How did the Vikings get so swole...

Okay, now answer me this: was it historically accurate all the niggers/spics and in general non europeans on the Spartacus show's slave population? I would've thought they'd take slaves from Gaul, Spain and Illyria rather than sub-saharan africa (which they never even went to) and the Middle-east.

>Food wasn't scarce, people ate loads more than we do today

>t. researches this as a hobby

Find a new fucking hobby holy shit

Slavetrade?

not that user, but, it depends on what answer you're looking for. if you're looking for the socially acceptable answer, the world has always been diverse and diversity is our strength and of course there were niggers all over the world, even in russia. if you want the real answer, it's possible there were some Nubian/Negroid slaves but their probably weren't very many at all.

*there
fugg now i look stupid

They bought slaves in North Africa, a few were shipped from sub Saharan African. Not many though.

How do I into Crixus mode?

>BMI
It was some swiss archeological study. Take it with a grain of salt it can of course only be an approximation.

And yes, of course they used anything they could get their hands on tio be stronger. Think Ayurveda/TCM, medical plants that are seen as poisonous today, etc.

Example: You can, as onionbrah showed, increase testosterone by drinking pomegranate juice. This was known in the Middle Ages and antiquity to, so it was of course used. They used Opium, they drank bull blood, stuff like that.

Make no mistake though, the feats of strength that are recorded from old Greece through Rome through the European Middle Ages are pretty crazy. Like jumping 3.5 meters high or throwing a 364 pound rock for 9 meters for a knight. They could also punch a heavy oak table and leave impressions of their knuckles in it.

So yeah, pretty crazy stuff. A few historians think it's all bullshit, but some actually compare modern athletes to men back then and they are very impressed by the numbers. Also, knights were pretty fucking tall in some cases.

>Find a new fucking hobby holy shit

>t. someone with basic bitch hobby that would never be able to contribute to some obscure Jow Forums post

>was it historically accurate all the niggers/spics and in general non europeans on the Spartacus show's slave population? I would've thought they'd take slaves from Gaul, Spain and Illyria rather than sub-saharan africa (which they never even went to) and the Middle-east.
Never watched the series, too much Hollywood. And wouldn't know about slaves, I mostly care for hoplology (history of warfare/martial arts) and I'm not like the other professors who talk bullshit about stuff they don't know shit about. So I'll be honest: Sorry, I dunno.

American education.

>BMI 29
Interesting post and in many parts of Europe people were pretty short so you're probably correct. Digging through a thousand or so graves of old vikings have us believe they were slightly taller than the people of today in Scandinavia (with possible exception of Danish). That would make a BMI of 29 pretty unlikely for Vikings?

Also a staple in the food was pig/swine that was easy to house in a small area and it ate pretty much anything and turned it into pork. Entrails, liver, kidney was main source of vitamins since veggies was impossible to get in the winter.

You're fucking retarded if you genuinely think humans in the middle ages had a fucking 29 average BMI, and even more braindead if you think that it was all muscle

Average height was manlet status even for scandis (5'7 for men), though taller than other euros

There IS an argument to be made that they were beefier than euros as well as being taller, because their animal agriculture was better, but to genuinely fucking even CONSIDER the possibility that these 5'7 backwater fucks in the middle ages were an average 29 BMI is a joke.

this. They would be like ottermode but with lots of endurance.

In England archers used kettlebells made of black iron. It was torturous training that would often leave the longbow archer deformed for life and his musculature would be imbalanced. However, they had a cushy job in some senses, functioning as long range artillery with not much chance of being hit back, compared to short-range archers or peasant melee fighters.

bbc.co.uk/news/10138060

>A reconstruction revealed what the knight, who was a "very strong and fit nobleman, with the physique of a professional rugby player", may have looked like.

Our ancestors were fucking swole.

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Skeletons found from this age shows us that they did get very nutritious food and in good quantities, so he is right

5'7 with a bmi of 29 for a human male is ~85kg

fuark dude i'm shredded

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wat

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hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/nutrition_details.htm

watching thor is not researching

Vikings were more often farmers than not

I've read that the best archers could pull young trees out of the ground, which I kind of believe when you hear about what poundage bows they were shipping on the Mary Rose.
>reconstructions estimate draw weights ranging from 100 to 185lb

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Answer is they mostly didn't, some of them did because they had more quality food to eat based on their status.

This is not based on the norse at the end of the viking age but it's still relevant for the germanic peoples in general:

>The Arabic author Ibn Fadlan described the Vikings as follows: ”I have never seen people with a more perfect body build. They are like date palms and their skin is reddish".

>Julius Caesar’s De Bello Gallico (51 BC) and Tacitus’ Germania (AD 98) on germanics:
"All have fierce blue eyes, red[1] hair, huge frames, fit only for a sudden exertion. They are less able to bear laborious work. Heat and thirst they cannot in the least endure; to cold and hunger their climate and their soil inure them."

This is most likely an exaggeration, consdering the average germanic skeleton was 170cm in length. Their diet was vastly inferior to that of the modern european today, but they did eat more meat and dairy products than the romans did, which might have given them a larger muscular frame throughout their childhood to elder age in comparison.

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Yep, they were insanely strong and durable but would be a chiropracter's worst nightmare, they were super imbalanced and their bodies were basically optimised for that twisting motion of drawing this ridiculously powerful bow.

Personally I would much rather have been a crossbow faggot or a shortbow support soldier, more dangerous but less horrifying training.

>Push ups invented in 1870

you're telling me in all of human history, not a single person released that pushing the earth down was useful for building strength?

