With more and more people conscious about their health, combat sports have gained a new level of popularity among fitness enthusiasts. With its deep cultural roots in the west, boxing has gathered a great share of those enthusiasts, but is it better than going to the gym? Boxing is often times superior to regular fitness …
Of all the violent striking martial arts Muay Thai and Lethwei sit on top of the mountain. The two sports have very similar origins in their Southeast Asian birthplaces, making them much more similar than western kickboxing and Muay Thai. Thai boxing is very well known around the world, but its close relative, Myanmar’s Lethwei, …
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that sports where the end goal is to separate your opponent from his consciousness are dangerous. Boxing and Muay Thai are both legacy fighting sports with a rich history and traditions of controlled violence and inherent danger to the health of anyone who dares to enter the …
Thirty is too old to start Muay Thai if you’re looking to become a professional fighter. Most pro fighters in Thailand start at 6-8 years old and by the time they enter adult tournaments, they have accumulated thousands of hours worth of fighting. Malcolm Gladwell came up with the rule that it takes 10,000 hours …
Muay Thai is a powerful martial art that utilises the knees, elbows, fists and shins as weapons; for this reason, it’s called the art of the eight limbs. It improves your reflexes, strengthens and conditions your body making you a much harder target. However, is Muay Thai good for beginners? Muay Thai provides a solid …
As innate and natural as fighting is to humans, actual mastery of combat is extremely hard to attain. People have systemized the knowledge and ability to do battle for thousands of years, and today we have many martial arts, each with its distinctive advantages and disadvantages. But if we have to point out which is …
Age and sports have a complicated relationship and one inevitable question everyone asks himself after a certain age is am I too old for this. The question becomes even more difficult when you decide to start a new journey and you choose a rough sport like boxing. Is 35 / 40 too old to start …
Combat sports have been shrouded in myths since forever, and many of the common misconceptions about the sport are ridiculous. But any myth has some truth in it. One of those is that boxers remove the cartilage in their noses to prevent bleeding and fractures. This in general is not true, and you will have …
Unless it’s a special punch bag that’s designed to be filled with water, then you should not fill a punch bag with water. You’ll end up ruining it and it may even cause it to rot. There are special punch bags that are filled with water, such as this one on Amazon. These are typically …
It depends on the type of isometric as to whether it can be performed on a daily basis. Overcoming isometrics don’t overtax the nervous system and don’t break down the muscle fibers sufficiently to warrant having to take a recovery day. Yielding isometrics can progress into an eccentric repetition which does break down the muscle, …
