Comments on: Medieval Workout Methods – Revisiting The English Knights

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:47:18 +0000

im not sure i understand why people assume swords and plate armour weighed so much? from what i have gathered via research, swords weigh between 2 lbs and 5 lbs, and a full suit of plate may have weighed 65-70 lbs.

By: Pointer Men's Basketball

Pointer Men's Basketball — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:39:22 +0000

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By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:52:49 +0000

Actually, although Hadrian was keeping out the Celts and the German Barbarians invading Britain, the Scots had some very advanced fighting techniques. I remember reading that Scottish soldier had actually developed techniques with sword and shield to combat British riflemen. So yes, Scotts were beastly fighters

By: Spencer

Spencer — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:48:28 +0000

Well, This may be going a little far, but if you’re into it, get a wooden or heavy plastic sword (Cold Steel has some great ones) and either a punching bag or a large wooden pole about 6 feet tall and 4 inches in diameter, and do what is called “Practicing at the Pell.” the pole (or punching bag) is the the Pell–It’s what medeival knights, Renaissance swordsmen, Gladiators, and even 19th century Russian and German soldiers used to practice fighting with when not in battle. Basically, you are supposed to pretend that the pell is an imaginary opponnent and fight it as if you were going to kill that opponent. http://thearma.org/essays/pells.html this is a great resource for it. Supposedly this is how warriors became skilled at weaponry, and built their muscle

By: RAAD

RAAD — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:55:17 +0000

they trained all day long and dedicated their lifes to kill people, it’s not a joke. After one battle their bodies would have passed through alot of stress producing a super-body. also they rested alot.
Have you ever been in any fighting-like sport? somthing like brazilian jiu jitsu, box, kickboxing or else.. after a championship match, you often feel your body as if it has trained for 5 hours long. It’s because the stress produced in the match, imagine the same but fighting for your real life lol.

By: Raad

Raad — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:07:46 +0000

Another training that will give your strength a super boost, is training with “chain and mace weapon”. Obviously is not a good idea to use the actual weapon (cause if you slip your head will be off) but you can use something more soft like a punching ball full of a mix of sand with jean-like fibers tide to a small chain. Swing that thing for 3 minutes over your head or as you like and all your body will be crying lol. Also you can perform “dances” with it like if trance music was on and you were using glow-sticks. The fact that you are using that kind of movements will boost your strength to new levels that you haven’t felt before. Since the muscles that you are using there you haven’t used them for in like.. ever. All the movements that we use for training are up, down, lift, pull, push, but not this circular, multi-muscle using movements.

Give it a try! they have worked for me ALOT! since i use this type of training along with the hybrid i can perform the human flag. cheers!

By: Roy

Roy — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:59:59 +0000

The knights of that era trained daily swinging swords, maces, halbreds, and quaterstaffs for hours. You could tell a knght even if he was dressed down by his V shaped torso and thick hands and wrists. Much like war club swinging with indian war clubs today.
On a historical note, they figure in the first minute of battle at Angincourt the English put roughly 72,000 arrows in the air, this by about 5,000 archers. That had to be a sight to behold.

By: nivian

nivian — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:54:01 +0000

thanks for the training tips hope to use it to improve my running

By: Nelson

Nelson — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:23:45 +0000

So thats how Navy Seals work. Cardio and Strenght at tha same time. Got you.

By: Joel Mackey

Joel Mackey — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:13:53 +0000

Working in the oilfield, one bit of work that really gave me a pump in my biceps, shoulders, forearmes and upper chest was using a sledge hammer to drive stakes and tighten pipe wings. I started with a 6 Lb, with the handle cut down to about 2-2.5 feet long, but after a few months moved up to 8 lb.

The locations were hard packed and some had naturally occuring rock under them, so trying to drive a stake thru the hard pack and rock was extremely rigorous. the intense burn would be in your hands and forearms, and the cardio from swinging that hammer was pretty amazing.

kind of dangerous though, as you get tired, your aim would suffer and the hammer would glance off the target and hit your shin, so you had to stay in control and postion yourself properly at all times.