Muay Thai, Strength & Yoga Camp in Phuket with Fight-Ready Training

Soi Ta-iad is a short road in Chalong lined with fight gyms, and this camp is set in one of them. Training happens in an open-sided gym with a ring, heavy bags, a padded mat area for clinch drills and a separate weight room with racks, platforms and free weights for the strength sessions. Sessions are run in small groups by Thai trainers who fight professionally, which means pad rounds are held to a real standard rather than a fitness-class one — you will be corrected on your guard, your balance and your kick mechanics every round.

A typical day opens with a group warm-up, skipping and shadow boxing, then three or four three-minute rounds on the pads with a trainer, followed by bag work. The strength block in the late morning is a proper gym session: squats, deadlifts, presses, pulls, loaded carries or kettlebell work, scaled to what you can actually lift. The evening session is technique and clinch. Sparring is optional and usually happens two or three evenings a week, controlled and matched by the trainers. Yoga is booked onto the timetable once or twice a day: usually a slower vinyasa in the morning for hips and shoulders, and a stretch-focused class after the evening session.

The camp's difference is the combination — you get stand-up striking, clinch and a real barbell room in the same building, without moving between venues. Most gyms on the street do one or the other. It also runs year-round, so the group is a mix of people training for a first amateur fight, people on a two-week break from work, and people who have been at the camp for a couple of months and just keep extending.

You sleep in a private room at a small hotel on or just off Soi Ta-iad, five to ten minutes' walk from the gym. Rooms are simple, clean and air-conditioned with a private bathroom, wifi and a fridge, and many have a small balcony. Breakfast is served at the hotel; other meals you buy on the street, where an average plate of rice and protein costs around 100–150 THB and a protein shake around 80 THB. There's no need to rent a car — everything you need for the fortnight is within walking distance.

The camp does not sell fight contracts on a tourist package. If you want to actually fight on a local show, that's arranged separately with the gym once you have trained with them for a while. What's included here is training, room and breakfast, and plenty of time around it for the beach, massages (a Thai massage on the street costs 300–400 THB) and day trips to Phang Nga Bay or the Big Buddha if a rest day lines up with them.

What's included

- 13 nights private room accommodation in a hotel on Soi Ta-iad - Daily breakfast at the hotel - Two Muay Thai training sessions per day (6 days per week) - Strength and conditioning sessions in the on-site weight room - One or two yoga or stretch classes per day - Use of gym equipment: ring, heavy bags, mats, weights, ropes - Hand wraps and access to borrowed gloves and shin pads - Gym access during opening hours on training days

What's not included

- International and domestic flights - Airport transfers - Lunch and dinner (budget around 300–400 THB per day) - Travel insurance - Thai visa costs (most nationalities get 30–60 days on arrival) - Personal expenses (protein shakes, laundry, massages) - Optional private 1-on-1 sessions - Optional excursions (Phang Nga Bay, Big Buddha, island trips) - Scooter rental if you want one