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Sheesham, or Dalbergia sissoo, is the wood in most Indian clubs and maces. What it actually measures against ash, hickory, beech and maple, the one property where it clearly wins, what a ten to one density ratio against steel really forces, and the properties nobody has ever tested.

If you already lift three or four days a week, will fifteen minutes of mace swinging cost you squat strength? What 43 concurrent training studies actually found, the only dose anyone has tested on clubs and maces, and where to put the work in a week.

Mudgar, gada, jori, meel, Indian club. Sellers use the names interchangeably and they are not the same tool. What each word actually means, how heavy the Indian originals really were next to the Victorian versions, and which one to pick up first.

Six thousand squats a day, four thousand push-ups, twenty litres of milk. The Great Gama's training figures get repeated everywhere. Read the source properly and the same round numbers turn up for other wrestlers, and the biographer who studied his training said nobody ever counted. What the record does document is more useful.

Hold a 4 kg gada out horizontally and your front hand carries about 13.6 kg of force while your rear hand pulls down with 9.6 kg. The leverage arithmetic behind club and mace training, why a gada, a mudgar and a samtola of identical weight are three different exercises, and how to measure your own in a minute.