Active Zone: How Kickboxing Builds Strength

Our Active Kickboxing client pushing through the combination with powerful punches to the Thai-pads.

When we often think about strength training, our minds often link it to dumbbells, kettlebells, and weight lifting.

But strength isn’t just limited to the weight room, and kickboxing proves that.

At Active Zone, our Active Kickboxing classes go beyond cardio. They’re a powerful combination of functional strength and bodyweight resistance.

Whether you’re throwing a combo or dropping into a squat or burpee between rounds. You’re building strength in ways you might not even realise.

Our Active Kickboxing ladies performing punches on the Thai-pads.

Here’s how Kickboxing strengthens your body, without ever picking up a weight.

1. Dynamic Resistance
Throwing a punch or a kick isn’t just about speed. It’s about driving force through your muscles, and particularly your shoulders, arms, core, glutes and your legs.

Each strike is a form of dynamic resistance training. Your muscles contract to generate power, while your body resists the motion to maintain balance.

When repeated at high intensity, your muscles are under load, just like lifting weights for high reps.

2. Core Activation
You can’t throw a punch or kick without engaging your core. That twist of the torso. That bracing during padwork, that’s your deep abdominal muscles putting in the work.

Even without doing the dreaded sit-ups, you’re getting a full core workout with our Active Kickboxing classes.

3. Explosive Lower Body Movements
Your legs play a major role in generating force. From front kicks to roundhouses, being in your stance, and even punching. Your quads, hamstring, glutes and calves are engaged.

We layer this with bodyweight exercises like jump squats and lunges in our Tabata segment to activate those muscle groups and improve body endurance and power.

4. Muscular Endurance
Unlike traditional sets with long rest, Kickboxing keeps your body engaged and under tension for extended periods. This builds muscular endurance, meaning your muscles become stronger and more resistant to fatigue.

This is especially important for busy adults who are looking for functional strength and those who want to lean muscles without bulking.

In Conclusion:
Kickbkxing builds serious strength, without lifting a single weight. Through explosive movements, controlled technique and full body-engagement, it trains your muscles in dynamic ways.

At Active Zone, we design our classes to challenge both your power and endurance. Your body is building strength with every strike.

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