There is a new trend appearing in the thailand gap year industry, unlike anything else that has popped up before. It seems that gap year takers are rejecting softer voluntarism holidays and going out to on their thailand gap year to increase their fitness by training in the national Thai national sport, Muay thai Kick boxing due to a new gap year organisation named Xtreme Gap.

When you think about a Thailand gap year, the vast majority of people, don’t associate the country with hardcore physical training. Mainly people think about amazing beaches, south east asian culture and serious amounts of chilling out under a palm tree. The only sweating they imagine they will be doing is as a result of eating a hot curry, not because they are busting a gut with some Muay Thai Training.

A Thailand gap year is the perfect opportunity to get in to shape when you think about it. Absolutely everything works in your favour, assisting your will power to get physically fit. The food, which is very healthy and very tasty won’t add calories and then there is the fact that if you will be spending a lot of time on the beach you want to look good in the process.

Fitness experts say that the recovery period is equally important as the physical training, during a work out regime. Your body needs time to rebuild and become stronger. You would be hard pressed to find a better place to chill out than Koh Tao, with many gorgeous sandy beaches, it is the perfect companion to a serious fitness holiday and Thailand gap year combined.

Training in muay Thai is a good way to get fit, it is said that you can burn over 700 calories per one hour session, this is helped due to the interactive, one to one nature of the training. You will be pushed to your limits. This kind of personal training would cost several thousand pounds in the UK, not with the xtreme gap year Muay thai training programme, it is one of the best value Thailand gap year activities out there.

Like all good adventures, the xtreme gap muay thai training programme has a great twist at the end. If you are fit enough and brave enough, you can actually take part in a fight at the end of your programme. Imagine finishing up your Thailand gap year fighting in a ring against a professional Thai Boxer in front of 200 people!

If you wanted to mix up some more thailand gap year activities, you can add freediving, yoga and diver courses to the package. All of these extra options are also great for fitness, and improve your physical abilities in different ways. Yoga helps with stretching and freediving is great for cardio fitness. There are also several diving courses you can add to the programme as well.

All the Muay thai training customers note that there are very happy with the speed at which they notice fitness gains, this usually happens after the first week, which is probably the most difficult. However this is what a gap year should be about: personal achievement. All comment that they return home from their thailand gap year feeling a lot fitter and healthier.