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For what it's worth ...... interesting anyways:
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New research in the journal PloS ONE has revealed some surprising details about the Roman gladiators' eating habits. Rather than eating meat to bulk up for matches, the gladiators' diet was primarily a vegetarian one, including mostly beans and grains....... Anthropologists shed light on gladiators' diet - The Week
Similar diet to some of the baddest most awesome "warriors" the world has ever known - the Shaolin Monks. Healthy diet and rigorous exercise via a daily training regimen and anyone would be in tremendous shape/health.
The Shaolin monks and their fighting Lo Han Monks (security force) were masters of the war arts and known to be outstanding physical specimens. All attributed to their healthy veggie diet and daily training.
It just proves that despite what Hollywood would like us to think, athletes or fit people in the past weren't huge and bulky like Conan the Barbarian. They didn't have access to what we would think of as proper nutrition, and they wouldn't have had 5,000 - 6,000 daily calories (or whatever it is that bodybuilders eat) worth of food available to them on a regular basis.
What is funny is that this can also be called the Michael Jackson diet. Dude was a vegetarian. If he exercised daily he would have been just like the ancient gladiators.
Ive been saying this all along here on CD, if you have a HEALTHY and PROPER nutritional intake, pair that with intense exercise, you WILL without a doubt become healthy and fit. Looks like you may also need to vary your vegetarian nutritional intake with come calcium as well though:
What is funny is that this can also be called the Michael Jackson diet. Dude was a vegetarian. If he exercised daily he would have been just like the ancient gladiators.
Ive been saying this all along here on CD, if you have a HEALTHY and PROPER nutritional intake, pair that with intense exercise, you WILL without a doubt become healthy and fit. Looks like you may also need to vary your vegetarian nutritional intake with come calcium as well though:
It just proves that despite what Hollywood would like us to think, athletes or fit people in the past weren't huge and bulky like Conan the Barbarian. They didn't have access to what we would think of as proper nutrition, and they wouldn't have had 5,000 - 6,000 daily calories (or whatever it is that bodybuilders eat) worth of food available to them on a regular basis.
They certainly look bulky in the frescoes that show them.
Now imagine those gladiators eating what they did, but sitting behind a computer all day long, sitting in their cars driving back and forth to work, and then sitting in front of the TV at night watching 3 hours of The Voice.
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