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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.