Have they been prevalent around the world, or were there exercises that we no longer practice?
Follow up: at which point in history did conscious exercise become a thing? It seems vaguely like, for quite a bit of history, people desired a life of leisure because they spent so much time working that they wouldn't need to go out of their way to exercise. Was exercise for exercise's sake a thing amongst those who did have a life of leisure (e.g. nobility), and if so, how far back?
Edit -- Pulling from /u/nhnhnh comment below, this thread has some good answers to my question.
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Another question, was the idea of a strongman prevalent during the ancient times? Let's say around the city state period of ancient greece and the middle roman republic of 200bc to 50 bc? And was being a man of immense strength a symbol of power and grace or barbarity?