>approach the fortress
>its guarded by literal freaks of human nature with one huge mutant arm and one comparatively atrophied one
>huge bulbous growth on one half of the back from drawing the bow

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Vikings were DYEL manlets by today's standards of health and nutrition.

Don't listen to the retard, ancient greeks had a vast history of bodyweight training, which also included pushups and weighted pushups(with a partner weighing you down).

>vikings
>manlets
Skeletons from a thousand graves proves you wrong. At least they were tall. Probably the main reason for their fearsome reputation.

Umm, no, sweetie. Vikings were 5'7"-5'8". Still a few inches taller than everyone else at the time but still manlets.

I'm talking specifically about skeletons from Scandinavia in the period we would call the Viking age, where they got 80% of their food from the sea, not from agriculture.

Kek I've never seen a more british looking person.

>u wot m8

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>trusting bbc

m8 you push with one arm and pull with the other

> Died fighting in his mid-20s
story checks out

This is a really good shitpost

>My source 180-182 cm, your source 170-172,5 cm.
Since your sources contradict mine I would very much like to know your source.
(To see they if they're using 14th century numbers or think Germanic people south of Scandinavia should be labeled as Vikings.)

Manlet is a pretty relative term. 5'7 was somewhat tall for that time.

It wouldnt be imbalanced arms, but they would have a fucked up midsection because of twisting the spine so often. As another user said you push with one arm and pull with the other - also, the bow itself would weigh a lot and you'd be holding it up for a long time, hours possibly without any rest, so they had great endurance for that too.

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iits because they were eating meat and bread not some fucked diets from the internet

successful bait, 8/10. the periodization, doping and push ups thing detract from solid 10/10

Vikings failed in Greenland due to not utilizing food from the ocean. They were stuck thinking in an agricultural way of eating

>fucking mongols had 160 lb pull
>they did that shit on horse back
JESUS FUCK

>Mongols
>English Longbow

Because they were descendants of Nephilim aka RH- Blood.
Naturally larger and stronger because they were the offspring of angels and humans.

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>you're telling me in all of human history, not a single person released that pushing the earth down was useful for building strength?
BWE as you know them was invented by the German Turners (gymnasts). Originally, they did stuff like rope climbing, running, etc, which overtime and with the addition of more apparatuses turned into what we can recognize as gymnastics or BWE today.

The first mention of push ups I ever found was the Volksturnbuch by August Ravenstein from around 1860-1870. There, push ups (on parallel bars) were introduced as a new exercise for people who weren't able to do dips. To the ebst of my knowledge, that's the first mention I ever saw in books. Earliest mention in the US is around 1905, earliest in the UK (press ups) is in the 1940s, though they used the "dip" as a push up exercise before (around 1900, as the US). It was, in both cases, a novel exercise that was described fully in the books, and not like today, where everyone knows what a push up ist. Jahn, for example, doesn't mention it (his books show only the static position, aka "holding the up position", not the exercises of bending the arms).

No they didn't.

>which also included pushups and weighted pushups(with a partner weighing you down).
They didn't even have bars to do pull ups on - they used ropes to climb, if even that (many descirptions of gymnasisa don't include ropes or bars).

All of it is true though. Well, as far as we know currently, of course.
Google:
>For Periodization: Tetrad
>For Doping: Black Soup, Bull blood, doping in ancient olympics
>Push Ups: Read up on Google books, much stuff should be there and do a search for push ups, press ups, liegestützbeugen before the 19th century and then check if that is what we understand under "push ups"

>tfw no black soup gains

Also didnt the Spartans do hand balancing and pushups from that position for upper body strength according to Persian spies?

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I said pushups not pullups.

Pushups have AT LEAST been around since the roman emperor Constantine who literally was described as doing them frequently and after seeing its effectiveness at increasing overall strength in men around him he made it a mandatory exercise in the roman military.
In hindu culture pushups were a thing too, and that predated the roman empire by hundreds of years

It's more than safe to assume that pushups have been around since the dawn of civilization as it allowed people to distribute work and occupation more evenly and allowed every individual to have more free time to do whatever they wished.

Literal 100% falsehoods

Elaborate faggot

Let me guess, only the brave israelites walking through the desert are true athletes. Everything else is lies from inferior races.

Uhh, that's helluva cheap Jow Forums-bait ...

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They were literally farmers how would get together every now and then to steal shit.

>Make no mistake though, the feats of strength that are recorded from old Greece through Rome through the European Middle Ages are pretty crazy. Like jumping 3.5 meters high or throwing a 364 pound rock for 9 meters for a knight. They could also punch a heavy oak table and leave impressions of their knuckles in it.

ya also theres a guy who lives in north pole and he gives gifts n presents to good kids every year and he rides around on a cart with reindeers LOL

For you

kek

multiculturalism in any form has always been jewish

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>implying Crixus is natty

>be me
>22 at the time
>Make a lot of money though a freak chance
>Basically afford a flat, and a year of living without having to do anything.
>Have GF at time
>For a year do nothing but eat sleep and fuck
>get fat lazy and desensitized
>Decide fuck it
>Move the money offshore and lock it down
>Say i donated the money to a charity
>Get fit and go back to school
>Girl dumps me because I'm "poor" now
Trust me user when all you do is eat sleep and fuck you and your whole life go to shit real fast

Medieval example of weighted push ups for sword training.

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>BRRAAAAAPPPPPPPP

This. They stole from monks n lost to real soldiers

Blonde hair blue eyes with O Rh -ve blood. Does that make me a part Annunaki? Is that why some blacks call whites "white devil"?

Remove cock from ass

Macros help but are less important then water. You can get swole eating Twinkies if you lift hard enough.