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09/12/2026

Feel the change. Steel Mace Swing.
In any physical training practice that you're doing the movement toward 'self correction' is a sign of advanced learning, performance and understanding.
Knowing where your body is in space and having a real sense of what it feels like to have your body in that position - as well as move into that position and move out of it - allows you to not only make your movements better in real time but it allows you to move on your own terms.
You may be able to pull out of a movement when it feels 'a little off'. It might also allow you to change your pace as it feels better than ever.
We believe that this video will provide you with some cues that will make your steel mace training more effective because it will allow you to understand where the mace is (and is going).
Swinging a steel mace is a compound rotational movement. In other words there's a lot going on and it might be hard to keep your eye on everything that's going on. If you're able to split your attention between what you're observing with your eyes and what you're feeling you will have more source of feedback it will allow you to experience the movement in terms of the masses changing position and how you're changing that position.

09/12/2026

Why does the steel mace hit me?
It starts long before the swing even happens. It also starts before you cast the mace.
The movements of the steel mace from the low rack position into the cast is a process.
IT IS A PROCESS.
We believe it's important to emphasize this because, processes have pieces. If a process does not deliver the expected outcome understanding that it's made of pieces allows us to break it apart examine each one of them and find out where the fault you won - or ones - are. It basically allows us to effectively troubleshoot a situation in a number of different contexts.
A strong and intentional grip is required to not only build a connection between you and the mace but you also stabilize the wrist joint for what's coming next. What's coming next are two complimentary shoulder movements: one is shoulder abduction and one is adduction. The combined process moves the mace into a position called the cast. If any of the joints between your fingertips and your shoulders are not performing the requisite amounts of stability or movement (depending on what their role is) the cast of the mace has the chance to not go completely behind you and actually come slightly in front of you and strike the side of your leg.
What we mention here is only one contributing factor of why the mace might hit you but it is a very common one.

09/12/2026

50% is may be going unnoticed.
Although both hands are holding onto the steel mace when you are swinging it, the load is not shared equally between the hands the wrists elbows or the shoulders.
When we specifically look at the different positions of your hand it does not have so much to do with one hand being on top and one hand being on the bottom as much as it has to do with how your shoulders function in the swing due to that hand position.
When we perform a 360 over our left shoulder we might feel that it feels different based on whether the right hand is on top or the left hand is on top. There can be many reasons to experience these differences. One place to start the Examination for sources of difference comes down to the amount of wrist stability that you are demonstrating in that swing as well as the shoulder Mobility.
Although we should definitely start off our steel mace practice with two handed swing variations, the point for further development was proficiency is consistently demonstrated is not by increasing the weights of your steel mace but increasing the demands of the movement by exploring the differences and show them mobility and wrist stability side to side.

09/11/2026

Why is the steel mace hitting my leg?
It's more common than you think and we can definitely tell you that it's not bad luck to get struck.
How does your leg get in the way when you're swinging the steel mace? This is a great question to ask because you'll quickly find out that your leg does not get in the way of the mace - the mace gets in the way of your leg. How it gets there starts long before the cast happens.
What are you focusing on? When you cast the mace if you're focus is the Globes changing position then you might be off to a rough start. The globe can change positions in a couple of different ways but only one way will lead to a successful backswing where the mace does not strike your leg. Think of all the joints that are between the tips of your fingers and your shoulders. The joints need to move in a specific sequence and they're also needs to be stability in those joints that are not moving so the trajectory of the mace is correct. I'm about correct we mean that does not hit you.
If you read this far and found this helpful please send this to a friend of yours that is also constantly getting hit by the mace so they too might benefit from this.

Where is the problem? The repositioning of the steel mace does not mean that has been reposition due to the right process. The movement of the mace from the central line can happen in at least two ways the first one is through coordinated shoulder action where one shoulder pushes your arm toward the midline while the other pulls your arm away from the midline with enough speed this coordinated action puts the mace into a parallel position on this process is known as casting. The second way for the mace to be repositioned is my "dumping your wrist" AKA Radial Deviation. This process is one that leads the mace to crashing into your leg.

Good tactical cues - in our world - tend to have a few properties:

They're externally focused (aimed at the implement or an outcome, not internal muscle activation) — because external cues generally produce better motor learning than internal ones.
They're testable with immediate feedback — the person can check, mid-set, whether they did it or not.
They're singul

09/09/2026

Swing Breakdown.
What is the difference between the 360 stewl mace swing and the 10 to 2 steel mace swing?
This question is definitely worth unpacking because when you choose to do an exercise you should not only understand how to do it but you should understand why you're doing it and why you want to choose doing it on a given day.
On the face of it the difference does not look all that profound. In the Steel Mace 360 swing the mace moves around your body in one direction.
In the 10 to 2 steel mace swing, the steel mace goes over one shoulder and then back over the hours of shoulder like the numbers on the clock.
When we look a little bit closer we start to understand it is not simply a directional difference but it's a difference in the demands for shoulder stability and shoulder Mobility just as much as it is a change demands for core stability and hip stability.
The Continuous change in Direction in the 10 to 2 swing places alternating demands on your shoulders for internal and external rotation just as much as it changes demands for wrist stability whenever directions are changed. With this change in wrist stability demands for grip strength also change.
There's also a noticeable difference in the speed of each movement where the 360 seems to be a long swing and smooth pull into lower rack.
The 10 to 2 swing feels like a wrestling match.
The different demands that both swings have give them a unique place in your training. However when you choose a swing choose it on purpose and for a purpose so you can train on your own terms to reach your own goals. It might take a little longer to understand why you're doing what you're doing but if you take the time to do it it will most likely hold a place in your training for much longer because of this understanding.

