Krudar Muay Thai

I had my first Muay Thai class at Krudar last week.
Nigel was teaching — it was fantastic! I totally fell in love with the place.
Above and beyond the fact that it is an amazing workout both for your body and your brain, the people here is what made me sign in right away.
I have never felt so welcomed in any clubs before — and I exercised in very fancy gyms: Equinox, Toronto Athletic Club, MAA… — everyone is lovely, passionate and incredibly respectful.
I just can’t wait to go back and make my classes here a part of my schedule.
It is a total gem!

If you are thinking about joining a Muay Thai gym (or trying out a class or two), I highly recommend Krudar! The people that work here are amazingly friendly, and the classes are effective and dare I say, fun. They’re intense at first, but you can go at your own pace (or a little closer to it, anyway) and you get used to it really fast if you keep going. After 45 minutes of cardio and strength training (both of which will help you in the long-​run for the Muay Thai part of it all), the instructors give you demos of combinations to practice with a partner. They change it up a lot so you can become well-​rounded.
When I first started taking classes, I was definitely flailing around. The instructors walk around, though, to make themselves accessible for questions and technique-​refinement. It’s up to you to ask them for help, though. Everyone in the classes are really helpful too, and will give you well-​meaning tips and cues if they see that you’re doing something incorrectly. When I started asking the instructors for help and paying attention to the people in my class, I started immediately feeling more powerful and in control. Nothing else like it.
There is a gym in the basement with some weights and punching bags, and the gym also offers kettlebell classes and spin. I haven’t taken their spin classes (I took it once somewhere, and vowed to never try again), but I have taken their kettlebell class and boy, were my arms tired. In a great way.
If you are thinking about getting a monthly/​yearly membership: keep an eye on their website! They have awesome deals all of the time.

This place is awesome, I love it here. Everyone is so nice! Great intense classes, nice facilities, great classes. I feel amazing after the workout! Highly recommended for Muay Thai. Haven’t tried anything else. If you want to compete it seems like a serious gym that way with some instructors going to Thailand to fight. They have a shorts program. Earn different colour shorts. Still not there yet but maybe some day! I also love TKMT Danforth.

Great energy, Great people — Krudar’s new location in Kensington market is a one stop shop.
A full weight gym in the basement and a complete muay thai experience up top, what more can one want? Bigger change rooms? Oh ya, there’s that.

My lil sister introduced me to this place. I was looking for a good gym to work out at and burn off the last remaining calories of last year. I already practice a few martial arts, so I was skeptical of joining yet another one.
If you’re looking to shed weight fast, but need the motivation to do so, this is the place to go! The atmosphere is electrifying and the overall experience is addictive. Let me warn you. You will sweat. Like you’ve never sweat before!
See their website for full class details. It’s a $ 20 dollar drop in, but first class is free. You can pay for 10 classes, or you can pay per month. The more months you pay for, the cheaper it gets obviously. What I like about it here is there’s really no commitment. You put in what you feel you can put in. The commitment here is to yourself, not to the gym. If you want something, you work hard for it. that’s their motto. No nonesense, no fluff.