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Herschel Walker tells us how to stay fit during coronavirus quarantine

Georgia football legend Herschel Walker tells us all how to stay healthy with this home workout routine during your coronavirus quarantine.

When you think of Herschel Walker, the words “fit,” “beast” or “ripped” may come to mind.

Herschel, now 58, is still all those things that he was 30-40 years ago during his days at Georgia, in the USFL or the NFL.

But he was not always that way. Actually, as a child, Herschel was overweight and the victim of bullying. That is until one day he decided enough is enough.

“I grew up overweight,” Herschel told Daniel Williams of NFL.com. “I used to have a speech impediment. I was picked on. And I realized that if you dedicate yourself to anything, you can do it.”

Eventually, Herschel sought out to lose that extra weight and replace it with muscle. Every day after school in Wrightsville, Herschel would head out to the train track that ran behind his house and raced the trains that passed by. When he was finished and would go home, he would turn on the television like any other kid would. But his workout was not complete. Each commercial break posed as an opportunity to get in extra push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups and squats.

To this day, Herschel still does 1,500 push-ups and 3,000 sit-ups each day.

Herschel wants you to remain fit during coronavirus lockdown:

For a lot of us, our workout routines have been thrown off greatly thanks to the coronavirus quarantine happening around the world.

All that hard work you’ve put in to get healthy and fit can be undone if exposed to weeks on end of a sedentary lifestyle.

Herschel does not want to see that happen to you. On Tuesday, the greatest college football player of all-time took to Twitter to share some easy home-workout tips with you.

He also strongly suggests that you read up on the CDC guidelines on how to stay healthy, safe and mentally stable at a time like this.

“People always talk to me about my workout, and I always say that my workout came from reading books,” Walker told Fox Business in 2018. “Particularly, reading about a Marine who did all these push-ups and sit-ups and really dedicated himself. And that’s what I try to encourage kids to do.”

The Athletic Build did a profile on Herschel and touched on his workout routine, noting that he has never been a fan of weight-lifting. What you saw dominate the football field in the early 80s was a product of years of body weight exercises.

From TheAthleticBuild:

If you think Herschel Walker is some kind of weight room warrior you would be wrong, Herschel has never been into weightlifting, all of his exercises are body weight exercises. He started doing sit-ups and push-ups as a kid, as many as 5000 a day and still to this day he does 750-1500 pushups every day as well as 3000 sit ups. He also mixes in 1,500 pull-ups, 1000 dips, and 1000 squats every day. For cardio, he will run up to 8 miles and do sprints as well. He also does a regimen of martial arts and MMA after he has completed this workout every morning.

Herschel’s diet is also a bit on the unorthodox. He does not eat breakfast or lunch. The only meal he eats is dinner which consists of soup, salad, and bread. He does not eat red meat but will have chicken on occasion.