r/martialarts • u/Terranam1 • 3d ago

QUESTION Martial arts to get built

Hi Im 21 and got a little bit of muscle and a little bit of fat and do MUAY THAI on rare occasion (to learn how to fight and 2 to get built); I ask my instructors if there are any exercises I can do outside of class to get better and they shrug it off or say hit the heavy bag for 30 minutes. Anyway I was wondering what martial art would get me built the quickest or just built in general? And is the instructor advice sound

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u/DunkleKarte 3d ago

We have this backwards where we expect to get fit doing martial arts, while in reality martial arts at least back then expected you to be fit beforehand, and you just go there to learn techniques and tactics.