Considering Zeus was a greek god and not a roman god ... and neither are true and only God ...i find suspect levels of truth to your statements...
Also life in general back then just required more effort and movement then today thats just simple facts...if you wanted to go somewhere you walked ..often for days .. whens the last time someone's walked days to see a relative? ...if you wanted food .you grew it..and traded it for other foods ..
Soldiers were hardened people and many also partook in the other combat sports...alot of gladiators were captured warriors of defeated tribes...many of which had there own martial prowess..thus the gladiatorial games and combat sport matches ..Romans where entertained by the idea of style vs style...and many wrestling styles and fighting styles existed even then and would of likely been at a higher level simply because thats how fighting was done in wars back then ..now and days we focus of aiming and explosives...back then hand to hand was how you fought and won the war...no doubt there hand to hand combat level was higher then ours now and days ..think of it this way...
a punch has always been a punch .. who's gunna be better at that a society where punching is unacceptable for the most part and its done more for sport and wealth then any other place in society ...or a society were fighting is a way to get ahead in society and military life is a honorable and respected line of work where u can eventually become ruler of of the known world if your the best/great at it? ..
I think its obvious who the better hand to hand fighters/wrestlers would have been
T-the Zeus part was obviously in jest and the Romans did believe in Zeus and related pantheons. Jupiter and Zeus are the same exact god regardless if his origin is Greek. This is like saying Americans do not believe in Jesus or the Christian God because they are from Israel.
I think a lot your thought process is on conjecture and probably stuff from movies. Rome was a city, you did not "grow" your own food unless it was your job. You bought it just like anywhere else or if you had a plantation then you used workers and slaves to farm for you. They had currency for a reason.
A blacksmith and a bricker have physical jobs but they do not require progressive overload. The black smith uses roughly the same level of strength necessary to do his job for his entire life - he doesn't go to the gym and think of ways to make himself more stronger. There are huge diminishing returns on just doing the same physical labor. You get better at things by pushing yourself not just by doing the same thing over and over again.
Growing your own food doesn't make you strong and neither does walking "days" to see your family - which people did not do. Most people lived next to their relatives (it's still like that today even when we have access to airplanes and cars...).
Why would someone move days away from their dad - did they land a job at google or something? If you are talking about powerful people (who are NOT gladiators or wrestlers to say the least) then they would not be walking. Do you think senators, consuls and governors are walking from Rome to Spain?
The Romans had roads, boats, carriages and horses - in fact their roads are among the most famous things they are known for. There is a lot of bro science here.
There are plenty of truth to my statements...you could like - read about the Romans and then conclude whether they are before at least making a random guess. I have at least a few lousy undergrad thesis' on the Romans and I'm coincidentally reading a book about Germanicus who is a Roman.
I'm not an expert and reading some Roman stuff is hardly a flex but at least I know I have
some knowledge on the topic. It's more nuanced than thinking Roman people have Flinstone like strength because they have to move stuff around with their hands. Not all ancient people had a keto like diet and eating Keto hardly makes you super powerful - my diet is basically keto and I'm not beating up Bo Nikals any time soon.
It doesn't even make sense - why would Romans be stronger than any other people who do not have access to modern technology? There are people today in Papua New Guinea fit this stereotype you're trying to paint and they wouldn't beat up Olympians with their folkstyle wrestling either.
It seems like to me that you just are making a very blanket statement about how things "must have been" before electricity.
You're trying to paint this picture that Romans are all super strong guys because they must have been hunting for food, going day long walks for no particular reason and moving giant boulders around. That isn't how fighting works. That isn't how physiology works. That isn't how their society worked either.
