(muay thai) hands elbows knees kicks?

Question

should i uses hands/elbows seperate from my legs/knees when working with a punching bag?

Answer 1

A little from column A, a little from column B. Muay Thai, like any other set of skills, should be worked as needed. What I mean by this is that you can benefit from both styles of workout: catch-as-catch-can (or combo workouts) and isolation workouts. Take my own training regimen, for instance. Right now, due to leg injury, my training regimen has changed, but this is the schedule I've printed on a weekly planner board for when I get back into the swing of things.

Monday & Thursday - 3 rounds, 3 minutes each Footwork & Dodge drills; 3 rounds, 3 minutes each Shadowboxing through combos at 50% speed; 3 rounds, 3 minutes each bag workout session at full power, at least 75% speed. Finish with clench workout until exhaustion.

Tuesday & Friday - 5 rounds, 3 minutes each Entrance-to-Exit workout; 5 rounds, 3 minutes each bag workout session at full power, at least 75% speed; Finish with roundhouse kick workout to exhaustion.

Wednesday & Saturday - Jumprope in 3 minute intervals, 5 rounds, with weighted rope (I use old 5 lb. rope from high school workout); 3 rounds, 3 minutes each bag workout session full power, at least 75% speed; finish with clench entrance to clench exit workout until exhaustion.

Footword & Dodge is exactly as it sounds, I simply go through fotwork to left, right, forward, back, dodging head shots nd weaving. It loosens me up after my one day off a week, Sunday, and relaxes me on Thursday after I've trained to exhaustion three days before that.

Shadowboxing, of course, is done without the bag, just going through combos to get used to the feel of them, learn where you're too repetitive. I'd suggest having someone train with you who can watch for patterns, because if they can see them, your opponent can.

A Bag workout session involves using combos on the heavy bag, going through the motions of an actual fight against the bag. You'll do everything and anything you'd normally do in the ring, so double up on jabs, triple up sometimes, combo in and out, whatever.

Now, clench workout is exactly as it sounds: clench, deliver knees and elbows. I only do these to exhaustion because you shouldn't train in round time for something you (hopefully) won't do for an entire round. Instead, give 100% power, 100% speed knees and elbows, rapidfire, until you can't go anymore. That finishes you off for the day and ramps your body past aerobic and into anaerobic workout range for true stamina.

Entrance-to-Exit workout I devised for myself to isolate and train on good entrance into combos and into distancing and exiting back to neutral distance. I train to deliver a thigh kick, move into punch range, then clench range, deliver two knees, then exit clench with an elbow, and finish with an exiting roundhouse. I'll do this over and over again, throwing different entrance kicks, combos inside punch range, different types of elbows and knees, and using a different exit strategy everytime, so that I get used to the feeling of this technique. It seriously helped me clean up the weakest part of my game early on in training, when I would throw a roundhouse but not really come in, choosing to wait on ym opponent. My last fight was over within the first minute because I opened the guy up with a perfect 8 hit combo like I'd trained: rear leg roundhouse to his thigh, right hook to head, left hook to body, left hook to head, clinch straight knee (left leg), skip knee (right leg), left jab, forward leg roundhouse to ribs. (I would normally train to throw a double elbow, left then right, between the last knee and the jab, but in Oriental rules, elbow strikes are not allowed.) After that, he retreated for a few seconds until I kicked him in the thigh, near the corner, and finished him with a left hook to the jaw. Regardless, my isolating the weakness really helped my technique get much cleaner in the ring.

Last, a clinch entrance-to-exit is working from punching range only and learning how to feint or slip a missed punch in for an impromptu clinch. It really tighened my ability to clinch, which was another problem I'd had before isolating it as a fatigue exercise. I will hook, then clench, knee, elbow, release clench, hook, clench, knee, elbow, etc. until I can't go anymore. All at 100% speed and power.

