NFL to hold combine for veterans
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Labadi_Mantse
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Who told you that?
Common knowledge... guess you don't follow football like that or you're very young
Tell me about the great Herchell Walker please sir.
Agreed. I can't wait for this shyt. So much potential fukkery. Quality of play overall in the league could go up with veterans and established players having to stay on their game in case they lose their job n gota show up. I duno. Could bring an interesting dynamic to it all.
Trojan 24
Veteran
Labadi_Mantse
All Star
I still don't believe that shyt, but IDK maybe he just got GOAT genetics
Coaches and teammates have confirmed such. Dude won the genetic lottery.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
I remember that nikka saying the same shyt back in the mid 80s and I didn't believe him then either talmbout "I d 2000 push ups a day" with some picture of his ugly Italian girlfriend on his back. That niqqa know his stiff ass hit the ironI still don't believe that shyt, but IDK maybe he just got GOAT genetics
Trojan 24
Veteran
Yeah I've heard all the stories, but maybe he gotta home gym he puts in work at. He can't be that much superior physically right?
Trojan 24
Veteran
Yeah I mean it just doesn't make sense biologically, but like I said maybe he just a genetic freak.
Labadi_Mantse
All Star
He was from country Georgia and grew up poor. Where was he getting weights from?
Labadi_Mantse
All Star
From Sports Illustrated:
There were no weights at Johnson County High in Wrightsville until the beginning of Herschel's senior year. Coach Phillips recalls, "We finally scraped together enough money to get a few weights, and naturally I was curious to see how much Herschel could lift. I'd hoped to use 250 pounds as a sort of goal for all the bigger players on the team, but I remember watching in amazement that first day as Herschel took that 250-pound barbell and pumped it up and down, up and down, like it was made of Styrofoam. After he was finished he looked over at me, genuinely puzzled, and said, 'Coach, 250 ain't heavy.' "
Phillips estimates that Walker spent no more than six or eight hours in the weight room that fall. That's all, folks. Since going to Athens and bursting upon the consciousness of Bulldog football fans, Walker hasn't trained with weights at all. But he has been strength-tested with the rest of the football team, and his natural strength, augmented by those hundreds of thousands of push-ups, have allowed him to bench-press 375 pounds once and 225 pounds—his approximate body weight on his last test day—for 24 repetitions. Only a seasoned lifter can appreciate how astonishing those figures are, and how much training it would normally take for a 225-pound man to be able to match Herschel's ability to chin himself with either hand. Or, for that matter, how unlikely it is for anyone to have a percentage of bodyfat estimated at under 5%, especially in a body fueled almost exclusively by hamburgers.
There were no weights at Johnson County High in Wrightsville until the beginning of Herschel's senior year. Coach Phillips recalls, "We finally scraped together enough money to get a few weights, and naturally I was curious to see how much Herschel could lift. I'd hoped to use 250 pounds as a sort of goal for all the bigger players on the team, but I remember watching in amazement that first day as Herschel took that 250-pound barbell and pumped it up and down, up and down, like it was made of Styrofoam. After he was finished he looked over at me, genuinely puzzled, and said, 'Coach, 250 ain't heavy.' "
Phillips estimates that Walker spent no more than six or eight hours in the weight room that fall. That's all, folks. Since going to Athens and bursting upon the consciousness of Bulldog football fans, Walker hasn't trained with weights at all. But he has been strength-tested with the rest of the football team, and his natural strength, augmented by those hundreds of thousands of push-ups, have allowed him to bench-press 375 pounds once and 225 pounds—his approximate body weight on his last test day—for 24 repetitions. Only a seasoned lifter can appreciate how astonishing those figures are, and how much training it would normally take for a 225-pound man to be able to match Herschel's ability to chin himself with either hand. Or, for that matter, how unlikely it is for anyone to have a percentage of bodyfat estimated at under 5%, especially in a body fueled almost exclusively by hamburgers.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
Michael Strahan aired him out on his NFL network story saying he met him and said his workout book didn't do shyt for his then flabby ass.
NYC Rebel
...on the otherside of the pond
I was talking about when he turned pro
Labadi_Mantse
All Star
That I can't say I for sure know. I was discussing the frame he built. His contract may have stipulated such, many do, but his base and frame from HS through his first years in the pros were built without weights. shyt is impressive imho
