Who were the most /fit/ warriors?
Vikings were imo
greeks
>>35511389
Vikings, Mongols, Xiaolin Monks, Spartans. Any group who spent all of their free time either waging war or training to defend themselves were all /fit/ as fuck.
>>35511446
>mongols
>drinking blood mixed with milk
Did mongols invent the protein shake?
>>35511446
>Spartans
spartans were the cucks of greece
>>35511474
>implying Spartans weren't the original /fit/
Spend all day working out.
Spend all day mirin.
Spend all day worshiping the Greek God of fitness.
Spend all day being forever along because working out to much.
Spend all day with a bunch of sweaty muscular men.
Spend all night getting that god tier semen protein.
>>35511389
If you are judging based on the picture you posted, then probably vikings.
In reality though, you'd have to look at the training they participated in, combined with how much meat was in their diets.
Think greeks with their intense training. They were obsessed with obtaining aesthetics.
Think about the scots. Their workout consisted of every event in the highland games 5x5
I dunno about the vikings training. But they loved shrooms
>>35511446
>Xioalin Monks
>Xioalin
>>35511526
>>implying Spartans weren't the original /fit/
Implying that the only Greek state to not participate in the conquest of Asia were the Spartans.
So basically the only time Greece was truly successful against Persia was the time the Spartans were left out.
So yeah you are right, the Spartans were the original /fit/ because they sucked balls.
>>35511389
Úlfhéðnar are sometimes described as Odin's special warriors: "[Odin's] men went without their mailcoats and were mad as hounds or wolves, bit their shields...they slew men, but neither fire nor iron had effect upon them. This is called 'going berserk'."
Vikings first users of creatine?
>>35511551
>stayed at home mirin and working out instead of doing something constructive.
Sounds like /fit/ to me.
Also forgetting that time the Spartan's and Persian's fucked up Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Leading to Alexander the Great rising to power and being the won who wrecked the Persian Empire.
>>35511621
>Also forgetting that time the Spartan's and Persian's fucked up Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Leading to Alexander the Great rising to power and being the won who wrecked the Persian Empire.
The armor he sent back to greece specifically said "without sparta" on it.
caveman master race, the original natty
>>35511389
Athenian Trireme rowers. They would typically row 100km a day, and rowed about 6-8 hours a day. They were actually well-paid freemen. And they usually rowed till they collapsed during battles.
>>35511389
greeks you dungus
>>35511642
Yep sounds like something that you would hear about in a /fit/ greentext story.
>be me sitting at home with my bros lifting and mirin each others gainz
>suddenly this autistic manlet shows up we'll call him Alexander
>H-hey Sparta w-wanna join my conquest of Persia
>we all laugh at him and tell him to get the fuck out you skeleton
>next thing we know he's conquered all of Persia
>now we're the laughing stock of all of Greece
hold me ancient/fit/
>wojack.carving on wall
>>35511741
>implying cavemen weren't frauds
>>35511389
>yfw Vikings got btfo in every major engagement they had.
Loving every laugh. Try to blame the Jews for this one, lanklets.
>>35512417
No they didn't, just drop it.
If we're talking norsemen/spartans/knights/samurai whatever, it all comes down to what kind of diet they'd have because they all trained pretty rigourously.
Don't know what Spartans ate. Vikings ate a lot of fish. Enough so that they were a few centimeters taller than your average european at the time (based on archeological evidence). I think Japanese ate a lot of fish too but on the other hand, they often only ate a lot of plain rice with nothing else to it. Not exactly something you'd get buff on.
Knights probably ate a lot of game.
>>35511466
They fermented the horse milk first, so no unless you add alcohol to your shake
Were Maoris /fit/?
All i know is they had a large warrior culture and would eat their enemies after defeating them on the battlefield only leaving when the corpses started to smell
>le epic vikings meme
Wew
>>35512455
>N-n-no y-you're wrong, b-b-because reasons.
