Herschel Walker: One Meal a Day, 750 to 1,500 push-ups/ 2,000 sit-ups.

I'm gonna try this one mel shit out....but I need to point out that Herschel isn't a 9 to 5 worker! thats a big factor, homey is probably living a way more active and healthy lifestyle during the day than most office warriors.

anyway I kind of believe the one vegetarian meal shit because basically the more I eat the less athletic I feel, and the more I exercise the less I want to eat.
 
I'm gonna try this one mel shit out....but I need to point out that Herschel isn't a 9 to 5 worker! thats a big factor, homey is probably living a way more active and healthy lifestyle during the day than most office warriors.

anyway I kind of believe the one vegetarian meal shit because basically the more I eat the less athletic I feel, and the more I exercise the less I want to eat.

That's def a good point

And thanks Maxxam for the add'l info!
 
He was big on juicing, fasting and eating less in general. I'm interested in seeing how many people who eat 5-6 meals a day will live long while still being mobile. The worlds oldest man is 114 and he only eats twice a day.

my gramps is 99 and he eats all fucking day long. :smh:

i cooked for him a couple years back and this ninja took 2 hours to eat and then wanted ANOTHER plate. :hmm:

ate it too then the itis hit him and he was out.
 
Another example of someone who maintains a 200+lb weight without eating all damn day.
Kenyan Bodybuilding Champion Fred Sanya... one meal a day. The human body can do amazing things.

Whens the last time you saw a Kenyan this big :lol:

http://www.naturallyintense.net/blog/bodybuilding/bodybuilding-on-one-meal-a-day-fred-sanya/

fred-sanya-in-kenya1.jpg


fred-sanya-bodybuilder-most-muscular.jpg


FYI... I only know about these dudes because researched the subject before I started to eat once a day. I was skeptical too...
 
I'm gonna try this one mel shit out....but I need to point out that Herschel isn't a 9 to 5 worker! thats a big factor, homey is probably living a way more active and healthy lifestyle during the day than most office warriors.

anyway I kind of believe the one vegetarian meal shit because basically the more I eat the less athletic I feel, and the more I exercise the less I want to eat.

Definitely :yes:
 
This one meal a day thing is making sense. I might try 2 meals a day: 11am and 7pm if possible.
 
Threads, articles, and books that touch on these subjects, really have me re-evaluating my "traditional" training methods and diet.

Over the years, I think I've short changed the potential of the human body...sometimes going against what I felt was natural and what my body was telling me. Eating for eating sakes... training for training sakes.

I've got to sit down and really revamp they way I go about my business.
 
This one meal a day thing is making sense. I might try 2 meals a day: 11am and 7pm if possible.

I gonna see if I can push for 8am and 4/5pm...and maybe @ lunch have some fruit and shit to tide me over or maybe an Ensure :dunno:
 
My room mate in Atlanta was skinny as a stick but strong as a mothafucka
and had hands like lightning.

thats what gave the green light to let meat go dude is hardcore vegan

I got down to 205 this summer im back to prolly 215 from not doing shit
no bag work and eating Haagen Dasz:smh:

Im about to kick shit off for springtime though.

I had a trainer who fucked me up with weights

I lost speed and power fucking with dude and that jACK3D SHIT.

I will stick to my regular ass jailbird workout bag work and bicycle.

Fuck weights!!!
 
Here's the thread at bodybuilding.com on intermittent fasting I mentioned earlier. It was started by Martin Berkhan of leangains in 2007 and almost 4 years and 325 pages later it is still active. Why? Because it works. You can see some regular men/women who use IF, some of which do it in a one meal per day style. Some before and after pics are in the thread... you may have to register to see members' profiles.

Anyway:
Intermittent Fasting for Strength Training and Fat Loss
http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=3587831

Tons of great info/resources in there :yes::yes:
 
I gonna see if I can push for 8am and 4/5pm...and maybe @ lunch have some fruit and shit to tide me over or maybe an Ensure :dunno:


That is what I was thinking I was going to start with.

Some guys can go do that one meal thing cold turkey but I am going to try the fasting approach in small phases until it becomes easier for me
 
That is what I was thinking I was going to start with.

