I’ve been busy so here is a late entry. I went in early on Thursday to the 5:00 Muay Thai class. I like this one as it is generally a much smaller class size and the workouts tend to be harder. I was planning on going to both Muay Thai and Konditioning, but after a tough hour of class in really humid weather I was totally beat.

We did a running warm up and then went into some drills like they do in Thailand. We started off with one partner in gloves and the other with Thai pads and lined up against the far wall. The partner with pads would hold the pads for a Thai kick and would constantly be stepping back. The other partner would then have to throw Thai kicks continuously while chasing the other partner down. The idea was to simulate what it’s like to attack a moving opponent and it also worked our conditioning a lot as well as we did long rounds going back and forth multiple times. We did this for right Thai Kicks, left Thai Kicks and then alternating right and left.

After that we did another drill with a kicking shield and a focus mitt. This was another tough conditioning drill - started off doing 15 seconds of really quick jab/crosses - all speed - on the focus mitt and then 15 seconds of right Thai kicks to the leg as hard as we could. After those two we immediately repeated for 30 seconds, then 45 seconds, 30 seconds and back down to 15 without any breaks in between. I could barely hold my arms up by the end of it.

We then did a few rounds on the heavy bag and that was it. By the end I was too tired to try Konditioning class. I bought a new recovery drink to try between classes that has both carbs and protein in a 4:1 ratio, but I forgot it at home and water just wasn’t cutting it - I was out of energy.

After my break I’m going to really start working on getting in 2 hours of training at a time. I need the extra work for my conditioning level.