Herschel Walker's Basic Training

Herschel Walker's Basic Training by Herschel Walker. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780385193023.

Are you a coach looking for a better team, or an individual trying to become a better athlete... to make the team, win a state or national, world, professional, or Olympic title? In this rare, hard-to-find book, you will find Herschel Walkers illustrated exercises, training schedules and personal advice that will show serious athletes how to become quicker, more powerful, and more flexible-- in other words, how to become a better athlete. More than 100 step-by-step photographs show Herschel demonstrating the correct way to perform the various exercises and techniques of his balanced and progressive training regime. Graded for high school, college, and weekend athletes, this program can be followed at home, requiring only a few basic pieces of simple equipment. At age 12, Herschel Walker was 53", weighed 100 pounds, and was considered the runt of his family in rural Georgia. With grit, desire, and discipline his only equipment, Walker toughed out his own routine, based on variations of push-ups, sit-ups, pull-ups, and short sprints. Following his homegrown plan with the same kind of zeal that would later enable him to gain 283 yards in a single game, Walker, by the ninth grade, weighed in at 185 pounds-- of solid muscle.