Some guys can go do that one meal thing cold turkey but I am going to try the fasting approach in small phases until it becomes easier for me

If I don't eat breakfast I get lightheaded and the rest of my day goes to shit from there...a hungry man is an angry man...but I heard somewhere can't remember if it was on tv or reading it on this board but they said eat breakfast like a king lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper and it got me to thinking...once I have breakfast I usually good...lunch just fills me up...and dinner for me is just out of being a lil greedy + accustomed to it
 
If I don't eat breakfast I get lightheaded and the rest of my day goes to shit from there...a hungry man is an angry man...but I heard somewhere can't remember if it was on tv or reading it on this board but they said eat breakfast like a king lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper and it got me to thinking...once I have breakfast I usually good...lunch just fills me up...and dinner for me is just out of being a lil greedy + accustomed to it

:yes:

breakfast should be the biggest, or at least the heartiest meal of the day. I'm with you, a good breakfast usually does me good for the remainder of the day. Very small meals and snacks are what I consume for the remainder of the day.
 
I heard he's fighting on Striforce tonight. He's in great shape, but it's too bad he doesn't have the stamina to fight 3 rounds full blast :smh:. The last time he fought mid-way into round 2 and :itsawrap:
 
The thing that a lot of people are missing is that if you listen to the interview, he said that he will have juices. He said he only eats once a day, but has juices in between.
 
I still find it hard to believe you can look like that off calenthestics alone...but ima make this my lil experiment for the next few months..minus that diet shit..

More cardio, and not just running yourself to death on the treadmill, just moving around, sort of like that p90x but less intense, consistency is the key...I am going to start doing more and see what results it presents as well and more veggies trying to ween myself off of meat...

checking this out...this is why i love bgol....already some gems being dropped

:yes::yes::yes:


If I don't eat breakfast I get lightheaded and the rest of my day goes to shit from there...a hungry man is an angry man...but I heard somewhere can't remember if it was on tv or reading it on this board but they said eat breakfast like a king lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper and it got me to thinking...once I have breakfast I usually good...lunch just fills me up...and dinner for me is just out of being a lil greedy + accustomed to it

Isn't that the way lions and animals in the jungle do it though, upon waking go in search for food, I don't think they spend all day looking for mood, I may be wrong though, but I think they eat one good meal and repeat the same the next day upon waking...hmmm, if it works for them could work for humans...

The thing that a lot of people are missing is that if you listen to the interview, he said that he will have juices. He said he only eats once a day, but has juices in between.

I caught that, will be protein shakes for me though...:yes::yes::yes:
 
Another example of someone who maintains a 200+lb weight without eating all damn day.
Kenyan Bodybuilding Champion Fred Sanya... one meal a day. The human body can do amazing things.

Whens the last time you saw a Kenyan this big :lol:

http://www.naturallyintense.net/blog/bodybuilding/bodybuilding-on-one-meal-a-day-fred-sanya/

fred-sanya-in-kenya1.jpg


fred-sanya-bodybuilder-most-muscular.jpg


FYI... I only know about these dudes because researched the subject before I started to eat once a day. I was skeptical too...

Good drop on this cat. I went to his website and he was actually eating 2 meals a day for a while but now he eats 3.
NUTRITION
I have had my best year ever of eating this current year. So, let me speak of that, but remember for years, I lived on two simple meals a day with little protein. For now, I am eating at least three good meals a day: Breakfast is 3 eggs, 6 slices of bread, tea. Lunch is ugali (Kenyan maize meal), 1 1/2 pounds of beef, and juice. Supper is ugali with a whole fresh fish, and juice. Chicken substitutes for beef or fish. Beans occasionally. Rice or sweet potatoes on occasions, but the routine is as I have indicated.

I'm naturally slim and I have a high metabolism so I have to eat 3 quality meals a day just to maintain my weight. The crazy thing is that if I workout less, I lose weight easily because I'm not re-fueling my body as much. I'm going to try to gain 10 lbs of muscle mass this year so I'm going to have to do some heavier lifting and and intake more food for energy. I'm trying to do this the all natural way too, so it's going to be a challenge.
 
Excellent info... I'm looking to lose about 20lbs... I had a heart issue in the summer and my doctor told me to stop working out until I get my issue under control... Now that I'm better... I want to get down to my natural weight... Thank for the tips... Peace.
 
Jack Lalanne, at age 71, ate 2 meals a day, one at 11am and dinner at 7. Known juicer, and a regular faster.

Yea....i eat about two meals a day..sometime 3. the biggest meal is in the morning. the only time i lack a little energy is when i dont get any sleep or If i work out for too long without refueling....those are the only times.

As for Jack....he ate meat...but it was limited amounts. Mainly fish and egg whites. Most of his meals were raw fruits and veggies....combination of drinking and eating.

