How the fuck did the Greeks have this type of body back then? They had no modern equipment, no protein powder , no supplements no nothing. Their diet isn't all that good either it's just fruit , olives and wheat and food wasn't as abundant back then as it does now.
I wanna know their secrets Veeky Forums
They literally worked out every single day
Working out for most of them was as natural as eating, there was a good post about it in detail but that's all I can remember, kek
oldschool athletism
I heard that instead of using horses the couriers actually ran from one end of Greece to another
Pic related you fucking soyboy.
>tfw a screenshot literally destroyed all of your self esteem
>Their diet isn't all that good either it's just fruit , olives and wheat and food wasn't as abundant back then as it does now.
This applies to the general population of peasants and slaves. The citizens could afford better, and the athletes which modeled for those statues had their own regimens.
"Early records point to a cheese and fruit based diet for the first Olympic athletes, and later on the dietary emphasis shifted to meat. Food historian Francine Segan (quoted in Ref 1) found documents of an ancient Olympic runner who won several competitions while following a meat-only diet, which started a meat-only craze."
I wish gyms are more social today like back then were I can go and just socialize with people while doing some reps, then I would be more willing to stay for longer
I wish I could get a young twink that I teach about manliness and honor while I fuck him in the ass until he comes of age
>soyboy
Reddit meme
>tfw no strong man to destroy my twink bp
The fact that they sculpted statues like pic in the OP doesn't imply that anybody had that kind of physique.
>fags can't stop projecting their faggotry
>can't imagine a man admiring another man without homolust being involved
They just never documented it because "no homo" was just understood. You didn't have to say it like you do today, where the culture is saturated in "progressive" homolust.
>How the fuck did people in the 80s have this type of body?
Gymnasiums in ancient Greece had a mandatory no clothes and no women policy, I wish I was shit posting.
I wish you were too because then i wouldn't feel as jealous
>imply that anybody had that kind of physique.
Does soy estrogen actually affect the brain too or are you just born like that? If nobody looked like that where the fuck did the sculptors base their models from?
>the ol' "you need barbells and heavy weight and 5-8 reps to get big" meme
My thighs exploded after rowing for a few months when squatting did little for them. Expand your horizons of physicality Veeky Forums
brainlet detected jesus christ
I don't know about exploding thighs but liquid shit literally flew out off my ass when I squatted last week in the gym. My stomach wasn't even hurting that day. I was so lightheaded afterwards I panicked and quickly wiped the shit on the floor with the equipment wipe rag. No one there even laughed they all just felt sorry for me. Ah well the gym is 24/7 though so I went at night instead afterwards
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This is incredible
>that pic
I dont think people today understand how much stress our bodies are actually capable of handling.
If I said people should wear +10kg on their bodies everyday for better physique, people would shitstorm me within seconds. Bullshit
Pic related. How much do you think these guys equipment weights?
Depends on the mission really I'm not from the US military but we use the same gear so I would say that is 12 Kg, or 27.5 pounds
Depends on how sweaty they are. That shit can hold water that a kotherfucker when it's all payed up on you like that. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 - 100 lbs
>If nobody looked like that where the fuck did the sculptors base their models from?
Less muscular guys, and they just made their muscles bigger and more defined in the statues (not saying that this is definitely how they did, but it's stupid to assume the opposite is certainly true). Pic related is a modern statue. I guess in the future there will be people who will assume that some modern humans looked like that.
Not a single argument against what I said.
Athenians? Now post one about the Spartans who threw children into the wild with nothing but a loin coth.
Fish you illiterate cunt.
Also animal testicles to dope with.
>the feels when I came here looking for motivation and you totally delivered.
>how much stress our bodies are actually capable of handling.
This, people keep falling for the humans are weak and feeble and we only rely on our intelligence to survive meme. Our bodies are almost limitless in potential it's just that we haven't try to unlock it yet. Back in the days we carried messages across an entire country on foot, back in the good old days we literally chased our prey all day until it gets tired and dies.
