 They're so fun to use, like every time I have them there I just go to my living room and I grab them and I just start to like do these different flow patterns and circles and rolling motions. I think this is really something more people should be using especially if you are a martial artist, an athlete or more like a functional business person like these are incredible tools they're much better than I could have imagined. And I want to try things that really challenge my coordination, challenge my my proprioception, challenge my skills and the strength like all in one. And I found that this tool actually was able to kind of tackle all of those different areas pretty much. So there's tons of different training equipment nowadays like in the gym and error that you can see and you know some of these more popular and other stuff like for example steel maces and Indian clubs are not so popular. Like if you think about you know kettlebells have become pretty much mainstream like you can find them from anywhere where you go to but most of the gyms that I go through there there's some gyms that have like some clubs and you know some some like sledgehammers but very few. And what I've noticed what I've come to or where I've started to use a while ago already are these different type of you know maces and clubs and I have just come to know this how actually very beneficial beneficial they are and I feel like they are an equipment that actually much more people should be using because for some reason or not they're not that popular at least in the west because this actually originate from India and Persia. Like that's pretty much the common origin for this and they have been used essentially I think for thousands of years by Axel the the warriors. So because you know you can kind of emulate the using of Axel maces like battle maces and swords and carrying you know shield and everything and then in India this is for especially popular among the wrestlers like if you look at the Hanuman god the monkey god he is carrying a gada which is the Indian name or the eastern name for steel maces. The gada was his main weapon and then wrestlers were supreme and the wrestlers all wrestlers in India train like that's trained with this gada so I was the thing about is that for the longest time I also personally I didn't I didn't utilize any of these maces as a as a training tool I had a bit of like a different priorities and a different training journey I was really focused on building the foundation and learning this body control with with my body weight and you know more traditional dumbbells and barbells and kettlebells as well so and and I feel like the the steel maces just didn't catch my attention then because it seemed quite a different way of training actually and something that just was not my priority at the time but after a while like some time ago I just realized that you know I actually I wanted to know what these are about like I've seen some people use them and I and I know this that because I have of course used like sledgehammer and for example you know banging the the tires and everything but I realized that the these maces and even the sledgehammer and everything like there's so much more versatile tool like you don't just need to be banging some maces or something you can do like incredible actually flowing beautiful flowing movements like mars large movement movements that emulate this sort of different type of kinetic chains and different force production mechanics and I recognized this but I wasn't still like sure like how good they would actually be so I got myself a steel mace pair of indian clubs and and somebody somebody joined I cut like a like a incredible variety of maces as well like I was surprised I came to Summary and there was like number of maces just on the roll and like okay yeah so we got a bit excited about this and I think we I mean we even added the warrior twin x we already added workouts with both the clubs and then with the maze here this kind of this six six kg maze it's about 13-12 pounds so there are no workouts in warrior twin x with both of these and just started training with them and wanted to talk about our experience and why should maybe more people also get excited about about these maces yeah so like Ero mentioned I really got like six different ones already different weights and different sizes so like this is something that was like completely off my radar like of course I saw this on online and Instagram and YouTube like some people doing and of course there in Iran this is very popular still like all the strong guys and the many athletes use it and likewise in the India as well and of course I saw this and I was aware of this but it was I don't know for some reason it was completely off my radar like I just never even like I got an idea like let's try this but like then I saw Ero doing it then Ero got the maze the big one really big long maze heavy one and I tried it and it felt very different than I expected and it felt really really really good and after that I just got a lot of different stuff on Amazon and then I started playing with it and using the Indian clubs and then using the steel maces and everything and and now I'm like I'm a huge fan and I think this is really something more people should be using especially if you are a martial artist especially if you are an athlete or more like a functional fitness person like these are incredible tools they're much better than I would ever like could have imagined like they because your whole body is just so connected and it really trains you know that the forearms the wrist strength the grip strength but also your shoulders and not just like a shoulder strength but also shoulder mobility because you're using the tools in such a versatile ways and your core is also present in every movement and the most important thing is that many of these movements you do with the with the clubs and the mazes is