Injury Rehab & Prevention – Fix & Avoid Common Injuries…
How to train to prevent injuries, or get back to training after injury as quickly as possible, and in the best shape possible.
Are you a fighter training through an injury? Should you be resting up or smashing on regardless? I've pushed on when I shouldn't have, and needlessly backed off too. There are lessons to learn here. Injury is part of [...]
In a previous article for Muay Thai Scholar, I discussed using strength and conditioning training to discover how your body fails, and working on these weak links – we’ve all got them! I illustrated with the example of valgus [...]
My wife forwarded the following video to me, showing an apparent impact conditioning drill. Now, it's pretty obvious this is the dumbest idea ever. This kind of deliberate repeated trauma to the brain causes damage, and you can only [...]
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"Everything declines after 30" is the line every fighter over 30 has been told. It's wrong, and I can prove it. And that proof starts with two performance curves moving in opposite directions. It comes down to two numbers. [...]
This week, a fighter emailed me. He’s 40, training Muay Thai three to four days a week, and wants to take his first fight. He plans to scale up to six days a week and [...]
I know you're making Muay Thai training mistakes. Some of them are costing you right now. The rest will wait decades and then send you the bill. You're gassing out in the third round, so you run harder. Your [...]
Six weeks of flawless training. One missed Tuesday because work ran late. Then the thought that does the real damage: "Well, the week's ruined. I'll start fresh Monday." Monday becomes next Monday, momentum evaporates, and two weeks vanish. What [...]
Most fighters treat muay thai injuries as random. They put it down to bad luck, the cost of training hard, or just something that happens when you push your body. After nearly three decades working with fighters from local [...]
You think one injury moment means “something went wrong.” Most problems are small mismatches repeated until your body finally says no. So was it a bad moment…or a bad system? Most advice treats symptoms; this episode uncovers the structural [...]
At some point, every serious fighter hits a Muay Thai training plateau. Training harder than ever, showing up more, pushing further. And the progress has stopped. So they do what their coach tells them. More rounds, more running, more [...]
A strength and conditioning coach working with fighters isn’t there to add more work. The role is to engineer clarity when training variables start colliding. Muay Thai athletes don’t struggle because they lack effort. They struggle because performance testing [...]
You know what to do. You've studied the Muay Thai training system—the training cycles, the energy systems, the session structure. You understand the principles of effective Muay Thai strength and conditioning. So why aren't you making the progress you [...]
Every January, the gyms are packed. New Year's resolutions in full swing. Everyone's return to training is going all-out to "make this year different." By February, half of them will have already quit. By the end of the year, [...]
There are four training traps that guarantee your muay thai performance never improves—and most fighters are caught in at least one of them right now without knowing it. Fighters working hard. Training consistently. But staying stuck for years. Why? [...]
Traditional Thai training produces world champions. But here's what the research says it's doing to your body — and why most Muay Thai practitioners over 30 are losing strength and power while still thinking they're training hard. I've trained [...]
