Muay Thai and pad work
Stance, footwork, punches, kicks, knees and elbows, all taught on the pads. Everything else builds on this.
Muay Thai, strength and fitness coaching in Nottingham
Steve Papp coaches fighters, complete beginners and everyone in between. Sessions are built around pad work, with grappling, weights, conditioning and nutrition added to suit what you're training for.
Every session starts on the pads
Holding pads is how Steve coaches. Up close he can see your stance, balance and timing, and correct them round by round. You learn to strike properly and get a hard conditioning session at the same time.
It works the same whether you're preparing for a fight or have never thrown a punch. As you improve the combinations get longer and the rounds get harder.
What Steve coaches
One-to-one and small group sessions at Liberty Gym in Nottingham. Most people mix two or three of these depending on their goal.
Grappling
Clinch work, takedowns and ground work. Useful for MMA, for jiu-jitsu, or to round out your striking.
Weights and strength
Lifting programmes with good technique, planned around the rest of your training so you recover properly.
Fitness and Hyrox
Conditioning for fitness races like Hyrox, covering the running, sled work, wall balls and ergs. Or general fitness if you want to feel fitter day to day. More on fitness racing
Diet and nutrition plans
Plans that fit your life and your goal, whether that's losing weight, making a fight weight or fuelling a race.
Run and training reviews
Steve watches you run or train and tells you what to change. Good for fixing form, staying clear of injury and planning towards a race.
Endurance coaching for fitness racing
Endurance has always been Steve's speciality. His fighters were known for their fitness. They could keep the pace high in the later rounds while their opponents tired, and they used that as a weapon.
Fitness races like Hyrox, Spartan, Tough Mudder and DEKA ask for the same thing. You have to keep working hard for an hour or more through running, carries, sleds and obstacles, and still have something left at the end. Steve coaches that engine, along with the strength and technique that hold up when you're tired.
- A training plan built backwards from the race you've entered
- Running and station work practised at race pace
- Strength work that keeps you moving well late in the race
- Steve watches your runs and sessions and tells you what to change
About Steve
Steve has coached martial arts and fitness in Nottingham for many years. He was the Muay Thai coach at the University of Nottingham and has trained and worked with some of the world's leading fighters and fitness coaches.
Most of his coaching happens at Liberty Gym on Manvers Street. Away from the gym you'll find him walking in the Cairngorms or climbing in the Peak District.
- Former Muay Thai coach at the University of Nottingham
- Years of experience in alternative provision, teaching young people through PE and training
- DBS checked
- Coaching at Liberty Gym, Manvers Street, Nottingham
Fighters Steve has worked with
People who train with Steve
Some of the people Steve has coached for years, and why they keep coming back.
Dom and Leanne
Dom and Leanne are martial artists and have been into fitness all their lives. Dom now does Hyrox and triathlon and trains in grappling.
Like most people they've put weight on through busy stretches of life, and each time they've gone back to Steve. He gives them the motivation to get going again, and skills they keep for life that help with losing weight and with their mental health.
Flick
Flick started training with Steve at university, when he was coaching the University of Nottingham Muay Thai club. They still train together, Muay Thai and plenty more besides.
Steve kept punching me until I gave this testimonial.Flick, Nottingham
Schools, alternative provision and councils
DBS checked
Steve has worked in alternative provision for many years, teaching young people through physical education and training.
For many of the young people he's worked with, training was the way into learning that a classroom hadn't given them. He's experienced in working with young people from a wide range of backgrounds and knows how to keep a session structured, safe and worth turning up to.
- Regular sessions in school or at Liberty Gym
- Short programmes for groups or individual pupils
- Fitness, boxing and Muay Thai sessions for youth services
Book a session or ask a question
Call or email Steve to book a first session, talk about a plan or ask about programmes for schools.
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