Can you imagine the cardio needed for wars back in the day?

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Can you imagine the cardio needed for wars back in the day?

Running around holding a shield and sword for HOURS swinging your sword around against some other guy. Chances are you were prob drinking bulk rum/mead/wine the night before aswell so you're hung over as balls.

How the fck did people survive entire balls and not gas out

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Originally Posted By Gringo12⏩

Running around holding a shield and sword for HOURS swinging your sword around against some other guy. Chances are you were prob drinking bulk rum/mead/wine the night before aswell so you're hung over as balls.

How the fck did people survive entire balls and not gas out

Adrenaline and not sitting inside all day on computers..... actually had to be physically active to survive in that world.

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11-14-2020, 07:40 AM

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THey didn't do bodybuilding

11-14-2020, 07:53 AM

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only the strong survived back then. When u look at sjws there's a reason they all look like chit

11-14-2020, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted By CanardMedic⏩

THey didn't do bodybuilding

Bodybuilding is awful for cardio

It’s hilarious watching bodybuilders having heart attacks after a 40 yard dash

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If 80% of the soldiers in a war die then 20% still survive. It's simple math

11-14-2020, 08:12 AM

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Well. I'd imagine that carrying buckets of water for your household, manually planting, managing and harvesting your field, hunting and all that using no guns and processing the meat with whatever was available then was mildly strenuous work.

Add in building everything you need by hand, walking everywhere, etc... and id bet your average Roman dude would mog all but the top 1% of miscers.

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They didn't swing swords around for hours. Battles may have lasted all day, but they didn't look like hollywood movies. Only the front line in a formation would be fighting, and they would be rotated in/out as soldiers got tired. Mostly the objective of each soldier was not to get killed, not to make wild, energetic attacks at their enemies.

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11-14-2020, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted By CanardMedic⏩

THey didn't do bodybuilding

True but they did use weighted shields, armor, weapons to help develop the strength and endurance needed to fight in battle. Actually, that wouldn't be a bad idea for a fitness program; get decked out in full armor (i.e. Roman) and practice weapons fighting, marching throughout the day. You get strong and you learn to fight.

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11-14-2020, 08:50 AM

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The roman diet was 3000 calories a day
Each roman soldier during war had a brief period of fighting. Once x amount of time passed, the front troops would go back in line to rest up, thats why romans thought in square formation so the front troops could retreat to the back of line (or die) and the next soldier behind them takes over.

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Originally Posted By Ragnerlothbrok⏩

The roman diet was 3000 calories a day
Each roman soldier during war had a brief period of fighting. Once x amount of time passed, the front troops would go back in line to rest up, thats why romans thought in square formation so the front troops could retreat to the back of line (or die) and the next soldier behind them takes over.

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11-14-2020, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted By soaponarope1⏩

Well. I'd imagine that carrying buckets of water for your household, manually planting, managing and harvesting your field, hunting and all that using no guns and processing the meat with whatever was available then was mildly strenuous work.

Add in building everything you need by hand, walking everywhere, etc... and id bet your average Roman dude would mog all but the top 1% of miscers.

Wrong. Slaves did most of everything

If you were wealthy none of that even applied. Markets in rome were amazing and had everything needed.

Also rome had the first welfare system of free bread to all roman citizens

11-14-2020, 09:19 AM

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11-14-2020, 09:22 AM

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I think yall are sleeping on the alcohol factor here, these guys drunk probably every night before battle. Would have been hung over like fck , hang over + clanging of sword on sword + battle horns = head ache

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11-14-2020, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted By Gringo12⏩

I think yall are sleeping on the alcohol factor here, these guys drunk probably every night before battle. Would have been hung over like fck , hang over + clanging of sword on sword + battle horns = head ache

they are probably functioning alcoholics. Ever met one? Them not on the sauce looks more "drunk" than them on it. They don't get hungover.

I still find it funny that for a period of time, war was conducted by lining up across from the enemy and taking turns shooting the first rows down. Imagine being the poor fuk in the first row. This is one of the reasons we cucked the British... they had no idea what to do when we ambushed their marches and used the terrain to our advantage.

11-14-2020, 09:44 AM

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different breed of men back then.

11-14-2020, 09:49 AM

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Imagine standing next to your buddy and watching him take a spear to the eye lol fukk

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Originally Posted By Gringo12⏩

I think yall are sleeping on the alcohol factor here, these guys drunk probably every night before battle. Would have been hung over like fck , hang over + clanging of sword on sword + battle horns = head ache

Forget th alcohol for a second and imagine the sore butthole factor. These guys were having unprecedented amounts of gay sex all the time and must have had insanely sore bholes. So impressive they could fight like that.