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by Derek Bolender, MMAJunkie.com

Thiago Alves had his chance and blew it.
Regardless, there was no shame in losing a unanimous decision at UFC 100 to Georges St-Pierre in his only career title fight. If you’ve been in the 170-pound fray for as long as “Pitbull” has, chances are you’ve lost to the Canadian kingpin, too.
So with St-Pierre currently idle and interim champion Carlos Condit patiently waiting, the rest are free to jockey for position and string together title runs.
Jake Ellenberger and Johny Hendricks may have a 10-mile lead in the marathon, but Alves is at least competing in the race again following his submission win over Papy Abedi at UFC 138.
Alves (19-8 MMA, 11-5 UFC) and fellow contender Martin Kampmann (18-5 MMA, 9-4 UFC) will headline UFC on FX 2, which takes place March 3 at Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia. Due to the time difference, the event takes place on Saturday afternoon in Australia, and the main card airs live on FX in North America on Friday, March 2.
“I asked for that fight, to be honest with you,” Alves told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio).
“I think it’s going to be a great fight for both of us. We match up pretty well. We kind of got the same skills. It’s going to be a great fight for the fans. At the same time, I want to see who’s the best; who’s the best striker, who’s the best all-around fighter. I’m very excited. I’m training really, really hard. I can’t wait to get in there.”
It’s been a series of ups and downs for Alves following the UFC 100 loss to St-Pierre. He lost a unanimous decision to Jon Fitch at UFC 117, bounced back with a unanimous decision win over John Howard at UFC 124, and then stubbed his toe again when he dropped a unanimous decision to Rick Story at UFC 130.
The win over Abedi in November 2011 continued the alternating pattern. A win over Kampmann would break the mold and continue his upward trajectory.
Once a punchline for fans and pundits due to his failure to make weight before fights, Alves appears to be benefitting quite nicely from his relationship with former “Ultimate Fighter” cast member Mike Dolce and his appropriately titled “Dolce Diet.”
Alves missed weight at UFC 85 and UFC 117. But ever since he hired Dolce prior to UFC 124, he has hit the mark every time.
The pair synched up again prior to the trip “down under.”
“Dolce is like my older brother right now,” Alves said. “I trust Dolce fully with my training camp and with my career. He’s the one taking care of my strength and conditioning and my diet also, so he’s the one who put the whole training camp together. And the way he formats everything, he decides whenever I have to go hard or take it easy. He put the whole thing together.
“Besides that, Dolce is a great human being. He is a great person to be around, great energy. Since we started working together everything has just been great.”
Dolce will go as far as to live with Alves during his training camps to monitor him on a daily basis.
Before Dolce it was rice, beans, pasta, steak, eggs, and sausage on a regular basis for Alves.
“That’s how I was raised,” he said. “That’s how most of the people eat in Brazil. I never really ate vegetables or anything like that.”
Now its Dolce-crafted dishes like “Pitbull pancakes” he consumes.
“I think that’s the main problem with all the diets out there – it doesn’t really taste good,” Alves said. “But not the Dolce Diet. The Dolce Diet, everything tastes amazing. That’s why it’s so easy and it’s so effortless to follow it.”
To combat the time change that comes with flying to Australia, Alves will leave on Feb. 22 to make sure he arrives well ahead of fight night in order to properly acclimate himself to the new continent.
“When I fought in Birmingham (England) last time (at UFC 138) I remember on Wednesday, like Tuesday before the fight waking up at 4 a.m. like, ‘What’s going on?'” Alves said. “I’m fully awake at 4 a.m. trying to get back to sleep.
“You don’t really do much before the fight. You just try to lose your weight and save energy as much as possible, as much as you can, but you definitely have got to try to get on a schedule. And then if you get there first thing in the morning don’t sleep in even if you are dead tired. Try to do whatever you can in your power not to sleep in. It’s going to take you definitely two or three days to get adjusted, but if you do that it’s going to be way easier.”
Alves firmly believes a win over a credible top tier opponent in Kampmann would propel him into the proverbial “mix” and give instant credibility to title run No. 2.
“I truly believe after this fight, if I beat Kampmann, it’s going to be like I never lost to Rick Story,” Alves said. “I think one fight more, and another one, maybe two. I don’t know. But definitely after this fight I’m on my way to fight for the title again.”
“(Jake) Ellenberger got one big victory, but that’s about it. All the other guys there in title contention now, they never really fought the top guys.”
It’s been 31 months since Alves was in the cage fighting for the right to be called a champion.
His pursuit to be the best and to have the belt around his waist is what continues to drive him today.
Dolce may fuel his body, but championship dreams fuel his mind.
“It’s (winning a title) everything for me,” Alves said. “That’s everything I’ve been working for since I got out of Brazil. It’s what I think about every day. It’s how I work. It’s how I take my day. It’s how I live my life, to become a world champion.
“I know it’s just a matter of time.”
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Evolution of a Pit Bull: Improved Diet has Alves excited about UFC future
