Gladiator Diet

How healthy were they if all they ate was barley, wheat and beans?

Schizo's on here talk about how wheat and gluten fricks up the gut biome but I feel like it didn't bother them very much.

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    i don't think they should be looked to as some indication or ideal for fitness. they were often slaves and criminals who simply fought to the death for the entertainment of the masses. the more cruel emperors through cripples, morons, and the elderly in the mix also.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      threw*, not through

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't know man. This board preached the squats and oats meme for the longest time and it made sense because oats are dense it energy and squats make you physically stronger.

      If you added some cheese or yogurt with the oats and just subsisted off of that you'd probably go far. Sometimes shit is so moronic that is just works, like prisoners and what they eat. They eat shit like cornbread, beans, rice and occasionally meat. However, they spend a huge amount of time exercising which forces the body to utilize what it's got and work forward regardless. That to me seems very based, making nothing out of something.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >slaves or criminals
      Depended on the era. Pax Romana had many who were known as sportsmen. Also they very rarely died at that time.

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Fabulous. Who makes these?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        booru.onions, although I've made OC basedjaks on Twitter before and seen them reposted onto the booru

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          The original

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      what do the coomer and person between IST and IST supposed to represent?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        /gif/ and IST maybe?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          IST is either the one besides Schopenhauer or Schopenhauer himself

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            I'd've guessed Schopenhauer is IST

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Insects and birds were common things eaten back then.

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They were known as having a builtfat look and they weren't eating to be healthy. They were eating to get huge and to have a layer of fat so that way their cuts stayed more surface level instead of cutting to the flesh

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >they weren't eating to be healthy. They were eating to get huge and to have a layer of fat so that way their cuts stayed more surface level instead of cutting to the flesh

      Seems healthy to me.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Would they basically look like out of shape hand egg players?

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    If you want to eat wheat and beans all day literally no one is fricking stopping you jesus Christ

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Despite what vegans and carnischizos will tell you, the human body can tolerate a very wide range of diet. You can be eat whatever you want and as long as you get enough complete protein and fats, you can build muscle.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    they were known to be on the flabbier side as another anon said. despite that they were still probably eating healthier than a lot of people do nowadays, and were definitely getting a frick ton more exercise, so imagine they'd be considered pretty healthy by todays standards

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      they are just the ancient version of Starting Strength followers, instead of squatz and oatz it was slashz and beanz

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    whats happening in this painting? are they booing him for sparing him?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      He's looking to see if the crowd wants him to spare his opponent or not, and by showing the thumbsies downies the crowd is saying they want to see him kill him

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        iirc the victor of a fight often looked to the crowd when they'd defeated an opponent to get an idea of whether the crowd wanted him to kill or spare them. the popular myth is that thumbs up meant spare and thumbs down meant kill, so in this painting most likely the artist is trying to portray the crowd telling the victor to kill the defeated opponent. i think more accurately the jury is out on whether it was a thumbs up or thumbs down that meant 'kill' or whether just showing thumbs at all was the signal for it

        wow thats crazy, so glad we've moved on from such barbaric practices haha

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          it is crazy. i mean the whole classical period is really interesting but really brutal. if you think gladiatorial fights were the worst of it you should look into the origins of the servile (slave) wars. basically due to some wars causing an influx of conquered slaves, it became cheaper for plantation owners in southern Italy and Sicily to just work slaves to death quickly and then immediately buy new replacements than to keep individual slaves for many years

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >thumbs down death
        Historians are unsure what the "hostile thumb" looked like, but it was more clear than the gesture for mercy, so it's thought thumbs up was likely the sign of death, as it's much easier to see from a distance than a thumbs down.

        I have no idea why I'm being so autistic on IST rn. But I started cutting last week and am down 2 pounds already with only diet changes.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          probably sidewards to signify a body being downed. I imagine they kept doing such gesture, up then down making the arena a fire and the defeated dead meat. thumbs up is just the body still stands and there is no gesture, meaning more peaceful psique of the arena etc etc. if you are fit make a thumbs down and feel your wrists almost crack. its not feasible who had the idea of thumbs down was a hopeless dyel, or a woman.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >probably
            >I imagine
            Historygays only have headcanon
            I'd rather just stick to my own headcanon than some fricking nerds fantasy

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      iirc the victor of a fight often looked to the crowd when they'd defeated an opponent to get an idea of whether the crowd wanted him to kill or spare them. the popular myth is that thumbs up meant spare and thumbs down meant kill, so in this painting most likely the artist is trying to portray the crowd telling the victor to kill the defeated opponent. i think more accurately the jury is out on whether it was a thumbs up or thumbs down that meant 'kill' or whether just showing thumbs at all was the signal for it

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They were slaves and fed accordingly. Frick muh grainerinos.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why does everyone on here have such an irrational hatred for grains?

  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Again with your homosexual gladiatorcels.
    They ate whatever they could get. You think they went to walmart and picked out specific foods for "gladiator fighting"?
    Fricking homosexuals you are. Another thread hoping someone gives you just the right "redpill" on how to look like brad pitt in the stupid movie without having to do anything, because you losers will never ever go to the fricking gym

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They were fed barley and beans. First it was cheap af, second it would make them higher bf%, so they could get more small cuts in fights, making it a better show.

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Every fricking day they were doing manual labor, fighting, training, and walking for miles.

    Literally use your fricking brain for 5 seconds and delete this thread.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I thought they were literally just actors/performers

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    they were GIVEN carbs as feed, doesnt mean they didnt fricking eat fricking meat or eggs on their lives, white people nowdays are so fricked up they cant imagine anything out of the slavery rules they read about on factcheck.com. imagine a man surviving 2 or 3 others, he will be rewarded with what? maybe the barley the defeated ones didnt eat? does ngmi says anything to you.

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