The Great Martial Art Of Muay Thai In My World Of Fitness

First of all what is Muay Thai, Muay Thai  is a combat sport from the muay martial arts of Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This physical and mental discipline which includes combat on foot is known as "the art of eight limbs" because it is characterized by the combined use of fists, elbows, knees, shins and feet, being associated with a good physical preparation that makes a full-contact fight very efficient. And let me tell you it is pretty tough, i have watched many films involving the martial art (ong-bak, warrior king and so on) love the films, they are great!
I started to attend the classes i think 6 weeks ago, maybe more, lost track of the time as many things have been happening.

I think a lot of people under estimate these classes thinking it is going to be easy, its harder than it looks or even sounds and is not everyone's cup of tea, even leaves me sweating buckets, nothing like i have done before.

When i first started, im going to be honest, my kicks were a bit ''crap'', punches were ok,...pretty powerful apparently, had experience in other sports. When kicking you have to learn to use your hips, pretty technical as the foot position has to be right to.After a few weeks i started to get the hang of it, my kicks are coming along nicely and i am able put that power in to it.
Even tho main focus is with kicks, that is not all, using the knees whilst grappling them, taking out the legs, elbow to the face, and obviously punches to, the aim is to try to cause as much damage as possible with all 8 limbs.

On to the fitness part.

It is great for cardiovascular work, as it does get pretty intense leaving you drained for energy, and does leave you a bit sore the next day, Some days are harder than others of course.
Due to my intense kettlebell sessions i have lost weight a little, obviously due to the intensity of both combine, of course..it would happen. So i currently been working on a new program for myself just to help me keep up my mass but also keeping up my strength and endurance.

I got this idea from Nick Nilsson, comes up with some crazy stuff.
Of course in mine i use kettlebells.

So..you take 6 exercises, put them in a good order. in my opinion after trying different ways, put the harder exercises at the end, you will see why shortly.

Have a fairly decent weight, something you can at least do 10 reps with.

Now for each exercise your going to be doing 5 reps per exercise.
Your going to be doing the first exercise on your list...rest for 10 seconds.
Then back to the first, then strait onto the second exercise immediately after the first...rest for 10 seconds.
Back to first, onto second, then to the third, then rest, working your way to the six exercise.
When you finished the sixth exercise, rest for 2 minutes. after the rest start from the beginning.
Sounds easy, but it is difficult. I think 2 sets will be enough, 3 if your hardcore ;).

So example to what it looks like.

1)..rest 10sec
1)..2)..rest 10sec
1)..2)..3)..rest 10sec
1)..2)..3)..4)..rest 10sec
1)..2)..3)..4)..5)..rest 10sec
1)..2)..3)..4)..5)..6).. rest 2 minutes..then repeat sequence.

I will gave you one i wrote out and tried this week.


1) elevated press up (feet on a chair, hands on kettlebell handles)

2) bent over row

3) overhead press

4) floor press

5) high pulls

6) pull ups


2 kettlebells at the same weight. some of the above can be alternated ie. 2,3,4.
keep the rest time strict as possible. remember to warm up first and cool down after...shouldn't need to tell you really as you should be doing it anyway ;)

enjoy

Lewis Lee Timson


p.s soon i am planning on writing a post on dumbbell and kettlebell: effect on the joints, been in touch with some great guys to so keep watch.