How the Greeks Built Strong Bodies

Milo of Croton carried a calf every day until it became a bull. He won six Olympic crowns, led an army dressed like Heracles, and ate at the table of the philosopher Pythagoras. The four ancient rules for building a strong body, from Milo, Socrates, Diogenes, Plato and Seneca, one modern study, and a simple plan you can start this week. 0:00 The calf 1:50 The first rule: carry the calf 2:48 The second rule: train the body for the mind 4:20 The third rule: make it hard on purpose 5:43 The fourth rule: do not become only a body 6:40 Your first calf 7:44 The last lesson SOURCES Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria I.9 Cicero, On Old Age 27, 33 Strabo, Geography VI.1.12 Diodorus Siculus, Library of History XII.9 Pausanias, Description of Greece VI.14 Xenophon, Memorabilia III.12 Plato, Symposium 220; Republic III.410 Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers VI.23 Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius 15 Gordon et al., Resistance Exercise Training and Depressive Symptoms, JAMA Psychiatry (2018) PICTURES Artist, Title (year), Museum #strength #philosophy #ancientgreece