How did Greek people get so ripped thousands of years ago?

[Slystallion]

They did it without supplements or barbells and dumbbells yet they sculpted their people with perfect symmetry. Now i'm going to assume that a good amount of people had to have looked like that for them to sculpt them like that. These people invented wrestling and the olympics so i'm going to assume they invented training their bodies as well

If you sculpted people the way Americans look today there would be some sad statues indeed. What do you think their athletic training regimen and diet was like?

 

[semtex]

Prob picking heavy shyt up and carrying it etc.

Idk good question tho

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

you remind me of a greek boy sly.

 

[Spliff]

The general population probably didn't.

Would you sculpt some frail shyt during a time Gods and Herculean stories were all the rage?

 

[Malta]

Men in that time period also averaged 5'4" in height, they used the soldiers for sculptures like that and they did a lot of physical work that would result in being in good shape


Also, the physique was probably exaggerated, just like today but since today people look like mutants the exaggeration isn't noticeable.

 

[puppetmaster]

They weren't sitting in chairs the majority of their day.

 

[godkiller]

They did it without supplements or barbells and dumbbells yet they sculpted their people with perfect symmetry. Now i'm going to assume that a good amount of people had to have looked like that for them to sculpt them like that. These people invented wrestling and the olympics so i'm going to assume they invented training their bodies as well

If you sculpted people the way Americans look today there would be some sad statues indeed. What do you think their athletic training regimen and diet was like?

And how do you know what Greek people looked like thousands of years ago? Are there pictures? Historians say Greek rulers ordered their busts to look like an idealized version of themselves. In other words, it's unlikely the Greeks were musclebound fitness gods. With the exception of the Spartans, who were chosen for height and strength, the rest of the Greeks probably had the same sinewy muscle other peoples had from constant physical labor.

 

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

Lifting all those pyramid blocks makes muscles

 

[jerniebert]

Not having all this shytty processed food in there diets probably helped them too.

 

[duck]

ancient greek people and all ancient people for that matter would be much physically superior to current people. they didnt have desk jobs, they didnt drive around to get where they gotta go, they didnt come home from work and lounge out and watch tv.. they put their muscles to work in almost everything they did


back then physically enduring stuff was a requirement just to survive, plus stuff like meat was kinda more of a luxury food and fruits and veggies were much bigger in their diets

 

[duck]

Delete: double post

 

[TRFG]

We just did the Greek Period in my college Art History class. Apparently the Greeks weren't as ripped as the sculptures made them out to be but because of their obsession with the male body. They made them look like they were ripped when they actually weren't, in short they were greatly exaggerated

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

you remind me of a greek boy sly.

Yoooooooooooo

Tua is like the old man from Family Guy

But yea, they got ripped off of grape leaves.

 

[Serious]

They weren't sitting in chairs the majority of their day.

right they were busy f*cking

 

[unit321]

So, you're thinking about dudes like Atlas? It was probably a slave or laborer who was involved in construction who was moving stone blocks on the daily. They used his body instead of a flabby and sick senator's body for these sculptures. Much like in today's society, the rich don't do hard labor. They employ the poor to do that.