Words by David Abbou
Still just 28 years old, it’s easy to forget how much of a veteran Thiago Alves is when it comes to fighting. The UFC welterweight contender has already been a competitive fighter for half of his life. The native of Fortaleza had primarily focused on Muay Thai as a teenager, until one fateful day where he was discovered by representatives of American Top Team (ATT), the Florida-based MMA academy, that is widely considered one of the world’s best.
“I was a very particular Brazilian fighter, my background was Muay Thai. I was a professional Muay Thai fighter since I was 15, and I did a couple of amateur fights at 14,” recalls Alves who has grown to become one of the top 170 lb. fighters in the world. “I did some jiu-jitsu here and there in Brazil but it was more defensive, and really just about trying to get back up on my feet. At the time, ATT was picking fighters from all around the world and I was one of the lucky fighters from Brazil that got picked. It was a great opportunity for me to make a living, because back then not a lot of guys in Brazil were able to make money fighting in MMA.”
Alves made the journey to the U.S. at just 19 with dreams of making a living not only for himself, but being able to send money back home to his family. But in order to become a world-class fighter, he knew he needed to develop his BJJ game. Not much after he arrived and met his BJJ master at ATT –
former BJJ World Champion and esteemed Carlson Gracie black belt Ricardo Liborio – he knew he was in good hands.
“When I moved to America and I started training at ATT that’s when I started build a real base for jiu-jitsu. Now I’ve been there for about nine years and I feel way more comfortable on the ground these days,” says Alves who has worked his way up to a BJJ brown belt. “Learning from Ricardo, it’s awesome. I know I’ve gotten so much better, but at the same time, every time I’m training with Ricardo I feel sometimes like I don’t know anything…he’s on such a different level, he’s always ahead of you two, three or four moves…so it doesn’t matter how much better you get he’s always ahead of you. It’s a pleasure because you know when you’re training at ATT that the aspect of the ground game will never ever be a problem and the level of the training with Ricardo and some of the other black belts there is top notch.”
While his sights are currently fixed on becoming a UFC champion, Alves welcomes the day his Professor will present him with a BJJ black belt.
“Too be honest with you I have no idea when he will give it to me!” says Alves with a laugh. “I’ve trained with black belts a lot so if they think I deserve one I’ll take it, but if it takes a while longer that’s fine…it’s definitely something I’m looking forward to getting in the future.”
Alves’ MMA career so far has seen both high and lows, with wins over the likes of Karo Parisyan, Matt Hughes and Josh Koschek propelling him to a title shot against dominant welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre at UFC 100 in the summer of 2009. After losing that contest over five rounds, a bout in which he was mainly out-grappled, Alves lost his second straight fight to Jon Fitch. Before that bout Alves struggled to make the 170 lb. limit and knew he would need to make changes to his diet in order to stay a welterweight and still fight to his potential.
“MMA is a sport that makes you humble. If you’re not humble when you start then it will definitely make you humble,” reflects Alves, who recently decided to challenge himself and take his diet and conditioning program to a whole new level by hiring nutritional advisor and conditioning coach Mike Dolce before his most recent fight in November, where he submitted Papy Abedi with a rear naked choke.
Buying in to the Dolce Diet and conditioning program opened Alves’ eyes and he feels like a renewed fighter who is now better equipped to fulfill his life-long dreams in the sport.
“Because I’ve been a pro athlete for such a long time I thought I knew what I was doing, and now he (Mike Dolce) just changed my whole lifestyle. Today I’m very aware of what I’m eating, and know what my body needs and where my body’s deficiencies are. It’s a lifestyle so you become used to eating clean all the time, and whenever you’re allowed to have a cheat meal you enjoy that much more, but at the same time when you’re done you don’t feel good anymore and you want to eat clean again. It changed my life a lot, and also combining this diet with the strength and conditioning program, I feel great and I think the skies are the limit for my future right now.”
After a training camp, diet and condition program and the fight itself are finally behind him Alves loves nothing more than to catch up on some much needed R’n’R.
“I just love to chill and relax and give my body and mind a break and watch my favourite show ‘The Walking Dead’,” says Alves.
Soon it will be back to the gym for “The Pitbull”, as he recently agreed to headline the UFC’s second broadcast on the FX television network on March 3 in Sydney, Australia. His opponent in the main event is talented Danish welterweight Martin “The Hitman” Kampmann, who is fresh off a big win against Rick Story. Both fighters have had a similar development in the sport. Kampmann is also a strong kick boxer, and a BJJ brown belt under Robert Drysdale. Alves is expecting a great test from the Dane, but firmly believes in his own formula for success.
“I think Kampmann is a very tough and well-rounded fighter, and he beat Rick Story so he’s coming back up. But one thing I’m sure of is I’m going to be an even better version of myself not only when I fight him but for every fight after that.”
ORIGINAL ARTICLE POSTED HERE

