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3 more health benefits of Muay Thai

You’ve already read about the benefits of Muay Thai. If you haven’t, then take a look at the five health benefits of Muay Thai. To recap, it’s a combat sport from Thailand that is still played professionally but can now be enjoyed by the average person. Doing Muay Thai can help with weight loss, strength gain, cardiovascular health, stress relief, and mental health. However, did you know that there are even more benefits of Muay Thai? Let’s take a look at what else Muay Thai can do for you.

Muay Thai Promotes Discipline

Muay Thai may look like just a flurry of knees, elbows, and other body parts turned into weapons, but this martial art form also teaches self-discipline. You aren’t just on the mat or in the ring to relentlessly beat your opponent with absolutely no self-control. It takes a lot of physical and mental control to master the art of Muay Thai. In fact, it’s all about having more control than your opponent in order to win. You need to control every movement of your body from your ability to attack to your ability to defend.

Sometimes in the real world, it’s hard to set realistic goals. We often have people from our professional and personal lives tugging at us from each direction. It can be hard to manage different responsibilities. Sometimes we get stuck moving in a circle instead of progressing forward. We often blame others for situations that we can control, but a bit of self-discipline can help us stay on track by making us responsible for actions that can affect our lives.

Muay Thai doesn’t just have to be for adults either. Kids and teenagers can start with Muay Thai at a young age to help them learn self-discipline. It helps them learn to do is tap into their self-discipline when they are lacking motivation. Teenagers are very susceptible to peer pressure and they can wind up making bad decisions out of impulse. Having self-discipline taught at a young age in a teens Muay Thai class can help them realise right from wrong before they act in a way that could severely affect their futures.

Kids, who spend less and less time outside due to screened devices, video games, or television, can learn not to fall into these habits when they’re feeling lazy. Muay Thai can help a child overcome bouts of laziness by getting them active and making them feel confident. Often a child isn’t lazy, they’re just unmotivated and don’t feel confident about themselves. They fall into a comfort zone because they don’t feel like they can accomplish anything. Fortunately, Teenage Muay Thai classes can help them break out of that funk and give them something to work towards, such as a competition bout, or a Muay Thai grading. Having these goals will help develop children into functioning adults that will help them in the long-run.

Muay Thai Improves One’s Ability To Defend Themselves

In this world, it’s imperative that people learn one form of self-defence or another. Unfortunately, children and women are usually easy targets for crime, so it’s important they learn a form of self-defence to keep themselves (and others) safe from those who think they’re vulnerable. One of the best ways to learn self-defence is by learning Muay Thai.

Muay Thai doesn’t just teach students to defend themselves, but it helps build their mental and emotional confidence because they can keep themselves safe if they need to. Not living a life of being timid helps boost confidence that, in turn, boosts mental health and well-being. You don’t have to be a child or a woman to feel timid or unconfident in your ability to defend yourself, in fact many males also struggle with this feeling of vulnerability. Muay Thai helps anyone build confidence as they build and tone their own bodies to be able to react to any situation.

If you’re feeling a bit of anxiety, you can remain mentally steadfast from your training with Muay Thai. If you don’t feel as if you can handle a workplace presentation in front of a large group of people, then you can use your Muay Thai training to draw confidence that you know what you’re doing and can react to any comments or questions from the crowd, as your brain is more adapted to handling stressful situations. Battling and defending yourself against your own mental setbacks is an important part of self-defence and Muay Thai can help you accomplish that.

Muay Thai Gives A Sense Of Community

There’s a certain camaraderie that comes with any form of martial arts. Practising Muay Thai or any martial arts form in a gym gives a sense of community. You’re working together with other people to reach goals and build yourselves up. You’re not fighting your opponent out of anger, you’re building social bonds that can last a lifetime.

Research has shown that children who actively engage with other children (eg. in a kids Muay Thai class) improve their cognitive function and better develop into well-rounded adults. With children nowadays glued to screens, they’re more prone to develop forms of social anxiety and introversion that can keep them from many opportunities in life. Getting children started early in building a sense of community will help them improve not only their own social lives but their academic and professional lives as well.

Having a sense of community is important. It makes people more accepting of others both professional and socially. It helps people feel like they’re part of something bigger. It makes people work together to achieve better results and help each other grow. People will be less inclined to try to accomplish something hard by themselves and not feel anxiety or embarrassment about asking for help. Everyone has individual talents they can bring to a community and Muay Thai is a great place to help one feel like they’re part of something bigger than themselves.

Whether you’re looking into Muay Thai for its physical benefits or just want to feel like a part of a community, then check us out here to get started.

Reference Links:

https://www.who.int/dietphysicalactivity/factsheet_young_people/en/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3632802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29189034

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