Fitness Club in the form of MA Training

[SteveLau]

Dear All,

There is a local development of fitness clubs in the form of MA training. It can be named as "Thai Boxing for Fitness", "Kick Boxing Fitness Gym", etc. Is there such development in the city or country where you reside? What is your view on it?




Regards,

KC
Hong Kong

[Dragonzbane76]

yeah there are a few in my area. I've watched a couple and came to the conclusion that it takes many of the drills (conditioning) and uses them for cardio fitness without the sparring or resistance. I've yet to see one where they spar, maybe somewhere else does but the ones in my area don't. Nothing wrong with it IMO but I don't see getting much out of it concerning applications.

[Oso]

yea, your typical tkd or 'karate' school,

[SevenStar]

One of the biggest schools in the state is in my city. The class is called fitness kickboxing, but they have actual fighters teaching it. I used to teach Muay Thai there. Basically, everyone has a heavy bag. They will spend two minutes doing combos that the instructor calls out, then spend 60 seconds doing a fitness movement, like squats or push ups.

The idea isn't to spar. Not everyone wants to fight. If they want to fight, they can take the mma or Thai boxing classes. 90% of people simply want to stay fit and fight training is not as boring as running on a treadmill. It's just that simple. Most of the clients I have now have no desire to ever spar, they just respect the hard training that goes into competitive fighting and they want to train the same way so that they can get in shape.

[Dragonzbane76]

90% of people simply want to stay fit and fight training is not as boring as running on a treadmill.

I think this is the best answer for the question.

[David Jamieson]

tae bo, boxercise, gsp rushfit, tony hortons kempo workout etc etc etc etc.
Yes, people like to do the martial arts workout without any of the fighting etc.
This has been a trend for a long time now.

Probably more than a thousand years.
There are people who do the warrior arts wit no intention of ever using warrior arts.

Even body building is to accumulate strength over others, but look what it's turned into. One big orange and gay pose fest.

c'est la vie. White collar boxing, wen do, women's only fitness mma, mma training without comping and so on and so forth.

People want those t-shirts, teacher has gotta eat.

[KungFubar]

One of the biggest schools in the state is in my city. The class is called fitness kickboxing, but they have actual fighters teaching it. I used to teach Muay Thai there. Basically, everyone has a heavy bag. They will spend two minutes doing combos that the instructor calls out, then spend 60 seconds doing a fitness movement, like squats or push ups.

The idea isn't to spar. Not everyone wants to fight. If they want to fight, they can take the mma or Thai boxing classes. 90% of people simply want to stay fit and fight training is not as boring as running on a treadmill. It's just that simple. Most of the clients I have now have no desire to ever spar, they just respect the hard training that goes into competitive fighting and they want to train the same way so that they can get in shape.

if only they could harness all that energy and connect it to the power grid

[KungFubar]

One of the biggest schools in the state is in my city. The class is called fitness kickboxing, but they have actual fighters teaching it. I used to teach Muay Thai there. Basically, everyone has a heavy bag. They will spend two minutes doing combos that the instructor calls out, then spend 60 seconds doing a fitness movement, like squats or push ups.

The idea isn't to spar. Not everyone wants to fight. If they want to fight, they can take the mma or Thai boxing classes. 90% of people simply want to stay fit and fight training is not as boring as running on a treadmill. It's just that simple. Most of the clients I have now have no desire to ever spar, they just respect the hard training that goes into competitive fighting and they want to train the same way so that they can get in shape.

Nelson is my favorite MMA guy, trains hard mma but his physique does not reflect that. He says his success comes from his kung fu background (wah lum)