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BY KHURRAM AZIZ (FEATURED COLUMNIST)
Bleacher Report
UFC flyweight John Lineker could become the latest fighter to call on the services of nutritionist Mike Dolce after he missed weight for the third time competing for the UFC.
However, despite coming in at 128 pounds for his 125-pound match against Phil Harris at UFC Fight Night 30, his first-round TKO win still has him being talked of as a future title contender.
Lineker, a former Jungle Fight bantamweight champion, has always struggled to make the lighter weight class. But, with a series of impressive TKO wins now stretching to four straight, his job has never been under threat at least as far as UFC President Dana White is concerned.
White told the media after Saturday’s event in Manchester that Lineker would be a serious contender already in the thinly stacked flyweight division if he had not failed to make weight three times.
White said the 23-year-old Brazilian’s trainer at American Top Team, Dan Lambert, reached out to him after the event, promising to call in the services of Dolce to make sure the fighter makes weight next time.
According to MMA Junkie:

“[Lambert is] probably one of the best guys in the sport and has been since before we owned this company, and he hit us up tonight and said, ‘Let’s get this kid down to Florida training, get him on the Dolce Diet, and make sure this kid can cut weight,” White said. “[Lineker is] so good, if he had made weight in the three times that he missed, he probably would have a title shot right now. So he’s going to get him sorted out.”

There’s no denying Dolce’s prominence in the world of mixed martial arts. He got his big break in 2005 when he began working with Randy Couture and Dan Henderson at Team Quest and has since become a regular at UFC weigh-in events alongside fighters like Chael Sonnen and Gilbert Melendez. He is also said to be currently working with UFC veteran BJ Penn, who will be fighting at 145 pounds for the first time in his career against Frankie Edgar in 2014.
Of course there is no actual great secret to the “Dolce Diet”. Much of it is tried and tested sports nutrition methods and food most of us are used to. There are plenty of carbs and proteins, as well as fats, to choose from, including the kinds of food you could buy, say, in a deli in Oklahoma or any other part of the US.
In the end, it boils down to controlling calories and making sure the fighter gets enough nutrition during training before the serious weight cut begins in the week of the fight.
However, working with Lineker will certainly be one of Dolce’s biggest challenges considering how ridiculously low a fighter has to go to hit the 125-pound mark. Indeed, last month, Brazilian Leandro Souza died while cutting the final two pounds for his flyweight contest at Shooto Brazil 43.
Speaking to MMA Junkie, Dolce said he was willing to take on the challenge of getting Lineker on weight next time.

“I’m a big friend and fan of Dan Lambert, and anything he says, I’m more than happy to help out… If he believes in Lineker, then I believe in the kid, too, and I think we can turn him into a world champion.”

Lineker is certainly a talented fighter in a division that desperately needs fresh challengers for title holder Demetrious Johnson.
Johnson has already gone through the highest-ranked fighters in the division, such as Ian McCall, Joseph Benavidez and John Dodson. The fact that the UFC needs fresh blood for the title chase at flyweight is probably what keeps saving Lineker’s career, despite consistently missing weight.

In this episode, Mike answers YOUR questions! Topics include Mike’s ingredients for a natural electrolyte drink, should you drink distilled water; what Mike thinks of the Paleo Diet; what to eat post weigh-in and more!
The founder of The Dolce Diet & creator of UFC FIT, Mike Dolce is known the world over for his work managing the weight cuts of UFC athletes like Johny Hendricks, Vitor Belfort, Thiago Alves, Chael Sonnen, Quinton Jackson, Nik Lentz, Jake Ellenberger and more!
His #1 international best-selling books include The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded, The Dolce Diet: Living Lean, & The Dolce Diet: Living Lean Cookbook. For more information on Mike’s books, MMA weight cuts, weight management, gaining muscle, weight loss, overall healthy living, UFC FIT and so much more, visit TheDolceDiet.com & TheMikeDolceShow.com & UFCFIT.com.

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The founder of The Dolce Diet & creator of UFC FIT, Mike Dolce is known the world over for his work managing the weight cuts of UFC athletes like Johny Hendricks, Vitor Belfort, Thiago Alves, Chael Sonnen, Quinton Jackson, Nik Lentz, Jake Ellenberger and more!
His #1 international best-selling books include The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded, The Dolce Diet: Living Lean, & The Dolce Diet: Living Lean Cookbook. For more information on Mike’s books, MMA weight cuts, weight management, gaining muscle, weight loss, overall healthy living, UFC FIT and so much more, visit TheDolceDiet.com & TheMikeDolceShow.com & UFCFIT.com.

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“Your books (3 Weeks to Shredded and Living Lean Cookbook) helped me get to where I am today!,” Scott said. “I look forward to the future!”

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The founder of The Dolce Diet & creator of UFC FIT, Mike Dolce is known the world over for his work managing the weight cuts of UFC athletes like Johny Hendricks, Vitor Belfort, Thiago Alves, Chael Sonnen, Quinton Jackson, Nik Lentz, Jake Ellenberger and more!
His #1 international best-selling books include The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded, The Dolce Diet: Living Lean, & The Dolce Diet: Living Lean Cookbook. For more information on Mike’s books, MMA weight cuts, weight management, gaining muscle, weight loss, overall healthy living, UFC FIT and so much more, visit TheDolceDiet.com & TheMikeDolceShow.com & UFCFIT.com.

