Herschel Walker on Howard Stern - "I Sleep Four Hours a Day and Only Eat One Meal a Day"
by Nick Thomas on Jan 13, 2010 12:17 PM EST
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Howard asked Herschel what it means when he says he only sleeps 3 or 4 hours a night. Herschel said he sleeps 4 hours at the most and he only eats one meal a day. He said he doesn't eat meat anymore even though he owns a meat company. He eats salads and soup and bread. He said he does that late at night when he's going to bed. He said he's been doing that for over 20 something years. Howard asked how many calories he takes in. Herschel said he doesn't worry about that so he doesn't know.
Howard said he read that Herschel once played Russian Roulette. Herschel said he wrote a book and talked about that in there. He also talked about his multiple personality disorder. Howard explained what Russian Roulette was and Herschel said he did that over six times. He said he was alone when he did it. He said he thought of it as a competition.Full transcript at marksfriggin.com.
Herschel said that his marriage ended because of that stuff. ... Herschel said he forgets some things like getting the Heissman trophy.
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Bullshit.
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by Patrick Tenney on Jan 13, 2010 12:13 PM EST reply actions 7 recs
Walker also said outlandish things about his diet and the amount of pushups and situps he did per day when at Georgia and in the NFL, and teammates later revealed he was full of it, and that he ate fast food often and just had incredible genetics.
It’s quite possible that he’s more of a compulsive liar than he is legitimately crazy. But still..
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
by Blackout612 on Jan 13, 2010 12:19 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
yeah, this is hard to believe. I wouldn’t be able to get energy from 4 hours of sleep and one meal a day (with no meat!), for a guy who is a HW athlete to do it? Not buying it.
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From what I understand your body adjusts and you pretty much enter into the REM cycle right when you hit the pillow if it gets used to sleeping that little every night. Its the normal sleep cycle and the once in a while four hour of sleep night that really makes you tired.
The food thing with as much muscle as he’s carrying and the amount he burns off working out seems extremely improbable.
Giving Shogun his props. I had the fight 48-47 Machida but Shogun put up a monumental performance and I am honored to have seen it in person.
agreed on the number of meals issue
but are you sure about the sleeping issue? I remember seeing something on TV from doctors stating that 6 to 7 hours is the norm depending on your age, anything less can cause headaches among other things (from what I remember anyhow, I’m no doctor).
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From the few vets I know who saw combat, especially in Vietnam, it is certainly plausible.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito Ortiz on Vitor Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Jan 13, 2010 2:02 PM EST up reply actions
sure
but that’s different. I say this with no disrespect, but army personnel is not toned like an athlete, and I am sure they weren’t doing that for 20 years. This guy claims to be though.
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Agreeing with you on the body type...
What is ideal for an athlete, body wise, and a soldier are surprisingly different things. Having a bit of fat on you is actually a very good thing for soldiers expected to endure harsh conditions and intense (but not as intense as an MMA fight) activity over a prolonged period of time (days and weeks).
Sculpted bodies burn out too quick for what a combat soldier is supposed to be prepared for.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/information-list-of-polyphasic-sleep.html
I’m definitely no expert on the subject but I believe this is a good starting point.
Giving Shogun his props. I had the fight 48-47 Machida but Shogun put up a monumental performance and I am honored to have seen it in person.
thanks for the link
but this method appears to have a few nap periods during the day, if this is Herchel’s method I guess it could work.
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Yea I’m pretty sure thats the sleep schedule I have heard about where your body immediately jumps into REM sleep. Heres another one that was interesting:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/10/polyphasic-sleep/
Giving Shogun his props. I had the fight 48-47 Machida but Shogun put up a monumental performance and I am honored to have seen it in person.
What?!
If this is true medical science needs to start running some tests on this guy. I might make the switch to the Herschel lifestyle
I can totally relate. I love just sitting around with a Russian Roulette, by myself, for competition. It just sort of makes sense. But of course you can’t fact check that, because, you know, I was by myself.
Come to think of it, maybe I should include this in my book?
A book?
There are a lot of people that eat salads and play Russian Roulette at 4AM. You’re gonna need something more unique than that to score a book deal..
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
by Blackout612 on Jan 13, 2010 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
I derailed a train with my penis and ate it, piece by piece
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
BOTH
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
Well, that’s what his MAIN personality does. The other ones get another 2 or 3 hours of sleep and eat like pigs. But Herschel, he only eats once and sleeps 4 hours.
by McEwen on Jan 13, 2010 12:32 PM EST reply actions 14 recs
Haha
Well played.
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
by Blackout612 on Jan 13, 2010 12:58 PM EST up reply actions
Unfortunately its not really a joke. People with Dissociative Identity Disorder often have absolutely no clue about the other activities of their alter personalities. Every case is different so I don’t know to what level he experiences this and it can be worked on it time so that the person becomes “integrated.”
wow 6 times?
It’s either that he’s really lucky for beating the odds by going 0/6 or the gun didn’t have a bullet inside. haha.
