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Want to Work Out Like Walt Whitman or Henry VIII? Try These Historic Fitness Regimens
Smithsonian Magazine ^
| April 26, 2022
| Greg Presto
Posted on 05/03/2022 12:23:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Has anyone in history ever wanted to workout like Henry VIII? Most people think of him as very out of shape.
Now maybe his executioner got a good workout. [72,000+ served]
To: nickcarraway
Those plates of turkey or beef ain’t gonna lift themselves.
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:27:10 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(I did not shoot the burglar. I pointed a laser dot on his head and let the cats do the rest. )
To: nickcarraway
Work your abs like Babe Ruth (yes, really) I think his lower back workout was more fun.
To: SunkenCiv
To: nickcarraway
LOL. That’s what I was thinking as well.
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:30:39 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
To: nickcarraway
>Whitman worked numerous jobs—as a teacher, a journalist, and a battlefield nurse in the Civil War—before becoming an author
No...first editions of Leaves of Grass were published way before he became a Civil War nurse.
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:32:54 PM PDT
by
struggle
To: nickcarraway
“I would exercise, but it makes me spill my wine...”
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:34:58 PM PDT
by
Jamestown1630
("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:36:17 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
To: nickcarraway
Henry VIII was a VERY athletic, fit, and yes, trim man until his accident, which injured one of his legs and kept him from playing tennis, jousting, dancing ( one of his passions and which he was extremely good at and the dances, back then, were really quite some workout )and much of any kind of intense physical activities. He was only quite stout ( FAT! ) in his later years.
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:36:30 PM PDT
by
nopardons
To: nickcarraway
Now maybe his executioner got a good workout. [72,000+ served]Those wielding the axe for sure. By the time his better daughter inherited the throne, the practice was nowhere nearly as expert.
Sick joke:
Q: What did Mary, Queen of Scots, get one more of than all of Henry VIII's six wives combined.
A: Axe strokes on the back of the neck.
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:38:11 PM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: nickcarraway
(Henry VIII)
Well, he got married to the widow next door...
And every one was a ...
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:40:10 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: SkyDancer
(What about Kellogg?)
They’re Grrrreat!!!?
😜😛
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05/03/2022 12:41:46 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
To: nickcarraway
Re: royal tennis.
“That variety of surfaces, serve types, and scoring gives the game a combination of outdoor tennis–level aerobic challenge with strategy that borders on chess”
Yeah, but the net’s shorter in the middle so it’s easier to hit the ball back.
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05/03/2022 12:42:19 PM PDT
by
decal
(They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
To: Jamestown1630
Put the win in a sippy cup.
To: nickcarraway
Henry VIII was a badass until he got injured in a joust. You can actually see his devolution, or could, at a Tower of London display. Until he was 44 and wrecked his leg in an injury that never healed (and probably sustained some internal injuries too) he was darned athletic for his era.
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posted on
05/03/2022 12:50:20 PM PDT
by
Republican in occupied CA
(I will not give up on my native State! Here I was born, here I fight and die!!)
To: Jamestown1630
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05/03/2022 12:52:49 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: nickcarraway
Henry was pretty fit in his early years. He was knocked off his horse in a tournament, and was out cold for several hours. They thought he was dead. Six days later Anne Boleyn miscarried a male child. It would be her last pregnancy. Henry suffered a leg injury from that fall that never healed properly. He may have had diabetes, or even Osteomyelitis. His leg wound festered. He developed leg ulcers that regularly drained pus. It was very painful to have the dressings changed, or to even walk. Many historians also believe his personality changed drastically after his having been knocked out.
My father had Osteomyelitis his whole life. Injured his leg as a small boy, and always had an open, draining wound in his upper arm that would periodically close up, and then re-open somewhere else. They didn't really treat it back then. My mother would wash and change the gauze bandage every night for him.
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05/03/2022 1:07:10 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
To: nickcarraway; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Good call. Thanks nickcarraway.
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posted on
05/03/2022 1:08:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
05/03/2022 1:14:49 PM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
To: SaveFerris
You have to read his biography. Kellogg was a fitness nut.
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posted on
05/03/2022 1:49:58 PM PDT
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SkyDancer
( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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