Of course genetics plays its part...but like someone stated before...you just gotta try things out and see what works for you...everyones body is different.

BTW...a lot of those people that ate one meal per day stil ate/drunk things throughout the day. they ate tiny SNACKS...not MEALS. MEALS is the operative word. a large amount of fruits and vegetables are extremely low in calories, fat, etc. Example...a half of a pound of spinach (which is a lot when u visually see it) is only 52 calories. eating that .5 pound is almost like eating nothing....but it gives you a shit load of much needed vitamins. eating one MEAL a day..but snacking on a small salad or eating a apple or something in between time aint gonna kill you or completely prevent your body from doing what it normally does.

I currently eat healthy....but one thing I need to do more of is eat more raw foods.
.....and stick to a work out routine. i go for about 6 months then take long breaks.
 
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I gonna see if I can push for 8am and 4/5pm...and maybe @ lunch have some fruit and shit to tide me over or maybe an Ensure :dunno:

Shit I can go sat, sun, and mon on one meal. I work those days and i forget to eat until late. Its the weekdays that I'm in college that I really need to eat.
 
Hershel doesnt drink that shit. He's never bought into loading up on protein or supplements.

So this cat is maintaining that build solely on one meal? man...got-damn.... genetics play a huge part of it as well with Walker I think...because I couldnt do it...I lose lean mass easily when Im not eating sufficienty.

Ive done lots of different things... 6 small a day, all organic, vegan, etc types of diets... so Im pretty disciplined but gonna see if I can do something like this...but my fucking appetite goes bananas when Im working out intensily..
 
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At the back end of last year I've been eating a large breakfast(brown rice/pasta chicken) in the morning and have cereal for dinner. I've lost about 2 stones in just over 2 months.

I'm trying to get down to 11 stone by Spring. I currently weigh 13 stones.
 
How to Eat to Live, Book 1

Chapter 7

One Meal A Day

1 Eat one meal a day or one meal every other day, and it will prolong your life. Do not think that you will starve. On the contrary. you will be treating yourself to life, and a life filled with sickless days. You can hardly get sick eating this way. I know because I have this experience. If you eat the proper food -- which I have given to you from Allah (in the Person of Master Fard Muhammad to Whom be praise forever) in this book-- you will hardly ever have a headache.

2 In eating once a day or once every other day, you must not eat between meals. And, you should try to eat at the same hour tomorrow as you eat today. Do not change your meal hours if you can help it. That causes your stomach to react to various hours of the day for a meal, and will set up gas on the stomach. Do not even drink juices, milk, or soft drinks between meals.

3 And, do not eat candies or fruits between meals. You are welcome to drink water, but I know you will not want too much water between meals since your stomach will not call for it. You may drink coffee between meals, but do not fill your cup with half sugar and half cream and pour coffee on top of that. (smile) This (that I am trying to teach you) is the way that He (Almighty Allah) has taught me for you. I have given to you in this book the type of food that you should eat as Allah has given it to me.

4 Again I say, many vegetables are good to eat; also many fruits. But the vegetables you have been warned against eating such as collard greens, turnip salads, black -eyed peas, field peas, lima beans, butter beans and soy beans - Should not be eaten. Be sure that you do not eat the large size navy bean, eat the small size navy bean.

5 Surely Sugar diabetes can be controlled and driven out with your abstinence from eating sugar and Starchy foods. And, with your corrected way of eating once a day or once every other day (if started in time), you will become negative of Sugar in your blood. If you are a victim of sugar diabetes, you should not eat white or sweet potatoes. And even if you are not a victim of diabetes, you should not eat too much of any starchy food (such as potatoes), and positively no sweet potatoes. You Should be careful of eating this type of food.

Eat one good meal of food a day for good health. One meal a day or every two days could spell the end of much medicine, doctor bills and the building of hospitals if we would eat the proper food and eat it only when it is necessary to eat it.

There are a lot of people who think their appetite is their god; but we, by nature, have been made to control ourselves if we want to. I have much self-experience in the way of eating. I am often experimenting as I teach you, so that I will know what happens if you go contrary to the Teachings of “How To Eat To Live.” Eat one meal a day and eat the proper food in that meal, and do not eat between meals (a little of this and a little of that). I repeat, you will not be sick (only once in a great long time).

Every meal that we put in our bodies has some poison in it. And some of our food, as I have said in this book, takes 36 hours to digest. If we do not wait until our previous meal has been digested and add a new meal to the previous meal, we have new poison in its full strength to aid the dying poison of the previous meal or to help it to revive in strength; and we will continue to be sick.

