Comments on: The Real Gladiator Workout: Train Like A Gladiator https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/ Ancient Secrets To Learning More, Making Better Decisions, And Future-Proofing Your Life Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:56:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: James Hood https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-25761 Tue, 16 Oct 2018 07:56:48 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-25761 Hi Peter,

Nice post. This article made me to just recall the past ancient days. It is great that we are following ancients in one or the other way.

]]> By: Amazing workout program https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-24952 Fri, 06 Jul 2018 10:14:20 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-24952 Amazing workout program which really helpful for bodybuilding like a gladiator.

]]> By: Peter https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-23559 Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:51:51 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-23559 In reply to Art.

Yes, I can.

For example, for Galen his main stuff on exercise comes from “On exercise with small balls”, where he recommends games with small balls as being the best things to do for health. The main source for me on the tetrads was Philostratus and his work “Concerning Gymnastics”. I found an English translation of it online. For Vegetius, “De Re Militari” is also available online with an English translation (I have a link to it in the text). I will get back to you in a bit once I have more time and try to send some more of the sources.

]]> By: Art https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-23553 Wed, 27 Dec 2017 02:37:06 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-23553 In reply to Peter.

Is there anyway you can post some of the books, scripts or what ever you used to get this information from? The likes of Galen , and others?

]]> By: Peter https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-22188 Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:50:23 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-22188 In reply to Kozushi.

Wow! Thanks for the comprehensive comment! Yeah I also remember reading that passage about the guy grunting when working out in Seneca and thinking how modern that sounds. It gives you perspective when you think that both the grunter and the guy who wrote about him have all been dead for almost 2 thousand years now!

]]> By: Kozushi https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-22187 Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:33:29 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-22187 I like this article because it has a lot of direct references to classical sources but also attempts to fill in the gaps. I remember reading a passage in Seneca where he complains about guys at the gym below his apartment grunting as they swung weights over their heads. Jumping exercises were clearly very important: the one that is most referenced in ancient literature is the “bum kicking dance” (as worded so by Aristophanes) if you like, where you jump up with both feet and try to kick your own backside, repeated over and over. I never found any reference to pushups or squats but if you can, I’d LOVE to see them! I’m actually quite surprised they are not referenced at all. Galen’s exercises clearly denote the deadlift, farmer’s carry, isometric chin/pullups I have to assume with straight arms, isometric lateral raises, isometric overhead presses, isometric front raises to failure. He does mention that you can do these same exercises “violently” (i.e. “with power” as you point out) so I suppose we could see these same ones done as repetitions of deadlifts, and of swings overhead like a dumbbell snatch, swings forward and raises to the sides. He mentions several “bending at the waist” exercises, so I am going to assume that you were welcome to bend at the waist to swing the weights, since bent waist strength was important to them clearly. However, because of how he organizes his information and also because of what he spends more words describing, it would seem to me that holding a position for a long time, so therefore “isometric” exercises were the most respected ones. This is maybe the secret of ancient strength that we have missed in today’s world? However, we’re seeing a resurgence of isometrics in recent times with yoga, and some kettlebell moves and similar.

]]> By: Peter https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-21773 Sun, 05 Feb 2017 23:15:14 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-21773 In reply to Tony Berrill.

Thanks! Yeah I could appreciate how much hard work and dedication this type of training takes when I went to train Muay Thai (and also a bit of some other martial arts like wrestling and BJJ) in Thailand last summer. Kind of wish I had dedicated myself a bit more to this. Kind of jealous of you actually that you managed to get such a high rank in so many disciplines, but hats off to you! 🙂 40 years of dedicated training WOW!

]]> By: Tony Berrill https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-21771 Sun, 05 Feb 2017 22:25:05 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-21771 I have trained for over 40 years in martial arts and I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this article I can also relate to a lot of the mind and training of these incredible men as I have done many disciplines with three black belts and I was once boxer of the year together with being British judo champion.

]]> By: Peter https://gainweightjournal.com/the-real-gladiator-workout-train-like-a-gladiator/#comment-19550 Tue, 10 May 2016 07:48:49 +0000 http://gainweightjournal.com/?p=2285#comment-19550 In reply to anirban.

Unfortunately no degrees in these courses anymore 🙂 but you can structure your workouts to apply some of these principles

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