordsmaster...what do you think of the workout Bruce Lee Used to use? What is a good routine to get REALLY CUT while shedding fat and not having too much Bulky Muscle?

My dream is to be all Skin, Bones, and ultra defined leanness! what i mean is, Pure Speed and explosiveness with not much muscle weight or body fat.

Basically this is because i'm an aspiring martial artist, and because it seemed to work really well for Sijo Bruce!

"Speed is Power, Power is not Speed!"- Bruce LEE!

You know, a wise man said to me once, "The best way of getting better at doing pullups, is... by doing pullups."

What I mean is that if you want to get faster, train faster, you want to be explosive, train explosive.

That being said, asian men have a different body type to saxon whites, or blacks, or mediterraneans, and different things work for different people.

So. You can reread my posts on this thread - they are based on personal experience and universal principles of anatomy - and then take away from them what you will. You can try everything and find what works for you - I did.

If you want to be a partial artist, it's a tough path, and there are many things you will need to deprive yourself of. But with perseverance and commitment it is, of course possible.

I'm guessing you're in your teens, so my advice to you is work on your flexibility as this is the single most annoying and painful thing to train, so the sooner you get used to it, the better. Speed and power come from muscle mass, and depending on your body type it will be bulkier or not. And skin and bones is no martial artist. Look at Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris in their good days.

Instead of a conclusion I'll give you another Bruce Lee quote: "I fear not the man who has practised 1000 kicks once. I fear the man who has practised one kick, 1000 times."

**AlexanderSextus** · 10-05-2008, 13:04

i was exaggerating with the skin/bones part; the point was that bruce was pretty damn skinny and this was probably why he was so fast...apparently his power came from leverage and body mechanics and not sheer strength.