SI-CLUB - Functional training clubs
Clave Sidea - Technique, experience and leadership in rotational functional training
Produced since 2010, Sidea clubs represent the fruit of years of technical development and practical application, born out of collaboration with trainers, professionals and athletes specialising in functional training with a rotational component, also known as clubbell training.
No other company in Europe has invested as much as Sidea in promoting integrated functional training through the production of professional equipment and the organisation of courses, events and training workshops. Our systemic approach involves equipment such as clubs, macebells, kettlebells, Flying (suspension training), parallel bars, sandbags, barbells and other tools designed for three-dimensional functional training.
The experience gained in the field and the ongoing commitment to the development of functional training geared towards performance, well-being and aesthetics are reflected in the quality of our products. Sidea is today recognised as the most coherent, competent and active European company in the sector, as demonstrated by its achievements at international level.
Si-Club - Le clave Sidea
The Si-Club, Sidea's original clubs, are made entirely of steel and finished with high-strength micaceous paint, designed to guarantee durability and comfortable grip even during the most dynamic exercises. The handle has a medium-deep knurling, designed to provide a secure grip, reducing palm stress even during ballistic, rotational and flow training movements.
The careful design of the length, balance and diameter of the end knob allows for smooth and controlled execution, avoiding interference with the wrist and improving technical effectiveness in exercises such as swings, 360°, mills, spins, transitions and throws. A distinctive element of the Si-Clubs is the end knob, a design detail that is essential to guarantee comfort, control and reliability during use. Its size and design features make it ideal for handling transitions, rotations and dynamic movements typical of clubbell training. It is made of high-strength rubber and firmly attached to the handle by means of a threaded stud, a solution that ensures structural strength, but also ease of replacement.
Available in a comprehensive range from 1 to 30 kg, Si-Clubs are suitable for every level: from the novice user to the advanced athlete. Even the lightest weights offer a high degree of intensity and muscular involvement, making each session useful for developing functional strength, joint mobility, neuromuscular coordination and grip strength.
Sidea clubs are used in a variety of contexts: from general physical training, to specific training, to three-dimensional functional training programmes, e.g. TACFIT and motor health programmes. Their versatility makes them reference tools for those seeking high performance and concrete results.
Available weights:
- cod. 2149 Si-Club kg 1
- cod. 2150 Si-Club kg 2.5
- cod. 2151 Si-Club kg 5
- cod. 2152 Si-Club kg 7.5
- cod. 2153 Si-Club kg 10
- cod. 2154 Si-Club kg 12.5
- cod. 2155 Si-Club kg 15
- cod. 2156 Si-Club kg 17.5
- cod. 2157 Si-Club kg 20
- cod. 2158 Si-Club kg 22.5
- cod. 2159 Si-Club kg 25
- cod. 2165 Si-Club kg 27.5
- cod. 2166 Si-Club kg 30
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Spare parts:
cod. R2149 Replacement knob for Si-Club
Si-Clubs: equipment with unique features in Functional Training
If by now the kettlebell have become commonly used equipment in almost all gyms and sports contexts, the clave are certainly still largely unknown and consequently little appreciated. Once you have learnt to use them, however, you are immediately able to realise how useful these tools can be in any form of training and physical conditioning, being able to show limits of which you were probably not even aware before using them.
Training characteristics
La mass off-centre in relation to the handle makes the tool highly unstable. A first consequence of this characteristic is that from the outset one does not have an immediate understanding of how to move it from the ground: one instinctively comes to lift it by pulling it with one's arms, and this makes one perceive a strange, unstable weight to handle. In some respects, one is surprised at how much a Clava weighing only 7.5 or 10 kg can weigh. Not knowing how to use it in a technical and profitable way, one generally tries to handle it with arm strength, in the same way as a dumbbell.
Another technical shortcoming that often emerges when first using clubs is the socket. In some cases, you suddenly realise how poorly your forearms and grip muscles are trained, so much so that you cannot close your fingers for hours after the first few sessions. It is precisely these characteristics, however, that are the added bonus of club training, making this tool one-of-a-kind.
The choice of weight
Currently, clubs range from 1 kg to 30 kg, range which allows the most varied use in both single and double grip and for every level of training. For a trained man who is used to performing strength work with heavy barbells, for example, a 10 kg single grip club or a 20 kg double grip club are more than enough to allow incredible gains in strength, stability and muscle quality. However, clubs are not only used in common aesthetic-functional training in the gym: due to their extreme versatility they also find unique applications in the field of prevention e rehabilitationas well as in the athletic preparation.

The structural characteristics of the clubs determine their technical characteristics: the weight is strongly off-centre with respect to the portion of the club where the grip is exertedmuch more than tools such as the kettlebell. Unlike the latter, moreover, there is no real grip, but rather a simple section where great force is applied to hold it firmly. This becomes all the more crucial considering that the clubs are not lifted, but rather slung, so they take on great speed during the execution of the exercises and only by means of an excellent grip can one avoid losing control of them and throwing them to the ground.
Benefits of training with Si-Clubs
Off-centre mass and implement momentum are the fundamentals of club trainingthis makes it possible to simultaneously condition both the grip strengththat the Scapular girdle stabilitybut during the momentum phase it also improves the joint mobility in joint decompression and thefascial elasticity in the muscle chain.
Here, clubs, properly used, are fundamental in preventing injuries and also in post-injury recovery. Mobility, Stability, Proprioception and Co-ordination are indeed fundamental physical characteristics for both of these training goals, making them valuable tools in the hands of physiotherapists, rehabilitators and athletic trainers.

Clubs in athletic training
With clubs you build strong, stable and functional shoulders in all three planes of movement, which makes them particularly suitable for sports characterised by fast and powerful arm movements (combat sports, throwing sports, swimming, baseball, golf, tennis, volleyball, rock climbingetc.). Having said that, being slung through the motor fulcrum of the hips and stabilised along all possible trajectories through the trunk (Core Training), clubs can produce useful benefits for all sports, finding application in the general athletic preparation of any sporting discipline, and through targeted technical combinations they can also strongly approach various specific technical gestures.
In particular, the clubs allow ballistic momentum work in the three planes of movementmost important in the development of the technical actions of all sports, the Transverse plane. This is the plane of movement that plays a fundamental role both in the prevention of injuries from indirect trauma and dysfunctional stress/overloading, and in increasing the reactivity, speed, and executive power of specific gestures (accelerations, decelerations, changes of direction, specific sports technical executions). Having strong, stable, proprioceptive and reactive joints during rotations and torsionsis the key to healthy and efficient athletes throughout their sports career.
Although they may be underestimated or, due to their constitution, they may be frightening, clubs have unique characteristics that make them extraordinary tools not only in Functional Training, but also in any physical training context, from rehabilitation to physical preparation, and even in purely aesthetic fitness.
On the other hand, only with an optimal knowledge of exercise technique in full respect of the body's biomechanics, and functional training programming, can its extraordinary characteristics be optimised.
by Emilio Troiano
WTA International Functional Training Academy


















