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January 3, 2022

4 Drills for Training Striking at Home

Why train striking at home? If you feel like the time you have in coached sessions doesn’t feel like enough time to practice you’d be right. Unless you’re well off or are willing to put a lot of money towards training expenses and coaches fees, your probably only getting 3 training sessions a week in.  Luckily you aren’t just limited...

Categories Boxing/Martial arts/Mixed Martial Arts/Muay Thai
August 25, 2021

What is Task Dependent Conditioning?

TL:DR – you want to get good at something, PRACTISE IT and all the aspects surrounding it. We’ve all seen the videos on Youtube, you know the ones, where a person or athlete who is  in great shape attempts some sort of fitness activity or challenge that is outside their regular sport or activity. Bodybuilder tries boxing, Gymnast tries the...

Categories Fitness/Strength and Conditioning
August 5, 2021

What is Shadow Boxing And Why Do We Do It?

Image from http://baleiablu.com Shadowboxing is one of the oldest and most prevalent ways to train striking martial arts, for as long as people have been hitting each other, people have been pretending to hit each other. Surprisingly, shadowboxing is a much deeper, much more nuanced form of training. If there is one thing that every single beginner and champion of...

Categories Boxing/Drills/Fitness/Martial arts/Mixed Martial Arts
July 15, 2021

What Does An ‘Average’ Martial Arts Training Routine Look Like

When you start training in combat sports you will normally start slow, 1 to 2 classes a week, hopefully taught by an accredited and experienced coach. However when you decide that you want to take your training up a notch, it normally falls to you to put something together for yourself. A lot of the time this is quite an...

Categories Fitness/Martial arts
May 26, 2021

What is Dutch Kickboxing?

Image from RobKaman.Com Kickboxing is practiced almost universally, in fact in most towns you are more likely to find a Kickboxing gym instead of a Boxing gym.  Kickboxing has been around since the 1950s, it originated in Japan and although there have been other styles that are similar to Kickboxing, that originated sooner such as Savate, Karate and Muay Thai,...

Categories Martial arts/Mixed Martial Arts
May 19, 2021

Can you lift weights and train martial arts at the same time?

Image from T-Nation Training martial arts and lifting weights have often been the centre of controversy, with many old school coaches saying no you cant lift weights and train martial arts at the same time. There are many reasons for this, from; you need more recovery time to bigger muscles will slow you down. But almost all new coaches will...

Categories Fitness/Martial arts/Strength and Conditioning
May 11, 2021

Why is Skipping good for Boxing?

Picture from Everlast.com Skipping or jump rope has been a staple exercise for martial artists for decades, it is a valuable conditioning tool, is relatively simple to learn and can help your boxing ability, here is a list for why you should include skipping in your boxing or martial arts training. Skipping helps build rhythm Picture from Gettyimages As skipping...

Categories Boxing/Martial arts/Mixed Martial Arts
April 14, 2021

Can you train 2 Martial Arts at once?

Photo from Evolve-MMA.com Many people believe that when you begin training a Martial Art that you solely stick to that single one, whatever it may be. What most people don’t realise is that Martial Arts is often a journey where we train in multiple styles until we have something that is somewhat unique to us, now this isn’t always the...

Categories Martial arts/Mixed Martial Arts
April 13, 2021

What Martial Arts does John Wick Know?

John Wick is the epitome of a bad ass, a man of singular focus and sheer will who stops at nothing to administer his own personal brand of justice aka breaking your arm and calmly popping a cap in your head. He has no time for mercy for the goons he kills, he’s too busy thinking about his dead wife and...

Categories Martial arts
April 6, 2021

What equipment do you need for Boxing?

So you’ve done your research, decided what you wanted to train and  you decided upon Boxing, what do you need? what do you buy? what is essential and what is just a bit extra, a bit nice to have but non-essential? well I have a treat for you, I have collected together a nice  numbered list of what you need...

Categories Boxing/Equipment and Gear/Martial arts/Training equipment

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