We are literally capable of anything if we just get off our asses and try
And then add that machineguns(the guy behind) weight, which is about +9 kg more plus even more kgs if he carry ammo for it. Which he probably does.
And we dont even know which kind of armor plates he wears either.
Either way, if your body has to adapt to a certain weight. It will. But sitting still infront of the PC all day like we do in modern society seriously fucks up our bodies.
We need constant stress on our bodies. And that is probably exactly what was given to the human bodies back in the days thousands/hundreds of years ago
No. Becaise that statue isn't actually supposed to represent a human?
whew, time to sort myself out
>just made their muscles bigger and more defined in the statues
Trust me I do art and it is literally impossible to recreate that type of muscle without a model to look at. The human body is symmetrically complex and it is very difficult to upscale muscles without it looking weird
> future there will be people who will assume that some modern humans looked like that.
Except that modern humans do look like that, I know you don't see that type of body often in your gay little magic the gathering club but there is a thing called bodybuilding
How do you know that the pic in OP is portraying a human and not a god?
>it's just fruit , olives and wheat and
Are you fucking retarded
It's called demon according to the filename.
It also has no head
This, back then in order to get anything you have to actually work your ass off for it. Tend the fields, harvest fruits and olives, catch fish. There's no walmart or cars back then so if you are short on something to sprint to the market or to the village near by.
>modern humans are 18 metres tall and have all kinds of corals and plants growing on them
Yeah sure, that's realistically achievable with bodybuilding
I asked you about the pic in the OP retard
>retard continues to be retarded
> They had no modern equipment
Like a stick and 2 rocks?
Are you being serious with this shit right now? I feel like you have to be acting dense.
They worked with a set of numerical ratios. If one muscle changes size the rest in relation are supposed to change in proportion. These statues are ideal depictions of beautiful human bodies on the basis of the mathematical harmony greeks saw in nature.
That whole "trust me" line is usually the moniker of someone who likes to just say things to say them.
Please don't post here ever again
Because drinking protein shakes and eating meat like a retard, won't make you gain anymore muscles or strength compared to someone who simply has a stronger core. Guys should do something else outside of gym, like swimming, climbing, rowing and so on. Stuff that you can do in the nature will make you gain more power than any fucking powerlifting method.
This right here. Come the fuck on OP, people have been lifting rocks since time immemorable.
>this
I have a friend who does nothing but swim, he never have even stepped foot into a gym in his entire life, and yet he looks much better than most of the gym guys
They even had more sophisticated stuff than that.
> basis of the mathematical harmony greeks saw in nature.
I get what you mean except it only works when the model is facing you directly and you're working on a 2D plane.
I'm just trying to explain to you that it is impossible to determine how ancient Greek athletes looked like.
>more sophisticated
>literally a rock with a hole but no bar
That is pretty neat, but it's totally not more sophisticated.
God or not. That physique is quite achievable
Actually thinks the greeks we know of "worked" everyday and didnt rely on their slaves
What has education come to?
You might be surprised how hard it is to carve a hole like that into a rock
They studied human anatomy you cretin
>Guys should do something else outside of gym, like swimming, climbing, rowing and so on. Stuff that you can do in the nature will make you gain more power than any fucking powerlifting method.
If any of the things you mentioned made you stronger than powerlifting, don't you think powerlifters would do them to become stronger than their competitors? Even people competing in strongman train with barbells instead of swimming and climbing.
Achievable naturally too. Like even if someone has low t and is a fucking poof.
>eat nothing most days
>eat fish and drink watered down wine the others
>work out everyday
Most people under that type of regimen will get pretty shredded and muscular
Are we to assume that all statues and paintings of Greek athletes have nothing to say about the way the looked? Because their physique would be difficult to achieve?
Yeah, you're right. I don't know anything about carving rocks so I was pretty much speaking out my ass.
