Did the Ancient Greeks and Romans know secrets about fitness

>>37521758
>that babydick
Fucking lol

>>37521758

You know how comic book characters are ridiculously muscular and shit, way beyond what a human bean could achieve?

That's what these statues are. The representation of the most jacked guy in Greece, made 50% larger with artistic license.

Stop making these fucking threads.

>>37521767
here we see a product of the 21st century and how porn has warped the mind of this young anon. moment of silence for this misguided youth

exercise and fitness isn't rocket science. It's pretty straight forward. I'm sure geniuses like Alexander, Plato and Socrates could figure out that eating meat and lifting heavy would create a beautiful physique.

>>37521767
the greeks and romans viewed large penises as degenerate and disgusting. That's why their statues always made the penis smaller than average. Srs.

>>37521767
Tell that to his face

>>37521790
But look how they knew exactly where the veins were and how the muscles would look like if they were big. They must have had an actual jacked dude posing

>>37521767
>>37521816
True, but mostly because a small penis equals greater focus on the sculp itself.

They spent all their time working out. Also, you don't need supplements.

>>37521817
Lol, you don't have to be jacked to have a bicep vein.

>>37521801
>>37521817
I'm sorry you have a little dick.

>>37521758
Greeks had focus on beauty, replacing realistic proportions with aesthetics.

>>37521868
Romans however, were much more realistic, so I guess that most Roman models were jacked to begin with.

>>37521758
>idealism
The representations of the human form in greek sculpture is idealized, in that it represents an augmented human form that would seem most aesthetically appealing, it doesn't represent an achievable form of physique. The diminished sexual organs is there to emphasize the Godliness of the figure, rather than having large or average penis sizes which give off a theme of satyriasis or humaness. Neoplatonists did similar.

They didn't sit in chairs all day. No cars, no office jobs, no junk food, but a prosperous enough civilization that food is rarely scarce.

Obviously they are trying to represent people who are better looking than average, but I doubt that this sort of thing would be that uncommon in a society like that.

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They knew a fair amount. Milo of Croton was a wrestler and Olympian who, according to myth, built strength by lifting a calf every day as it grew and then slaughtering and eating it when it was too big to carry. This shows that they understood progressive lifting and the value of a meat based diet for strength.
Roman gladiators were also fed on barley this suggests that they had some idea about sports nutrition even if they didn't have a specific word for Protein.

>>37522056
>115g protein
Kek stay dyel you gladiator summerbitch.

>>37522075
The average height back then was like 5 foot 5, that's plenty.

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Those statues were exaggerated ideals.

If you know your anatomy you'll see how, extra muscle groups, wildly disproportionate hands/feet/head, 'ideal' measurements (super fucking beautiful but tiny dicks because large dicks were seen as animalistic, like a negro) that rarely if ever exist in nature.

>>37521941
Fun activity: work out how many hours a day you're sitting or laying down.

>>37521888
Romans I could see being jacked. Let's say you're a gladiator....
How intense would your training and workouts be if your life depended on your strength and athleticism?
With enough dedication this body is totally achievable natty

>>37521767

Small penises were desirable in the roman ages, even if they didn't have small dicks they were sculpted that way.

>>37521758

Their genes were made up from jacked people who actually had to work hard to survive.

>high protein diet
>has no choice other than lifting 7 days a week
>descendants weren't fat, pampered and lazy (for the most part)

>>37521758
The all fucked each other....
When your fighting in battle you tend to fight better if the dude stood next to you is the guy your fucking

>>37521816
>>37522170
The idea that small penises were desirable seems like a myth. Obviously the reason that sculptures have small penises is that the sculptor does not want the sculpture to be erotic or pornographic. Even if homosexuality was not looked down upon like it is now, that would be crass, and that's not the feeling that the artist is trying to invoke.

>>37521758
they photoshopped the statues fool

>>37522249
>Obviously the reason that sculptures have small penises is that the sculptor does not want the sculpture to be erotic or pornographic

How is that obvious?

Nudity as eroticism is a weirdly Anglo viewpoint. You're projecting so hard right now Anon.

Anyone else think that small dicks are more aesthetic? That is, it's better to be a grower than a shower? Don't get me wrong, I still think 7x6 is the best /erect/ length, but non-erect, I think growers look better.

>>37522309
>Nudity as eroticism
I did not imply that nude = erotic. I said that the sculptor of a nude statue would not want that nude statue to be erotic. Work on your reading comprehension.

>>37522224
Please leave this board..

>all the people ITT who think that statue was exxagerated

LMAO YOU FUCKING LOW TEST BETAS

THAT'S WHAT THE AVERAGE GREEK LOOKED LIKE. WHY? BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T FLOODED WITH XENOESTROGENS, PHYTOESTROGENS, AND PLASTIC.

>>37522309
Statues with huge dicks would be seen as erotic even without the stingma against nudity.

>>37522363
>I said that the sculptor of a nude statue would not want that nude statue to be erotic

Because you assume that a large dick is more erotic than a small one in a statue of a naked dude.

Maybe it is a myth, I'm not a classical scholar, but surely you see your own biases are kicking in here?

>>37522314
t. Dicklet

>>37522432
What's wrong with having a small dick?

>>37521758
small dicks: Because ancient greeks didn't give a shit about whether the size of their dick pleased the women and/or men they were fucking and you shouldn't either.

Oh, and female orgasm is a myth. Prove women "orgasm" feels the same as a mans.

>>37522949
Sorry about your 2in dick

>>37521832

this. its not so much about desirability, but rather just because a massive cock at eye level would be distracting from the rest of the sculpture without really adding anything of value

>>37522309
It's pretty obvious. I mean if they made statues with giant hanging penises, people would be staring at the penises. With the way they sculpted them instead, people take in the whole statue, albeit after laughing at the fact that it has a baby dick.

>>37522169
Gladiators were probably perma bulk strong fat

>>37523013
That's ok. At least I've never had a woman turn down a request for anal.

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NIGGA THEY LITERALLY WALKED EVERYWHERE. HAVE YOU EVEN BEEN TO ITALY/GREECE? ITS HILL AFTER HILL AFTER HILL.