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A Tagda Raho athlete holding a wooden mudgar upright at the shoulder during an outdoor training session

What Club and Mace Training Actually Does to a Shoulder

Every company in this category, ours included, says some version of the same thing: swinging a club or a mace is good for your shoulders. Until recently nobody had measured it. Now three controlled trials have. Here is what they...

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The Tagda Raho range of wooden mudgars, gadas and samtolas in handcrafted Indian rosewood

How to Add Mace and Club Training to a Lifting Program

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.

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A Tagda Raho athlete in a deep squat holding wooden clubs at the training ground, with mudgars and a gada racked beside him

A 4 kg Gada Is Not a 4 kg Weight

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.

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