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I am living in Adelaide, Australia now ... I am not going to a regular gym, but instead to a place called Point A, which mainly does parkour, gymnastics and other stuff. Nathan, who co-opened the place is a personal trainer with a really long experience in Martial arts, and has trained a fair bit in Muay Thai/Pradal Serey.
I approached them when they opened about what I could do without aggravating my injury, and we settled on giving Muay Thai style work a try as it's non load-bearing but hell of a workout. Tested the water with just some pads, but gently upped the intensity, now doing really hard cardio and pads, also clinch work, light sparring type drills.
Now I have one session a week with him and do heavy bag and skipping one or two other days a week, plus padwork with some others there that are also doing Muay Thai.
Going well. My back actually likes it, I think it's some kind of ballistic way to stretch your hamstrings, and my flexibility and kicking power has come on leaps and bounds.