Taunting, trash talking, rivalries are but a few tools to hype up fights, either to sell tickets, pay-per-views or just gain followership. T

"Stronger!" "Turn your hips more!" "Kick faster!" The instructions came thick and fast, atypical of the Onyx trainers, but my mind was just a hazy blur. I tried my best to make my body obey, fighting through the fog of fatigue and throwing out punches and kicks as commanded, but everything came out 2 seconds slower. "10 kicks!" The staple command that we are all so familiar with, but dread with inevitable fear. I exhaled sharply, placed my left foot forward, and swivelled my

I've started Muay Thai around 4 years ago and I've had my fair share of trainers from various gyms. While I've not been entirely sure I was going to compete nor fight when I first started out, I am now. Apart from Onyx, I've been to 3 other gyms. Some have closed down; because the trainer left, or perhaps an issue of motivation, or perhaps progression. But I was training recreationally, so things were always with the flow of events, the dynamics of the personalities didn't ma

Have you finally decided that you need to lose weight? Are you lost? Are the customised and tailored meal plans too ridiculously expensive? Worse, too troublesome to prep meals? I used to be pretty plump when I was young, and like many, i desired that muscular beach body. So naturally, the next course of action, is to go on a weight loss programme: dieting, HIIT, running for long periods, and worst of them all, I started skipping meals. From the day I decided to lose weight,