'The bones revealed that the typical food eaten by gladiators was wheat, barley and beans - and this echoed the contemporary term for gladiators as the "barley men".
There was little sign of meat or dairy products in the diet of almost all of these professional fighters, who performed in front of Roman audiences'
no way he could handle himself in an arena with a vegan
Michael Jones
To be fair beans have a decent amount of protein.
Wyatt Nguyen
No shit But that's not the point
Wyatt Mitchell
Lol they were going to die, why do you think they cared what they ate?
Ethan Campbell
Why would he even need to stoop to the level of a vegancuck when he could just kill that guys whole family and rape his wives and daughters.
Nathaniel Jenkins
>they didn't have meat in their diets
No shit, they were slaves you fucking idiot. Even a vegan can see some gains if they train for literally 8 hours a day
The chad gladiators were fed well by their masters and the virgin gladiators were given sprigs of parsley and other faggot shit until they proved themselves
Sebastian Williams
>slaves get fed a cheap yet nutrient dense diet
Stop the presses
Blake Morgan
I eat to be brutal bro
Jason Ross
I don’t know There aren’t any accounts of Attila fighting in single combat, but seeing as how he was in charge of Barbarians I assume he had to prove his strength
Samuel Moore
you can have a Mongolian arrow brutally lodged in your vegan-twink body.
James Ross
sounds like something you'd like lodged in your boi puss bro
Nathan Perry
>all the meat eating soldiers go serve the state and come home to their wives >the vegan manlets are forced to fight in the LITERAL manlet pit
Caleb Kelly
If you are a vegan, why not just focus on proving, physically, why your lifestyle is better for me?
When I was a new in the gym, the resident hulk told me that if I wanted to get big I needed to eat more. He gave me a diet of one can of tuna + 2 eggs per meal, 2 - 3 times a day. I went from 135lbs to 190lbs, and even though my cardio sucked, was swole as fuck.
On the other hand you can spot a vegan in the gym, male or female, because they look sick and perform poorly. Guy wanted to be my lifting buddy until he found out I ate meat (bizarre story/event)... We've been at the same gym for over a year now and he is STILL struggling to hit 25lb Dumbbell Curls.
Why the fuck would I change my diet to be as pathetic as that?
Isaac Hernandez
>people so stupid and gotten themselves in a fucked up situation died worthlessly killing eachother, didn't eat much meat
hmm really got me thinking OP
Kayden Smith
kek, nice anecdote brah.
Charles Cruz
i feel like i would dominate him physically, no homo
Robert Bell
Why aren't you fpbp?
Dylan Sanchez
kek
Jaxson Jenkins
You realise gladiators were slaves, who fought for entertainment?
Let's see how their diets would compare to that of a centurion.
Ayden Stewart
Vegans 1 Meatcucks 0
Jaxson Murphy
>the slaves who killed each other for entertainment were fed inferior foods consider my almonds activated
Jack Martin
They were given mostly vegetables because they were fuckin slaves. Their diet was not by choice.
Nolan Butler
gold
Gavin Lee
vegans invoke poe's law so much it's unreal, but so do all SJWs to be fair.
Sebastian Powell
Wgaf? It's not like gladiators were these ultimate ubermensch super soldiers or anything. They were literal peasants and low-class criminals.
Josiah Allen
>Greeks ate beans >Romans are beans Beans = gains
Asher Gonzalez
>posts pic of meat eater the keks never stop
Lincoln Martin
>all that booze in the cabinet behind him no wonder he's so skinny
Daniel Evans
Care to greentext your encounter with your almost-gym-buddy?
All the vegans I know (not a lot) are Auschwitz-tier thin because they eat way too little food and mainly stick to light calisthenics + chit-chat-intensity cardio.
Austin Price
Will baconfags ever recover?
Elijah Kelly
>wanting the bubble gut look because of gas bloating
Charles Martin
I'm anti-vegan, but >n=1
Asher Bailey
>he thinks gladiators were muscled powerlifter because of hollywood movies >when they were literally starving slaves forced to kill eachother for entertainment Lmao, maybe if you weren't chewing plants you wouldn't be such a brainlet
Austin Long
There was no GMO foods or refined sugars or plastic in the water back then, virtually all food was healthy.
Blake Bell
>this just in >slaves fed shitty cheap food because they're property >still get gains because it fitness or die
>own slaves >give them shitty beans that are really cheap relative to meat or >give them expensive meats
Hmm I wonder what option a profit-driven slave owner made?
Joseph Roberts
Yeah slaves didn't get the best foods. Why would they?
