16 exercises you can do with a mace: | Men's Health

3 Functional Steel Mace Exercises for Beginners. Our bodies and CNS evolved to use different tools. If you look at the history of human beings, cavemen over 100,000 years ago were already using different wooden tools and weapons to improve their survival in the wilderness. One of the definitions of being a primate is literally having functional and flexible hands. With the birth of agriculture in 12,000 BC and with the development of houses, using tools became an essential part of being a human.