Why is the portrait of the ancient Chinese general not muscular stomach is still quite large, with a general belly can go to war?

General belly? The word has been passed down for so many years, because it has thousands of years of life experience, in China's ancient sculpture or painting passed down to the present day in China, we can often find that most of the time the ancient generals are quite a general belly, in accordance with the current aesthetic habits is difficult to call it handsome and dashing, then why China's ancient generals do not have the kind of large muscles?

General belly is not false

To say that China's ancient bladder and waist of the typical martial arts then may be non-Yue Fei belongs to the historical record Yue Fei was born with the power to pull 300 pounds of longbow, through the circulating portrait we found that Yue Fei's stomach on the very large, which is very inconsistent with the image of handsome and dashing in film and television dramas.

Besides Yue Fei there is another person who is known as ? The ancient evil to come? Dian Wei, history books do not have his specific height data, only that he? The appearance of the stout, travel force over people? , mentioning a pair of halberds eighty pounds. Able to use in battle about 10 kilograms x 2 of iron halberd, strength is not small, to know that the two-handed weapon is generally not 10 kilograms heavy. Also said "the teeth door flag grows, people can not win, Wei one hand to build it" other people's hands can not hold the big flag. The first thing you need to do is to get rid of it with one hand.

First of all, for the ancients, the real practitioners are fat, but they also have a strong muscle, although the line is not obvious, but the overall coordination is good, can be in a variety of movements under the maximization of the call of the whole body strength. Weightlifters, Hercules, do not see muscle lines clear inverted triangle obvious, but the strength is amazing, muscle looks good and good use is not equivalent.

We can find that these power human **** nature is a large waist, large torso, shoulders and arms. Waist is the most powerful part of the human body, waist and hips to mobilize the muscles of the whole body can contribute to the integration of the body's strength, we move heavy objects, push heavy objects can have such an experience. Whether it is domestic ancient martial arts generals or foreign modern Hercules, if you emphasize strength, the body in all likelihood will be to this pugilistic development. You may want to look at those power sports athletes, weightlifting, shot put, discus, heavyweight boxing, etc., whether they are close to this body type