Legionary training

[Flavivs Aetivs]

Best do some serious upper body work (digging vallums and correctly piling the spoil will help!)...

One of the better attested assumptions is that the training shield and wooden practice sword should be weighted to double that of the actual weapons.

You forget the Value of the Strategikon. Although 6th century, the Legionary System was still intact. Quinta Macedonica is the only one we know of however at the time.