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I would recommend wrapping. Your knuckles can take a beating even inside the gloves and your wrists will appreciate the extra support. Not sure what sort of boxing you're planning to do, but this video shows more or less how we wrap at my muay thai gym, using 180" mexican-style handwraps, which have a bit of stretch to…
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"When you get skinny are you going to start wearing pink and buying bare midriff shirts in the kids' section and putting your hair up in pigtails? Girls do that when they lose weight. They want to relive their high school years when they were fat." I'm 43, am rarely seen wearing anything but black and navy blue, and the…
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I was scared to death to walk into the muay thai gym for the first time, and it took me years to get up the guts to actually do it. It was a very hardcore environment, a dirty old warehouse full of boxing gear and hard men. Three months later, all of those tough, intimidating guys are really sweet and supportive and I look…
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Unless you're lactose intolerant, I highly recommend eating yogurt with live bacteria cultures every day. I had problems for years until I figured out that my gut just needs more good bacteria to keep things moving. I have half a cup of plain Greek Gods yogurt every morning with kalamata olive tapenade, hummus, walnuts and…
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I encountered this problem for several weeks recently, about a month after I started muay thai. I was hobbling around most of the day, especially first thing in the morning, and it was really uncomfortable to get up on the ball of my foot, which is where you are during most of a muay thai workout. My trainer told me to…
