The fighting style Jason uses in the Bourne flicks is derived from an old Philippine martial arts style called Escrima and Pekiti Tirsia Kali. The Escrima being the Filipino martial arts that emphasizes stick and sword fighting. The Pekiti Tirsia Kali is more of a close quarters combat style; it is actually based upon a traditional Filipino dance.
And it is one two martial arts that uses “trapping” techniques.

To get a body that good, you have to put the work in big time, there are no short cuts.

For a good balance of cardio and weight training, it is probably best to lift 2 days a week, and run / martial arts etc. on 2 or 3 other days. Focus on upper body weight training on the days before your weekly longer run.

that was my original question, but there was a tyrade of comments after mine, n e help here?

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The bench press, deadlift and squats are “the” exercises most guys use measure themselves with others, so your not gonna hear; “hey Will, look at this massive chest fly”.”Wow, Chucky your a beast”.
I guess the real reason this is bothering me so much is, kids love guys like Bourne, Durden,and Bond, and want to look like them.So they go to these sites without having much experience or knowledge about working out. They say”ooh, this worked for Damon, it will work for me”.Which, at best, leads to poor results.

Now, I’ve read other articles on this site and they are bang on the money.They totally blow the doors off stuff like these “celebrity workouts”.Maybe you guys should suggest some of your other articles to them first, or put a little note that says”do this first”.

In the end, I still believe
that the title”Matt Damon’s Jason Bourne Workout” is a misreprentation, without much factual evidence, and should be clearly represented as such.

So maybe even though he used to workout a lot, and that he co-wrote bench pressing specifically into a script, and in another film placed free weights and a bench by his bed, then maybe this is all irrelevant. But then, this is precisely what we meant by “we can only speculate”. This is the basis of the article. It is not fact, and never meant to be. It is a look at both Matt Damon and Jason Bourne (a fictional character). Art imitates life, and life imitates art.

But as you say, “Those exercises listed are great”, and yes, any gym instructor can recommend them. That is what is so great about working out. You do not need to adopt secret methods developed by ancient monks to get in shape. With a little basic knowledge on bodybuilding, reading a few interviews, watching some films, looking at his body type and muscles, then we can gain some insight into the type of exercises he does, or did, to get in shape.

By the way, we are reaching out to Matt’s agents over at Endeavor, and look forward to doing business with you!

Umm, seems like you can’t handle the truth.I thought this was a discussion. I suppose you can’t accept the fact that you’ve written an article that has no real basis in reality. I guess I’m just as big of an idiot for caring that this information is basically useless, and not factual in any way.

There are so many resources for bodybuilding workouts available on the internet, but short of interviewing Matt Damon himself, we can only guess at what he did based on a combination of bodybuilding knowledge and references made by him.

It is probably time we contacted his agent for an interview.

To use Good Will Hunting references as a basis to what Damons workout would be like, is just plain ridiculous. You might want to go back a figure out the point of that scene, because you’ve missed it. Those exercises listed are great,but anyone with some gym experience will recommend those, however they need to be added to. If you want a good work out routine go to bodybuiding.com.

Good article.

Ryan