Although Muay Thai is known and acknowledged as a combative kickboxing sport worldwide, however many do not know much about its origin or what it entails. As such l will want to explain a bit about the sport or what one must know about Muay Thai training and camps in Thailand.
To start with Muay Thai is an ancient form of martial art developed by the people of Thailand. It basically evolved as self defense techniques that make use of raw talents, physical strength and different parts of the body like the Head, Arms and Legs. It was effectively used by the Thais to defend and protect themselves from aggressive powerful nations in combat more than 3000 years ago.
Since then, it has been institutionalized as a traditional boxing art and considered as the most popular national sport in Thailand. Many training camps have been established across the length and breadth of the country to train individuals who are interested in Muay Thai either as amateur or professional fighters.
It has also gained international popularity among many foreigners when several Thai fighters began winning laurels worldwide in martial arts and kickboxing competitions. Apart from this, it has been realized that Muay Thai trainings can also help individuals to lose weight, increase strength and improve physical fitness amongst others.
These benefits of Muay Thai can be attributed to its use of different strategies and techniques such as kicks, punches with the arms and legs that help greatly in burning excess calories and increasing cardiovascular work rate of trainees. This is because the whole body is involved in the rigorous training exercise and activities of Muay Thai.
The various strenuous workouts and exercises in the Muay Thai trainings are highly regarded as being very effective in enhancing fitness and reducing weight. Among noticeable changes in trainees after a couple of weeks in any well established training camp in Thailand is an increase in strength, improved stamina, abs tightening, muscle toning and lean body.
It must be emphasized that Muay Thai training consists of well planned physical exercises that includes, but not limited to jogging, weightlifting, push-up and other body conditioning activities. These trainings can also help to increase heart beat rates and enhance effective circulation of the blood to the most needed parts of the body.
Therefore, there is no gainsaying in the fact that registering for a Muay Thai training in any of the camps in Thailand is one of the best decisions anybody can make in order to have a holistic and overall health improvement in addition to losing weight and gaining fitness. Apart from this, other additional benefits include being able to learn self defense, achieve greater confidence and discipline.