How did knights/men at arms/soldiers/people in general work out back in the day?

Constant training. Constant fencing/sword practice. If they trained like that in full armor for a few years they'ld automatically get ripped as fuck, no having to worry about 'working out'.

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If this is the case I assume they had a lot of farmer's strength from hard labor.

youtube.com/watch?v=q-bnM5SuQkI

>knights
probably like spartiates but less agoge-like

meaning they would hit the training dummy every now and then between banquets

Confirmed for not knowing shit.

>Ripped
Ripped is the term used to describe someone who's muscles are showing. Muscles only show when there is a low percentage of fat. Depending on the person, maybe 10-15%. Bodybuilders have somewhere around 3-5%.

Also, you don't get Ripped by doing the same thing over and over. Your body adapts to the strain you're putting it through, so you need to progressively overload the volume if you want to get bigger.

Back in the day, people didn't view training as a way to keep healthy or look good. Most people had active lives anyway. So training was purely a preparation for war or competition. A knight would likely train for competition more often than for war, because it was just that much more common.

So what did they train? They trained whatever they were preparing for. Sword duels? Then spar. Jousting? Then joust static targets. Wrestling? Then wrestle.

This is a complete meme, the average footslogger wasnt a fucking conscripted peasant he was civil militia man or a mercenary.

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-shows-knights-were-pretty-spry-their-suits-armor-180959699/?no-ist

Put on armor. Walk. Run. Do manual labor. Jump. Climb. Fight.

I dont think you know what "average" means

Striking a pel is a common exercise that was done in Europe, supposedly you'd do it every day.
It was done in Asia as well and some japanese schools still train their strikes that way.

youtube.com/watch?v=q-bnM5SuQkI

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I once read that they would practise in armour made out of lead. So when they would go into actual battle with their steel armour, it would feel much lighter. A method they copied from the Romans.

Sword curls 3x5
Dips between 2 shitters 3x5
Shield press 3x5
Muslims 1xfailure

i don't think this kind of shit actually accomplishes much more than fucking up your back and joints

Athletes have historically used methods of adding weights and still do today. Just because some meme medical blog says it can be bad doesn't mean people stopped doing it for the gains.

Back then they probably didn't even know what bone joints were

>I once read that
No you didn't, you just came up with something out of your ass to make yourself interesting.

>It was done in Asia as well and some japanese schools still train their strikes that way.

In nearby China & the Sinic World exercise (for civilians) is pretty much calisthenics & weight training. Shit like running up long stairways, Tai Chi, and the like.

Pic related. Traditional Chinese weights often include.
>A stone barbell that looks like a padlock.
>A stone bar with a hole in the middle run through by a pole, where you grab both ends.
>A stone weight on the end of a pole.
Pretty much stuff any peasant can make.

Kettle bells and sand filled leather sacks/tubes where used for workout in medieval and early modern Europe too.

The medieval soldier was most commonly a mercenary, with a city militia or noble warrior in minority cases. There was no medieval draft by and large you fucking spergling.

Well, if we're talking about Military Weight Training, there is always the meme overweight all metal guandao.

Hell, it was required to perform some drills with the metal pole-saber comfortably to qualify for attendance in the military academy & officer school.

of course they knew what bone joints were
you can intrinsically feel exactly what a bone joint is, to say nothing of being able to see it on skeletons and corpses

A sepsis would kill you back in the day, but they where quite good at curring broken bones.
>Yes boys, you gotta wear this heavy Hauberk, it saves lifes!

I assume they read the sticky

>The dance at the end
I kekked

youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q

>>It was done in Asia as well and some japanese schools still train their strikes that way.
youtube.com/watch?v=2ht2chIJGBM
This is the pel striking I was specifically thinking about, starting at 1:30.

And then there's this:
wiktenauer.com/wiki/Poem_of_the_Pel

crossfit

sounds like a Christian thing

youtube.com/watch?v=pAzI1UvlQqw

The answer is probably not very effectively. Even with the best training and nutrition it can still take you a year to get to 1/2/3/4 pl8, back in the day people were considerably smaller and so would be unlikely to be as strong. I highly doubt they had an understanding of things like anabolic windows and TDEE.

>back in the day people were considerably smaller and so would be unlikely to be as strong.
Nice, got a source for this or just pulled out of your ass?
>hard work, and weight training
>sixpack is beauty standard for over 2000 years
>various training manuals for lifting, running etc.

100 pushups, situps, squats, and 10km running every day

It's not 2015 anymore you know?

I see that line on the inner arm a lot. Is that a vein, or a sinew?

It's a vein.
Geez, have you never mired your own pump at the gym, seconds after finishing off that last set of bicep curls?

No, I'm a DYEL.
It just seemed odd that it's a vein, I thought their placement and patterns were unique.

maybe the guy that stood model had one there?

It's called the Cephalic vein.

You're a fucking idiot

Look up Boucicaut

Don't forget, eat a banana before all that.

No, it's you have to eat breakfast, even f it's just a banana.

they are unique, but follow the same basic pattern

Mine is slightly higher on my front delt, other people might have it closer to the peak of the bicep

jesus are you really getting this autistic over semantics?

Firstly, the possession of a six pack has no correlation with strength or fitness of any kind. It is indicative of a body fat percentage of below 12%, nothing more. Secondly were you asking for a source that people were smaller or that smaller people aren't as strong as bigger people? For the former I suggest you investigate average heights throughout history and for the latter Olympic weightlifting records by weight category.

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifting_stone
what is that fella in the top left lifting over his head? is that a stone?