Intermittent fasting increases your human growth hormone levels naturally. This gives you a feeling of more energy and helps you burn fat and build muscle more easily. That’s why exercising on an empty stomach is so good for you, especially if you’re doing resistance training. So, Herschel Walker goes 20 to 24 hours between each meal that he eats. And it’s the biggest part of why he’s still in such incredible shape.

Peer-reviewed research studies have shown that within 18 hours of a rapid rise in human growth hormone and people’s metabolic rate actually increases at this time and remains increased up to 36 hours fasting. Now I don’t recommend fasting for 36 hours because it’s not very practical but it would work. There is no such thing as a starvation mode in these short periods of time. Starvation mode is a scare tactic the health industry uses to keep us fat and happy, worry about starvation mode when you’re starving in a desert, not when you’re missing a meal or two.

Honestly, the reason Herschel Walker looks like this is more because of how he eats than his training. His training is really simple and consists only of bodyweight exercises. He does a lot of push-ups and sit-ups. A lot doesn’t really explain it. He makes thousands of each every day. But he doesn’t lift weights and just does push-ups and sit-ups all day. The lesson for him to take from that is to focus on his diet and do some form of resistance training to gain or maintain his muscle mass depending on what his goals are.

The Herschel Walker diet is the genius to keep fit. So he once again eats once a day. And he eats some fresh chicken and some salad and soup. He fills it up without having a lot of calories. He only gets 40 to 80 grams of protein per day, which is far less than what bodybuilders and meat heads want you to eat. That’s because they want you to buy their protein supplements. Don’t worry about all the things. If you followed the Herschel Walker diet and ate once a day while doing some form of resistance training every day, you’d be ripped. Drop anything else you’ve heard about health. Make it easier. Try just this for a month and see what happens: one meal per day 600 to 1,200 calories in that meal, any kind of challenging resistance training that works the muscles you’re trying to build.

If you don’t like the results, you can do something else. It’s only thirty days. She appears to have worked for Herschel Walker all these years. Try it and see what happens.