On Saturday my BJJ school had a physical fitness seminar with D'Angelo Kinard from Advanced Sports Performance. D'Angelo has trained many professional MMA, Muay Thai, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighters and had some valuable insights to training. He did not just cover overall fitness but stressed being very sport specific in your training. He covered a very wide variety of information from building muscle and increasing power to loosing weight and/or bulking up. He also gave his general thoughts on a proper diet.
It should be no secret to anyone that reads my blog that I have been trying to loose weight and get into fight shape. I learned a lot from this seminar. Some things that I was doing right and some things that I was not. This is why it’s important to have someone who is knowledgeable on the topic instead of just doing it yourself. I did a lot of research on line but there is so much information and without trying it out it’s impossible to know what is right. D'Angelo actually encouraged looking into things yourself, however he said that we should always ask him before starting something new because he has tried just about everything and generally knows if it will work.
D'Angelo runs the strength and conditioning program for Lloyd Irving’s competition team at the Camp Springs location and is now going to be setting up the strength and conditioning program at Crazy 88. I am very excited about this. D'Angelo will be giving us a workout routine specific to our needs and hopefully helping us with our diets as well. If you are going to train like professional you need professionals around you.
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