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Testimonials:

Kalen Allmandinger – Blue Man Group
Blue Man Group is a fun and intense show to perform in. The drumming style we use is big and physical. Besides the normal strain involved with repetitive motion, we play on multiple surfaces, including pvc tubing and paint covered drum heads. We’re expected, of course, to be in shape and ready to give one hundred percent in every show. Each performer has his own way of warming up and staying in shape. I find the Indian Clubs to be an amazing tool to strengthen and lengthen my muscles, joints, and tendons. Whether I’m just warming up before a performance, warming down after a performance, or doing some more intense strength building exercises with heavier clubs, I never feel any excess strain from the clubs.
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Pat Miletich – 5 time Ultimate Fighting World Champion
With over 40 professional fights I’ve had to deal with a number of injuries including a partial rotator cuff tear, a jammed shoulder and cartilage damage. I went through extensive rehabilitation with limited success. I was introduced to Indian Clubs a little over a year ago and I can tell you since using the clubs on a regular basis, “my shoulder now feels solid and 100%.” Indian Club Exercises are now a necessary part of Miletich Fighting Systems. Not only for me, but all our fighters.
Taekwondo Times, March 2007
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Bill Maxwell – Strength and Conditioning Coach, University of Iowa
We utilize the Indian Clubs with our swimming programs during pre and post season training. The pre-season program goal is to establish efficient movement patterns with the shoulder, elbow and wrist during dynamic warm-ups for lifting. The post season involves shoulder reconditioning and preparation for overhead lifting. It is a valuable training tool for our program.

Michael Latch – Valley Crossfit
In Crossfit, we do a lot of high-intensity weightlifting and gymnastics. I purchased about a dozen pairs of Indian Clubs to use as a warm-up in our group classes. They were an instant hit. In fact, my athletes are completely spoiled by them now, and request them in every session. Club swinging is fun, helps to both prevent and rehab shoulder injuries, and is an excellent workout in its own right. Thank you, MotionRx!
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Steve Myrland – Myrland Sports Training, LLC
I became interested in Indian Clubs several years ago after speaking with Vern Gambetta. What intrigued us about using the clubs was the training potential of extending the kinetic chain and being able to add resistance in all planes of motion. The clubs are definitely one of those training tools that have to be tried to be understood, but the main reason I use them is that they require you to be mindful rather than mindless in your movements. You learn to create fluid, graceful, precise movement patterns, and these patterns are great for your shoulders, elbows, and wrists especially. Baseball and volleyball players, Nordic skiers, and swimmers are some of the athletes who can benefit greatly by adding these functional, inexpensive and portable tools to their training program.
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Julio Anta – Anta’s Fitness and Self Defense, Miami (Doral), FL
I would like to thank Dr. Ed and Dick Thomas for opening a new world and expanding my horizons in the fitness industry. Incorporating Indian Clubs to my personal training has done wonders for my shoulder injuries. Adding Indian Clubs to my adult fitness classes and my Kung Fu Kids classes has brought new functional training to our center, or should I say old functional training since Indian Clubs have been around for a long time. Sim D. Kehoe was the pioneer of Indian Club training in America at the end of the 19th century. Ed and Dick Thomas are the modern day pioneers of Indian clubs reintroducing this almost dead art.
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Chris Hall – Symmetry Fitness, LLC, New York, NY
The Indian Clubs are great! I have clients ranging from college bound students to men and women in their 80’s using the clubs for different reasons. Some are using for warming up or cooling down before and after a workout wh ile others are using as their main activity to help promote or maintaincoordination and flexibility of the shoulder girdle. We have several physical therapists using the clubs as a rehab tool.

Stephen Browne – Martial Arts Instructer, Warsaw, Poland
There is just nothing like a workout with the clubs for general health, mobility and flexibility. It’s good for anyone but especially good for the martial artist because along with the loosening of the shoulder girdle it promotes coordination and strength in motion. Since I started using clubs about a year ago, I also found a heavier set and have been exploring lots of different exercises based on my practice of Filipino-Kali-Escrima.

Marc Andresen – Fitness Performance, Glen Gardner, NJ.
Besides adding interest and a new challenge to any routine, the Indian Clubs contribute neuromuscular and cognitive stimulation that can’t be duplicated with any other equipment. I’m just beginning to learn about cross-pattern movement and right/left brain function, and I feel that clients can benefit from the clubs in ways they might not even realize. At Fitness Performance we strive for integrated whole body movements instead of part-by-part workouts, and club swinging fits right into this method of training.

Dr. Mark Schmall D.C. – Chiropractor, Rock Island, Illinois
I purchased a pair of Indian Clubs and video about a year ago for therapy of chronic shoulder pain. I have now been using the clubs for one year and have achieved a much greater range of motion and decreased pain. I have now prescribed the clubs to my patients who tell me of the same results. I would highly recommend the use of Indian Club Exercises for chronic shoulder pain and loss of range of motion.

Ken Daley – Associate Professor Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences, Maharishi
University of Management Associate Editor of the SportScience Web Site
Indian Club training was introduced at the University about two years ago. Since then, our students have really gravitated to Indian Club exercises. The rhythm of Club Swinging has an appeal that feels almost primordial. I would rate Club Swinging as one of the best body/mind exercises that exist. The psychomotor control it develops is complex and exotic, stirring joy at every swing.

Adele Carroll – Lymington, Hampshire UK
I love the Indian clubs and the exercises. They are deceptively strenuous! I suffer a lot of neck and back pain from sitting all day at a desk and the exercises really feel like they’re helping, restoring a kind of balance in a way. I spin the tape forwards and look at the more complicated moves and hope one day I get there.

Robert Eggebrecht – Chicago, IL
I’m 52 years of age – vocationally a government budget officer who spends way too many hours at a computer. Avocationally, I am a martial artist with over 35 years of practice – the last 15 or so in Southeast Asian martial arts (kali, silat, kuntoa, bando, gungfu, etc.). I have now been swinging Indian Clubs for a little over a year. The Ed Thomas video gave me the best instruction to date. The use of lightweight clubs helped loosen and strengthen the shoulder girdle which tends to get tight when I spend too many hours at a computer. The light clubs also helped my elbows and wrists that have been injured through martial arts practice. With the club swinging technique, I get full extension of the joints which I do not with more compact movements and exercises.