Thread: Bodybuilding Physqiues Pre-Modern Time

Not sure which forum this belongs or fits best in.
You know, most articles I read about the history of bodybuilding begin the early 20th century.

I was curious though if going to the gym, getting muscular, is more of a modern day thing or possibly if this was something done in colonial times/renissance times/and during the Greek and Roman empires.

I heard and learned about being a 'Renissance' man, and if you ever have looked at Greek and Roman art, you know they sculpted a lot of muscular figures.

So any bodybuilding historians can attest to how big a deal this was in earlier times?

I'd be curious, how the heck did people in the 1200s or Greek/Roman times get big and muscular? They didn't have a Gold's gym or anywhere close to the science we have.

I much prefer the physiques of BB's from the early 70's and back
That's something I wanted to look like.

Being one large muscle, who can hardly breathe, and walks around like they have a shoe up their ass isn't my idea of a lofty physique.