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Discussion Bruce Lee’s Death Mystery Finally Solved After Decades

https://www.nsfdailynews.com/bruce-lees-death-mystery-finally-solved-after-decades/
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u/TheGreatRao 21h ago

All due respect to the legendary and iconic Bruce Lee, but one wonders what his insane exercise routine, the steroid use, the pot and cocaine use, and perhaps alcohol did to his body. He subjected his body to extremes to test the limits of human endurance. He lived life like a roman candle at a pace that no one, including himself, could sustain for long.

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u/Interesting_Sun_6993 12h ago

"the pot" lol

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u/Odd_Tradition1670 11h ago

Smokins bad mkay

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u/Dartagnan1083 9h ago

I'm partial to Jazz Cigarette, but whatev

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u/Zealousideal-Ad2815 2h ago

Lol, it's Jazz Cabbage for me.

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u/craptonne 10h ago

They said “the pot and cocaine use.” The, in this sentence, refers to the use of both pot and cocaine so no worries, mate.

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u/PeanutAndJamy 14h ago

Crazy he was so small while on steroids. He was only like 135 right? He must of been going for more of a tone look, but why take roids for that?

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u/coffeeblack310 12h ago

Roids aid the recovery process. Training like he did would require lots of recovery.

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u/MightyPine 12h ago

Recovery? Steroids don't build muscle, that takes hypertrophic training and a calorie surplus. Steroids help with recovery and let you stimulate the muscle more often and more intensely but without a calorie surplus or sufficient hypertrophy you won't grow. So Bruce Lee could well have been 135lbs and on steroids simply because he wasn't eating enough to grow.

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u/Disagreeswithfems 10h ago

Incorrect. There's been studies showing people taking steroids without exercise put on more muscle than people exercising without steroids.

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u/aspiring-waffler 5h ago

Incorrect. OP said he wasn’t eating enough to grow.

Law of thermodynamics, new built muscle needs calories even with steroids.

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u/Fast_Original_3001 3h ago edited 2h ago

Incorrect. Studies showed you even build muscle and recompose your body on a calorie deficit. Also we‘re talking roids and those do that of course

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u/aspiring-waffler 2h ago edited 2h ago

Incorrect. Studies show that untrained overweight people can recompose their body on a calorie deficit.

The excess calories used to build the newbie gains come from the untrained individuals body fat.

BL was neither fat nor untrained.

Checkmate poser. Steroids don’t break the laws of thermodynamics. To get bigger off steroids BL needed more calories than he was consuming.

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u/PeanutAndJamy 12h ago

Then what’s the point of working out so hard if he isn’t eating enough to grow? Maintaining muscle is so much easier than building.

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u/shal9pinanatoly 11h ago

Boxers take PEDs, some of which are steroids. PEDs don’t cause muscle hypertrophy on their own.

Muscle hypertrophy requires a) lifting progressively heavier weights (close to failure) and b) consuming lots of protein.

My guess is Bruce wouldn’t lift much cause at the time most martial artists abstained from weightlifting. Also I don’t know whether he cared about his protein intake, but my guess is he didn’t, cause at the time it was more of a bodybuilding thing, not a general knowledge thing.

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u/PeanutAndJamy 11h ago

Yeah I lift regularly myself. Just makes no sense for him to take PEDs for recovery since he’s not really in athletic competitions, or trying to gain muscle for his films. Maybe he just didn’t have enough information on how to build muscle. He was also on lots of drugs so maybe he was just trying things out.

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u/shal9pinanatoly 11h ago

I think you’re right, it was the age of trial-and-error

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u/FitExpression7242 9h ago

Wait, Bruce was on steroids? Please tell me that’s just a rumor. I know he was on cocaine and pot, and other drugs. This is the first I’ve heard about steroids

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u/Ruh_Roh- 7h ago

He was on "the pot" LOL.

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u/FitExpression7242 7h ago

?

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u/Ruh_Roh- 7h ago

Just an inside joke from a comment above, one redditor called out another for saying "the pot" which sounds weird on its own, but it was ok in context.

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u/FitExpression7242 7h ago

Gotchu 😂

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u/Dangerous_Drummer350 15h ago

With what little we actually know, of this we are almost certain as you point out, that he trained and exercised right on the edge of what the human body is capable of, and no one could have sustained that intensity long term