Look at him and laugh, lads. Vikings weren't great fighters. They were cowards who raided and then ran. They were more mobile and that's why they were ever successfull, and it was usually against untrained villagers in coastal cities.
Keep on keeping on, though, friendo.
>>35511389
Spartans. No contest.
Can we all at least agree that diogenes is the official philosopher of /fit/
>>35511741
>neanderkike
>not Cro-Magnon
>>35511389
Vikings were the mediavel blacks
Attacks small villages,runs away when the actuall warriors show up
I would say Romans were fit
>>35512662
>philosopher of 4chan
Fixed that for you
>>35512667
>O-oh, he didn't just back down. I know, I'll just call his post b8! That'll prove my point better than an actual discussion, or even facts!
Whew. A cowardly hit and run just like your idols. Come back when you discover the wheel. Nice boat-building skills, though.
>>35511389
Any and all elite troops/soldiers/warriors who were genetically gifted and trained hard.
>>35512522
That was before tje Viking Age you fucking idiot. Don't post unless you know what it is you are posting.
>>35512624
varangian guard tho
Came in expecting Spartans, left satisfied.
But for real just because you watched that Viking show doesn't mean Vikings actually looked liked that, Scandinavian people are primarily endomorphs and have a lot of muscle and fat, (I and all of my family are Norwegian).
Spartans literally obsessed over war, they bred for it all there lives, and they were not fed too much, but not too little either, they had to learn to steal to get fed to make them stronger. Spartans are the OGs
>>35512458
>not getting wheysted
>>35511551
Either this is bait or you don't know history very well, at all.
>Battle of Plataea not even once
The Jews
Their routine was pretty based
>trumpet blowing until city falls
>1 x arc building
>pyramid building 1xf
>armed rebellion 1xf
>1x10 rock chiseling
>long distance running back to Israel
And once back in the holy land, eventually:
>1x "massada suicide drill"
>1x nail your savour to a cross
And even later:
>6milion x Sauna
>>35512840
>jews
>not being litteral gains goblins
>>35511744
i have heard from somewhere that there are recorded feats of rowing those dudes accomplished that even olympic teams can't match today. Anyone else heard that?
>>35511741
I would say that yeah, some primitive groups are fucking unbelievably fit. They might not look like it because their skin weathers really badly and they end up looking baggy and untoned, but these motherfucks do endurance hunting. If that's not the most hardcore shit you've ever heard of, I want to know what deathworld you're from.
>>35512917
>I would say that yeah, some primitive groups are fucking unbelievably fit. They might not look like it because their skin weathers really badly and they end up looking baggy and untoned, but these motherfucks do endurance hunting. If that's not the most hardcore shit you've ever heard of, I want to know what deathworld you're from.
>I have never traveled nor attended school
>>35512958
>implying
And the funny thing is that Spartans were probably weak by fit's standards
When are you cucks going to admit that ottermode that combines strength and endurance, and can sustain the same average-biggish strength output for several hours straight, is the best mode?
>>35512462
Mang mayori was canibal and shiet dey had 2 be fit
>>35512917
Ayo we wuz kingz n shiet
>>35512958
you gon learn to-day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
>>35512753
Was mostly made up of mad russians and was nordic only for a brief period of time, even then it wasn't only nordic
>>35513015
ayo I was referring to white cavemen n sheit too, you fucking walnut
>>35513023
Look, a hunting skill performed by 2 tribes in the entire world. It must apply to all 'primitives'.
>>35511389
Mongols imo, they are ridiculously built even today
Women
No one has said the scotts....
Are you fuckers blind?
>>35513074
They were defeated by the smack fairy, sorry.
>>35512741
the jumping guy has the same armor as Achilles in "Troy"
I watch that movie alot
no homo
>>35512737
Someones mad their great-great-...-grandma got raped by vikings. Fucking rape baby.
>>35512807
Kek
>>35511389
Vikings actually. They actually knew a shit ton about personal health and fitness.
