Herschel Walker eyes NFL return (1 Viewer)

[Carolina Hustler]

HGH is a wonderful drug. I wish it were cheaper and more readily available.

I could be WAAAAAY off base here, but I dont think Walker is doping. He wakes up 5:00 every morning and does 2000 situps and 1500 pushups. He eats once a day (at dinner) where he devours a piece of bread and a salad. Sometimes he goes days without eating. His body is a machine.Of course its difficult to justify how he looks the way he does but this guy is an entirely different realm of athlete than anyone else.

You are way off base.Muscles require protein. Bread and salad don't have protein. Unless of course there is chicken in the salad. Still you'd need more than one chicken salad a day to look like that.

I'm betting that a piece of bread doesn't have enough carbs to fuel 2000 situps and 1500 pushups either..Carbs and Protein are both big parts of building a body like that and keeping it as well..

 

[Chest Rockwell]

HGH is a wonderful drug. I wish it were cheaper and more readily available.

I could be WAAAAAY off base here, but I dont think Walker is doping. He wakes up 5:00 every morning and does 2000 situps and 1500 pushups. He eats once a day (at dinner) where he devours a piece of bread and a salad. Sometimes he goes days without eating. His body is a machine.Of course its difficult to justify how he looks the way he does but this guy is an entirely different realm of athlete than anyone else.

Can you imagine what this guy would look like if he ate at Golden Corral once or twice a week? 420 lbs with 2 % bodyfat isn't of the question here folks.

 

[Bri]

I'm betting that a piece of bread doesn't have enough carbs to fuel 2000 situps and 1500 pushups either..Carbs and Protein are both big parts of building a body like that and keeping it as well..

It's not one piece of bread.I don't understand him and/or how it's possible with many things he does.He was in ESPN, Howard Stern, maybe even a guest on ESPN....he was all over a few months ago.As I remember it he doesn't eat breakfast.He eats dinner. I think his dinners are somewhat normal.I believe the breads and salads are his lunch and afternoon snacks.He doesn't believe in eating tons of protein for muscle mass like some bodybuilders. Instead he believes a healthy diet and taking care of your body will lead to more than enough muscle tone. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I'm sure there's been plenty of athletes for centuries that didn't load up on these protein drinks. The conflict seems to be when people go out on these extremes with him. He went years just eating seaweed and crabgrass. Cmon now, the guy's whole routine is extreme enough. He has said he goes days without eating (no clue if he works out during that time) and spoke of cleansing his system, fasting is good sometimes etc.He's especially well thought out with his body and routines.The situp and pushup stuff started when he was a young boy and didn't have weights. It's not like anyone here can say "I did 2000 pushups every day this week and I didn't look like that." There's been tons of stories over the years how people doubted him and he did them here or there that I gotta believe the guy can(or could) do that many.I think we just go to too far an extreme when discussing him because it's so unbelievable to start, not much seems like a leap.

 

[guderian]

Heard him on the Dan Patrick show this morning and he said he was just answering a question that was posed to him and wasn't seriously thinking about coming back. It sounded like mostly boastful hyperbole "yeah, I could still play!" than anything beyond that.

He did make a great point that he should be in the Hall of Fame.

Here's a link to his stats in college, the USFL and the NFL. While you should discount his USFL stats, he had 5,562 rushing yards in 3 seasons (18 games/season) for an average of 1,854. He added 1,484 receiving yards and had a total of 61 TDs (just over 20/season).

He had 13,804 yards from scrimmage in the NFL with 82 TDs. He had 9 NFL seasons with over 1,000 yards from scrimmage. If you give him half credit for his USFL stats that gives him 11,006 rushing yards, 6,343 receiving yards and 112 TDs. He'd rank 9th in career yards from scrimmage and 14th in TDs.

Oh and he also added 5,084 yards as a kick returner with a career average of 23.6 yards/return. Without any USFL yards he's 8th in the NFL in all-purpose yards.

What is really astounding about the trade with Dallas is that in just under 3 seasons in Minnesota he averaged just 13.1 carries/game. Why trade all of that away and use him part-time???

 

[Carolina Hustler]

I'm betting that a piece of bread doesn't have enough carbs to fuel 2000 situps and 1500 pushups either..Carbs and Protein are both big parts of building a body like that and keeping it as well..

It's not one piece of bread.I don't understand him and/or how it's possible with many things he does.He was in ESPN, Howard Stern, maybe even a guest on ESPN....he was all over a few months ago.As I remember it he doesn't eat breakfast.He eats dinner. I think his dinners are somewhat normal.I believe the breads and salads are his lunch and afternoon snacks.He doesn't believe in eating tons of protein for muscle mass like some bodybuilders. Instead he believes a healthy diet and taking care of your body will lead to more than enough muscle tone. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. I'm sure there's been plenty of athletes for centuries that didn't load up on these protein drinks. The conflict seems to be when people go out on these extremes with him. He went years just eating seaweed and crabgrass. Cmon now, the guy's whole routine is extreme enough. He has said he goes days without eating (no clue if he works out during that time) and spoke of cleansing his system, fasting is good sometimes etc.He's especially well thought out with his body and routines.The situp and pushup stuff started when he was a young boy and didn't have weights. It's not like anyone here can say "I did 2000 pushups every day this week and I didn't look like that." There's been tons of stories over the years how people doubted him and he did them here or there that I gotta believe the guy can(or could) do that many.I think we just go to too far an extreme when discussing him because it's so unbelievable to start, not much seems like a leap.

A cleansing isn't something you do often.. So the not eating for days at a time would happen like once or twice a year.. And the body is like an engine, the bigger you make it, the harder you push it, the stronger it is, the more fuel it needs.. Now I don't know what he eats right now in order to be in the shape he's in, but I know it's a heck of alot more than a piece of bread and a salad every couple days the way it was described earlier..

 

[qimqam]

wasn't there a story about this guy being legitimately schitzo?

Confirmed ... with linkhttp://www.pups4sale.com.au/shih_tzu_03a.jpg

 

[Football Jones]

The human body is capable of much more than we realize. The reason he seems like a freak is because nobody else has done this kind of thing for so long. It seems to me a combination of his genetics & extreme workout/diet for 35 or so years has made him a virtual machine (especially for his age). I seriously doubt he's on drugs.

I don't doubt one bit he's in shape enough to compete at the pro level, but his last few years in the league weren't that great. It's hard to think he could be better than he was then, but like I said, the human body is capable of crazy things.

I wouldn't bet on it either way.