>tfw my shitty gym doesn't have sandstone halteres
Nowadays it definitely is, but people here are assuming that it was achievable 2000 years ago with a poor diet, subpar knowledge of exercise science and equipment.
I hate to break it to you but the Greeks were homosexual as fuck
No. I was saying that the opposite is equally stupid and you just cannot certainly know what they looked like.
Added 3x1 hole in rock carvings to my routine
>poor diet, subpar knowledge of exercise science and equipment.
I don't think a civilization where the culture is based around annual sports and fitness events have a subpar knowledge of exercise science. Also don't forget that they invented the dumbell too.
>poor diet
How is the diet poor? Little to no over excess of calories, high nutrition and protein dense foods like fish and meat were common.
6-time olympic victor Milo of Croton reportedly carried a calf every day, until it reached maturity.
Bodyweight nigga. Also they didn't spend half their day crunched in front of a monitor.
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>How the fuck?
disdain
I was rather talking about the core of your body and center of strength. With powerlifting alone you can lift heavy stuff but you are limited with the movements of your body and utilizing it fully. Powerlifters and strongmen can handle heavy weight in certain momevents but the lack a lot of strength when it comes to other. Natural movements like swimming, climbing and so on enable you to utilize your body hell a lot better.
this is top tier homosexual historical revisionism
1. The physique in ancient Greek art isn't unrealistic at all. Somebody on here even made a picture with the measurements about it.
2. Ancient Greeks mainly did the Pentathlon (wiki that) and any modern training like BWE and weightlifting as we know it simply didn't exist yet.
3. Diet was mainly bread and meat, with some vegetables and fruit. Lots of olive oil, too. Specialised athlete diet differed of course and the ancients were already arguing about low carb vs low fat and veganism vs meat-eating. Example: Milon of Croton, as legend has it, ate 20 pounds of bread and meat each and drank 2.6 gallons of wine. Per day, of course, not per week.
they where on gear, they ate sheep testicles and stuff
its all they did, workout, think, fuck and eat god tier food. many of the citizens probably had god tier physiques.
>not motivating you
Never gonna make it
>its all they did, workout, think, fuck and eat god tier food. many of the citizens probably had god tier physiques.
American education.
>Never gonna make it
JUST
>Diet was mainly bread and meat, with some vegetables and fruit. Lots of olive oil, too.
This is how I know you're both retarded and talking put of your ass with half knowledge
Look at greece and tell me they didn't eat metric fucktons of fish.
Are you retarded?
>these guys accomplished more by their 20s then you will in your whole life
caesar wept at alexanders feet
>American education
That's why we rule the world boiiiii
So if I want to become as strong as Milo I have to do 2GOWAD?
>not an argument
Sure goy
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Water it down in a 1:1 ratio and you be drinking like an Athenian.
Wine used to contain lead back then
Where can I get heavy metal supplements?
Ancient greek vine tasted more like vinegar than modern wine
Your local CD store
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Nobody has said what is it that they did in the gym
Was it just athletics and gymnastics 24/7?
They didn't just work out at the gym they socialized there, studied maths and philosophy and have baths.
One of my fears when I get my driver's license is that I will become weaker. I rely on my legs for most of my transportation. I walk so fast, uphill, downhill, and carrying a shitload of stuff on my backpack.
>studied maths and philosophy and have baths.
That came later.
I study classical philology, the philosophical talk happened in breaks, it's also why roman architecture borrowed from gyms, had to write a paper about that.
Tes but what work out did they do in the gym?
I feel you bro I thought the same too but the gas prices here made me walk and kept me fit. Just walk when it can be done easily within walking distance.Just use your car when necessary most of the time things could be done just by walking and it saves you a shitton of gas money too, im talking 2k a month
>food wasn't as abundant back then as it does now.
Almost as if people just eat too much. Really makes you think.
Wine in the ancient world was like a cordial. Mostly drunk at a much smaller percentage than even light beer unless they were trying to get drunk of course.
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That is not really true though, roman citizens had land and slaves, so all the food they wanted