Check out the latest instalment in undergraduate Amelia Jackson’s CLAS 3P98 (Engaged Leadership in Classics) project, When In Rome…Lift Heavy

Amelia’s second exploration, Gym Bros of Antiquity: A Look at Greek Athletic Strength Training, examines how the ancient Greeks and Romans approached athletics and what ideas from the past remain relevant to modern kinesiology and sports science. Read all about her experiments to explore whether looking to the past can boost your own future performance. And join Amelia as she builds strength and muscle for lifting through sandbag carries, yoking herself to an ox, and wrestling lions…(or at least some approximations of those activities)!

Relief from the base of a funerary kouros depicting two wrestlers, ca. 510 BCE (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)