Mike Dolce on recent weight-cutting death: ‘I was heartbroken’

BY DAVE DOYLE, MMAFIGHTING.com

The death of Brazilian fighter Leandro Souza continues to reverberate around the sport.
A final medical determination has not yet been rendered on Souza, who died during his weight cut leading up to Friday’s scheduled Shooto 43 event in Rio de Janeiro, which was subsequently canceled. But it is believed to be the first weight-cut related death in modern MMA history.
That’s the sort of news that one of the sport’s most respected nutritionists, Mike Dolce, has long feared he’d hear. Dolce, who’s Dolce Diet adherents have included fighters ranging from Chael Sonnen to Vitor Belfort to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson over the years, appeared on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour to discuss the tragedy.
“I was heartbroken for the young man, for his family and for the sport,” said Dolce. “What we do, it’s a brotherhood and a sisterhood and a bond. And anytime one of us goes down or gets hurt I think we all feel it globally. I felt it just as much, if not more, I’ve been in those intimate situations with athletes cutting weight.”
A preliminary doctor’s report stated Souza died of a stroke.
“It’s hard to speak definitively on what happened because we don’t have the toxicology reports,” Dolce said. “We haven’t had a true medical update on what happened other than a possible stroke. It’s one of those things, its one in a million, one in millions if you look at how many times athletes have been cutting weight. It’s tough to really offer judgement on the process just yet other than say it sounds unhealthy reading the tidbits I’ve read about what happened.”
MMAFighting.com reported on Friday that Souza, who was a member of the Nova Uniao camp along with Jose Aldo and Renan Barao, took several diuretic pills in the hours leading up to his tragedy, a practice Dolce doesn’t recommend.
“Diuretics are terrible, they’re the bane of weight cutting,” Dolce said. “All drugs. That’s why I say no pills, no powders, no potions, get that pollutant out of your body. You don’t need that. A fully healthy body can do anything. I’ve proven that, my athletes have proven that. My athletes are the healthiest on the planet, they look amazing on the scale. … When you’re taking those pills, when you’re taking those drugs, diuretics are absolutely the worst thing to do, it corrupts the health of the athlete on a biological level.”
Indeed, you’d be hard pressed to name many fighters who have missed weight when they’ve worked with Dolce. Dolce says his game plan is based on changing fighters’ dietary approach throughout the year, rather than simply crash dieting as their fight approaches.
“Weight cutting is not healthy, I’m the first to say that,” Dolce said. “If it was up to me athletes would compete at their wake-up weight. That’s when you open your eyes, the first thing in the morning, they put their feet on the ground, they use the restroom, and then they step on a scale afterwards. That’s the wake-up weight. That’s what you should weight.”
“My athletes are typically at seven percent body fat three weeks before competition,” Dolce continued. “That’s what we aim for three weeks before competition. Now we can begin increasing calories as we get closer to the fight so we can eat more. Nobody does that. Everyone goes they opposite way, they pull calories closer to the fight.”
Santos had taken a flyweight bout on short notice and reportedly had to drop 33 pounds in a week to make the fight. Santos was reportedly looking to cut the final two pounds in the sauna when he had his stroke.
“Mixed martial artists as a whole are a much healthier group [than the general population], although prone to extremes,” said Dolce. Extremes like Mr. Santos, possibly taking diuretics, we don’t know that for sure yet, you have to stay healthy, If you can’t stay healthy, you’re not competing at your best.”
Dolce, of course, works mostly with high-level fighters and is paid accordingly by his clients. But he says that a young, up-and-coming fighter doesn’t necessarily need his services if they’re smart about how they handle their diet and nutrition.
“It’s not a diet, it’s a lifestyle,” Dolce said. “If you’re cutting weight the week of competition or three weeks or six week, you already messed up. It’s a 52 weeks a year, these athletes, if they’re amateurs or professionals, they should think like professionals 365 days a year. Everything they eat, everything they drink, everything they see, every situation they’re in. It’s either going to make them better or it’s going to make them worse. …
“The young guys out there, you don’t have to pay a guy like me,” Dolce continued. “I was doing this free for a decade when there was no money back in the NHB days. I was still doing this in 2000, 2001, 2002. I was this guy making no money but I did it the exact same way. Of course the science and the experience has evolved, but the commitment has never changed.”

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The founder of The Dolce Diet & creator of UFC FIT, Mike Dolce is known the world over for his work managing the weight cuts of UFC athletes like Johny Hendricks, Vitor Belfort, Thiago Alves, Chael Sonnen, Quinton Jackson, Nik Lentz, Jake Ellenberger and more!
His #1 international best-selling books include The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded, The Dolce Diet: Living Lean, & The Dolce Diet: Living Lean Cookbook. For more information on Mike’s books, MMA weight cuts, weight management, gaining muscle, weight loss, overall healthy living, UFC FIT and so much more, visit TheDolceDiet.com & TheMikeDolceShow.com & UFCFIT.com.

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His #1 international best-selling books include The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded, The Dolce Diet: Living Lean, & The Dolce Diet: Living Lean Cookbook. For more information on Mike’s books, MMA weight cuts, weight management, gaining muscle, weight loss, overall healthy living, UFC FIT and so much more, visit TheDolceDiet.com & TheMikeDolceShow.com & UFCFIT.com.

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