Muay Thai Sports Science – Optimise Your Training…
If you need to know what’s going on under the hood, this category shares the science of Muay Thai strength and conditioning programming – how to put it all together and why.
To become a stronger fighter, you must use resistance training correctly... Historically, old-school fight coaches claimed that weight training makes fighters big and slow. But that’s only true if you use resistance training poorly. When used in the right [...]
Fighters burnout all the time. Hobbyists, amateurs, and pros alike must learn how to balance high intensity fight training with adequate recovery, to not only peak on fight night, but to optimise long term fight performance and health too. [...]
Strength vs speed, what would you pick? Before you answer, how about a little Muay Thai sports science review of the fight between Rafi Bohic vs Dylan Salvador at Lumpinee Stadium... A massive thanks to Timo [...]
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Most fighters who want to master Muay Thai have trained for years and still have to consciously decide each strike. Their technique never learned to flow by itself, and the reason is simple: they counted the wrong thing as [...]
"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. [...]
You understand Fight IQ. You know when to push the pace and when to back off. You can gauge distance and read the tempo. You know there's strategy behind the tactics in the ring. Then you walk into the [...]
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 [...]
You know the drill. Kettlebell complexes until your palms rip off, medicine ball slams with ten seconds of rest, push-up ladders until you collapse. You leave every Muay Thai strength training session wrecked, and your power hasn't improved in [...]
Most fighters who gas out by round three are doing exactly the conditioning their coaches told them would fix it. Your engine has three separate fuel pumps, and the one fighters over-train is the one that actively caps the [...]
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 [...]
Evening training is the norm for most. But, the fastest way to progress isn’t adding training… it’s scheduling what you already do so it lands in the right state. If you feel strong at night, but fragile in the [...]
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 [...]
At some point, Muay Thai after 30 starts to feel different. Not because you're injured. Not because you've stopped training. Not because you've lost your commitment. Just — harder. Like the same effort is producing less. Like something has quietly [...]
Most Western Muay Thai fighters plateau far earlier than they should. Not because they lack effort. But because they're following a training structure that was never designed for their life. The truth is, the traditional Muay Thai system works [...]
If you want better Muay Thai progress, mistakes are gold. Aviation doesn't improve by celebrating its successes. It improves by obsessively investigating its failures. Your Muay Thai training should work the same way. Matthew Syed's book Black Box Thinking [...]
