muai thai workout
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24 Feb 2011, 11:35
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hey, so at friday I've got my first muai thai traning and can't wait for it! But Im a bit afraid, anyone of you got some experience with sport like this? I mean I spent last 2 years on the gym and Im pretty sure that gives me some predispositions to martial arts but I think in muai thai things like physical effort, endurance and condition are way more important than strenght. Anyone of you know how the training looks like? For already 2 weeks im trying to prepare myself for this - every day im running about 8 kms, trying to do things like pushups, a6w workout and stretching out.
cheers! Waiting for some answers
cheers! Waiting for some answers
theyre not gonna punch you out in the first training, theyll take it easy
obviously there shouldn't be any full contact & sparrings @ full speed @ first months
btw
U can go outside & lowkick some trees like Vann Damme did
Dunno how it will looke like, i trained mma 1,5 year (contains muai thai) - for first few months - a lot of technical and running.
Watch out for injuries - i got problems with both knees, huckles and hands (wrists and few muscles)
gl with it
you'll be fine
i do muay thai twice a week (90 min sessions) and have done for some time now
we usually have something like
20 min warmup (running, plyometrics [pushups, squats etc.], stretches etc.)
15 min conditioning (random bodyweight exercises like frog jumps, sprints etc.)
40 min technical (clinch work, slow pad work, defense, movement, counters etc.)
15 min circuits (high intensity cardio - 60 seconds right kicks, 60 seconds left, 60s knees, 60s straight punches, etc.)
i started again around late september so around 5 months now, i was pretty overweight when i started though! i'm not really fat anymore, but i'm definitely not 'ripped' either - strong, with reasonably good cardio but i'm still a fair way from defined
i also do 3x90 min sessions a week btw
'getting ripped' is really more about a controlled diet and making sure you burn more calories than you consume
in the past 5 months i've lost fat and gained muscle though
if you want abs just make sure you're not eating too much, and keep up the cardio/thai boxing
bear in mind that muay thai is a killer workout, and far more fun than 60mins+ on a treadmill/bike/whatever, and will also teach you how to defend yourself
how do you know soo much and you are still a fat ass? :o
Probably he'll start with some warming up, and showing you the basics of the sport. More like how to kick, hit and how to place your feet and arms when beeing in defense.
I got a shedule which is something different everyday. I'm training with a personal trainer because I don't like groups.
More often than not:
5 mins warmup doing basic running around and few sequence stuff doing various combinations of right-left punches and kicks, clinches etc.
Then we'd do 100 pushups, 100 old school sit ups (not some gay crunches) and 100 squats.
Would do more technical stuff after that then including pad work, learning new moves blah blah. I would end up doing a few more conditioning things like 100 low roundhouse kicks each leg to help with my shins etc.
Will vary from different places you go to as well. Some days we'd have the Bas Rutten MMA/Muay thai workout (google it if you're not familiar)
you're doing it all in the one series?
Warmup:
3-6 Mile run(for fighters and advanced students only)
Then as the beginners show up(the advanced students do this as well):
Weighted rope skipping- 20 minutes
Tire bounce- 10 minutes
Workout:
Calisthenics and conditioning(around 30-45 minutes)- Varies
may include:
Mountain climbers, push ups, squats, duckwalks, speed pad kicking, continouous knees, bag burnout drills, some olympic barbell stuff and other nasty drills.
Main training varies also: Pad work, Heavybag work, Speed bag, Double-end bag, Sparring(for intermediates+), Partner drills, other creative skill building activities that i can't quite remember.
I feel terrible because i quitted it to go to the military (big mistake)
In Muay Thai theres always splitted groups :)
beginners
moderate fighters
Gala fighters
profs
you'll always start at lowest ofc :D
My trainings sessions looked like this
Monday, Wednesday, Thursday
Monday and Wednesday technical course training
Monday
15 min cardio
15 min core stability
30 mins technical trainings arms legs and clinches
Wedsnesday
same with cardio and core stability
after that technical training with medium body contact (punches and kicks you feel)
Thursday
full 30 min warmup (sparring boxing only)
15 min of light sparring
10 min full contact sparring
5 min cooldown
i want to do it for fun and it would be nice to learn some cool kicks :XD
Well, do whatever you like, it's your choice :p!
15 minutes warmup.
10 minutes of core muscle training
10 minutes stretching
10 minutes power, speed, flexibility, balance or endurance training
40 minutes technique training (alot of kickboxing and ocassionaly we took it to the ground
And at the end we sparred for about 10 minutes.
I got into kickboxing/bjj right after 2 years of intense fitness/bodybuilding and the extra weight I've gained surely didn't benefit me and I wasn't as flexible as most of the others but after about 6 months of serious training I got along pretty nice.
Anyway you'll be fine if you work on the stretching and keep running.
Not sure if you can see this video though http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1168359890301 guy from our club was a bit cocky and some polak kicked him in the face and knocked him out =D
Rest was mostlly technique training.
and doing a sport !
One of my classmate does karate on a very good level (international), his muscles look just like any other guy, but i saw him fighting, his speed is just amazing, and the power coming out from his arms is amazing
Just to point out that bodybuilding is shit :D (greets to some sweden boy)
Tho i wish u HF !