Kickboxing Workouts: Burn Calories and Build Full Body Strength

Kickboxing and Muay Thai are intense cardiovascular workouts that burn significant calories while working every major muscle group. Learn the difference between fighting styles and how to use punching bag routines for quick weight loss.

Workout with Kicking a Punching Bag

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Luke Schmaltz

Kicking a punching bag is a workout with secondary benefits. Not only does it benefit your legs, your abdominal, oblique and lower back muscles also get significant activation from the dynamic nature of the strikes. Factor a heavy bag into the equation and the exertion level increases with the high velocity contact.