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Persian Meel are  fashioned after the oldest tool and weapon of mankind, the club. They’re used for strengthening the posterior chain and specifically for increasing stability, mobility, endurance and tissue resilience, as well as rehabilitation of the shoulder girdles.

The Meel is held upright and swung circularly over the shoulders and behind or besides the body in various circular patterns and configurations as opposed to being pushed or lifted in a straight line.

The rules of Meel swinging are that they should not make contact with the body (other than the hands of course), they should not make contact with each other, and they should not drop, ie. they should be held upright unless they’re being swung.

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The answer is, it depends. In our tradition a healthy adult male starts on 6kg/13lb pair of Meel. Meel are masured in the combined weight of the pair e.g. a 6kg/13lb pair weighes 3kg/7.5lb per club.

In my experience beginners with Meel start on average on 4-6kgs/9-13lbs Meel for men and 2-4kgs/4-9lbs for women. There are exceptions of course. 

If you strength train regularly, have some experience with clubs but not Meel and would like a challenge for the next couple of years, at least, then I’d recommend max 8kg/17lb Meel, anything heavier will be too challenging to learn with.

And if you’re completely new to this and feel that you want to progress more slowly over time (safer) then I’d recommend the 4 kg Meel for beginners male and 2 kg for beginner females.

Persian Meel can weigh as little as 1kg each, ie. 2 kg pair, up to 100 kg pairs, ie. 50 kg each club. I have however only seen 80 kg pair Meel be swung effectively.

The lighter Meel ranging from 2-5 kg pair are commonly used for technique variations and Meel over 20 kg pair are considered to be heavy Meel.

In my experience beginners with Meel start on average on 4-7kgs/9-15lbs Meel for men and 2-5kgs/4-11lbs for women. There are exceptions of course. 

If you strength train regularly, have some experience with clubs but not Meel and would like a challenge for the next couple of years, at least, then I’d recommend max 8kg/17lb Meel, anything heavier will be too challenging to learn with.

And if you’re completely new to this and feel that you want to progress more slowly over time (safer) then I’d recommend the 4 kg Meel for beginners male and 2 kg for beginner females.

Persian Meel, sometimes referred to as Persian Meels, Persian Mace or Persian Clubs are tear shaped wooden clubs used as a strength training tool and practice substitute for learning to handle battle maces, hammers, axes and other handheld melee weapons.

Persian Meel are the grandfather of the Clubbells and Indian Clubs, they have been used in Iran since time immemorial. Original and authentic Persian Meel are made from one piece of walnut or cherry timber for exceptional beauty, balance, symmetry and swing performance. Persian Meel are functional art and they have been used for millenia by ancient warriors and knights as well as modern martial artists and wrestling campions as a time tested method to develop superior strength, endurance, mobility, stability and syncronicity of the shoulders, core and grip.

Meel are unique in that they provide continuous resistance throughout the range of motion of shoulder joint circumduction, or rotation in 360 degrees. It is a superior tool for rehabilitation of and development of powerful shoulders. Each Meel is held upright and swung in circular patterns, this focuses the weight distribution primarily on the muscular frame and produces Torque, which requires more than twice the work compared to moving the same mass linearly.

Meel increases and develops superior mobility, stability, synchronicity, coordination, rhythm, concentration and tremendous shoulder, arm, core and grip strength. It will take your strength to new levels.