3 Essential Steel Mace Exercises for Beginners

Our bodies and CNS evolved to use different tools. If you look at the history of human beings, cavemen over 100,000 years ago were already using different wooden tools and weapons to improve their survival in the wilderness. One of the definitions of being a primate is literally having functional and flexible hands. With the birth of agriculture in 12,000 BC and with the development of houses, using tools became an essential part of being a human. Not only this, far before this era people realized that hunting and killing other tribes became much easier with clubs and pointy sticks. In the medieval times when people were still wielding swords, spear, maces and halberds in war and combat, many different forms of training were also developed. Medieval knights used to train with weighted swords to developed their arms, shoulders and hands. Ancient Spartan used to carry logs and climb rope. In the ancient Shaolin temple, tons of training was done with sandbags, ropes and weighted vases. Just utilizing different tools and different weapons developed the hands and bodies to a high level. You can only imagine how strong grip and hands a medieval knight of Europe, Roman legionnaire or a Samurai of Feudal Japan used to have. Using clubs and maces as training tools probably have the longest history in ancient Persia and India. Over 2000 years ago, every household in some parts of India used to have an Indian Club for training purposes. The biggest training tool was called "The Gada", this was a mace that weighed anywhere from 4 kg (8 pounds) to 50 kg (100 lbs) and more. Gada was the main weapon of the Hindu god Hanuman. Gada was the original steel mace. If you want real hand, forearm and arm development, utilize the steel mace. You will feel sensations in your hands and forearms you have never felt before. We've experienced major growth spurts with this method despite having trained for 10 years prior. It revolutionized our training even further.