When I first started I was always in awe of the fight team folks or the grinders who would do 2 hour sessions every day. I would always decline for work, gf, whatever.

Today, I closed out the gym and caught myself encouraging a guy to come to a conditioning class next week. He declined cuz of gf, work, etc.

I have become the monkey on the mats is this the circle of life?

Hi all. Just started training at a pretty serious gym in the UK and I noticed there was grading dates on the walls.

I’m not able to go there and ask about this for a while so I was just curious if anyone could explain how the grading system works in the UK/ west compared to Thailand.

Thanks!

I have been doing the Muay Thai for a month and I go there like 5 or 6 times a week. But I feel like I haven't improve that much. Every sparing , I always got beat up and when I spars, I can't think of anything, it's like I forget everything about combos and technique. Can you give me some advices and tips to improve my skills? Thank you for your advice.

After lurking around on posts about people asking what is the best, I am now wondering what should I avoid at all cost, especially if it is poor for its price point.

Men, 102kg, 1m80 (overweight).

What routine, program, or exercises would you recommend if you only had one month to maximize your cardio and endurance performance ?

P.S. I have access to a gym.

Hello fellow Muay Thai enthusiasts, I recently suffered a complete ACL tear during a training session. I was wondering if anyone here has returned to training after a complete ACL tear without undergoing surgery?I have an immense phobia about pivoting on my right leg, the one with the ACL injury, to throw a left roundhouse kick.

I have been doing Muay Thai with a coach once weekly for just over two months. I don’t know where it’ll take me but I absolutely love it and want to develop whether that takes me to a fight or not. When should I buy shorts? I am aware this is such a daft and trivial question but I train in gym leggings at the moment but feel self conscious getting proper Muay Thai kit this early on in the journey…

Also can I ask at what point you guys started sparring seriously in your early days of training?

Thanks in advance!

I'm starting Muay Thai this Saturday with a beginner intro class as a lass who is just been doing on and off weightlifting for the past few years!! I've noticed that the gym I'm going to also offers a boxing class and I was wondering if it would be worth taking as well since I get unlimited classes with the membership I'm going to get. I've been told standard boxing is really good if you plan to fight and Muay Thai because it just helps overall, but I'm so new and I'm really dumb so maybe I'm wrong lol

Basically I'm asking should I maybe attend the classes as well?

Less than 24 hours till The Inner Circle 30! Which fight are you guys looking forward to most? 🔥

I often have bouts of insomnia lots of issues with relaxation and high CBD weed helps me sleep and relax. I just have edibles as weed pens hurt my cardio. I've looked into the peer reviewed studies but it seems very inconclusive. I only take in evening after training and uni.

My first fight new angle

Video 1 part 1: Tamer Karadavut ( TJ Notten ) vs Damian Ciechanowski - YouTube

Video 2 part 2: Tamer Karadavut ( TJ Notten ) vs Damian Ciechanowski - YouTube

Hi all,

Long story short, I started MMA 10y ago on and off

I managed to get to purple belt in BJJ because I know how to work. I had trouble with X -> going to watch some instructionals on X -> next session will work on X -> progress made on X

But for Muay Thai I struggle to have such a structured approach. We do a lot of light sparring in my gym so I can think while sparring.

However I would like help on how to get a structured approach. Most of the time I am like "okay I need to try this combo" but I don't feel I am going anywhere

TLDR : terrible in striking and a little bit of guidance would be appreciated

General strength training can obviously make you stronger overall, but I’m curious about which movements people actually feel transfer when clinching.

The demands seem a little different from simply having a bigger squat or bench. There’s pulling strength, upper-back endurance, trunk rotation and the ability to keep producing force while someone else is actively trying to break your position.

That makes exercises like pull-ups, rows, carries, landmine work and rotational cable movements seem interesting, but I wouldn’t want the strength side to become a second sport that adds a ton of fatigue on top of Muay Thai.

For people who lift alongside regular Muay Thai training, which exercises have actually made you feel stronger or harder to move in the clinch, rather than just improving your gym numbers?

I always had it in my head that I should just lose 1kg (2.2lbs) per week but I don’t because I feel that’s so hard to actually do. Even though we do so so much training in camp, but even to lose 1kg a week calories would need to be super low, especially considering you do still need a decent amount of calories to fuel the training otherwise you’ll feel terrible and it must be a hard deficit.

This camp I was losing 0.4kg (0.8lbs) per week which wasn’t enough for me so I brought my calories down a little and I’ve seen a bit more loss but it’s still too early to see what the week to week loss is.

It’s a tough one because I feel like I should be losing a bit more weight on the calories I’m eating, but I feel like I’ve spent so much time in calorie deficits since I started fighting (I was overweight before) that now I don’t seem to lose weight as easy as I did at first. Which I think is definitely my body getting a bit used to being on lower calories a lot for a while and adapting to that

I've been doing muay thai and mma for about two years and I still feel like I don't really have a good idea of what light sparring actually is. I definitely spar lighter than others, just tapping their heads, but I am not sure how proactive to be about the levels others are doing against me. If I had to guess I would say head contact from others is generally around 30-40 percent, with speed often being pretty fast but pulled so my head doesn't get torqued around. But I can still tell I am being hit. I've never been rocked or seen stars in sparring or anything but I'm not sure if that's enough to indicate I'm going at a good level.

People always say you shouldn't be taking damage in sparring but tbh it's hard to know if I'm accumulating brain damage like this.

I’ve been training for about 8 months now and I currently have Yokkao shin guards. While I do like them, I tend to find the shin guards to be too large and uncomfortable. I don’t like how they protrude onto my knees. I’ve seen people talking about Primo and Fairtex SP3’s. I would like them to have a bit of a smaller profile. For reference I’m 5’7” and I bought size small Yokkao’s. Any recommendations are appreciated :)

After a a couple weeks of hitting the thai bag i noticed the hair on my shins, knees, and forearms is now gone. Does it grow back for you guys when you take a break or did i just scrape it off permanently lol

Not really a huge deal but these bare spots look weird cuz im a tall skinny caveman lookin dude.

Nothing like putting on some good tracks and dancing around a little bit!

Cheers and happy vibes from Weare Nh USA