Girya

He slammed the giryas back down on the rubber-matted floor.

Kettlebells, which are Russian in origin (called girya), are believed to have been around since the early 1700s.

Also called kettlebell sport, this is a Russian national sport in which the girya (kettlebell) is used either in single or double form to accumulate as many repetitions as possible in 10 minutes in order to compare one lifter with the next in a sporting framework.

Soon the farmers began challenging each other to feats of strength using the girya.