how Muay Thai change my life
Muay Thai is a life saver
ITS all started when I graduate high school I was so sad , hopeless and fat , I have 0 confident I don't dress well and I don't walk well I was so done with my life but one day I was looking at my dad getting ready for the gym he trains muay thai and I looked at him and I said "I'll go with you and see what you guys are doing over there " I did goes with him and we ENTERED the gym and The smell of sweat hit my face i kind of like it not gonna lie They started training and started making crazy moves, "strength training" and the first thing comes to my mind was "i cant do this moves or at lest i have to take something to gave me energy " and when they end the training i told my dad i want to join with him so i started the first week i did not take any pre workout because i don't have money .
The first week was so crazy with the cardio and every thing , actually i didn't care about muay thai this whole month i was planning to just lose weight and then start building muscles like a body builder because as a fat person i only care about my physique ; the days begin to pass and now we are in the third month and i lose a lot of weight so i decide to stop muay thai and focus on building muscles and in my last day its was the sparring day ; the sparring day that change everything .
sparring day
I had never did sparring so because it was my last day i decide to do parring for the first time . I get some punches' and kicks and i punch my partner too " its was the worst sparring to be honest " but in the mid of the sparring there was a feeling i never felt it before a mix of excitement ,scared and confident that feeling was crazy ; now I'm walking back home i was happy and i was smiling the whole All the way and i realized something , something that changed my mined .
the moment that everything has been changed
When I was walking home i realized when i started training I lost a lot of weight and gained self-confidence and strength , dressing well , walking well like a normal human and moves my body the way i wanted , having a family at the gym not just a partner in training , speaking my mind and doing things that i was scared to do all this changed thing in just couple of mounts that's crazy how muay thai change me and if i start body building I'm going to train alone and not moving my body like i do here in muay thai so decided to not leave the club and that was the best decision I made and now I'm doing really good and i love it here .
and not forgetting that i stared a faceless YouTube channel for combat sports i love it people are love it too
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Oumaima Jamil
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i love it how you made it in you sports , keep going