Indian clubs, or meels, are a type of exercise equipment used to present resistance in movement to develop strength and mobility. They consist of juggling-club shaped wooden clubs of varying sizes and weights, which are swung in certain patterns as part of a strength exercise program.

The Indian Club is a hugely versatile workout tool, with full body applications, much like a kettlebell. Indian Clubs (named so by colonial settlers to India) or Gada clubs are skittle shaped, similar to juggling clubs, with varying weights and sizes. They originated as a training implement for Indian soldiers.

From the mid-19th century through the first few decades of the 20th, Indian clubs were enormously popular exercise devices. Juggling clubs, by the way, derive from Indian clubs, being smaller, lighter versions of the latter. Women and girls took up club swinging avidly.

Indian Club swinging dates back thousands of years to Hindu traditions. Clubs were considered a gift from divinity in those traditions. The British brought Indian Clubs from India where they were used primarily used as training tools by soldiers and police. In fact, British Marine Physical Instructors are still known as the Clubs.