Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming

to you from the QI offices in Covert Garden.

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anichesitsky, Andrew Hunter Murray and James

Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.

Starting with you, Andy.

My fact is that there is a 16th century exercise manual which recommends exercises including

running, tennis and loud reading.

So two of those sounded quite sensible, running and loud reading.

No, it's about tennis.

Not good for you.

So this was actually posted on Twitter by a colleague Justin Pollard who was a historian

and it was an article which was based on something found by Joan Fitzpatrick who was reading

a dietary by Sir Thomas Elliott.

It does sound like someone with a speech impediment saying the word diary there.

It is a dietary and it's called the Castle of Health so it's about all these different

ways that you can gain health in your life and there is a category of exercise called

Strong or Violent Exercise where he recommends all these things you can do like digging heavy

soil or doing resistance training which is like he, I don't know if he invented this but

basically you have to lift up your arms to the sides while your friend is trying to hold

them in place.

I don't think he invented most of it because it was all from Galen, wasn't it, and from

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