WHY ADDING WEIGHTLIFTING TO YOUR WORKOUTS IS A MUST FOR MUAY THAI

By Matt Filart

There’s been a fairly long-running debate between marital artists on whether lifting weights is a good or bad thing for us to do. Many nak muays wonder whether weightlifting is beneficial to their Muay Thai at all.

Well, the sports science is in, and lifting weights (in the right way) is definitely going to benefit your performance in Muay Thai.

When I say "the right way," I mean not lifting like a bodybuilder, which is what most people think of when they think of weightlifting. So, we aren’t going to be talking about bicep curls or tricep pushdowns, as those exercises aren’t the best for increasing overall sports performance.

This means that you are going to need to:

• ...have the right exercise selection at the right time, and

• ...use the right reps & sets for each exercise, depending on the stage of training in which you currently reside

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