What type of exercise routines did the Spartans do?

by yugiohpuzzle13

From all the media I’ve taken in of them, they were absolutely jacked. How did they get so strong? It makes sense how people like the Vikings and Celts were such good warriors, since they were also doing physical labor, but from what I’ve heard the Spartans, or at least the rich ones, were simply warriors. What we’re they doing to get so strong? My first guess is pushups and shit like that, but I honestly don’t know. Btw everything I know about history and shit likes this comes from movies and tv shows, so I might be painfully ignorant.

Iphikrates

The Spartans definitely wouldn't have looked like those guys in 300. That sort of body is much too hard to maintain; the depirvation of military campaigns won't allow it. I wrote about real Spartan bodies here and about their probable exercises here.