that they really mimic like actual athletic movements more than anything like way more than any dumbbell movement way more than let's say parples or even like compared to kettlebells like kettlebell is more like a fluid dynamic tool but these are way more dynamic and fluid tools compared to the kettlebell like I think kettlebell is somewhere like it has it's more dynamic than a dumbbell for example but it's still more similar to a dumbbell than it is to a club or maze so if you want the dynamic elastic fluid strength and athleticism then these clubs and these mazes are like such incredible and especially if you're a martial artist or an athlete yeah I noticed like the also the very first thing when I was started to do use the maze first of all was actually the weight of it because for me I was like okay six kilos it's not like it's I curl it I can curl it like easily like this way and then when it's put on the top of the maze like on the leverage of the bar how does this feel so heavy like I was genuinely surprised I just couldn't I was I went to the scale like to actually make sure that this is just six kilos I couldn't believe that it was six kilos but it was and I just realized that you know this is pretty unique equipment and when I first used it it was maybe just like one minute of something I was trying to do the swings wasn't very good but I was like struggling there and immediately when I put the maze down I was like my forearms were like done and I felt them the entire like night and the day and even the next day and you know I did a bit more of the training but that was like you know for me like after after one week my forearms are still you know recovering like after one week like I've been recovering more cuts for seven days or something like this and you know I had like I have pretty strong forearms like they're like already developed like and I just couldn't believe like you know this this kind of maze training would bring so much more more like actually training so I'm just like much more gains from that because now when I'm doing it I don't feel any more that pain or the or the soreness so it's really meant that I grew like some additional like real strength into my forearms by just utilizing that maze which was like already worth the worth the price of the maze and worth the trouble of learning to actually use it I think that was incredible but you know I think as as somebody mentioned there's the integration aspect because this everything is like whole body movements like you you cannot you if you want to swing the maze properly there's no way that you're going to do it if you're not like stable in your core if you're not stable in your legs or anything or you can maybe do it but it will be very poor so in order to like utilize is there's a kind of a I say a bit of a threshold because you need to learn like the skill of actually utilizing that but that's kind of what brings a lot of those benefits because you actually need to learn to to sense the path of the maze and then utilize that path like go with it not against it and learn to like adjust your body to it it's really I found it's just very intriguing and actually super fun training like among like all the benefits someone was explaining just like one thing was that like they're so fun to use like every time I happen there I'll just go to my living room and I grab them and I just start like do this different flow patterns and so circles and rolling motions and it's really the mobility aspect the stability aspect and when you put the arms like they're always rotating somewhere here in this overhead position there's rotation there's extension so you get so much different movement with with with this kind of how to say activity that you're not really necessarily even focused on specifically okay I'm going to train my shoulders now and I'm going to train this motion it just comes with the with the skill with the practice with the art of this swinging this maze so like just fantastic way to I think integrate the body and learn to utilize many things that some people are trying to like teach okay use the core or use the hips or something so when you practice the maze I feel like it kind of forces you in some ways to learn this but of course I'd say that if if you're a total beginner like maybe it will be better to build a foundation with some other training or at least have a basic level of core strength before going to the maze training but but the way you can like flow with it there's literally like you you mentioned about you know there's the dumbbells and kettlebells and everything else that you can utilize also but they're just not so convenient for training these different type of martial arts and athletic movements because I was trying to do this different type of swingings and wood chopper movements and everything with even with dumbbells and like you can kind of do them it's fine but if I would have known about the maze and if I would have known about the Indian clubs I would have used them I would have gotten much earlier actually because it's much more better for those it's like it actually that's really what it's made for it's made for this swinging stuff and and so that you can utilize it for these movements that really emulate very directly different athletic athletic movements I think yeah I think the best part about the mazes and the clubs is that it's actually fun like of course you learn to laugh like training with dumbbells and parapels and you learn to love it because you like just maybe everyone doesn't everyone do not love it in the beginning but they learn to love it the more you do it but with the mazes and clubs like it's like immediately it's quite fun like and it's a lot of fun like it's like actually fun it's like hard to explain but it's actually training it's like maybe some flow movements but it's more maybe convenient to do at home as you know maybe not all maze movement but the clubs