agree Kieran.

the video kind of shoots itself in the foot with its title, "Crossfit training for muay thai"...well really the goal which cross-fit trains for is cross-fit!

Strength training can only be done as a percentage of fight training unless the actual goal is to get in the ring and have a weightlifting contest..i looked into Ricky Hatton's weights program with Kerry Kayes and it only took up 15 minutes in his pre-fight 8 week training days and was only done after his boxing training was completed.

I looked at an s and c program/article for a UFC fighter recently,
interesting comment -

"Strength and conditioning sessions are supporting sessions to all other training. If because of your training the athlete is so sore for a couple of days that they have to miss their fighting practice, you did fail as a trainer. It may happen that you want to increase the intensity of your strength and conditioning sessions, but always make sure it does not conflict with the fighting practices"


but then when i looked at the volume and frequency i thought this was fairly excessive to be done in conjunction with actual fight training...of course there is a corssover point but feel that many people take it past that, and UFC and crossfit which ae both infested with PED's are to blame...

i am constantly having an argument with a bloke on another site that it doesn't matter how many front squats you do , you cant improve your kicks unless you improve your kicks, ie doing is doing.

remember here they are taking a guy who is a seasoned pro fighter with dozens of years of training under his belt. And tbh that was much more conditioning than strength.
no amount of wall balls is gonna replace what he has already caoable of,in spite of the Thais' generally considered very un-scientific training methods!

one thing i did like about the video was the shoulder blade static retraction mention , the Norwegian guy made a good point about scapular protraction and associated muscle lengthening/weaknesses being common in fighters because of their stance, something i am investigating a lot lately - Don, maybe you can do an article on glenohumoral mobility/RC/scapular retraction and thoracic mobility training?
Esp as so many of us work on computers and have done pushups incorrectly over the years.