How did gladiators train and what was their diet like?

What a Question! To my knowledge the mainstay of a gladiators training consisted of the art of weaponry and fighting [1] - not training towards physical attributes if that's the answer you were looking for. read more

To my knowledge the mainstay of a gladiators training consisted of the art of weaponry and fighting - not training towards physical attributes if that's the answer you were looking for. I believe it was the staple diet of wheat and barley which one could safely assume that they were on predominantly a grain diet. read more

A diet of grain and beans was fairly common among the civilian population of the day as well but it is thought that the gladiators may have been barley eaters which is a lower quality of grain than the general population would have normally consumed (unless poor). read more

Most of the training that the gladiators did could be classified as functional training. Their training program was designed to build functional strength and besides strength training also consisted of a variety of different types of movements such as jumping and running. read more