are very easy to do just like this but it's just it's strange because it's a lot of fun like and and the surprising thing about the maze and the club was that like when I go to the gym and I do some parple exercises or dumbbell exercises or even body weight exercise like pull-ups or anything I don't really get out of breath ever because I've been doing it for many years for for a very long time like it's just very like efficient for my body to do to do those movements even when I do like high reps or heavy weight or almost anything with a good form I still don't get out of breath but when I was training with the clubs like I don't know just my whole body was just working so much harder especially the nervous system that I was getting feeling like not like completely out of breath but even with like some basic squats where I'm holding the club I was like after the set I was like a little bit like out of breath like and it never happens with even with like kettlebells like because I've been doing the warrior with 20x workouts for a very long time and even when I do like kettlebell swings and all these kettlebell movements like with very high tempo I still don't get really of course I can get out of breath but not as easily as with the clubs and mazes but maybe it's because it's a new form of training but but it still works on the nervous system a lot more than than I expected and one thing about why it's why it's also like to go back to the previous fun point is that when you use the clubs and the mazes you feel like a warrior like you actually feel like you're like a like a Conan barbarian or something yeah it's like it's like it really feels like you're Spartan warrior or like you're training for Spartan army or something like this it really like it's the most similar and then you just play some you know music from Conan the barbarian or Star Wars or something and then you feel like you're like an actual warrior yeah but I mean that's that was the original like I mentioned even the beginning like that these are like warrior weapons like that's and it's something that you know what I also thought that okay if these guys have like after I learned a bit more like if these guys have really used this for centuries maybe for thousands of years like the the guys who was like in battles like in ancient wars with like with the mazes and the swords and then even in the like martial arts like the indian and the wrestling and like maybe there's something actually benefit like maybe there's a reason why they're using this like maybe there could be something you know that worth like figuring out and trying out yourself and that that really kept to be true like yeah you feel you feel like a warrior because that's what it kind of meant for and and personally uh it's the the flowing aspects some that I enjoy the most like your creativity is really the limit here like there's so many things that you can do it it is like if you search like some movements for for the for the mazes or the club bells you can find some basic a lot of land you know some people do like they can you can do like squats curls you can do presses you can do almost any movement with them actually that's also one of the great things like this when I have this here like it almost like substitutes dumbbells like I don't have any dumbbells at my home I have the gym in the building but like with this I can do so many different movements like even just like kind of basic strength movements but but for me I enjoy the creativity like it's the same like in movement training I I come up with a lot of stuff I experiment with a lot of stuff and I want to try things that really challenge my coordination challenge my my proprioception challenge my skills and the strength like all in one and I found that this tool actually was able to kind of tackle all of those all of those different areas pretty much and yeah I would say like there the clubs and the mazes it's very versatile like it's like endless possibilities what you can do with it but in the beginning when you pick it up it feels like you cannot do anything with it it's like uses tool like this it really feels like it's just you know like you can do almost nothing because it takes quite a lot of you know like the body intelligence and the kinesthetic intelligence to even come up with the movements and that's the like of course like there's many benefits to these clubs and mazes but the hard part is you know coming up with the movements especially if you don't have the the really high level physical background but that's why we like they're already mentioned we already filmed and added two workouts to word many xx method like one with the maze and one with the clubs and they and they also come with six different exercises per workout and also like additional videos or a video with more information about this type of training yeah and you know it's mentioned like the you talk about for example that you get kind of out of breath with it and that's also one of the reasons why it was pretty perfect for warrior training because it's actually it's conditioning training like the the workouts that are supposed to get you kind of on the what is the deep end of the pool and gets you really uncomfortable and then comfortable with the uncomfortableness of the physical pressure and stress and comes with it and I was just like we got to make a workout with this because it's it's the perfect tool I mean it's a warrior tool for the warrior workouts and on top of that it's just it's like it's amazing conditioning tool it really gets you out of breath and it works like all the right places and it just gets you feeling like pretty much all of your muscles like and and even just you know for the physical development because because there's always there's always that way that we can you can plan your body like you can I train the specific like these biceps or the triceps or the you know the chest something