Justin Clark
don't forget Nigella snorts coke like a vacuum cleaner
Nicholas Adams
Accounts of his food intake state it as being humble - he disdained eating like a king and ate just like his soldiers, which for his culture meant lots of meat. Same for his training and the way he lived in general. This is part of what earned him great respect.
Hudson Sanchez
well yeah people with alot of body mass or the wrong amount of body mass for their age and normal hormone levels are oft on a lot of stimulants or sugars.
They need it to fuel themselves and give them that get up and go to move around.
It's why caffeine and sugar is so abused by fat, athletic and older people. It's also a vicious cycle that ends in them getting fucked. Because sugar ages people fast as fuck and being on the go all of the time wears you out realy really fast. And they never give themselves time to rest and destress. Just piling more stress on top of more stress.
Luke Clark
>milk >whey >chicken breasts Cause bitch tits 10x more than some soy or beans
Jack Perez
Troll thread.
But seriously, here's the deal: unless you believe in magic, vegan or omni doesn't matter. Unless you believe that killing an animal in and of itself somehow invokes blood magic that either blesses you with gainz or curses you to a lack thereof, what matter is ONLY the nutrients you get.
Now given that a vegan diet and a omni diet consist of different things, getting just the right amount of the right nutrients differs between the two. It can certainly be more challenging on a vegan diet since protein sources are less absorbable, as are certain micronutrients, while some stuff (B12, taurine, creatine) is entirely or almost entirely lacking. And of course as a vegan you don't have access to any animal products, while the omnivore can eat 'vegan' foods to his heart's content, so any 'advantage' to veganism can easily be incorporated into an omni diet.
But the challanges aren't impossible to overcome, and if you get the right amounts of the right stuff there's no logical or scientific reason that your body should not respond in the exact same way as an omnivore getting the same nutrients.
Joshua Long
Why are you "anti" vegan?
Juan Martinez
>slaves forced to die for entertainment were given cheaper food >somehow this makes them not the cucks
grasping at straws here, m8
Owen Ramirez
Vegans have much higher testosterone and less estrogen. That in and of itself gives you more gains. They also get much more than 100% of their daily value of micros, and have better blood circulation. These contribute to better and faster recovery. The only defense for meat is "because it tastes good" which is fine and all, but stop fucking tip-toeing around that fact pussy.
Brody Price
>falling for a bait thread made by a meat cuck
Liam Powell
Maybe. But like I said, everything available to a vegan is also per definition available to an omnivore. Even if a vegan diet was better, an omni could eat 99% vegan and then just munch on a juicy steak once in a while or add some tuna or lean chicken to his meals once or twice a week.
Now that might be an ETHICAL problem, and being a vegan is certainly better from that perspective. There's also some BAD stuff taht vegan food is lacking in but meat and dairy is full of, which is certainly an argument for reducing it. Not for completely eliminating it though; lets not pretend that the source of nutrients matters health-wise. Veganism is an ethical issue.
t. vegan
Jaxon Williams
The test doesn't actually do anything because they lack the bioavailable protein and growth hormones that manifests in physical capability and sexual prowess.
Veganism was used by yogi's and other holy people to make them fit energetic but sexless and emotionally feminine or sane.
Bentley Sullivan
Because y'all keep posting your support groups here. Over and over and over.
Why aren't you anti-vegan?
Aaron Gonzalez
That's a charioteer you fucking retard
Dylan Watson
Citation needed. That sounds like total bullshit.
Vegan protein is just as bioavailable as any other fucking protein, you definitely pulled that one out your ass. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3698202/ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25628520 Pea protein has literally no difference to whey in terms of bioavailability. Natural proteins from eating whole foods are even better since the won't spike your blood sugar like an isolate would.
Ryder Scott
Thats no reason to be anti anything dumb ass lmfao. Could you imagine being anti fitness because people keep telling your fat ass to lose weight on a health and fitness board? Could you imagine being anti enviroment because of ads telling you to not liter? Thats the mindset of a child, if it bothers you so much just keyword block the threads.
Jackson Phillips
Veeky Forums Vegan discord GTFIH brahs
discord
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Cooper Green
Um duh that is why we are stronger and bigger than the 5th short "men" of those days. We eat meat. Greeks, Romans and even Spartans were not as big as us. Humans in general were a hell of a lot smaller back in the day. Ever seen the caskets of dead soldiers from the civil war in the US? They were 4 to 4.5ft tall. We are getting larger because of the meat and meat based cholesterol(IE your brain)