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Royal Dragon
I think you are going down the wrong route if you are looking to 1800s strongmen for info, too much of it is clouded with superstitions with some exceptions.
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I'm not specifically talking about 1800's stuff (Although I'm not excluding it either), but more of the old ways of doing things that are not found in modern strength training gyms, but commonly seen in Strongman contests.
For example, dragging ship anchores, lifting wiskey barrels, moving big logs from place to place, bolder throwing, early frontier style log sawing, rolling frying pans up like news paper etc....
Strength was very much a fringe during that time. Training has advanced considerably since then, in terms of training systems, methodologys, technique, and understanding of the human body and adaptations to training.
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I am not so sure about that, I think a species that is 200,000 years old, like H0mo Sapiens would have pretty much figured it out buy the 1800's
The greatest advances have occured with the science of recoverytimes more than anything. The avaliablity of wide spread knowledge would be the other. Outside of that, is there anything we do now that is drastically different than in the distant past?
I think we just have more expensive, "high production manufactured" equipment....
Even the few primitave hunter gatherer tribes still around today (like the Zaowie trib in South America) wrestle with a spohistication on par with the average modern BJJ practitioner...and have for countless generations...