that you're focusing on rather with consciousness but then there's the other type of training that I really love which is also movement training actually one of the benefits and also in this kind of athletic movements and the stillness is that there's there isn't that kind of masterwork plan in your head I'm going to train exactly this but it builds up really interesting definition really interesting details into your body as a result because you're using so many different muscles like your obliques like think about you know all this there's there's so many different details that our mind can even grasp then that's one of the things why I love movement and why I love this kind of stillness training and even the club post it it trains things in your body that you cannot think like even or you you can but not you cannot very easily logically think okay I'm going to train this part of my obliques or this lower part or here or this or that or these lower back muscles or the different stabilizing muscles next to the spine like the smaller ones and QL crottos lumbarums and and then you know the the medial glute parts and everything is if you just do the stillness training really well you get to train so many different areas without having even really this conscious knowledge what you're training and I love the way that it really shapes shapes the physique you know that like warrior training is really made for shaping the physique quickly and it happens to essentially two ways like intensity is one of those ways you know we really push it and the other one is the versatility of the movements versatility and athleticism of the movements so those are two ways that really like rip the body and create some pretty incredible results so yeah it's the intensity and the volume because because with the word for next workout because the more you do the workouts or actually the more you do the exercises during the workout your different muscles will fatigue like more than others so it will like the more you the more your body fatigues the more it goes deeper to you like different types of muscles like for example what I mean is that when you go to the gym you do like a like a push-ups or pen express it will always kind of have like the certain muscles that work the hardest but when you do warrior between next workouts you will do the exercises over and over again and so what happens is that some of your bigger muscle groups that are usually dominant and usually do most of the work they will fatigue first and after that it goes like deeper and deeper to your structure and different smaller muscles as well that's the thing like it accumulates the stress and it's you don't stop when you feel like stopping that's kind of also the thing so you get the intensity you get the versatility you get the volume but you also get to have a structure and me like pushing yourself because it's one thing you know most people I feel like they when they're training immediately when they feel a little bit like I'm comfortable you kind of stop but there's there's a period of time where you can continue still doing and that's where you can make some like serious results and and yeah I think most most people they stop at 10 percent could very well be like could very well be so yeah but yeah with the Macy's there is a like I said and even someone mentioned like in the beginning it's like what you're gonna do about it's like it's hard to use but there's the skill aspect of it you know that you need to learn but uh once you get the basic basic download heats like the basic 260-300 swinging also like that's the fundamental like train mark movement and after you learn that you start to really perceive the movements of that maze you start to perceive the move the head here where it's moving how you can actually utilize it control it and that's where it's all begins but there's also a lot of movements like I said that you don't need that's much skill some movements require much more skill but there are also movements where you simply because it's a workout even just holding it here like like holding the maze here in the center of the body this is a workout and especially the like of course it gets easier as you get better but in the beginning like this was this was like a really it's it stresses the central nervous system like even somebody said it's just it just taxes you and so it's it's I would just say it's it's uh there's the threshold of the skill but it's still one of the easiest and most convenient ways to get a new or build a new stimulus or no no build I would say new attributes into your body very conveniently like it just comes like like that within a week or two weeks of training with the maze you can upgrade your body like on some multiple areas and especially in terms of movement also because like some of these movements like your shoulder and everything it's it's just hard to explain but your body moves in very different ways than with any other tool or you could ever you could never move your body that way with body weight alone because somehow somehow like because you're not just controlling your body you also controlling the the maze which has lots of leverage so how it develops the body is very unique in many ways but but that being said it's not the magic tool it's not like something that replaces all the other tools because it it's the I think it's the one maybe the best tool like maze and clubs there may be the best tools for this dynamic elastic strength where you are like controlling your center of mass and controlling some external object object with your body weight for that type of dynamic strength and mobility and athleticism it's probably the best tool I've come across but if you want to fix your body and develop the foundation then all these different types of training with dumbbells with body weight are much better ways and much more effective and efficient as well but but I think the more higher