Canada’s Showdown Joe spoke with Mike Dolce about the coach’s international best seller, The Dolce Diet: LIVING LEAN

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by Maggie Hendricks
Today, we look at Mike Dolce, the peak performance coach who is known to help fighters improve their nutrition, and in turn, the way they fight. After working as a strength coach for 20 years and appearing on the seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” Dolce has worked with fighters such as Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Thiago Alves, Chris Leben and Vitor Belfort.
Cagewriter: What is your job like on a day-to-day basis?
Mike Dolce: I’m running multiple training camps from afar. Right now, in Vegas, I’m running Vitor Belfort’s training camp and Mike Pyle’s. I also have Thiago Alves coming up, and I’m his head coach. I cover so many hats with him, but Vitor and Pyle, I work specifically with their nutrition and weight management issues.
I say more peak performance coach because I do the meals, I do the weights, I do the overall training management. I’m the filter for the other coaches. I set up the training schedule from day to day. I even structure in their business meetings and social function as they get closer to fight time.
CW: Thiago, for example, you set his day?
MD: With Thiago, I literally set up his 24 hours, seven-day a week schedule. Which coach to go to, when he’s not allowed to train, because that can be a problem with him, so I have to pull him back a lot. I have to schedule in massage therapy or alternate therapies to make sure he’s not going to go to the gym.
On Sundays, I would schedule “Man-Day.” He and I would go have a nice breakfast, and then go to a spa. We’d get a haircut, massages, get our feet and hands fixed it, even the random facial. It’s important. I incorporate all those things to make sure my fighters are well-rounded.
I try to keep what I call “the positive bubble around fighters” and not let any negativity in. With Mike Pyle, I would get breakfast ready as he watched a fishing show on Versus, but now the Tour de France is on. It broke our rhythm, so instead of watching fishing, he switched to another channel with Maury and the Jerry Springer show. I’m in the kitchen, 20 feet away and I can feel the negative energy come out of the TV. I had to change the channel just to watch something more positive. You can’t start your day with that kind of negative mind frame.
CW: What is a fight week like for you?
MD: I try to get to town a day prior to the athlete, then I set up the hotel room and do the food shopping. For Chris Leben, he got into town on Monday night, and before he even got here, I packed a huge cooler with the proper foods that Chris was going to need. I made sure he had everything he was going to need, coordinate with his team, talk about what his weight cut process is going to be. On weigh-in day, I will be with him through the weigh-ins, and then go back to his room for the rehydration process. That carries all the way through to the minute he steps in the cage, performs, and then even afterwards, when I give him the food and fluids that need to go in his body to help him repair and recover from that. My job typically doesn’t end until Sunday morning.
CW: What is the best part of your job?
MD: The best part of my job is spreading health. My primary focus is not world titles, and it’s not money, or any of those things. It’s to make my athletes as healthy as possible. That’s the most rewarding part: seeing kids like Thiago Alves, not so much go out there and have a dominant performance, but it’s for him to feel so good and be so happy with himself because his body is in a positive state. Performance is just a by-product of that.
CW: But what’s the worst part?
MD: I wouldn’t point to a worst part and say that it’s bad, but the hardest part is dealing with the ups and the downs of the sport. You can work with an athlete, and have a great training camp and he’ll go out there on fight night, and something doesn’t work. I’m so emotionally attached to my fighters that it’s a hard roller coaster. For me, it’s multiple times in a single night.
Actually, the worst part is the time away from my family, but it’s a choice, but I’m not going to be a victim to it. It’s something we’ve decided over the next few years to do this.
Original article posted on Yahoo Sports here
 
