If you are practice any sort of martial arts, chances are the most exercise you will do are usual bodyweight and calisthenics exercises. You may have even heard some old-school practitioners be against the idea of traditional strength and weight training, thinking that the body and techniques learned in the discipline will be enough. If…
Martial arts require a good level of physical strength, as well as an incredible amount of mental acuity. Mental strength is so important to martial arts that researchers have found karate experts’ stronger punching force may be down to a better control of muscle movement in the brain, rather than increased muscular strength. Other studies…
A large portion of fight training is spent on erasing bad habits from fighters’ muscle memory. Some actions or stances that might feel natural or reflexive to a non-fighter are actually weak or inefficient. To illustrate this, let’s take a look at some of the most common mistakes of untrained fighters. They throw long, hard-hitting…
Apart from her acting, one of the most notable attributes of Gal Gadot in the Wonder Woman movie was her jaw-dropping physique! But even her regular diet and exercise regimen (Gal Gadot is a model) was not enough to get her to Wonder Woman bod status, and so her trainers formed the ‘Wonder Woman Workout’…
For many people, their relationship with martial arts began at an early age. It’s usually one of the first things a child will seek interest in, if only for the brutal and awesome nature of practicing martial arts. Frequently, parents are on board with the idea of their kid learning karate or taekwondo, because it’s…
Making the target for a weight class cutoff in a combat sport requires a lot of sacrifice and uncomfortable dietary measures, and there are times when athletes are so far off that they resort to extreme weight cutting methods. There’s nothing healthy about rapidly losing weight, nor are there any really safe alternatives to the…
How many of us out there train hard, but still feel sluggish or lose energy quickly? Are you practicing regularly but aren’t seeing the physical results you would like? You may need to take a look at the way you’re eating. We think that by eating relatively well, cutting out certain foods or even cutting…
Building a solid cardio base to prepare for martial arts is a must. But when we say “daily cardio exercise,” we don’t necessarily mean hopping on the treadmill or the elliptical and boring yourself as you log 20 minutes of cardio. The good news is that you can do cardio exercises using only your bodyweight…
If you’ve seen the well-chiseled physique of a fighter — regardless of what discipline they practice — you’ll notice that they are some of the most fit-looking people around. That’s because they train intensely, with each workout being hard and harsh enough to simulate real fight conditions: the rush of thinking of offense and defense…
It takes an immense amount of drive, dedication, and good old-fashioned hard work to make it to the upper echelons of sports, and former two-time Omnoi Stadium champion, Lumpini Stadium Toyota Marathon champion, Thailand Featherweight champion and two-time K-1 World MAX champion, Sombat “Buakaw” Banchamek knows this all too well! Buakaw has steadily been climbing…