How often do Muay Thai fighters in Thailand train in a week?

five, six, seven days a week? do they take rest days?|||When i trianed Muay Thai in Chiang Mai, Thailand among the thai fighters we all trained 6 days a week 7 hours a day. In the morning from 8-11 AM then back to training in the afternoon from 3-7 PM.





It was on eof the most hard intense and rewarding training camps i have experienced.|||There%26#039;s always training to be done every day. Typical routines would involve waking up (of course), stretching and warm ups for like 5 minutes or so. Then definitely a several mile run followed by returning to camp and shadowboxing for a bit. Sometimes you shadowbox with weights or not, it depends. If you%26#039;re not shadowboxing you are doing some other type of routine rope skipping or light calisthenics. Afterwards it%26#039;s time for some heavy bag work, maybe several rounds up to 5 rounds on the bags intermingled with squats and push ups. They%26#039;ll probably call you into the ring or set you up with a trainer complete with Thai pads, belly pad, shin guards, etc and he%26#039;ll work with you for several more rounds. At some point in time, you%26#039;ll probably do something like plaam work or neck clinching which is about the next closest thing to real fighting without pads on. That%26#039;ll go for like 20 minutes at which point and time, it%26#039;s time for cool off work like calisthenics again - sit ups, push ups, neck weight training (biting a rope/cloth with a weight attached to it), etc. Stretches to finally cool off, There are always weights around so you can work on that later on.


This is a pretty basic format I think almost all camps use. Of course there%26#039;ll be slight variations. I know on the weekends it%26#039;s much more relaxed (thank god) but you%26#039;ll still do some light training like running, shadowboxing, light sparring, calisthenics and even walking or hiking.


As always be humble, share food, don%26#039;t be lazy, respect Thai traditions and customs (don%26#039;t touch someone%26#039;s head or put your stinky feet up on something!) and always give 100% effort.|||Yeah I%26#039;d say what the first guy said. Definitely long training hours.|||my cousin is living in Bangkok right now, and he says he trains for 5 days a week 9 hours a day.|||6-8hours a day 7 days a week.|||6 or 7 days a week