Second would probably Xiaolin, but I don't know if they should count.
>>35513065
let's be real, it's not that hard to invent. Are you saying that in the tens of thousands of years prior to recorded history, nobody came up with that shit?
We literally evolved our goddamn bodies to run.
>>35513127
viking sword style>wu-tang sword style nigga
>>35513135
>it's not that hard to invent.
It is a very unpractical form of hunting in most areas of the world and in recorded history it has only been practiced where other forms of hunting, because of the environment or because of lack of access to technology, have been difficult or impossible to practice.
The most efficient human survival skill is adaption, and people adapt to their environment in ways to make their lives more efficient. Persistence hunting is not practical unless the hunters have no other choice because it takes a lot more work than any other hunting form.
>>35513204
Those are some great assertions. Really unfortunate about the lack of a single shred of evidence.
We are fucking bipeds with a sweat system, gait, endurance-focused musculature, and the wits to plan ahead, carry water with us, and work in groups. How you could possibly imagine we DIDN'T evolve to overcome the stresses of endurance/persistence hunting is beyond me.
I never said it was all primitives did, anyway. That's you, just trying to make my point look silly. The point is that many primitives were undoubtedly capable of doing it if more efficient methods of hunting failed them. It's our default, worst-case scenario solution.
Though it may take a lot of work, the one good benefit of persistence hunting is that you need almost nothing other than your own fitness to do it. You just fucking go out there and run down an antelope, then kill it with a rock. If you had to drop your spear because some other animal surprised you, and you were separated from your group, you could always, no matter what, run down your prey.
>>35513327
>Though it may take a lot of work, the one good benefit of persistence hunting is that you need almost nothing other than your own fitness to do it. You just fucking go out there and run down an antelope, then kill it with a rock. If you had to drop your spear because some other animal surprised you, and you were separated from your group, you could always, no matter what, run down your prey.
You drop a link about persistence hunting and haven't even read it yourself. You don't know what persistence hunting is, do you desu
>>35513430
Persistence hunting - the practice of hunting wherein a predator chases a prey animal long enough that the prey animal becomes exhausted or otherwise unable to continue fleeing, at which point the predator can kill it at their leisure.
There, I even reformulated it in my own words. Eat a million dicks with that grin.
Not fit but alpha
Turks
>>35513509
>implying conquering countries due to opponents passing out from their smell is alpha
>>35513509
>sub human mud slime inbred trash
>alpha
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulas_family
>>35511562
Ha! Made me kek
(got the same shrooms they actually used growing in my garden)
>>35512662
Nah, Plato is /fit/. Nigga outright said you aren't shit if you don't excercise. And he was a Champion boxer.
>>35513559
Diogenes is literally 4chan personified millenia before this site existed
>>35513466
I'll give you another chance desu.
Name a single case where the hunt has been performed by an individual and not by a group dividing the labour between each other as to prevent each other exhausting before the animal.
>>35511741
lmao 1rock ohp
>>35513630
literally the second page of the fucking landmark study on the issue notes NUMEROUS EXAMPLES.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/508695?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Here's one of the better examples from "Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter-Gatherers" by Louis Liebenberg:
"The shortest hunt I witnessed lasted less than two hours (the exact time is not known, since I had to catch up with the hunter) (table 1). In this hunt !Nate ran the entire way, although he sometimes slowed down when he lost the spoor."
>>35513630
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
>>35513808
the sperg won't like that one if it's the vid I think it is, since it shows a group hunt (as if that really made any difference to the argument).
>>35513780
The concept of interpretation and presentation in anthropology if completely new to you, isn't it desu.
Liebenbergs little storymode doesn't present anything other than his oversimplified presentation of the reality.
He never went out with a single individual and no single individuals in the groups did all the job.
Let me guess, burgerland education?
