Post Workout Recovery: Top 5 Tips to Improve Recovery
The Best Methods For Recovering Quickly For Your Next Training Session
From Muay Thai Guy
Recovery is by FAR one of the most overlooked aspects of Muay Thai training.
Do you understand the importance of treating your body right after intense training sessions?
Whether you actually take the time to recover after workouts or you want to find out better ways to feel less sore/beat up, this guest post by Jerry from PNP Supplements will shine some light on areas that will help you with your post workout recovery.
Top 5 Tips to Improve Your Recovery
By Jerry Teixeira of PNP Supplements
One the most important aspect of training is your recovery. Although training is where stimulation for development and growth accurse, it is during your recovery where actual progress is made. Needless to say, the better you take care of your body during recovery, the more you will benefit from your training sessions.
With a good recovery regimen in place you can cut down on the time need for...
4 Flexible Dieting Tips For Muay Thai Athletes
How To Eat The Food You Love While Maintaining Your Weight
From Muay Thai Guy
If you’ve been on the internet chances are you’ve seen a post of someone eating some crazy amount of junk food or a calorie bomb like a triple cheeseburger with donuts for buns.
The caption underneath will read IIFYM or If It Fits Your Macros.
How can people who claim to be “clean eaters” justify this?
How does that guy still have a six-pack when he posts him eating “dirty” foods?
Another name for this nutritional approach is flexible dieting. What this means is that some fitness enthusiasts will breakdown their daily amounts of macronutrients (carbs, proteins, fats) which also translates into daily calorie totals.
Once someone decides on the macro-breakdown they want to eat (in accordance with their goals) the daily meal plan becomes any combination of foods that hits the macros for the...
Best Weight Cutting Tips For Muay Thai, MMA and Combat Sports
My Top 15 Weight Cutting Tips For Making Your Weight Cut Not Suck As Much
From Muay Thai Guy
Weight cutting sucks, plain and simple. Trust me, I haven’t picked up these weight cutting tips by just reading them off the internet. I’ve gotten these strategies through trial and error… which was not always the most pleasurable experience.
However, if you are going to succeed in Muay Thai, MMA or any combat sport, chances are you are going to have to do it at some point in your career. Here are the best weight cutting tips I’ve picked up through my fight career:
My Top 15 Weight Cutting Tips
#1 – Prepare Mentally
Before you go through the stress of cutting weight you need to get your mind right. It’s not going to be easy and it’s not going to be fun. Pretty fucking obvious right?
You have to be prepared to make sacrifices in order to make weight whether it’s for Muay Thai, MMA, boxing or wrestling. Prepare to go training...
How To Fuel Your Fighting Body With The Right Foods
The Golden Rules For Fight Fuel
From Muay Thai Guy
“Food is fuel.”
This phrase has been used and heard by health enthusiasts and fitness junkies alike across countless sports and disciplines. Why this saying is so popular is because of the amount of truth it holds.
While everyone reacts differently to certain foods, there are some golden rules that are true for all healthy individuals.
(Title image courtesy of Attachai Muaythai Gym.)
WHAT YOU SHOULD EAT BEFORE TRAINING
Eating well and eating enough before training will help you perform your best. If you’re able to give 100%, you will reap the benefits from your sweat and fatigue.
The opposite can occur if you don’t eat properly, resulting in you feeling as if you can’t even handle the warm-up.
If you only have a two-hour window before training, keep the meal light. Make it mostly faster-digesting carbs, such as white rice or pasta. Go...
How To Cut Weight For Muay Thai, MMA & Other Combat Sports
Why Cut Weight At All?
From Muay Thai Guy
More likely than not, if you plan on going far in your respective sport, you are going to have to cut weight at some point. Yes it sucks, and yes it’s not the most fun thing in the world, but if you want to keep the odds in your favor, cutting weight is a must.
Benefits Of Weight Cutting
If you are able to cut weight safely and effectively and refuel properly after weigh ins, you will most likely hold a huge strength and power advantage on your opponent.
For instance, I walk around at about 160lbs but weigh in the day before the Muay Thai fight at 147lbs. But just because I weigh in at 145lbs doesn’t mean I fight at that weight.
After rapid rehydration and refueling my body with the liquids and foods it needs, I weigh about 157-158lbs when I step into the ring. That’s almost 15 extra pounds I can use to my advantage!
Dangers Of Weight Cutting
Unfortunately some athletes and fighters go about weight cutting the wrong way by...