Follow Mike Dolce on Twitter at @TheDolceDiet

DOLCE REVEALS WHAT SEPARATES HIM FROM THE REST
by Stephanie Daniels, Crooklyn’s Corner
Mike Dolce is a name that pops up frequently in MMA. Whether it be from fighting professionally, guiding the top athletes to healthier lifestyles or writing books, more and more people are recognizing him, and his contributions to the sport. TapouT Radio conducted a recent interview with the nutrition guru, and was able to extract the recipe for success, the Dolce way.

“What people don’t realize, is that I’ve been working with elite level athletes for over 20 years. I currently work with the best athletes in the world, on a daily basis. My guys are in the top 3 or top 5 in their weight classes, in the world. My skills, my techniques, my philosophies, my education, and my experience is constantly being refined among the world’s most elite. When you have a relationship with somebody, you experience and you absorb parts of that relationship. I deal with elite athletes, that are on elite teams, with elite coaches, coaching systems and techniques, and they themselves have decades of elite training behind them. I am constantly on the forefront of the sport. I can say that with the utmost confidence. I know what I do in a given day, and I hear when world champions point at me and say the amazing things that they say about me, and how revolutionary my techniques are. That’s why people know the Dolce Diet. That’s what separates me from the rest. Now there’s people that spend a lot of time, sitting in school and getting degrees and all those great things, and that’s nice, but that’s just a very small piece. The experience of being in the trenches, of course, is the most important thing, you know, what actually does work, in a real world setting. Then I take that information, and I add it to the next elite athlete. I have constant petri dishes. I have my experiments, all over the world. My athletes are at the top of the heap, and I’m a part of their performance.”
 
With a new book, websites, family and a full schedule, working with the likes of Chael Sonnen, Thiago Alves, Chris Leben, Jay Heiron, Jake Ellenberger, and Keith Jardine, one has to wonder if Mike has a clone or two stashed in a closet. When asked how he manages to keep all theses components in balance, and if he might be taking on too much, he stated,

“Am I spreading myself too thin? Absolutely not. I’m actually very efficient in blocking out my time. When I deal with an athlete, I deal with them in very specific terms, so each one I work with, retains me for very specific features or responsibilities, and I’m able to professionally maintain all my relationships and fulfill all my duties to them. The area that takes the biggest hit, is my home life, but I’m blessed with a wonderful family that supports me, and allows me time to focus on my work with the athletes, and getting these guys in the best shape of their life. I’m pretty close to the end of my ability to bring on new athletes, though. I’m a loyal guy, and I’m going to stick with the guys I currently work with, with very rare exceptions.”
 
Mike’s new book, Living Lean is releasing in September, via his website. He gave a little insight on it, saying,
“It’s kind of a beginner’s story about myself, getting into the industry and to the business. There is a little bit of a story to it. The story is meant to coach and to teach very specific principles that I want you to walk away with. I get into nutrition, and I show you how you can eat as an athlete, a vegan, a gluten free practitioner, or if you’re just concerned with health and wellness. Those four different nutritional types are what I discuss. I also get into exercise programs, for general wellness or professional athletes. Truly, it’s to build a profile of very lean, healthy, vibrant and energized lifestyles.”
Story written for CrooklynsCorner.com

