What kind of IST is ideal for an ancient warrior?
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What kind of IST is ideal for an ancient warrior?
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Knee extension / hip hinge 3x per week
Press every workout
Arm isolation
Upper back work x F
the one that kills and doesn't get killed
Power is generated overwhelmingly by the lower body and distributed through the core, so your lower body is always your focus.
When you bring a melee weapon to bear you're using your shoulder supported by upper back musculature, so your shoulders and arms should be prioritized over your chest.
>Power is generated overwhelmingly by the lower body and distributed through the core, so your lower body is always your focus.
>When you bring a melee weapon to bear you're using your shoulder supported by upper back musculature, so your shoulders and arms should be prioritized over your chest.
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like
Not to mention that the lower body was far more important for the majority of a soldiers life, marching and patrolling. You spent far more time walking to and from the fight or walking out around your force looking for the enemy than you'd actually spend in the fight. If you couldn't keep up, the enemy could easily force a battle at their advantage, or disengage or outmaneuver your force.
Guys I would be a terrible soldier in ancient times I’m not very muscular and I have no cardio and I get tired easily. I am pretty intelligent though so I would probably just /nobilitymax/ and frick all the newly single women after all their soldiers go away to fight in wars and I would also probably just engage in obscene amounts of war profiteering
You'd probably be a slave twink getting passed around the barracks until you died of ancient AIDS
oh god that sounds awful haha
Unironically, Olympic lifting. Requires full body explosiveness and athleticism.
Idk, most of what soldiers did was marching around, digging ditches, marching or even jogging in formation. It sounds like a job fit for someone with endurance, not necessarily insane fast twitch muscle fibres. That kind of person needs an insane amount to eat and can't handle the deprivation experienced by a soldier, who might go some time without sufficient food.
All of the special ops guys I've known are very large. In fact, I know several with huge power cleans. I'm not saying you're wrong about the workload. But, it's not like being muscular and explosive subtracts from your ability to do those things. If you're literally training for the Olympics, sure you will have a hard time maintaining world class performance. But that's not what the guy you're replying to said or even implied.
Extremely dependent on the unit. 90% of ops just sits around in garrison or on fobs and lifts. Some actually look like fat fricks. Don't know how they don't get kicked. 10% actually does shit and of that 10% most are athletic build but not built. PEDs are also used a lot.
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People cannot comprehend just how athletic these men were compared to us today. At the battle of marathon the Greeks sprinted full speed at the Persian army for an entire mile downhill wearing 60lb armor before the battle even began. These men possessed a strength beyond anything modern man has today.
i know i was there
>downhill
fkn casuals.
Why did they draw an arab in their ranks?
Early September climate in Athens is summer, over 30 degrees Celsius easily. They marched in the heat
>ripped
>bulked-up
dyel tweet
another "ancient Greece historian" having absolutely moronic nonsensical takes that contradict every writer from the period
let me make myself clear
I'm talking about the dude being quoted on the tweet, the moron spouting drivel
How is he wrong?
Maybe people in ancient times had different opinions. Where do I accept my Nobel prize?
Just do what the Ancient greek warriors did.
You need to train for warfare. This means being competent across many domains: lift + carry weights, jump, throw, strike, grapple, sprint, jog, hike, swim, and so forth. Check out the book 'king of all things' pic rel
Just FYI, if you crop even a tiny bit off of a pic after you copy it from your phone it fixes the problem of the image always turning up sideways even though it says it's right side up in the file explorer.
Thanks serves me right for phone posting
The book is full of fun little nuggets like that
>that excerpt
based as frick, not even mentioning what an insecure and bitter homosexual zyzz acted like
zyzz was hilarious. wish people still posted his tinder replies and his bb posts and shit. he was first step to blackpill
Look up Eugen Sandow's routine
he went to Rome and Greece several times and took measurements of statues to perfect his body to the 'Grecian Standard'
Read his book and become an ancient warrior.
It's a bit deceptive because those statues aren't depicting what Greek generals knew would make a good soldier. They depict the idealized form of the human body in the minds of the sculptors who made them.
What a sculptor imagines a great warrior looks like and what he actually does are two vastly different things.
The sculptors used models for their statues. The models were not Warriors though, they were literally bodybuilders.
greeks were jacked with huge shoulders from rowing
ofc they'd want to build the strongest physique in times of opulence, so they have reserves to fall back on in times of war
They looked like pic related. Lean, some muscle, but still slender. Bodyweight of around 150lbs.
They would be weaker than your average gym goer today.
Most weapons are light as shit, and no, they didn't wear 80lbs or whatever of armor, which is a translation myth. At most about 35lbs, if they were lucky and could afford it.
This guy again? Go rope yourself you disgusting pedophile.
>Modern PHD makes shit up to make the past look worse
why do they all do this?
>why do they all do this?
Because there are too many people allowed to become PhDs and they are all trying to leave some kind of mark on their respective disciplines.
When people have a burden of performance in a field they really shouldn't have been given accolades in they begin to pollute it with their mid wit idealism.
Also, these hacks are rewarded handsomely for promoting dysgenic and pro-globohomosexual thought patterns (e.g. greeks were big gay and actually were lithe twinks)