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Muay Thai Fitness Anonymous
Sup /fit/,

I'm currently looking for employment so that I can afford new clothes, aftershave and such. But most importantly, as soon as I have the cash, I intend to start attending Muay Thai classes.

Unfortunately, I have no idea when I'll manage to get a job, so until then I would like get a bit more fitter in preparation for my classes.

Does anyone have any suggestions for exercises that would target key areas for use in Muay Thai?

Thanks in advance.
>> Anonymous
Conditioning is really important. Do a lot of HIIT to build up your stamina. Basic calisthenics like pushups, air-squats, jump-squats, situps, are all useful too. I would say shadowbox but if you have no experience striking it'd probably be best to learn it once correctly than to practice incorrect striking & develop bad habits.

Enjoy.
>> Anonymous
Do Tabata every day. Run every other day. Eat less, workout more. Also stop fapping. You will notice a large change and be a POKEMON MASTER one day
>> Little Busters !!cYRK7ZeKVyk
Condition shins, so you can check kicks without bawwing.

When you do running, do it with hands in front of face rather than at the side.

Practice torquing your waist.
>> oy yo
punch your nose, it's what they are gon do

might as well get a head start u know
break it be4 they do


peace
>> Anonymous
Stretching and HIIT.

Stretching for kicks of course.

HIIT to mimic the punishment you'll recieve over the course of a fight. In HIIT, you go all out for short bursts with some respite in between. In MT, you'll go all out during the rounds with only a short rest period between.
>> Anonymous
>>235068
Only fucktard here who actually sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

Conditioning of the shins is crucial, I remember when I started first checking a kick was painful. Running of course is important, but in the class they will have you running, sprinting, pushups, lunges, etc etc.

Stretching is vital as well for high kicks, god knows nothing is more pathetic to see than a dumb bastard who can't fucking kick above waist, and no height has hardly anything to do with it. I'm short as shit, 5'8 and I can kick over my height, around 6'0.

So recap, run, stretch, toughen your shins, as well as forearms to help when getting hit with high kicks.
>> Anonymous
I'd do windsprints, maybe 30 yards, run as fast as you can and back peddle back to the start, do not rest at all until you've done at least 30 of these. do 5 sets of 30 windsprints.

I'd also do alot of bagwork, mostly heavy bag for non stop "rounds" of maybe 3-5 minutes each.

the weight room is for building strength, not conditioning, that's a mistake a lot of people make, do basic full body power moves, powerclean and press, powersnatches, 1, 2 or 3 reps, maybe 7-9 sets. I like to do heavy pulls, not really deadlifts, more like olympic type cleanpulls and then do overhead pushpresses very heavy weights, then I'll do either powerclean n press or powersnatches to get a whole bodypower workout, the conditioning stuff I do at the dojo, with the heavy bag, sparring partners or calisthenics.

p.s. always do situps, hanging leglifts or for muay thai, I'd do standing knee ups, just turn on your favorite music and lift your knees as high as you can for 20-30 minutes....
>> Anonymous
>>235073

This pretty much sums it up. Conditioning your shins isn't really that important unless you want to compete because otherwise you'll probably be using protectors. Oh and I can't stress stretching enough, the warmup stretches you do there won't be enough to get good flexibility boost which you need so gotta work on that on your own.
>> Anonymous
>>235188

I don't think OP should concentrate on shin conditioning just yet, but for a different reason.

OP should condition shins via bagwork and padwork. He'll need to go to an actual class to learn how to do it properly, and he was only asking for exercises to do in preparation for his first class.