How to Cool Down in Kickboxing after a Workout

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Andrew Bridden I'm here at the Arizona Center of Mixed Martial Arts on behalf of expertvillage.com Here we're talking about some of the drills we do in Muay Thai kick boxing. What we are going to show now is kind of our cool down. Right after we have done the bulk of our workout whether it would be sparring or hitting bags, what have you, we usually do our conditioning exercises to toughen up our body. This is one such one where Freddy Luna here is going to be hitting Damon Sanchez in the stomach with Thai pad. As he hits him Damon is going to do a sit up as he gets hit Damon is exhaling. If you here that ever time he gets hit because when you get hit in the stomach whether a kick or a punch you don't want to have your air in your stomach your will get the wind knocked out of you. So we train this way to exhale when we get hit so it comes to train respondent. Another thing we do is sit ups where Damon is going to be on his back and Freddy is going to stand behind him and he is going to grab on to his legs for stability and Damon is going to do some leg raises. Freddy pushes down to resist him, he would go to different sides, to the center to toughen up and strengthening up the whole core muscles the abs, the obliques and the lower back. So that is another exercise that we do. Another one is going to be stand ups where Freddy is going to sit down and grab Damon's legs like that. Damon is going to stand up actually from here. So he does and sit up, standing up and throw some punches combos. This is absolutely murderous on the abs and toughens up about anything that in can. The core muscles is extremely important to any martial art. We really emphasize this so that is another one of the exercise that we do. We do extensive drills would medicine balls, throwing the balls at our stomachs. Again exhaling as we get hit. Just endless sit ups that is why our stomachs are so hard that getting punch in the stomach doesn't even phase us any more. So that is one of the main thing in Muay Thai kick boxing is conditioning the body. Okay good job."