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New training schedule at Horizon Thai Boxing Camp
Muay Thai training - intermediate and competitor level
Highlighting the emphasis of each day’s Muay Thai training sessions, this training schedule is designed for students with experience in Muay Thai boxing. If you are in good shape when you arrive at the camp and are generally a sporty person you could be following this routine by the second week, even if you are a complete beginner. Others may take much longer to build up to such an extensive and vigorous routine. Your instructor will continually offer advice to improve your Muay Thai technique. This includes, but is not limited to, setting up an attack, tricks/feints to set up strikes, defending attacks and counter attacks with various techniques and combinations.
Typical Morning Session
8am – 10 amSkipping, stretches 15 minutes
Shadow boxing warm up 15 minutes
Sparring or clinch work 30 minutes (3 rounds of 5 minutes)
Gym exercises (weights, speedballs, chin-ups etc) 10 minutes
Pad work 30 minutes (3 rounds of 5 minutes)
Bag work 10 minutes (3 rounds of 5 minutes)
Warm down 10 minutes
Typical Afternoon Session
4pm – 6pmRunning 20 minutes
Shadow boxing warm up 10 minutes (3 rounds of 5 minutes)
Sparring or clinch work 30 minutes (3 rounds of 5 minutes)
Gym exercises (weights, speedballs, chin-ups etc) 10 minutes
Pad work 30 minutes (3 rounds of 5 minutes)
Bag work 10 minutes
Warm down 10 minutes
Muay Thai training schedule
Sunday
Boxing sparring
Emphasis on PUNCHING, hook, uppercut, straight, punch–jab combination (one-two)
Defending the punch:
- Arm Blocking the punch
- Avoiding the punch
- Counterattack a punch with a low kick
- Counterattack a punch with a teep (push kick)
Monday
Muay Thai sparring
Emphasis on midlevel KICKING and TEEP (push kick) and kick-teep combinations
Defending the kick:
- Leg blocking the kick
- Grasping your opponent’s leg
- Counterattack a kick with a teep (push kick)
- Step back to avoid a kick
Tuesday
Muay Thai sparring
Emphasis on LOW KICKS and HIGH KICKS and kick-kick combinations
Defending high/low kicks:
- Counterattack a low kick with a teep (push kick)
- Blocking the low kick
- Avoid a high kick and counterattack
Wednesday
Morning Muay Thai sparring
Emphasis on KNEES, set up the knee strike, tricks/feints
Defending a knee strike:
- Blocking the knee
- Avoid the knee strike and counterattack
- Counterattack with teep (push kick)
Afternoon clinch work
Thursday
Muay Thai sparring
Emphasis on ELBOWS, back elbow, front elbow, uppercut, wide elbow, tricks and feints with the elbow
Defending the elbow:
- Blocking an elbow strike with the arm
- Step back and avoid the elbow strike
- Counterattack an elbow with a kick to opponent’s front leg
Fridays
No sparring
Emphasis on full repertoire of techniques covered in days Sunday to Thursday. If you have just started training at Horizon full instruction will be given for each new technique.
Saturday
There is no training on Saturdays
