Old times

thebadguy89 · 2019-09-16T23:52:54+00:00

Dragging a huge deer you killed back to your camp probably built muscle.

If you were big you hunted down bigger prey and killed the competition who wanted to fuck your women. Over time women who got turned on by small weak men basically went extinct because the guys they fucked couldnt protect them or their kids.

thisisnotme__-- · 2019-09-17T01:30:02+00:00

Given that the simplest hunter-gatherer hunting technique is persistence hunting (literally chasing an animal to death), I doubt many, if any, got big. They likely wouldn't have been able to eat enough calories, particularly protein, to get big.

Snowboard18 · 2019-09-16T23:56:32+00:00

Building things and hunting for days on end, and those are also the main two things that attracted women, there were able to provide shelter and food for her and her kids

Terdmuffin · 2019-09-17T00:20:33+00:00

Physical labor, genetics. If you were big and strong back then it meant that your genetic line was probably good because to get big and strong you have to be fed well and have good genes.

No solid basis on this next claim but I'd be willing to bed there were very few people living thousands of years ago that were jacked by today's standards.

lukesterboi1 · 2019-09-17T02:43:44+00:00

I doubt they got that big relative to our definition of big. Hunter-gathering burns a shitton of calories. There were probably plenty of fairly muscular dudes (think college kid who found out the gym membership at his uni was covered by tuition) but I'll bet my life savings there were no cave Arnies.

marcus8crassus · 2019-09-17T03:37:49+00:00

It was a different kind of strength. Men didn’t get yoked because of aesthetics, nor did men push their body to the brink of cardiac exertion via Ironman competitions.

Instead, man sought to survive. To keep his woman from being raped, and his resources from being stolen.

Women wanted to be protected, and to be inseminated with a man’s genetics that would result in protection for her and continuity for her genetics.

So how was man strong? He worked with his hands and body all day. This is why many men are weak now, they sit on ass playing games or at a desk. Low T keeps them from striving towards wealth, power, etc. Men of yesterday had to survive, men of today know nothing of survival, at least in much of the developed and parts of the developing world.

BajaGhia · 2019-09-17T04:29:51+00:00

Lumberjacks were lean rangy men back in the 1800s. There were some big dudes sure, but once they got over 225 or so they just couldnt keep up the pace all day.

History channel.

Rapp5601 · 2019-09-17T06:23:43+00:00

Mostly genetics determined who were the biggest back then. The biggest guy would carry the biggest animal and get bigger from it.

send_it_for_the_boys · 2019-09-17T06:43:56+00:00

They literally did EVERYTHING by hand and EVERYTHING they ate was all natural, they might not have been huge but I’ll bet they were immortal level strong.

deathhandmachiavelli · 2019-09-17T13:34:54+00:00

It was based more on genes and natural ability to build muscle.

Now, with weights, anyone can FRAUD having good genes.

Title	Old times
Author	Aymane221
Upvotes	15
Comments	16
Date	September 16, 2019 11:49 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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