A '73 Gentleman: Paul Walker

So I got to contemplating: What might be possible, for a guy like me, aged some 37 years? So I did a little research.

Paul Walker, born just 13 days after me...

I then had a quick WTF moment.

I am sure he has a strong incentive not to piss away opportunities like the reported $7M he received from the Fast and the Furious, but still.

From the article in the 2005 Men's Health (I am assuming the program is somewhat the same, even if six years old) it appears he does not have a trainer nor a nutritionist. Good genes? Yeah, has those.

"Which brings up an obvious question: How does a man get to look like Paul Walker? The face, of course, we can't help you with. And he doesn't have a nutritionist or a personal trainer we can refer you to. But there is a program, a very effective and simple on,e. "My motto is, you have to get in a sport a day," says Walker, who just turned 32. "Playing a little basketball, volleyball, going out surfing, skating, whatever it is. It's the best way to live." As for diet, "My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy. But other than that, I just eat lean."

Walker tried weight lifting back when he was shooting Varsity Blues, in 1998. "I was surrounded by all these corn-fed football players," he says. "Everyone's like, ‘Oh, you're going to be the action guy, you have to get bigger.' So I started this lifting program, and I'm taking creatine, and I got up to 205. Then I went on this surf trip to El Salvador." Not only did the extra muscle slow down his paddling, he says, but his endurance in the water wasn't as good. "I come back, and I'm down to 180, super-lean again, and I'm like, ‘You know what? Hell with it. I'm done.' It's better for me to stay lean."

Nowadays, the only formal fitness training Walker does is martial arts, which strips unnecessary bulk off his frame while building his speed, balance, flexibility, and coordination. He starts every day with 2 hours of Brazilian jujitsu at a studio near his modest Santa Barbara home, then follows up with an hour of Muay Thai kickboxing. After that, it's all about the water: "If there's any surf, any fishing, I'll whip out in the boat." That would be the fast rigid-inflatable that allows Walker to rip across to the Channel Islands and catch a few waves, maybe spear a calico bass for dinner, then have a buddy drive while he surfs the boat wake all the way home. And if he's still itching for a good time after all that, he and some friends might do a few downhill skateboard runs on a quiet canyon road, or take his Nissan Skyline (0 to 60 in 5.2 seconds) to the racetrack. (Walker had professional race training when he starred in The Fast and the Furious, and now he takes full advantage of his skills most weekends.)"

INFO:

Full name: Paul William Walker IV ... Born Sept. 12, 1973 ... Height: 6-3 ... Hometown: Glendale, Calif. ... MH Covers: 2 ... Actor, model. ... Upcoming film: Takers ... As child, appeared in TV shows, including Diff’rent Strokes (1978) ... College degree: Marine biology ... Big fan of Jacques-Yves Cousteau ... Single, father of one daughter.