09/09/2026

Squat + Horizontal Press
Squatting down and pressing a club straight out in front of you does a few things at once that most squat variations don't.
On a bench or overhead press, lockout gives you "rest" because the load stacks vertically down through a straight arm into the shoulder joint.
Here, the club is pressed out horizontally in front of you. Even at full elbow lockout, the load isn't stacking down through the joint, it's hanging out at the end of a horizontal lever.
That means gravity is creating a constant downward torque trying to pull the arm down and the shoulder blade forward, and nothing about locking the elbow changes that.
The joint can't rest into the load because the load was never lined up with the joint in the first place.
So the demand isn't coming from an unlocked elbow. It's coming from the scapular stabilizers, serratus anterior, lower traps, having to hold the shoulder blade in place against that pull the entire time the arm is extended out there.
That's the real stability cost of this press, and it's there at lockout just as much as anywhere else in the rep.
Second, because you're holding the club with both hands out in front of your chest, that front load naturally pulls your hips down and back into the squat. It's the same reason a goblet squat gets people into a deeper, better squat than an empty bodyweight one does. The weight is doing some of the work of getting you into position.
Third, your torso has to stay upright to keep that press level, which means you can't round your lower back to fake extra depth in the squat. So any depth you're getting down there is actually coming from your hips opening, not your spine bending.
And because you're holding all of that, the deep squat, the front load, the constant scapular stability demand, at the same time, you're training shoulder stability, hip and ankle range, and core bracing all in one position instead of one at a time.

09/09/2026

How's your training?
We had the worse progress. Nothing worked and there was zero growth.
We almost put the mace down.
We constantly moved away from anything that resembled structure - we avoided accountability to movement standards.
One day, we narrowed the focus and said: "we're not doing anything else until we learn 'x' and 'y'.
We started asking questions and stopped being passive consumers on content.
We set a training schedule and create programs.
We then set out to create ways to measure our progress on a small scale possible so we could understand in real terms how far we moved away from our starting point. It wasn't about getting to the end he was about becoming better than when we started.
If you want the steel mace to be a real contributor to your training, the programming that is used and tracking that you can do needs to be consistent, understood, and established.
It needs to be structured in such a way that you can refer back to it at any time so you understand where you were on a given day.

09/04/2026

Get in the mix.🍿🍿
It's a true story about us staying on the sidelines and never asking questions.
For every person it happens for their own reasons but we can certainly say that not asking questions can be the biggest barrier to learning anything.
"What if they think I'm dumb?" That is definitely a 'they' problem.
Those that are truly interested in passing on the meaning of their message to as many people as possible will try to create a message that will allow you to get the meaning in it so you can learn.
How you choose to ask those questions is really up to you.
You can jump into the Gladiator's Arena of the comment section 😊.
You can drop a DM.
You can send an email.
You can make a phone call.
You can also show up at 5:00 a.m. six out of the 7 days a week and you'll find somebody here probably swinging a steel mace that will be happy to answer your questions.
If you want to know just ask. If you don't know what you know and how much you need to know, just ask.
Most likely the person or people that you are asking have moved into the position of being asked the question because they were in the exact same spot you're in. The difference between them and you is that they have the opportunity to have their questions answered and now they can likely help you answer yours.

09/03/2026

I 💗 this statement.
Every time we hear it and every time we read it we smile.
It means we need to develop more effective messaging.
Swinging a steel mace is a compound rotational movement with multiple muscles and joints and involved at different phases of the swing.
Initially, it will look like "momentum" is doing all the work but it's important to know what you're looking at and what you're looking for when you're going to analyze any movement.
Check out the post we recommended that breaks down which muscles are working when during a steel mace swing.

08/30/2026

It's your Vocation. Take note.
Open the Realm of Possibilities.
What if you were told that it is your human obligation to be as strong as possible?
Not as strong as anyone else, but the strongest you can be.
This is not your job.
It's your vocation.
Bringing your strength into the world on your own terms leaves the mark only you can make.
Shout-out to for bringing it into the world in the form of these 32kg Single Arm swings 🤝🏻

TRAINING My session plans didnt call for a new PR attempt for quite awhile... but then some absolute crankers and the FOMO of King of The Swing 3 (my own fault for wearing the shirt, their fault for posting awesome athlete bios all week) got me motivated to throw plans out the window and see what I can do with this absolute hog of a mace.

16 total reps (these 10 in the middle the cleanest) for a new personal best.

Im working towards a goal of 35kg single arm swings before February 2028. I mapped out my sessions all the way until then with a reasonable projection of progression. Pleased to see that I'm about 7 months ahead of where I thought I would be!

When I first got into Steel Mace training manufacturers didnt even carry mace above 25kg. I will always have so much love for for expanding what's possible and forever making new toys for me to chase.

have the King of The Swing 3 event this weekend. Ive been watching (and helping) people prep for it for months now and I cant wait to watch along as some monster take the platform and put up some amazing numbers!

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