I think its 6 different times and 6 different shuffles, but still, while very plausible I think the odds of that are very slim.
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mathematically
wouldn’t you have 83% with every shuffle? how did you get 33%?
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Your chance of surviving an individual shuffle is .83. You chance of surviving two shuffles is .83 * .83 or (.83)^2. The chance of surviving 6 is (.83)^6 or 33.4%.
I was about to type in the longer binomial probability forumla.
Phildo made me want to brush up on my statistics. hahaha.
by Anton Tabuena on Jan 13, 2010 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
Hope he fights during Mosley-Berto
This is a stacked card. My only complaint is that it interferes with Mosley-Berto, which could produce fireworks. I hope his fight runs with a long break before and after during the boxing, so that I can ignore the freakshow in preference of the better fight.
Its not out of the realm of probability
I had a grandfather that did the same thing. AND he had unlimited energy as well. It is something your body gets used to. He also didn’t say the SIZE of the 1 meal he is eating.
I guess it could work if he ate a lot during the evening, I mean, your metabolism works during the day, so he’d be able to keep most of that energy and burn it the next day while exorcism. Still sounds like a health risk though, but I don’t know much about this.
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He did, however, say that he eats a bunch of soup and salad
And that he doesn’t eat meat. I figure he’d make it a point to describe his protein intake, if somehow that meal is giving him unlimited energy.
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unlimited energy
from salads and soup and bread? is he eating the whole field everyday?
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Well...
I was reading in Time magazine about how General Stanley McChrystal does the same thing, about four hours of sleep and one big meal a day…. but he’s a damn geneal in the U.S. Army not, some forty year old former pro.
lol at bobby Lashley
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by xAtlasx on Jan 13, 2010 1:03 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I’m not sure more damage to the behavior inhibiting frontal lobe is what this guy needs.
by Jahbulon on Jan 13, 2010 1:30 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Hmm. What I want to know is whether he’s a fifth or sixth degree Tae Kwon Doe black belt. I could swear I hear him change it every interview
I’ve been wondering this myself. Also has he ever said who he trained with to get his black belt?
Just BE.
It's TKD
At the risk of sounding like an asshole, who cares?
Blackout612- "Wuts teh UFC?"
Ubernoober- "It like two guy who just stand and swing for fence and try to knock each other shit out it awesome"
Bas Rutten: He has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Stephen Quadros: Yes, well many of the fighters have a black belt.
Bas Rutten: Yes, but in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu you cant buy your belt like in say, Tae Kwon Do.
Stephen Quadros: Do you have any belts?
Bas Rutten: I have a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Heschie (his Hebrew name)
claims to never have lifted a weight in his life…sit ups and push ups
Kind of like my weight lifting routine
Sorry to be all rational and un-haterish
but he says he eats one MEAL a day. That doesn’t preclude having fruits/veggies, shakes, smoothies, protein bars, snacks, and/or milk and juice during the day to keep his energy and nutritional intake up. I get about 2500 calories on non-workout days with two real meals and a ton of snacks through the day.
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He claims that in his one meal he had a ceasar salad and a matzo ball soup. That’s a LOT of snacking. Probably 80% of his total caloric intake would be from snacks. His chicken company went from 4 million to 200 million under the direction of a guy with multiple personality disorder. So either he’s a fantastically successful business man and a professional athlete whose digestive tract probably violates the laws of physics, or he’s just a pathological liar.
Occam’s razor suggests the correct answer.
"an excellent example of why most MMA "journalism" is a joke. Pseudonyms like "toxic" and shitty writing like that dopey article"--- Joe Rogan.
I don't think that's shocking though.
Small meals and snacks is a healthier diet than 3 square a day. He may be exaggerating things a bit, but some of the reactions on here sound like he has been spreading rumors that he sodomized your sister. And she loved it.
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A bit?
He’s claiming to do a tremendous amount of exercise (and he’s not a small man) on 500 calories a day or so. The snacks (which he never mentioned) would have to be enough to make most people obese. It’s certainly not something you would leave out of a discussion of your diet.
He’s one of those guys, everyone has met them—- who has a story for every occasion about how cool they are. They don’t really worry about whether their stories are true or not.
"an excellent example of why most MMA "journalism" is a joke. Pseudonyms like "toxic" and shitty writing like that dopey article"--- Joe Rogan.
Herschel Walker has a chicken company?
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I approve of everything Herschel does.
We're just a million little gods causin' rain storms, turning every good thing to rust.
And they say that MMA fighters must have a death wish to get in the cage...
…oh.
Did anybody notice that that dude is crazy?
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seriously what..
..the hell have i just read.
I’m not sure what to say.
HOW THE F CAN THIS MAN BE SANCTIONED TO FIGHT
and how the F can strikeforce sign him?
a plague on both their houses.
'He built his whole reputation as a waffle house chef. They’ve been serving him up ham and eggs with a side of canned tomatoes' - Don Frye on Fedor Emelianenko
by Well Read Idiot on Jan 14, 2010 12:07 PM EST reply actions
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