The Most Underrated Steel Mace Exercises

With steel maces gaining popularity in garage gyms post 2020, it’s easy to become enamored with TOO much information with any new tool. And the steel mace consensus you’ll seem to get with every popular social trainer is hundreds of repetitious 360s are the path to “healing your shoulders.” While I love performing 360s (two and one handed) myself — it is a huge myth that steel mace 360s heal or cure your shoulder girdle from a complete novice standpoint. If anything, it can worsen one’s acute/chronic shoulder injury forcing without proper instruction from a fitness professional.

What I’m getting here is steel mace 360s are dangerous if a beginning individual has no idea how to stabilize these circular forces with out knowing how to use their lats (the big muscles wing of your back) or oblique system (sides of your core). It’s the same reason why I coach the kettlebell deadlift before teaching the kettlebell swing — so the beginner understands how to hip hinge properly to not injure their low back. So with the steel mace being a asymmetrical loaded tool what would be a good exercise to slow down this process to learn how to use these muscle groups?

Enter the Steel Mace Offset Military Press (watch video below for demo):

Now learning to press the mace, lets learn to pull it with the Bent Over Row next:

So by integrating these two exercises into your workouts, you can start learning steel mace 360s with a better knowing of HOW to use your lats and obliques to better control the steel mace (not letting it control you to the point of injury). If you’d like to see more of how to Master The Four P's For Steel Mace 360s — check out this article here to show you how.

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