5 Actors That Made Men Hit the Gym...Final Part

1.  Bruce Lee

5 Feet and 7 Inches of pure awesome and even I can’t be sure if we’re talking about the man or what he kept wrapped around his leg to help deliver those lorry sized sidekicks. Bruce Lee doesn’t make the top of my list just because I relegated Schwarzenegger to 5^th place. It isn’t because he’s credited as the man who gave the world the gift of martial arts movies, it isn’t because the name Bruce is synonymous with Batman and angry Scotsmen and finally it isn’t because the man embodied a philosophy of body, mind and soul that not only calls out every man for not aspiring to his potential, it one inch nut sack punches them. 

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No Bruce Lee is number 1 because he was every bit and more the warrior we saw on screen. He wasn’t some actor just putting on beef for a role or posing for adulation. He was a warrior poet who strived to share his passion with the world and used film and philosophy as his medium.

Every muscle in the man’s body was real and every one of them was a powerhouse in a fighting machine. Bruce developed lightning fast reaction times that were too quick to film and made a conscious effort to train his mind just as hard as his body.

Arnold himself said that bodybuilding for him was about sculpting the human body into a piece of art and based on his results we cannot say that that is an unworthy goal. But whilst a finely sculpted work of art such as Arnold’s biceps is a thing of beauty to behold and inspiring to all the guys trying to lift their body weight for just one more rep, what it is not is usable fighting muscle or making you any smarter or wiser.

Don’t get me wrong I’m sure most bodybuilders have a nice solid punch...but only if the target is still there when the fist reaches its destination, which compared to Lee is a horse and carriage versus the bullet train. Lets also bear in mind that Lee’s one inch punch was declared on Mythbusters to have a force greater than being hit by a car at 30mph. Think about that, the man could do more damage to you with one inch than a car could with a run up.

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Bruce wasn’t as big as Arnold or a car, hell he wasn’t as big as anyone on this list but if you had to list the order that you’d prefer to fight all these guys, Lee is not just at the bottom of this list, he’s at the bottom of the list of people who’ve ever existed and for one simple reason, he’s the only one we believe could pull off that Tom Hardy first punch knockout (which is appropriate as the UFC consider him the father of MMA) and he’s the only one with the speed to avoid everything you can throw at him. We men may want to look like dear old Ryan but who do we want to fight like?  And whose determination and tenacity towards life itself would you want to have? 

Just ask the street gangs I used to beat up for fun

No, Bruce Lee is the man to be and he not only inspired men into the gym he made them go there to do his version of the martial arts as well. What a guy!