Surviving A No-Man's Land

This World was Not Created Equal...

"In Skaadom we shake our brother's scaled hand; we eat with dragons, we labor with dragons, some of us fight and die beside dragons. The world has changed so much for the better, and yet—daily life is hard. While the world has changed, the land has not. Growing up, a human is always forced to accept the fact that Skaadom was not designed with him in mind. Rugged terrains, deadly wildlife, relentless elements, and yes, even at times our winged allies themselves can work against the human race. The obvious conclusion is that all these natural hurdles demand both a strong body and a sound mind in order to overcome."

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We are pleased to be joined today by Will Timberlake from Daily, a passionate young health and fitness enthusiast, here to share his knowledge about the human legacy that endured in an age much like that of a dragon's world.

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"If you want to grow muscle today, there are a vast amount of sites you can go on to

purchase things like protein, creatine and pre-workout. But what did people do before all of

these products and lifting machines were invented? In 1899 George Hackenschmidt created

the first ever bench press and hack-squat. So before that there weren’t really any lifting

techniques or anything like that to grow muscle. So let's bring it back farther than that.

In the time of Vikings, they were always seen as big brutes that could take an arrow and still keep fighting. But how did they get to that point? In that time if you want to build muscle you need a couple things. Actions that cause muscle tearing, protein intake and of course,

testosterone. Now studies show that in today, the average male has about 30% of the

testosterone that a man had in the Viking age causing it to be very easy to build muscle (So

basically any movement they did that was weighted at all could help them build muscle. Not

to mention the sheer amount of red meat they digested daily causing them to get

mountainous amounts of protein and the minerals used to make creatine.

Now onto the workout side. From history, it is known that anyone wearing armor in this time was weighed down slightly from the weight of the armor itself. Causing them to build the muscles in their legs just by walking. On top of armor you’d also have a sword and shield

that you would carry quite often, now with the fact that their testosterone was so high, their

biceps would have muscle fiber tears quite often just from holding the sword up with their

elbow at a 90 degree angle. Same thing with the shield of course. If one from this time

wanted to grow their back, that is quite simple.

Swimming is a great way to burn calories

and build a greater back physique, along with drawing a bow back to shoot. These actions could help break muscle fibers in the lats causing them to have a very wide back making them seem a lot bigger than they might actually be.

Here is a photo for reference to what I am talking about:

You can notice the detail in his upper back, the shoulders definition, and the definition in his

forearms and biceps. Now in this time, abdominals would not be a necessity. So most likely they would not have washboard abs like some people would like to think. Most likely, if they swam a lot and trained a lot, they would look exactly like the man in this photo. So most

likely, people in this time or before it, would have noticeable detail in these following muscle groups, the bicep, slightly in their tricep, leg size and definition, shoulders, forearms, and the latissimus dorsi muscle. Chest would mostly depend on genetics and what else they did, now like I said, no one in this time particularly trained muscle groups, it was mostly just from training and fighting that they grew muscle. From all of this fighting and possible swimming, I think its pretty safe to assume that their stamina could last for quite a while.

So already you should be able to tell how people in this age grew muscle. But now lets talk about a type of blacksmith. A blacksmith who is usually making armor or weapons would

most likely be a big type of brute. Stereotypes for this I think would be most useful. They

would be slightly on the chubbier side with massive biceps, triceps and forearms and a good amount of muscle in their back from swinging things around.

But they wouldn't be absolutely ripped due to not doing much exercise other than crafting things. They would most likely look something like a strongman from today's world, of course without all of the steroid use."