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Bag work

What it means

Rounds on a heavy bag, usually after pads. It is where you get volume and conditioning, and where you practise the combination the trainer just corrected.

It is also the part of a session that fills the gap while other people are on pads, so a busy camp with few trainers will have you on a bag more than you expected.

Bag rounds are self-paced, which cuts both ways: it is the easiest place to coast and the easiest place to overdo it in the heat.

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Words that go with it

  • Pad work

    Rounds worked one-to-one with a trainer holding Thai pads, where you throw combinations and he corrects them as you go. It is the centre of a Thai session and the reason people fly there.