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By training and preparing for battle.

Focused mostly on endurance training. Most soldiers in battles fought in bursts, and they tended to emphasize carrying your equipment for long periods of time.

Roman legionaries were made to march 18 miles a day in full pack in about 5 hours. They then used heavily weighted versions of their actual weapons to practice. Their diet was, contrary to popular belief, very high in meat (Gladiators in contrast were a more carb heavy warrior, which made them "beefy", or in some opinions flabbier).

Then they had to dig and dig in the evening due to their demand for forts and mini settlements wherever they went

Drills, running, strength exercises, mock battles, etc.

>>2521652
So in other words the gladiators were on a perma bulk?

>>2521660
In some form yeah. The theory was that having a bigger body allowed for more visible injuries to be inflicted, without compromising the safety of the Gladiators. They were a money investment, and they weren't easily thrown away to die. Having extra bulk made sword cuts more showy and safer.

>>2521639
fpbp

>>2521635
Rome is an easy-ish example.

Drill all day, march all day, build roads all day.
Someone used to post on /fit/ this pic of a African dude who did nothing but dig all day, dude was jacked from the work and cut from his lack of food.
If all you do is eat what your commanders offers you (or whatever you hunt for), train/work all day, march all day that's some pretty good conditioning.

Join the military today, I guess you will get ripped too