Tom Bleecker Discusses Bruce Lee's Alleged Use of Anabolic Steroids

Hey Bruce was only human. He was an exceptional human being but at the end of the day he was just like the rest of us. RIP Master Lee 🙏

I’ve very much enjoyed your videos, Mr. Bleecker. I’m looking forward to the next one! Thanks much for sharing your insight and stories, both your personal stories and the stories about Bruce Lee. It’s been the most enjoyable thing I’ve ever watched on YouTube in a long time. I also very much enjoyed reading “Unsettled Matters”, and I look forward to reading your other work as well. I wish you the best in your new writing project.

I never looked at Bruce like a saint but like a man who lives life to its fullest,his boundless energy, the greatest martial artist and fighter and loves to express himself and to laugh along the way. So I’m never disappointed but always my energy level goes up when I hear another story about that man.

I remember buying your book as soon as it came out. I'm pretty sure I talked with you over email or perhaps one of the martial arts forums at the time. It is good to see that you have become more insightful about Bruce and your own life experiences. I think these videos provide much more context, and they are great to listen to.

I just bought your book, the information you provide is transparent and objective. I am enjoying your videos because I am a fan of Bruce Lee and really appreciate learning what happened in his life.

Thank you for sharing, some of your stories are really personal and private matters in this video but highly beneficial for others to see, most people lie about steroid use creating all sorts of misconception about it. So many people I grew up around took steroids but I didn't know, I always felt so inferior to them. BUT your stories has Brought me a lot of clarity on the matter, thanks once again.

I think Bruce was taking corticosteroids for his back injury, NOT anabolic steroids. They are not the same. One is anti-inflammatory, the other is anabolic. Bruce never had the muscle mass/bulk, water retention/puffiness, bubble gut, gynecomastia, hair loss, nor other symptoms associated with anabolic steroid use. Some may point to his "violent temper" as he called it, but he had that from childhood and I'm pretty sure he was not taking anabolic steroids as a 15 year old in Hong Kong.

Hello Bob, I’m new to your Channel/videos. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for connecting making closer to Bruce Lee. He is still my action Hero. Thank you once again for being informative. Wishing you a magical day🙏🏻❤️

I knew this years ago from one of your books, I surprised me at first but I didn't stop being a fan of his, because of you and more information out on his Drug use, I have a more realistic understanding to Bruce Lee than the average fanatic. If anything I like him more, hes more relatable, he was still a incredible man.

Great talk Keep it going Tom

Tom, I watched the Big Boss the other day and saw how young and vibrant Bruce looked. Then I watched Enter the Dragon and it was like two different Bruces. He looked gaunt, pale, like he had aged 10 years. His face looked bloated and he looked so tired .

I stand corrected. An individual recently commented that my mention of Bruce using creatine in the late 1960s is incorrect because creatine wasn't available to the public until much later. I deleted the post not because the person disagreed with me but because of his lack of civility. Of the 13K views over the past ten months, only one other person commented on this statement. In any case, I researched creatine, and it is true that it was not an ingredient that Bruce put in his blender. Although I recall using creatine myself, along with many of the other supplements that Bruce used, I could not have been using creatine in the mid1960s. So, my inclusion of it in this video was merely an oversight that really is not all that relevant to the majority I what I talked about.

He got messed up when he did that stupid good morning exercise that ruined his whole life. The guy did not have the proper training advice and coaching in fitness like they have today with personal trainers and the Internet. So when he hurt his back and was under such stresses from the pain he was probably really stressed out and the guy turned to using all kinds of weird and illegal drugs. I can relate because I was for a brief period of in a bit of pain from a pinched nerve in my back and I myself turned to alcohol and drugs because of the depression that I had. But one day I heard about chiropractors something I never knew of before and they saved my life. Thank god that my injury wasn’t as bad as Bruce’s and I bounced back quite rapidly from the three years of constant pain that was making me depressed and ruining my life. Believe it or not I had suicidal thoughts but by some miracle I pulled through this phase in my life. I can relate with everything Tom Bleeker is saying in this video because I was going through the same things. I have a lot more to say but I don’t want to bore people to death here on YouTube. If you ask me I liked the Kato side of Bruce not the guy after the injury.

7:26 Yeah, the plural here might just be used in him referring to 'steroids' in regards to him having "gained", not necessarily multiple drugs other than steroids in that particular instance. The reason I heard for Bruce wanting to stop using (anabolic) steroids was because he thought it was making him too big, like a typical body builder, and this was supposedly interfering with his martial arts through him carrying too much bulk for the speed he wanted. Not positive, and this could be factually incorrect, but I believe this information may have originated from his brother Robert. At least that's what I think I can recall reading from somewhere.

Please continue to share your videos about Bruce Lee. Your experience and knowledge are greatly appreciated. Thank you so much Tom.

Thanks for sharing.

Hey Tom, very interesting video. I wanted to ask do you know of his fighting ability and sparring with karate world champions? We all know he was an exceptional martial artist.

Your stuff is incredible! I read your book when it came out Unsettled Matters and thought it was written from a critical analytical non prejudicial point of view.no siugarcoating bs. Just like Bruce ! Continue to RUMBLE YOUNG MAN RUMBLE!

Interesting that you mention him having trouble getting muscle in his legs. It’s something I’ve noticed about a lot of Muay Thai MMA fighters. Jon Jones is notorious for having “chicken legs”. There are pics of Bruce looking bigger which people point to during his lifting phase. Was that during the period he was doing “the stuff”?

very interesting and educative