Working in MMA: Mike Dolce Talks About Peak Performance, Maury and Manicures
By Maggie Hendricks
This week, Cagewriter is taking a look at the different jobs that help the MMA world turn. See part I of the series here.
Today, we look at Mike Dolce, the peak performance coach who is known to help fighters improve their nutrition, and in turn, the way they fight. After working as a strength coach for 20 years and appearing on the seventh season of “The Ultimate Fighter,” Dolce has worked with fighters such as Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Thiago Alves, Chris Leben and Vitor Belfort.
Cagewriter: What is your job like on a day-to-day basis?
Mike Dolce: I’m running multiple training camps from afar. Right now, in Vegas, I’m running Vitor Belfort’s training camp and Mike Pyle’s. I also have Thiago Alves coming up, and I’m his head coach. I cover so many hats with him, but Vitor and Pyle, I work specifically with their nutrition and weight management issues.
I say more peak performance coach because I do the meals, I do the weights, I do the overall training management. I’m the filter for the other coaches. I set up the training schedule from day to day. I even structure in their business meetings and social function as they get closer to fight time.
CW: Thiago, for example, you set his day?
MD: With Thiago, I literally set up his 24 hours, seven-day a week schedule. Which coach to go to, when he’s not allowed to train, because that can be a problem with him, so I have to pull him back a lot. I have to schedule in massage therapy or alternate therapies to make sure he’s not going to go to the gym.
On Sundays, I would schedule “Man-Day.” He and I would go have a nice breakfast, and then go to a spa. We’d get a haircut, massages, get our feet and hands fixed it, even the random facial. It’s important. I incorporate all those things to make sure my fighters are well-rounded.
I try to keep what I call “the positive bubble around fighters” and not let any negativity in. With Mike Pyle, I would get breakfast ready as he watched a fishing show on Versus, but now the Tour de France is on. It broke our rhythm, so instead of watching fishing, he switched to another channel with Maury and the Jerry Springer show. I’m in the kitchen, 20 feet away and I can feel the negative energy come out of the TV. I had to change the channel just to watch something more positive. You can’t start your day with that kind of negative mind frame.
CW: What is a fight week like for you?
MD: I try to get to town a day prior to the athlete, then I set up the hotel room and do the food shopping. For Chris Leben, he got into town on Monday night, and before he even got here, I packed a huge cooler with the proper foods that Chris was going to need. I made sure he had everything he was going to need, coordinate with his team, talk about what his weight cut process is going to be. On weigh-in day, I will be with him through the weigh-ins, and then go back to his room for the rehydration process. That carries all the way through to the minute he steps in the cage, performs, and then even afterwards, when I give him the food and fluids that need to go in his body to help him repair and recover from that. My job typically doesn’t end until Sunday morning.
CW: What is the best part of your job?
MD: The best part of my job is spreading health. My primary focus is not world titles, and it’s not money, or any of those things. It’s to make my athletes as healthy as possible. That’s the most rewarding part: seeing kids like Thiago Alves, not so much go out there and have a dominant performance, but it’s for him to feel so good and be so happy with himself because his body is in a positive state. Performance is just a by-product of that.

CW: But what’s the worst part?
MD: I wouldn’t point to a worst part and say that it’s bad, but the hardest part is dealing with the ups and the downs of the sport. You can work with an athlete, and have a great training camp and he’ll go out there on fight night, and something doesn’t work. I’m so emotionally attached to my fighters that it’s a hard roller coaster. For me, it’s multiple times in a single night.
Actually, the worst part is the time away from my family, but it’s a choice, but I’m not going to be a victim to it. It’s something we’ve decided over the next few years to do this.
Follow Mike Dolce on Twitter @TheDolceDiet.
Tomorrow’s working in MMA profile will focus on Bernie Profato, head of the Ohio Athletic Commission.
Original story posted on YAHOO.com

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A BLOG POST by Lyndsey Foreman

Just want to give a big thanks to Mike and Brandy Dolce for their tremendous support!!
I’ve been a size 10 since I can remember, like high school days…
This week, I fit into a size 6, and literally cried. It was a huge moment in my life. For the past 6 years it’s been a hassle getting ready in the mornings and having nothing fit and everything TOO tight. Barely squeezing into jeans made for one HORRIBLE day and frame of mind. But Monday morning when I fit into a pair of jeans I had from long ago, with nothing hanging over the sides, no jumping up and down to pull them up, just slipping into these cute pair of jeans that I’ve kept in the closet for motivation, was a damn good feeling.
For 2 months now, my boyfriend and I have been wearing clothes that have literally been falling off of us, and we finally got a chance to order some new jeans and shorts. We both ordered one size lower than what we had been wearing, and guess what? Their Loose!!
Anyone who hasn’t tried this lifestyle out but is interested in getting healthy, and loosing weight in the process–this is the real deal. Its simple common sense that WORKS!! It changes your body into a healthy being, while giving you a whole new perspective on life. I’ll be 26 this year, and in the past 4 months I’ve learned more about myself than the past 26 years. I look at my life totally different. I am more conscious of every thing I take in and am happy about the new me. For the first time I can look in the mirror and actually LOOK at myself and LIKE what I see. Not only is the physical aspects wonderful, but the frame of mind I am in now is going to add years to my life. We don’t even count the weeks anymore, it’s just healthy eating and striving to make our bodies in the best physical shape possible.
All the while, anything that we have posted on twitter about our progress, gets a positive response from Mike or Brandy, and that is a HUGE deal to me. Getting support from the source of our change is the best inspiration. Their dedication to their “product” says a lot about the type of people they are, and shows that they really care. So thanks ya’ll, I appreciate all that you do!

