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October 17, 2013 – Mike Dolce of The Dolce Diet & coach of UFC FIT was in the sound studio today for EA Sports recording voice work for his character in the highly anticipated UFC video game. The game, due out in Spring 2014, utilizes new technology that makes the characters more realistic.
Dolce tweeted earlier:
@TheDolceDiet
In the studio with @EASports laying down some audio! Excited for Spring 2014!!! @UFCFIT @ufcgym
View the EA Sports UFC 2014 video game preview trailer for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One:

Additional details from VG247.com
UFC is being developed with EA Sports’ Ignite engine, and has the tagline “Feel the Fight”; it’s coming to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in Spring 2014.
Here are a couple of key features:
MMAi – A mixed martial artist’s mind is as important as his heart. Every licensed fighter in the game will have changing goals and fight plans, based on their real-life tendencies and each fight situation.
Real-Time Exertion – Real-Time Exertion brings each moment of action to life in your gameplay experience. Through real-time vein popping, skin discoloration, muscle flex, as well as signs of fatigue setting in through the course of each round, players will witness the effort it takes to be one of the best fighters in the world.
Fighter Likeness and Facial Animations – Fighters in the game have been created from high-resolution 3D head scans to deliver revolutionary character likeness and authenticity. Powered by EA SPORTS IGNITE, new facial animation technology delivers more expression and emotion than ever before in gaming and will communicate an unparalleled sense of awareness and intelligence in the Octagon.
Full Body Deformation – The team that revolutionized sports by bringing authentic physics to Fight Night changes the game again with an all-new, full-body deformation system that moves and displaces the fighter’s flesh in real time. For the first time, the strength of every submission and power of every strike will truly make an impression.
Precision Movement – The Precision Movement locomotion system grounds the fighters, eliminating unrealistic slipping and sliding across the canvas. More realistic physics-driven movement delivers more realistic action as the overall transfer of energy from the ground up delivers more impactful and believable strikes and takedowns.
Dynamic Striking – A dynamic environment allows players to pull off jaw-dropping moves using the Octagon, including roundhouse kicks, superman punches and much more. Combine those abilities with the best striking technology in the industry and that one perfect strike could change the fight.
Strategic Submission Battles – EA SPORTS UFC reinvents the ground game to create a battle for position and control that captures the strategy of a submission battle. Like the real sport, in EA SPORTS UFC fighters will work through multiple stages as they work to advance or escape from a fight-ending submission.
Real Damage – EA SPORTS UFC introduces a non-linear damage system which can result in big damage coming from a single strike. The system produces a greater variety of cuts and contusions that is true-to-life and has never been possible in a simulation fighting game.

VIDEO: Mike Dolce and Rich Franklin continue their ongoing tour of Air Force bases around the United States, speaking to troops and their families about maintaining a healthy lifestyle.

Coach Mike Dolce is known worldwide for transforming his athletes into the planet’s most impressive physical specimens. How does he do it? With not much more than you have right there in that tiny dorm room! His guerrilla style hotel-room cooking and jet-setting training regimen keep the most elite athletes in the world in peak condition all leading up to the biggest battle of their lives! Now Mike is here to coach YOU through the biggest fight of YOUR life! COLLEGE!
In The Dolce Diet: College Diet Guide Mike spills his best-kept secrets for eating well and exercising with limited options. And guess what? It’s all SO EASY!
No gym? No problem!
No kitchen? No sweat!
This book includes:
-Dorm-friendly, inexpensive recipes!
-How to break bad habits and create good habits!
-‘Dolce Approved’ Grocery list!
-How to set goals and stick to them!
-Kitchenware & Equipment guides!
-How to deal with negative people!
-Mike’s indoor, space-conscious workouts!
-How to never be hungry while in class!
-Mike’s favorite outdoor & gym training routines!
-How to fuel your brain & body for the big exam!
-Personal stories from college students just like you!
-How to handle peer pressure!
-And more!
The Dolce Diet: College Diet Guide will also teach you how to avoid the oh-so-common pitfalls of unhealthy campus living, from the snail-trail slime of the cafeteria’s Alfredo sauce to your 2am vending machine snack attack! Don’t worry! Mike’s got you covered! Now get to class!

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Mike answers your health, fitness and lifestyle questions, and discusses a variety of topics.
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.

Former UFC world-champion, BJ Penn, recently announced he has brought in Mike Dolce as a member of his exclusive coaching staff to prepare THE PRODIGY for his historic assault on the 145-pound weight class in a grudge match with former UFC lightweight champion Frankie Edgar. The fight is slated to take place April 2014.
“BJ Penn is the greatest mixed martial artist of all time,” Dolce said. “He is a legend – a two-division world champion as a 170-pound welterweight and a 155-pound lightweight that has been fighting professionally before most athletes even knew what MMA or the UFC was. It is a great honor to join BJ on his journey back into the Octagon and, in my opinion, to make history as the first ever three-division world champion in our sport.”
“First thing’s first,” Dolce said. “We have a very tough Frankie Edgar standing in our way and in speaking to BJ, that is exactly the way he wants it! I will be flying out to Hilo, Hawaii this week to begin growing my relationship with BJ and offer my skills to his camp.”

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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Mike answers your questions and discusses a variety of topics, including some shocking news coming out of the meat industry.
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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Mike is back from Toronto with lots of stories to share!
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.

BECOME A DOLCE LIFESTYLE BLOGGER!

Do you have a passion for health? Are you positive, energetic and an overall fun-loving person? Do you have an uncanny ability to inspire others? YES, you say?! Well then we want you to become a DOLCE Lifestyle Blogger!
The special few who are chosen to become Dolce Lifestyle Bloggers will write funny, motivational, helpful (and sometimes sarcastic) blog posts that entertain the pants off our readers! Yes! We want our friends sitting at home reading our site and then POOF! No pants!
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(More to come!)