>>35513848
oh holy shit, I know this is baiting but I guess it's also my kryptonite.
it says right there he witnessed the fucking hunt, and witnessed one man run the whole way.
and, even if it were not true, what difference does it make whether a group does it or a single person does it? It's still persistence hunting, and you still have to be in ridiculously good shape to do it with any kind of reasonable success, and it is still the best explanation we have for the evolution of human physiology.
You have all the hallmarks of a student educated only in the liberal arts with no science training. leave it to a fucking postmodernist to give out all the critique, with none of the opposing theory to present a better alternative.
>>35513918
>and it is still the best explanation we have for the evolution of human physiology.
My sweet little manlet. You try so hard.
>>35513976
I'll acknowledge you're something above an australopithecine when you trot out any sort of decent alternative hypothesis whatsoever.
>>35511389
Classical era: Huns
Early/mid Middle ages: Mongols
Late middle ages: Timurids
Steppe people > Settled societies
Any day of the week
>>35512624
So how did not so great fighters invade and take almost all of england?
here's some more discussion, just to plaster you deeper in your own shitbucket of evidence-less claims:
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/3743587/2007i.pdf?sequence=1
>>35513992
>when you trot out any sort of decent alternative hypothesis whatsoever.
Lol. And what exactly, dear manlet, did I trot out?
>>35511389
Fucking spartans you fucking retard. Literally eugenics to get good warriors
>>35514028
nothing! nothing at all! You have literally no theory of your own as to why humans have the bodies we do.
lol, smugness comes out of you like stink from a stinkbug - worse and worse the more scared you get.
>>35514074
Lol. Oh these pissy little manlets.
>>35514105
excuse me while I win the argument.
>>35514153
Are you the runner by any chance?
>>35514168
no, I'm the winner. and it feels glorious. nothing like what you must feel, down there in the mud.
>>35514217
Oh come on now
>>35514240
muahahaha
>>35514259
Are you ready for the next one?
Special forces in most western countries.
>>35514074
>>35514105
Brah what The fuck is wrong with you two?
>>35514349
Shhh I'm playing with the manlet
None of them.
Autists didn't usually get sent to battle.
Athletic ones, though? They're all pretty much the same. War and battle are inherent to our specie, and every civilization did it brutally well.
>>35514332
>literally riding horses through empty space no one wanted anyway makes an empire
The Mongols were the biggest meme empire of all time and it's not even up for debate.
>>35511389
>Culture based around Spartans being descendants of Hercules
>Babies left to die if they have shit genetics
>Boys taken at age 7
>Trained to become death
>Spend entire life fighting, training, and getting semen injections
>Ignore grills because they're distracting
Spartans for sure
>>35514259
Did you give up? Newfags, just.
>>35514375
as only a loser can.
how does it feel to have been mentally overmatched? oh, you were just trolling from the start, right?
right.
Ancient Mayans. Built their pyramids with no beasts of burdens. They carried all their stones by hand. Their average height was also 5ft 2 which explains a lot about their violent culture.
>>35513204
>implying recorded history is all of history
Humans evolved almost specifically to run. Persistence hunting was our prefered form of hunting.
>implying the vikings didn't conquer and settle the fuck out of the irish, english, scottish, french
>>35514494
>>>
http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17160/what-was-the-average-height-in-classical-greece
>>35514438
Wow I cannot tell if you are retarded or this is just bate.
The greatest powers of the time were defeated by the Mongols:
Jin China
Tangut China
Kwaresmian empire (annihilated completely)
The far less advanced (at the time) Europeans (Russians, Georgians)
They never built anything and they set humanity back by destroying these advanced civilisations, but the question was who is the most fit. The average Mongol warrior would have the skill and fitness of a professional athlete of today.
>>35514454
I defeated you and T-bagged you, desu. I pity your lack of deduction skills.
>>35512910
What do you think they did with all those stolen gains?
>>35511534
All that rowing would probably mean the viking had some real juicy chest muscles and forearms as well. And their diets were very meat heavy as far as i'm concerned.