I know this was long-winded and dealt with some stuff outside of just a heavy bag workout, but it was to explain that you need to work how you work best, and isolate those things you do the worst at. If you can throw punches and kicks like a dream, but your knees and elbows are laughable, isolate them and train until they are up to par. And vice versa, if you're an elbowing and kneeing freak, then isolate your punches and kicks and work them out. But remember, don't do just isolation drills, always try to get in a good bag workout, using all of the techniques you'd normally use in the ring. That way your brain won't train to be one dimensional, and your instinct will merely use the isolation training to perfect your form.

Answer 2

Muay Thai is called the "Science of 8 Limbs" - 2 hands, 2 elbows, 2 knees and 2 feet.

I would work hands (boxing) on Monday and Thursday; elbow and knees on Tuesday and Friday; legs (kicking) on Wednesday and Saturday. Take Sunday off as your day of rest.

Elbows and knees can be worked together in the same session because they expend less energy than punches or kicks when the latter are performed at the same level of effort.

I hope this help.

With respect.

Answer 3

That would depend on what you want to work on.

If you believe you need more work (either your kicks/knees or punches/elbows), and dedicate more time to perfect it, then do so once in a while, to perfect the technique.

However, once you get the technique down, you have to work all aspects (kicks,knees,punches,elbows), and mix them up when you do combos; both with the heavy bag and sparring.

Answer 4

Yes if the purpose of that portion of your work out is to get better with one particular body part like your elbows or knees or kicks. By concentrating on a particular bodypart you will develop your skill, strength, speed, and power in using it faster and to a much finer edge. On the other hand you also then want to practice using that body part in conjuction with the others.

In a match the distance between you and your opponent can vary and as it does you want to be able to make those adjustments using the proper range and body part without any hesitation or strain. An example of this is when you throw a kick and make contact as your opponet is moving in but it does not stop his forward momentum and he is now inside your kicks or kicking range. You want to be able to go to using your hands and/or knees and elbows as that distance decreases so that you can always be ready to take advantage of any openings or opportunities that present themselves. You also want to be able to do the reverse and as a clinch ends or the distance between both increases you want to be able to react and adjust so that you can better take advantage of those openings or opportunites as well. A good, multidemenisional fighter will be able to use each independent of the other body part but at the same time use them in conjuction with one another easily and make the adjustments and react. This way they can better control the pace, distance and flow of the fight as it progresses.

Answer 5

an incredible sort of folk obtainable think of that hitting hard gadgets is the suited thank you to condition your legs and hands for Muay Thai, yet no longer something is better from the actuality. it quite is a actuality that a protracted time in the past Muay Thai combatants kicked, punched, kneed, and elbowed banana trees to condition themselves, yet with greater cutting-part-day practise kit the suited Krus in Thailand have abandoned that practise habitual and accompanied greater cutting-part methods. the suited thank you to bypass approximately it quite is to prepare, prepare, and prepare on the banana bag. Wrap your palms to guard your wrists and the smaller bones on your palms in the time of the conditioning. in actuality that it is not suitable how hard the object you're hitting is. Repetitive impression of any style will stimulate the bones on your palms to conform and harden, and it is not suitable what you hit. in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, hitting a bag, mitts, and different cutting-edge practise kit is going to be a methods easier on your joints later in existence. Be advantageous on your joints on your conditioning and your joints would be advantageous to you. Recap: the suited conditioning on your fantastic limbs is to hit the heavy bag as much as achievable. do no longer placed on finished boxing gloves, purely some hand wraps and the elective bag gloves will suffice. prepare, prepare, prepare!

Answer 6

No. You should learn to mix it up. Never get into a rythm that your opponent can predict because he will set you up and take you out if you do.

Work the bag as if it were an opponent in a fight.

Answer 7

I like to combine these. Sometimes I write out combinations, and then practice them out. Sometimes just improvise, but often if I focus too much on one or another, and work them seperately, I end up becoming predictable.,