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🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard http://heatrick.com/muay-thai-strength-conditioning-scorecard-form To find out if your current training is actually helping your fighting, or just making you tired! 👊 📘 Optimal Fight Camp Blueprint available at http://heatrick.com/12-week-fight-camp Muay Thai skill retention is what matters... that you can still do it tomorrow, not just by the end of the session. In this video I share with you what I've learned and how I structure a Muay Thai skills session for highest ROI on skill retention. KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 0:00 Adding Technique Is the Thing Blocking You 0:40 Looks Sharp Today, Gone in a Week 1:14 The Three Stages That Make a Skill Stick 1:56 Budget Learning Load, Not Techniques 2:10 The Install Session, Start to Finish 2:34 Review: Did Last Session Stick? 3:04 Discover: One Movement, One Cue 3:40 Install: Four Steps to Pile the Reps Up 5:13 Validate: Earn the Sweat on Stable Skills 5:50 When Quality Drops, Stop the New Skill 6:10 A Plateau Isn't a Stop Signal 6:40 Protect the New Skill, Then Review It 👉 Missed the previous video? Catch up here:Six Years to Master Muay Thai? Minutes Count, Not Hours https://youtu.be/Fdv-IBP0Fh8 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/10/16/skill-retention-training-for-muay-thai/

🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard http://heatrick.com/muay-thai-strength-conditioning-scorecard-form To find out if your current training is actually helping your fighting, or just making you tired. Don't forget to comment: This week, count your skill sessions, not your hours, and drop your weekly number in the comments. And this isn’t for bragging rights... It’s so that six months from now, when someone else reads "nine hundred and sixty sessions" and calculates their sentence, there's a wall of people underneath who’ve already reduced their number, and they can see it happen. KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 960 Sessions Is the Real Number 01:39 You've Been Counting the Wrong Unit 02:34 The 15-Minute Floor 03:52 The 60-Minute Ceiling 05:12 A Session Is Installation, Not Attendance 06:30 The Double-Session Trap 09:48 The ~4 Years Redo 13:04 A Week That Banks Sessions 15:26 Count Sessions, Not Hours 👉 Missed the previous video? Catch up here: Why 45-Year-Old Fighters Outwork 18-Year-Olds (It's Not Talent) https://youtu.be/HTh3JCcYUaE Other videos mentioned... ▶️ WEEKLY WIN SYSTEM... How to Force Muay Thai Progress https://youtu.be/Dt2Nqf82UG8 ▶️ Not That Fighter Anymore. You're a Parent. https://youtu.be/AAoDXb03Qgg 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/10/02/master-muay-thai-minutes-count-not-hours/

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🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/j8yjTo find out if your current training is actually helping your fighting or just making you tired! You walk into Muay Thai class and before you even set down your kit bag, the room’s energy pulls you toward 100%. It feels like that decision has already been made for you. Go hard or go home. Most fighters never question their Muay Thai class intensity. They let the room, the coach, and the culture dictate their effort every session, racking up needless wear and tear they won’t feel for years. I learned this the hard way. I’m in my fifties and I’ve already had my left hip resurfaced. All because I was fit enough to handle an excessive training workload. Every session I smashed “just because I can”, racked up miles on the clock that I didn’t feel until decades later. I started fighting at 32 with no coach, no corner team, and no ringcraft. In my first year I won three titles at three different weights, and by 40 I was pro ranked number 4 in the UK. My approach has evolved from outright wasteful and dangerous to highly efficient and ruthlessly effective. If I’d stuck with the old school approach I began with, then I wouldn’t have been able to train past 30, let alone begin a competitive fight career. You don’t need to kill yourself every session to perform your best. In this video, I break down how to self-regulate your training intensity, even in group sessions you didn’t program yourself. KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 The Cost of "Just Because I Can" 01:33 Where Periodization Breaks Down 02:17 Self-Regulate With These RPE Numbers 03:12 The Technique Cost of 100% Intensity 04:08 Dial Intensity Down, Skill Up 05:24 You Control More Than You Think 👉 Watch this next: https://youtu.be/jXc1VwX0zWo 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/08/07/how-to-control-your-muay-thai-class-intensity/

🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/m7kg To find out if your current training is actually helping your fighting — or just making you tired! KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 Find a Way and Chase It 01:11 Is Your Training Moving You Forward or Just Keeping You Busy? 01:42 Diagnose the Constraint Before You Prescribe the Fix 02:45 Do Less Than You Think You Need To 03:44 Training Is Not a Fight 05:19 Push to the Limit on Purpose, Not by Default 08:19 Your Late Start Is an Advantage 09:35 Is Your Training Making You Better or Just Making You Tired? 10:22 Find the Vehicle That Fits You 11:40 Take the Scorecard. It Might Save You Years. 👉 Watch this video next: https://youtu.be/iUJJrsEvpmA 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/

🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/5yzd To find out if your current training is actually helping your fighting, or just making you tired! KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 Your Gym Workout Is Cancelling Your Strength 00:41 The IPO Model: Where Power Actually Comes From 01:29 Firing a Cannon from a Canoe 03:18 The Thai Power Equation: 50% Input × 98% Process 06:09 Feeling Destroyed Isn't Adapting 06:56 The Two Conditions Your Gym Workout Is Missing 08:04 Fighter A vs Fighter B: Same Gym, Different Result 09:41 "I Could Not Get Tired" — Johan's Transformation 11:47 Strength Appears as Endurance 13:28 The Signal Conflict That Blunts Your Gains 15:23 The Optimal Training Cycle: Build Before You Endure 17:20 The Relentless Fight Pace Formula 18:41 When Your 80% Equals Their 100% 👉 Watch this video next (Optimal Training Cycle): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UWXNzWnHok&t=72s 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/07/10/muay-thai-strength-training-stop-cancelling-your-own-gains/

🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/6j9u Find the gaps in your athletic engine, your training structure, and your implementation capability and get a clear roadmap to close them. KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 The Conditioning That Caps Your Engine 00:17 Your Three Fuel Pumps, Not One Tank 01:38 How Lactic Work Blunts Your Aerobic Base 02:54 Lorenzo: KO Artist, 3-out-of-10 Aerobic Base 06:04 Test, Don't Guess: Two Numbers That Diagnose Your Engine 08:48 The 14-Week Fix: 92% Not Lactic 10:19 Why Easy Work Builds a Faster Engine 👉 Watch this next: https://youtu.be/jXc1VwX0zWo 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/06/26/why-you-gas-out-in-muay-thai-and-how-to-fix-it/

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🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/tw7v Find your weak links, discover how to strengthen them. KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 The Imbalance Breaking Fighters 00:15 Why Muay Thai Creates Imbalances 00:35 Most Fighters Get S&C Backwards 01:03 Perfect Symmetry? 01:15 Stage 1: The Reactive Fighter 01:59 Stage 2: The Maintenance Fighter 02:41 Stage 3: The Engineered Fighter 03:29 Which Stage Are You Really In? 03:57 Fixing the Reactive Fighter 04:41 Fixing the Maintenance Fighter 05:16 Advanced Prehab for Fighters 👉 WATCH THIS NEXT: How to Structure Strength Training for Muay Thai (Speed, Power, Strength) https://youtu.be/yrF8y5CCjzo 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/

🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/28kg Spot where your training is leaking results, get solutions to plug those gaps… and help shape future episodes on this channel. KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 Why Watching Fights Doesn’t Light Me Up 00:27 I Realised I’ve Been Chasing Flow All Along 01:02 From Climbing Trees to Finding Muay Thai 02:21 Why Muay Thai Felt Like Flow on Tap 03:08 Why Watching Can’t Replace Doing 04:47 Borrowed Flow vs Becoming Changed by Training 👉 WATCH THIS NEXT: Why Your Muay Thai Skills Disappear When Fighting https://youtu.be/h50M0AjHNtg 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/05/15/muay-thai-flow-state-why-i-train-not-just-watch/

🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/dag6 To find out if your current training has gaps, and how to fix them! KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 Training Like Before Kids Is Destroying You 00:41 The Wrong Comparison Killing Your Progress 01:38 The 3-Level Training Model 02:20 Why This Specific Combination Works 03:33 Real Results: Daan & Jonathan's Stories 04:03 Your Flexible Weekly Training Template 05:34 When Life Goes Wrong: Auto-Adjustments 07:34 Can You Still Compete? (The Bangkok Answer) 09:32 Stay in the Game (Your Next Step) 👉 Watch this next: https://youtu.be/I7f_wCVebHA 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/05/01/muay-thai-parents-the-95-5-rule-for-real-progress/

🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/nxeq Find your weak links and discover how to strengthen them. KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 Injury Wasn't Random — It Was Built 00:17 Why Fighters Stay Stuck in the Injury Cycle 00:52 It’s Not Age or Bad Luck — It’s Load Mismatch 01:25 Mismatch #1: Overuse Sneaks Up Slowly 02:51 Mismatch #2: Training Spikes Break You Fast 03:35 The Hidden Trap: Everything vs Neglect 04:12 Two Muay Thai Mistakes That Worsen Both 04:37 Fix #1: Build a Smarter Training System 05:37 Fix #2: Build Local Strength Where You Break 06:05 Fix #3: Stop Training Hard Every Session 06:28 Muay Thai Timebomb #1: Pad Holding Damage 07:14 Muay Thai Timebomb #2: Thailand Camp Injuries 07:37 Pain Isn’t Always Damage — But It Is Data 08:03 Audit Your System + Break the Cycle 08:14 Scorecard + Next Step Training Plan 👉 Watch this next: https://youtu.be/_UWXNzWnHok 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/04/17/stop-the-injury-cycle-overuse-vs-training-spikes-in-muay-thai/

🎯 FREE RESOURCE – Muay Thai Performance Scorecard https://heatrick.com/hljw To find out if your current training is actually helping your fighting — or just making you tired! KEY MOMENTS Follow along using these quick timestamps: 00:00 Why Your Training Timing Is Wrong 00:29 The Time-Split Protocol — In 10 mins 00:45 You Feel Weak in the Morning 01:16 The “Morning Nadir” Problem 02:07 How Your Body’s Clock Affects Performance 02:32 The Backwards Training Mistake 04:24 The Time-Split Protocol (What to Do) 06:46 How to Peak for Fight Time 07:27 Strength, Injury Risk & Real-Life Performance 08:15 Why This Works (Coaching Proof) 08:49 Structure Your Week Properly 👉 Watch this next: https://youtu.be/7vJOKW5OA6Q 🎙️ 📝 This episode's show notes and further resources at https://heatrick.com/2026/04/04/muay-thai-fighters-your-evening-training-is-making-your-mornings-worse/