>>35514005
>implying riding a horse is tantamount to being /fit/
>>35513992
It's ok Anon, I know youre right.
>>35514537
>mfw his own pic makes fun of him
>>35514586
me and my krew know what's up
>>35514536
>implying you didn't get your information from Age of Empires 2
>>35513600
No, most 4chan would cover at any social interaction, let alone public defecation.
Diogenes was the true alpha.
>>35514606
No one can claim you don't belong in autist land, little manlet. Good luck living in the basement.
>>35514584
Not just riding a horse but regularly hunting and fighting on one, being able to shoot birds out of the sky with a bow and arrow by firing as the horse's hooves are all off the ground. Firing the equivalent of a longbow repeatedly while sitting with no stable base, being able to turn in the saddle and fire backwards, lassooing fuck out of roman soldiers who have proper weapons and armour. Pretty /fit/ and alpha
>>35514613
>implying I didn't study history at uni...
>>35514629
>cover
cower you faggot
>>35514630
yes but the important thing online (which is where we are, no matter how autistic I am - and certainly I guess I am quite autistic) is that I'm right.
And, sweetest of all sweetnesses, you are wrong. That's nice, too.
>>35514724
I'm not wrong because I have not presented a standing. All I have done is provided arguments against your standing. You have yet to present an argument that is valid, so you're just being ridiculous.
If you please, go back to your statement from >>35513918
<and it is still the best explanation we have for the evolution of human physiology.
This is the argument you failed to defend. Care to try?
>>35514724
>>35514780
Will you two take your autistic little flame off to WoW or something?
>>35514818
You jealus, bb?
>>35514655
Nope.
Equivalent of a LONGBOW?????
You just made sure anything you say is questionable after that retarded fucking statement. Jesus Christ, pull something more believable out of your ass.
>>35514936
They were about the same size, simmer down
saracens, persians, and mamluks were pretty fit, they often had medium to light armors but there were many warriors who had heavy ass fucking scale pieces and overall they had a pretty hearty diet and used axes and javelins
>>35515007
No, they weren't even close. The bow they used was very short but it made up for some of the lost power by being a recurve and by being made of composite materials.
>>35511466
Mongols were the original GOMAD
>>35515454
And boy did they
>>35511434
thread
>Super fit
>Super gay
>Super short
Any other answer is bullshit
>>35514332
It is pretty easy to conquere a billion square miles of nothing. See: Russia, Canada, Brazil.
>>35511741
>imblying a diet of Dino balls is natty
>>35514818
>please stop having a discussion on this forum
>>35515921
>forum
>>35515945
>implying we aren't on a mongol empire appreciation forum
>>35513630
How would you divide it? Its not a fucking straight-line race where you can station dudes out beforehand. What if the prey takes a left-turn?
And you cant have the other dudes running with you because you know what? They'll be as exhausted as you.
You fucking retard
>>35514440
Iirc they didn't even left them to die, they supposedly killed them by throwing them from the top of a steep rock / canyon
>>35511755
checked and kekked
aztecs=original otter mode
>>35517471
Just a reminder that vikings are beyond a doubt the most overrated historical group that has ever been. Literally just a bunch of boatnigger farmers who had too much free time on their hands.
>>35511534
>>35511446
>>35511389
Vikings were farmers/hunters with badass genetics
they were prolly the most mentally tough tho since they belived dying outside of battle made you a pussy
>>35511389
The Philistines
manlet fucking shits
>>35512522
>>35514332
>>35517559
>they were prolly the most mentally tough tho since they belived dying outside of battle made you a pussy
like any other germanic tribe. What's your point?
>>35514018
They took england? Why are there no vikings in england now then?
>>35518258
There are, dude. A lot of the genetic material in England comes from Scandinavia.
>>35517952
yeah i guess ur right dood. the vikings were as badass as the Gauls and Visigoths, but what made them great was their technology combined with their desperation for fertal land.
