How To Do Muay Thai Workouts

Okay, welcome to How to Do Muay Thai Workouts. Now, it's important to know what muscles you need to strengthen, which ones you need to lengthen and stretch, in order to get the most beneficial workout for muay thai, okay. Now, one thing you could do is you can buddy up with somebody else, so I got my buddy here.

Grab yourself some thai pads, okay. These are used for muay thai training because of their surface area, okay. A lot of kicks, a lot of knees, are going to be going in there, very tough pads and these sorts of pads will take a lot of impact as well, okay, also for elbow strikes, too.

Okay, what we're going to do today is I'm going to show you a very basic leg conditioning exercise that's going to strengthen up your hips, your quads and your glutes, okay. All really important when you're throwing knees and when you're throwing kicks as well, okay. I'm going to teach you a very easy one of those which you can do at home with a buddy or in your training gym, okay.

Okay, first of all, the pad holder is going to hold it like so, about a 45-degree in the elbow, okay, to keep it nice and tight to the body. Impact is going to come forward here so there needs to be a slight resistance on the pad as the strike comes in. So, it's a good thing when you start to practice this, I'm just going to push it a few times and you're going to get used to the impact there, okay.

Once you've got that set, we know we're ready to roll. Strong position, knees bent, abs engaged fro strength and conditioning there, okay. You're going to measure up first to get your distance.

You're going to place your kicking leg straight underneath the pad, okay. Keep your non-kicking leg where it is, about a stride's distance from the front leg there, you're then going to step right back and you'll find yourself in a long stride position. I want you to come up unto your back toe and push the weight into the front leg, okay.

That's very important. Now, this exercise is going to work your front quad, your front glute, but it's going to really really really improve your hips speed and the ability to push your hips through because that's what a push-kick needs. We're going to do a push-kick.

So, come right down to a lunge position now. The basic step is from here, I'm going to kick this pad with a push-kick off my back leg. My hands are here, the kick comes in, push, straight back down into my lunge position again, alright.

Now, if you want to make that harder, you simply add a small range movement or a “pulse” before you kick. I'm going to do five pulses, so check it out. I set myself up, I come down nice and low, hands up here, we're going one, two, three, four, five, and I'm going to push out, kick and return back down again - one, two, three, four, five, kick, back down, okay.

You're going to repeat that 10 to 12 times and I'm sure you'll feel a burning sensation in your front leg and a little bit of a burning sensation in your hips as well, okay. I hope you find that useful. That is just one exercise.

There are many that can be done if you're thinking about conditioning for muay thai. It's all about the hips; it's all about the legs, and being at your all as well. If you want to do more, get down to your local muay thai club and I'm sure they'll put you through your paces but until then, I leave you with this. .