AncientFitness

I have recently decided to become a fire fighter(I have been volunteering and decided this is really something I want to pursue while I'm still young enough to, I'm 24). pursuant to that goal I have joined the gym and am enrolled in am EMT course. I have been at the gym for a while now and I just cant get excited about it. I have been looking around for something to get me excited about in fitness but couldn't find anything. then I saw this video on a website about primitive fitness and it got me thinking, what did ancient Romans, Greeks, Scandinavians, and etc soldiers/others do to stay fit? so I have decided to try to dedicate my time to that because it interest me. any submissions or information(pictures, videos, website, manuals) would be helpful. I also do not advocate anyone do as I do. I choose to do this myself and thus I am taking the risk. anything you choose to do is on you because I have warned you. remember done improperly weightlifting can be dangerous or even deadly.

[ancientfitness]

"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable." -Lord Chesterfield

[bashwife]

[tiw-jotunsson]

Tyr is a one-handed god, and leavings of the wolf and prince of temples.

[ancientfitness]

anyone who hasn't seen history channels the Vikings really should

[mmaquotes]

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion

Muhammad Ali (via mmaquotes)

as Jackie Chan said in "The Forbidden Kingdom" 

"you must taste bitter before sweet"

[mmaquotes]

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you’re at your weakest.

Rashad Evans (via mmaquotes)

you don't know how strong you can be till being strong is all you have left.

[ancientfitness]

ok training this week so far

today is a day off, mostly to catch up on my sleep and to submit some papers and projects to my professors.

wednessday chest

10x

chest press 100lbs

dumbbell press 30lbs each

fly 100lbs

bench press 108lbs

super incline press 101lbs

decline press 101lbs

Tuesday stomach

20x

torso rotations each side 90lbs

abdominal 90lbs

AB crunch bench 25 lbs

after those I hade planned a few more but the muscles in my abdominal area started to spasm so I decided to quite while ahead for now and build up to more

Monday arms

10x

lateral raise 35lbs

shoulder press 70lbs

bicep curl 70lbs

tricep press 90lbs

dumbbell over head press 30lbs

  20x

25lbs dumbbell curl

  Sunday

run

10x

shot-put (an arm)

overhead rock press

overhead rock toss

log curl

stone lift

log lunges (5 a leg)

push-up s

sit-ups

squats

I'm not getting as much primitive work outs done as I would like but between work and the strange weather patterns we have been having I have been finding it hard to a lot time for that. that being said however I will try to get back to it as soon as possible.

[mmaquotes]

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt. The Man in the Arena. (via mmaquotes)

[inspirationalquotessayings]

Hope you have a great day

[ancientfitness]

this applies to many things failed test, failed relationships even to missed days at the gym/workout spot. I had one today because I go caught up in school things and I missed my primitive workout (however my gym workout is still on) and I could let that kill my whole weeks workout program or I can go dang I missed a day and move on and still get some good use out of the rest of the week.

[mmaquotes]

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

On compassion. (via mmaquotes)

[ancientfitness]

im back from my winter snow hibernation

todays workout was

sprints

10X

stone shot-put

overhead stone lifts

overhead two hand rock throw

atlas stone lift

log curl

log lunges

squat

push up

sit up

then I turned in for a night of studying and school work good night

[inspirationalquotessayings]

Some of the best inspiration that you will come across

[inspirehealthfn]

#fitness #health #motivation #inspiration #exercise #workout #getfit #IHFN

[ancientfitness]

indeed

[hikewhileyoucan]

[ancientfitness]

a fire by the river side is the best medicine

[ancientfitness]

winter crazyness

due to winter craziness I didn't get much done last night. for those up north like part of my family this snow would be no big deal. however our state government thinks we don't need that many supplies for snow storms because we don't have them that often. so when we do have them we don't have enough to do much very fast.

[ancientfitness]

messed up day lol

ok today has been a long messed up day and I'm very sorry that I haven't got anything for you guys tonight :(. but I'm human and we mess up, no big deal its a new day tomorrow and ill start again. basically today I had an online test and then a dentist appointment following that , then straight to work, then I didn't get off work at the time I intended so no primitive work out today, following that I had to let a family member borrow my car due to his not working so he could  work the night shift. so basically it boils down to day I didn't do crap but it happens and iv read you cant let it destroy your work out week you must rise above. now off to bed  to start a new tomorrow

  ps. if there is anything you want me to look up or think id find interesting I don't bite ask away, and if you want it to stay private just tell me in the message.

[ancientfitness]

Those who do not find time for exercise now will have to find time for illness. --The Earl of Derby, 1873

[ancientfitness]

ok I have selected a possible location for my punching bag on the edge of the clearing where I normally work out. one tree(on the left) is standing in the field and the  other(on the right top half) is right at the tree line. I figure I can run a cable or at the very least put up some wooden support beams to hold the bag up. if I do the cable ill just run a chain down with a clip for the bag. if I do the board or wooden beam I can toss a rope over and hall the bag up and tie it off to keep it from getting away.

[ancientfitness]

todays workout

ok today had two workouts one at the gym and the other primitive in my backyard as normal.

primitive

run down the street approximately half a mile but I was running by time so I cant be sure. I used the 5k runner and ran for 25 minutes alternating 1 minute runs and 1.5 minute walks with a five minute warm up to start and a five minute warm down to close it out. my legs actually feel good which is surprising but maybe all that training and sprinting last week helped out.

10X

stone throw

overhead rock curls

overhead rock throws

stone lifts

log curl

log lunges (5 per leg)

push-up

sit-up

squats

then I showered for the day and studied and working took up the rest of my day.

  gym (arm day) after work around midnight

  10X(equipment)

lat raise(35lbs)

shoulder press(70lbs)

bicep curl(70lbs)

tricep press(90lbs)

free weights

10X

overhead both hand dumbbell raise(?)(30lbs)

20X

dumbbell curl(25lbs)

overhead shoulder press(?)(25lbs)

 for some reason the equipment feels less heavy than the free weights?

also I don't know the name of all these excesses just yet but they are things I have picked up on by watching some YouTube videos on primitive workouts and tried to substitute modern equipment in and such. as I get to know people better at the gym I will try to get people to show me the proper way to do these workouts in person, as well as learn what they are properly called. when I do you can expect full update and maybe even proper revision of old post.