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Nowadays everyone knows that it’s healthy to exercise. But how long has that been the case? Would you find an ancient Roman jogging? A Ming peasant doing push-ups? I don’t mean practicing with weapons, I mean plain working out.

by /u/LBJSmellsNice in /r/AskHistorians

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