How did the ancient Greeks make such gains?

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Access to some of the best diets in the ancient world as well.

This. Greeks specifically made their statues in unnatural proportions as an ideal to aspire to rather than an accurate representation of what they looked like.

Mediterranean diet + work out + leisure

Greeks were toned as fuck to Herculean supermen. Don't even pretend they weren't.

Remove this comment.

> in unnatural proportions

lol what?

Ofc these bodies were not the norm, but with enough protein, the upper class could have easily achieve that level of muscle.

Ath, they aren't even that big.

Not to mention that they only ate protein, fruits and vegetables instead of various forms of sugar and processed poison like we do.

but muh food has never been better!

Gymnasium.

OATS

progressive overload

It has nothing to do with muscle definition or mass. The bone structure of Greek statues literally isn't human.

The hips, the chest, and the back were done unnaturally to further emphasis the muscles.

Greeks were Veeky Forums. They needed to be as at any moment they could be called to defend the city or go to war. But Greek statues literally are superhuman.

I do not see a single thing oversized about them.

Compare the two.

The clavicles are at the wrong angle on the statue, being flatter and creating a wider chest and broader shoulders. The hips and the external obliques are too high and bulged. And the you can't see it in this picture but the backbone was also shortened and more recessed in Greek statues.

I had to watch a documentary on the development of Greek art and sculptures. You can find some on YouTube if you want.

I still don't see anything.

However, I consider that if you have to go down to the level of judging the shape slight angle differences of clavicles, then there is probably nothing to this theory.

Prescribed meat

How did the Rapa Nui people get such ugly heads?

>I'm gonna sarcastically compare the realistic style the Greeks made their statues to Pacific Islander savages in a futile attempt to make a statement
Yawn. The Greeks deliberately made realistic statues.

To be fair the hips/obliques looks strange.

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Not strange, just slightly more expressed.

That may be just from excercising in specific way too much.

Gyro, feta, olives, P.E.

homoeroticism and compulsive posing

The Greeks made exaggerations. The average ancient Greek looked more like this.

>if you have to go down to measuring the bone structure then there's no weight to the theory that the bone structure is different

Wut?

> Not different in any significant manner.

People look different and have slightly different builds.

Strange stuff jarait.

Look up the Riace Bronzes and the transition into Classical Greek sculpture.

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why dont we just ask her? she looks like she knows

If they made a statue of an old lady they probably would have looked like that.

Imagine living in a society where you don't have to work, but there's no TV or even electricity. The only things they had to do were exercise and philosophise.

They would have made her look like this.

i look like that almost naturally, slightly to much fat.

t. mediterranian

Citizens of Athens where required to go to war, either in the navy or army. they grew to like it and built gyms to keep them strong when they weren't fighting, this meant that they loved going to the gym.

Their entire society was built like dude-bros.

>long arms
>long legs
>long torso
awful for muscle build
the muscle fibres has to stretch for more because theyre longer.

SHES BUFF AS FUG LOOK AT THEM SHOUUULDDDERS

Working out, like today
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnasium_(ancient_Greece)
>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halteres_(ancient_Greece)
Yes, but people also trained and could get fairly fit and even big back then
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>Superior African genetics

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Run puny African run from the Slav

they priotirized body over mind as it was material that affected immaterial. this went on with their shapings of habits. good habits brought good bodies. constant threat of war as you know also helped give a reason for all this gay acts, instead of "do you even lift" kind of circle masturbation.

also it's idealized but it doesnt mean that people like these did not exist it just means it wasnt average but some people had envy of the rest which is natural.

I assume you don't know the story about that statue you posted

and if you do, you're a troll

RIACE WAR NOW!

You do realize that doesn't change anything right? That guy is still anatomically correct.

Where as is not.

Again it has nothing to do with muscle mass. The actual bone structure and musculature were altered to be more aesthetic. This is well known, especially when pertaining to the Riace Bronzes and going into the classical era.

>Naturist fallacy

that statue is the epitome of exaggeration. The legs are too long in an attempt to make bottom half equal the top, the back muscles are ridiculous , the line running down the center of the chest is impossibly deep, and its missing a bone in the back to be appear more aesthetically pleasing

I have always wondered how the fuck could Roman and Greek manlets could btfo Germanic barbarians who were like giants compared to them, sometimes even when outnumbered such as in the Cimbrian war or in the Gothic war.

Consider that even in a formation battle, you cannot overpower an opponent that is twice your height. Which would mean that both Romans and Greeks compensated the lack of red meat, with poultry, eggs, fish, cheese, milk, with pork sausages augmenting this diet in later times of the Roman Empire and a fuckload of carbs for energy, like tons of olive oil and beans.

Then why do they all have small dicks?

They were growers not show-ers

Big and small dicks went in and out of style throughout history, a lot of art in the early renaissance has enormous cock if that's what you're looking for.

Small dicks were considered more aesthetic to the Greeks. Big dicks were barbaric and comical.

>all these dyel twigs that have never touched a weight in their lives thinking the greek sculpture proportions are humanly possible

Didn't that intentionally show it as small to make people focus on the rest of the statue?

>implying

because back then there was literally nothing else to do but work out and think about philosophy

LITTLE

5′ 9″ natty limit

no way

>implying those horseballs powder sniffers are natty