level higher level athlete you are the more useful these clubs and mazes actually are because if you consider like a high level physical individual he should already have all of most of his foundation built he should already be like pain-free he should be very strong almost everywhere so after that when you already have everything then the maze and the clubs I think like right now I don't feel like doing almost any of the type of training other than animal movements and mazes and clubs like everything else is it feels like I've been already doing it for a very long time so so that's where the most growth and the most progress is for for me at this point but I think even like beginners of course they can also experience the benefits immediately but but how much you like focus on different tool depends on your level like a beginner should focus on the foundation first and then all this extra fun and cool stuff that is more dynamic but if you're already like a more intermediate and higher level advanced or elite then this for I think for elite athletes this should be maybe one of the most I the most effective ways to like improve their athleticism sorry to like like I explained already in the beginning I just don't think all these cable machine movements and these barbell power moves they focus too much on they just don't they just don't build the dynamic strength what you actually need on the field or in a cage or in the in the ring or anywhere else because because real athleticism is very dynamic in most sports and it's not like you just once export like this most sports are like are not like this so for that type of track the maze and the clubs are just like significantly better than the what most tools are used by the athletes today yeah exactly like I explained in the in the beginning that like there were many years that I had completely different priority like I had seen like and I had followed some people who did the mainstreaming and something but I knew that it's just not for me at that point I wanted to build a foundation like you explained it's it's more useful after you have some sort of background like beginners can use it but yeah definitely the people who have a bit of an idea of their body or maybe they train with movement to next or added to next will be like better just will have a better base to actually master master the the maze because I think it's yeah yeah like if you solder is broken I don't think you should not use the maze at the club yeah like because of course maybe it can help if it's very light may lightweight it can probably help a lot but most likely you should be focusing more on the very surgical precise athlete 20 xx method style of training that's really focuses on strengthening the whole area like with very specific exercises it's very true like these which weight like two pounds like they can be and they are often recommended for like if you have shoulder pains or injuries but but it's not like if you have really like a bad case you know poor control in scapula or some postural thing they're not necessarily the I think the most effective for the tool for that although they're often recommended but personally I've in my experience throughout many years it's much better that you actually train control movements and very slow and and actually you know without actually even any equipment that's the first thing you need to even learn to control your body without any sort of equipment this is already enough for fixing and healing your body you don't really need any of these kind of things but the other thing that you mentioned suddenly was that you know the like okay the athletes for example they I saw a video where some guy was like well the back squat or no no the deadlift is not good for the athletes but the power like the power clean and that's that's the good movement and it's like it's not that like much different it's like very one that one dimensional movement where you just use explosiveness but it's very and you have like with the barbell you have so limited options if you have the maze you can do you can use that explosiveness you can use this to any direction you could use it in any plane like and on different diagonal movements on different rotations like that's what we already talked about there's so many different possibilities so for athletes and for like me or already experienced in training and and doing a lot of athletic stuff and Mars large and all this like boxing and boxing and MMA stuff it's it's been fantastic so yeah another thing another thing about the Mason club is that they can be adjusted to your sport also like you can actually adjust the maze to mimic or represent many similar movements you have in golf for example but but for example the power the power snatch or power clean it's just it just doesn't at this point like we used to believe in that stuff but we don't believe in such that stuff anymore because it just feels waste of training yeah it's no way to like really individualize for the sport make it sport specific like you mentioned so but yeah I think this was pretty comprehensive unless you still have something I can't really think of much I think we covered a huge amount of things and this is all really stuff that now training already for a while with this just really in love with this stuff actually I needed to now keep a bit of a break because I had like this bit of skin came off from the arm so and I'm just like missing the training already because I can't use my left arm really for that so really good tool if you want to really have an equipment that is great for all sorts of physical athletic sports equipment is like adjustable for those and just train your body in a holistic integrated way and and if you want to then even take it much further and do creative flows even it's it's really quite limitless training if you have a good solid foundation under you so that's that's what the Macy's and clubs are for yes