by Kenny Rice, Inside MMA
He was never a 98 -pound weakling or the chubby kid picked on in the playground. That separates MMA fighter/trainer Mike Dolce apart from many weight loss, get in shape authors. His book “The Dolce Diet: 3 Weeks to Shredded” is tearing up the MMA world where weight loss to a fighter means so much more than the average guy. It can mean the difference in winning and losing, in keeping a career going. And those who have read the book and worked with the man himself are a fast growing number including some of the top names in the sport. It seems so simple, and perhaps that is why it works.
“Whole foods, vibrant ingredients. If it wasn’t around 200 years ago, don’t eat it,” Dolce explains from his home in Las Vegas where he moved to last year. “I’m not anti-supplements but I encourage fighters, people to go backward and use the earth again.”The ripped Dolce is the best example of his diet. It is the concept he arrived at in 2007 when he dropped as he says “42.8 pounds” in six weeks to get ready for an International Fight League bout with Antonio McKee.
“I’m a regular guy, basically started in the mail room (of MMA) and worked from there. I don’t know anything more than you know but I break it down easy to apply the format for weight loss.“When guys would see me in the gym, I was always in shape, usually the strongest guy in there regardless of weight class. Other fighters would ask me how I got in shape and stayed there.
“Two years ago Dolce applied the self learned principles for staying in shape by putting it in writing with the book. And when others started seeing some of the fighters who were paying attention they did as well. Though he had worked with Duane Ludwig, Chael Sonnen and “probably 30 UFC vets” over the last few years with their diets, it wasn’t until Quinton “Rampage” Jackson had to lose 45 pounds to fight Rashad Evans that notice was duly served, Dolce’s diet works.
“The Rampage fight, how good he looked at the weigh-in got people talking. Everybody saw him and thought no way (when we started) and then he was in the best shape of his life, fighters started picking my brain about how we did it.”
Proving it wasn’t a fluke or as Dolce puts it “if they thought we were just lucky, they woke up to the fact I was not blowing smoke the next time around. That was his high profile training of Thiago Alves for his UFC 124 win over John Howard.
“Thiago had missed weight before, Dana (UFC boss White) was threatening to fire him or make him change weight classes. He was at a point of turnaround in his career. But he didn’t fail and he might have had his best win ever.” He has also worked with Sonnen for his fight against title holder Anderson Silva, a last round loss after dominating the champion.  “Chael was in tremendous shape. For all but 2 minutes of the 25 his conditioning was amazing.”
More fighters and average folk are finding Dolce’s plan amazing. It is all based on getting back to the basics, fruits, vegetables, and lots of water. “We are seventy percent plus water (human body) to me it’s like oxygen. You have to have both,” Dolce stresses.
Athletes from other sports are now taking interest in his diet plan, including some major league baseball players. And the people sitting at their desks each day are as well.“It’s simple and it can be done. Being Italian I am all about flavor,” he laughs. “And you enjoy eating in this diet. You don’t have to buy any special plan, any prepared food that is being sent out. It’s about getting back to the basics, paying a little more attention to what you eat. If you hate eating the food it would never work. Because I like to eat, it’s about eating smart.”
Dolce hasn’t retired as a fighter “I’m always interested in the right spot,” but his new career as MMA’s diet guru has had a profound impact, a new chapter.“I still have the fighter spirit but I have to take care of my family and can’t be selfish with my own goals. Right now we are growing business branding. It’s a diet that works, it can been seen in the fighters. And the average person too can get shredded.”
Check out Mike Dolce along with Joe Riggs and Phil Davis as they join Kenny, Bas, and Ron on Inside MMA. See video interview here.
Original article published at Inside MMA.