This, I have experienced. I suffered sickness a lot of times through experimenting, so that you will not come and give me the wrong answer to the Teachings of “How To Eat To Live.” I have self-experimented. I will know whether you are telling me the truth or not. But, I will put my life on it; that if you make a habit of eating one meal every day or every two days and of eating the right food, you will not be sick (only one day out of the year or out of every two years); and some of the complaints that you have now will completely disappear.

By eating one meal a day, some chronic diseases will vanish in a few years as they fail to get the poison that will keep them alive. Sometimes, they vanish within a few months, if you eat the right foods and eat only one meal a day or every two days. Try it for yourselves.
Thats the program for the masses of Black folk. We should all be following that.


I ate one meal a day for a few years and was in the best shape of my life... leaned out and had MORE energy than when I ate 3-5 meals. I play basketball several times per week for 3-5 hrs in a fasted state with no issues whatsoever. i wasn't shredded like Herschel, but I was 8-10%BF at about 200lbs. There was an adjustment period of maybe 7-12 days, but after that it was smooth sailing. Eating 5-6 times a day really doesnt make since... I believe that must have been started by supplement companies. Remember when you only needed 3 meals? In 2020 it will be 8 meals :smh: And you wonder why people are so overweight.

I fell off the wagon during the holidays but I'm in the process of getting back on the program:cool:

Thats Truth I totally agree. To those who dont believe Hershel's regimine to be true. Hes been on that same regimen the past 30years. That was his daily program when he was playing. The man was an absolute beast when he played. Do you guys remember how the Dallas Cowboys dynasty was started in the early 90's? Dallas traded Hershel to Minnesota for almost all if not all their draft picks in one years draft.
 
So this cat is maintaining that build solely on one meal? man...got-damn.... genetics play a huge part of it as well with Walker I think...because I couldnt do it...I lose lean mass easily when Im not eating sufficienty.

Ive done lots of different things... 6 small a day, all organic, vegan, etc types of diets... so Im pretty disciplined but gonna see if I can do something like this...but my fucking appetite goes bananas when Im working out intensily..
The body is machine and everybodies is different. It also adjusts to the regimen and routines if you treat it right. And like you said, genetics always play a part. Im a one meal a day guy, two on occasions, but never more than that (unless im being a glutten on vacation/holiday). Serves me well. Anything more has always weighed me down. Typical days i do a fruit smoothie, a veggie smoothie and a meal.

Ive always been of the opinion that putting all that crap in your body keeps your body busy processing and digesting when it could be focusing on other areas of health and maintenance.

Ive never understood the six small meal a day crowd. I know it works for them but it just isnt for me. I could never intake all that food everyday.
 
The body is machine and everybodies is different. It also adjusts to the regimen and routines if you treat it right. And like you said, genetics always play a part. Im a one meal a day guy, two on occasions, but never more than that (unless im being a glutten on vacation/holiday). Serves me well. Anything more has always weighed me down. Typical days i do a fruit smoothie, a veggie smoothie and a meal.

Ive always been of the opinion that putting all that crap in your body keeps your body busy processing and digesting when it could be focusing on other areas of health and maintenance.

Ive never understood the six small meal a day crowd. I know it works for them but it just isnt for me. I could never intake all that food everyday.

After an intense work I am starving man.

I gain the most lean mass when doing 6 smaller meals...but they are small meals that keep my metabolism high all day.

Im going to try this though man...ive read about all the benefits of a low calorie diet...and a lot you cats are vouching for this

i guess Im just going to have to slowly work my way down to 1 or 2 per day with doing some juicing...it makes more sense in terms of overall health and im more concerned with that than physique
 
After an intense work I am starving man.

I gain the most lean mass when doing 6 smaller meals...but they are small meals that keep my metabolism high all day.

Im going to try this though man...ive read about all the benefits of a low calorie diet...and a lot you cats are vouching for this

i guess Im just going to have to slowly work my way down to 1 or 2 per day with doing some juicing...it makes more sense in terms of overall health and im more concerned with that than physique
I here you. But you metabolism will be just fine without that crap. Im not shitting on it, its just not for me. I remember we discussed fasting and juicing a few years ago. Did you ever seriously get into it? You really should, especially considering the amble amounts of year round beautiful fruits and veggies you have access to there. But i guess it all depends on your goals, if you're into bodybuilding or some ridiculous shit like that then by all means eat 6 meals. Otherwise it isnt needed, and in my opinion there are smarter options.
 
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