The information you will get to read below is really useful stuff for anyone especially for those of you who do a lot of hard training like boxing or Thai boxing that always makes your body so intense. So knowing how to stretch is really important before and after the training. But if you still question why you have to do it, here are the reasons: btw I got this information from www.howtostretch.com, you can go give a little support at the site.

1. Muscles do one thing, and one thing only: contract. That is how they work. All muscles cross over at least one joint, (sometimes two) and the action of contracting a muscle causes that joint to move. Here’s a good example: Your quadricep (thigh) muscle originates from the front of your hip (the anterior superior iliac spine, for the technically curious). It crosses over your knee joint, and inserts (as a tendon, since tendons are how muscles attach to bone), to your shin bone (tibia). The action of contracting your quadricep muscle lifts your leg, and moves your lower leg forward, as it straightens your knee.

2. Muscles are the motors of your body. All action is due to their contraction. They can do more work if they have greater contractile strength. Contractile strength is greater when the muscles are longer. In other words, the longer the muscle, the more work it can do when acting on a joint. Stretched muscles are longer muscles.

3. Stretching allows greater extension of a joint when moving. For example, if you are a runner, if you stretch prior to running, your stride will be longer. If the stride remains the same length, then the involved muscles will be doing less work.

4. Stretching helps prevent injuries. The more flexible a person is, the less the likelihood of a torn or strained muscle. Over time, proper stretching strengthens both ligaments and tendons. Ligaments attach bone to bone, tendons attach muscles to bone. When you stretch properly, you are microtearing the fibers of your muscles, tendons, and ligaments. When you rest, your body repairs those tears, and you are left with longer, stronger, more resilient muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

5. Stretching promotes faster recovery. Stretching the muscles helps to move the toxins and waste products of muscular exertion out of the muscles and into the bloodstream, where they can be broken down and eliminated.

6. Stretching relaxes your body. Relaxing your body allows you to experience less intense negative emotional states.

7. Muscles that are tight waste energy. Stretching allows you to become aware of areas in your body that are held with undue tension, so you can release those areas.

8. Stretching feels GOOD!!! Anyone, at any age, can stretch. It does not matter where your flexibility level is when you begin, as long as you work at it you will improve.

Really useful, right? Thank you www.howtostretch.com for the information. You can go there for more like how to stretch your neck, your hands, your any part of body, you name it at the website.

Synopsis from MuayThaiChaiyathemovie.com: In mid-1970s, three boys from a southern village become friends while spending time in a boxing camp. Piak is a boxer whose young soul bubles with fighting spirit. Pao is a son of a Chaiya boxing legend. They both hang out with another local boy called Samor. Amid the backdrop of the peaceful South, the three boys spend time training with the hope of fulfilling their dream of becoming professional boxers.

Pao has an old manuscript of MuayThai Chaiya left by his father, and the three friends are hugely inspired by the elegant moves and forceful blows depicted in it. But their paths are strewn with obstacles, and their friendship faces an ultimately test when Piak and Pao fall in love with the same woman, a pretty nurse called Sriprai.

One day, Pao’s father returns. His name is Tew Chaiya, and he has disappointed after a match-fixing scandal that involved a boxing champion Krangsuk. Upon his return, Tew Chaiya begins to pass on the venerated principle of Muay Thai Chaiya to his son, as well as to Piak and Samor, making them the last practitioners of the ancient and mysterious art.

Soon the three boys are ready to conquer Bangkok boxing rings. In the capital, the debuting prizefighters are forced to learn the hard lessons in the dog-eat-dog world of professional boxing career, meanwhile Piak falls for a lovelorn go-go girl named Warn. The battle of the three friends is as brutal and breathtaking in as it is out of the ring.

Let’s take a look at the trailer from YouTube before you decide!

This is the movie in which you can see a lot of Muay Thai Chaiya moves. This ancient Muay Thai arts should never die.

You’re right that boxing can get you in good shape. But only boxing won’t really help you have those nice looking muscle on you. And I’m sure you all know that this is going to be all about food. I believe everything you do it has to be from inside out. So is your making muscle mass. But don’t you just curious what you will have to eat to get all nice muscle?

Well that’s why we’re here. Diet is really important if you need to build muscles. The foods you will need to eat and the foods you will have to avoid eating will be in this article below.

Let’s start with the thing that you should not touch at all or at least try to avoid having them even they are so tempting. First is FAT. That means any fatty foods you can find in any markets or grocery stores. Fat doesn’t help you gain any muscles but to make it worse. So no more French fries, anything fried. Be strong about this! You don’t want to just put on more weight by adding fat to your body parts not really muscles, right?

Now the foods that will help you build muscles are lean meats, fruits and vegetables! Only these foods will help you reach your goal trust me. You don’t really need a diet plans from a nutritionist. This healthy food is really easy to find but many people just avoid picking it up and putting it in their shopping cart. Lean meats are such as turkey, chicken and fish (all skinless). They are high in protein and amino acids which will help healing your muscles pain after the sport training and build new muscle mass. Foods with high potassium like strawberries and bananas also help healing your muscles. So it’s good to eat those regularly.

Just do it for yourself! With this good eat trick you will enjoy your Muay Thai boxing training even more because there are so much to get from it.

This is our second learning clip of the month. Muay Thai is now a lot of people around the world want to learn and we are here to help you learn Muay Thai by yourself at your own place in case you are in a remote area. However if you’re now a member of a boxing gym, that would be even better because you can practice the move you have learned from the clip and your trainer can help or give you the advice of how to perform the move.

The move we are teaching you today is Muay Thai’s Uppercut or “The Star Gatherer”. This technique will be really effective when the opponent is close. The power of the punch is from bracing against the floor with the foot of the same side of the body as the fist that is being used. Right fist, right foot.

The Uppercut in Thaiboxing or kickboxing can be used to hi chin or solar plexus. The knees should be bent slightly. So should the elbow. And the fist should be punched vertically upwards hitting the target with your knuckle.

Uppercut can be performed by your lead fist or rear fist. Take a look at the clip!

Notes: in Muay Thai Boran, the uppercut is punched horizontally forwards to the solar plexus.

I just read an article on WikiHow and I think this will be really useful but a little hard to acheive. Weight problem can be a problem for many boxers and they have a really hard time to control their weight just like regular person eventhough they work out a lot more than some people.

This guide below from WikiHow is really basic idea that you can do. But it is just as hard as other weight control programs, i mean in the healthy ways.

How to Train to Be a Great Boxer Without Lifting Weights

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If you want to be a great boxer but do not want to lift weights… read on.

Steps

1. Do 10 minutes of upper and lower body stretching.
2. Do 10 minutes of skipping rope(not easy).
3. Do 20 minutes of sparring.
4. Do 30 minutes of punching the heavy bag.
5. Do a 30 minute run.
6. Do possibly a 30 minute swim.
7. Try sit-ups.
8. Do press-ups
9. Do 10 minutes of skipping rope.
10. Do 10 Minutes of stretching.
11. Try to get it done everyday.
12. Read the Tips to learn basically about the diet.

Tips

• Altogether it takes about 3 Hours
• Drink at least 2 liters of water a day
• Don’t take any sugar - one teaspoonful stops your growth hormone for 24 hours.
• Eat porridge (oatmeal) for breakfast.
• Avoid chips, sweets, crisps and anything you know is bad.
• Eat pistachio nuts instead of snacks.
• Also try fruit and vegetables (they give you lots of energy). Salad is also good.

Warnings

• Don’t over-train.
• If injuries occur, contact a doctor.

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