Hershel Walker is a football player particularly famous both for his success on the field and for his extremely unusual workout routine that includes no traditional free weights and a strict regimen of push-ups, sit-ups, and martial arts. At forty, when the bodies of most former NFL running backs are completely shot, Walker has taken up the highly intense, physical and dangerous sport of MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) against opponents half his age. .

Herschel was an extremely successful running back for both the University of Georgia Bulldogs and later the Dallas Cowboys in the NFL. While playing college football, Hershel set numerous NCAA football records and won the iconic Heisman Trophy, awarded annually to the nation’s best college football player. Amazingly, Walker accomplished all of these collegiate feats while actively practicing martial arts, even during football season. Playing Division I soccer or participating in highly competitive martial arts competitions is a full workload for most athletes, yet Walker was able to regularly compete in both sports at an extremely high level, often on back-to-back days. . In his youth, it was common for Hershel Walker to play an intense football game on a Saturday against a tough SEC opponent like the University of Florida, where he could catch 30+ carries and then get up Sunday morning and train all day. in a martial fight. art competition at a time when most runners would be unable to move from pain and confined to ice baths to heal their bruises.

While most world-class athletes stick to regular strength programs that emphasize lifts like the bench press and squats, Herschel had his own unique training regimen that has been extremely successful for him. In many ways, Walker’s workout routine is almost as unique as his lifetime of athletic success. In addition to martial arts and cardiovascular conditioning, Walker builds muscle mass by literally doing thousands of push-ups and thousands of sit-ups every day, a feat that seems almost impossible for even the most high-performance athlete. The uniqueness of the conditioning that Walker puts his body through doesn’t end with his involvement in martial arts and the incredible amount of push-ups and sit-ups he does every day. Doctors remain stunned that Walker claims to have slept only four hours a night on nearly every night for the past 20 years. Of more curiosity is the fact that Walker claims that he only eats one meal a day, which usually consists of something light like bread and soup or a salad in the evening.

Having competed in his first professional MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) competition in 2010 (defeating Greg Nagy by TKO) at the age of 47, Hershel Walker truly has been and continues to be an athletic freak of nature in the truest sense. complementary possible.