TNA4MMA: Recent Episodes
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So today I am going to interview Mr. Jim Laird. For those of you who might not know him he is an amazing strength and conditioning coach. He was NCAA Division I coach for four years, he has worked with many professional athletes from the NFL the CFL the LPGA and major-league baseball. He also works with a lot of civilians. What I mean is the average dude who walks in off the street or lady, looking to get in shape and lose some body fat. He also podcasts on Kiefer's Body IO network.
He was an elite level power lifter and he pushed himself to the limit so he knows what it takes to succeed and also what it takes out of the body. He now trains clients with the philosophy of "Train smarter not harder". Jim has mastered the art of balancing performance and health in high-level training. At his gym he has a fantastic staple of powerlifters many of whom are women. At a recent powerlifting competition in Ohio for the Natural Athlete Strength Association, Jim had 13 women participating. Every competitor smashed their personal records and the team achieved many state and national records during the meet. He understands the balance of hard training to get results and good recovery. As fighters we need to understand these principles. As fighters, trying to get The most out of our bodies, we need to dig into the discipline and the work ethic of wrestlers, powerlifters, and all athletes that push their bodies past human expectations. As fighters we need to know how to do this safely and in a way that we can continue doing all of our other training and not tear ourselves down beyond recovery. I am very happy to have Jim on the podcast and I am very proud that he originally came from Canada. The man's name is Jim Laird and his gym is called Gym Laird spelled G Y M. Look him up at: gymlaird.com Here are some other links that might be helpful. http://robertsontrainingsystems.com/ http://www.posturalrestoration.com/ http://body.io/gym-laird-02-doc-kirk-parsley-why-sleep-is-important/
Todays interview is with Brendon, the co-owner of Carlson Gracie MMA in Maple Ridge. He has turned the once simple fighter gym into a thriving force of Mixed Martial Arts. He also owns three Oxygen Yoga facilities with his wife and these are booming businesses as well.
Today I am interviewing JT Van from Precision Striking a Youtube sensation and amazing boxing coach who knows how to break things down and gives us some great ways to get really good at boxing fast. He understands the MMA scene and how boxing is needed to be a good all around fighter. From nutritional planning and educational videos to his revolutionary boxing app Precision Boxing Coach Pro, Jason Van Veldhuysen has earned a well-deserved reputation as the 21st Century's premier "Boxing 2.0" coach. Through digital downloads and novel distance learning tools, Van Veldhuysen offers his clients comprehensive instruction and analysis in everything from the science of nutrition and training to the psychology of winning at combat sports. After a successful career that encompassed competitive amateur boxing and the martial arts, Van Veldhuysen now leverages the power of social media and technology to share his unique, results-driven training style with more athletes than ever before. Widely considered to be among the shrewdest coaches in combat sports, Van Veldhuysen pairs old-school fundamentals with cutting-edge fitness innovations that motivate fighters of any discipline to build their striking skills and reach their goals. Whether they come from traditional or Thai boxing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu or Mixed Martial Arts, Van Veldhuysen's clients benefit from his encyclopedic knowledge of fighting tactics and techniques -- as well as gain an in-depth understanding of the physiological and psychological factors every full-contact athlete must control to see improvement. From the first padwork session to the often-harrowing run-up to tournament competition -- and at every step along the way -- Van Veldhuysen takes responsibility for his clients, helping them become the best they can be through feedback and analysis matched with the uncompromising belief that every fighter can become better. An advocate for full-contact athletes worldwide, the Canadian native also makes himself available for personal training and group classes out of his Toronto gym.
Today I am interviewing Jonathan Bailor, for all the new MMA students out there who have a rough time getting the weight down when starting a training program and also for those of us who have difficulty keeping he weight off between fights. This is not about burning the last few pounds but how to get down to a manageable weight in a healthy manner.
Jonathan Bailor is a New York Times bestselling author and internationally recognized wellness expert who specializes in using modern science and technology to simplify health. He collaborated with top scientists for more than 10 years to analyze and apply over 1,300 studies. His work has been endorsed by top doctors and scientists from Harvard Medical School, Johns’ Hopkins, The Mayo Clinic, The Cleveland Clinic, and UCLA.
He is the founder of SANESolution.com and serves as the CEO for the wellness technology company Yopti®. He authored the New York Times and USA Today bestselling book The Calorie Myth, hosts a popular syndicated health radio showThe SANE Show, and blogs on The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-bailor/ Additionally, Bailor has registered over 25 patents, spoken at Fortune 100 companies and TED conferences for over a decade, and served as a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft where he helped create Nike+ Kinect Training and XBox Fitness.
After over 10 years of research he has developed a revolutionary new model for weight loss—and lifelong health. He exposes the fundamental flaw upon which the diet industry has been built: the “eat less + exercise more = weight loss” equation simply doesn’t add up.
He shows us how eating more—of the right kinds of foods—and exercising less—but at a higher intensity—is actually the key to burning fat, healing our hormones, boosting metabolism, and creating long-term weight loss.
So anyhow, if you want a great foundation for your diet pick up his book and check out his website for a great and very easy program for healthy weight-loss.
So sit back, grab some kale and enjoy!
TJ Lopez bio:
BIO
A Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist who founded Athletic Movement Protocol in 2013. He has trained countless high school and collegiate athletes throughout his career, as well as a number of professional athletes in a variety of sports, Most notably, he serves as a personal performance coach to some of the New York Yankees, as well as Pro mixed martial artists. Coach Lopez is highly dedicated to educating athletes on proper training techniques to improve their performance on and off the field. Coach Lopez's incredible attention to detail and program design gives AMP clients no other choice but to excel in life and sport.
TJ is a Marist College graduate with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sports Medicine, Health and Biology and was a member of the Red Fox Football team.
Certifications:
- CSCS by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA)
- FMS Certified by Functional Movement Systems
- CPT by the American Council of Exercise (ACE)
- Pn1 by Precision Nutrition
Here is the blog article and video Tj and I talk about to help you with your deadlift. BLOG
I believe that MMA and all other combat athletes should be strong in the posterior chain (Calves, Hamstrings, Glutes and Back) to avoid injury as well as for developing power.
He gives us lots of great info on how to train successfully and deal with some more of the common issues that fighters have.
If you live in New York or are planning to visit, take a trip to the AMP facility. These guys are amazing at what they do and we are quite fortunate to have them on the show.
Todays interview is with Mr. Paul Jaminet. He is the author of the best-selling book called “The Perfect Health Diet”
He also runs a heath retreat simply called “The Perfect Health Retreat”
Paul Jaminet is a scientist (Ph.D. in physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1992; Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 1992-1996), Paul’s experience overcoming a chronic illness has been key to his views of aging and disease.
Paul’s wife, Shou-Ching, is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Director of BIDMC’s Multi-Gene Transcriptional Profiling Core. Paul and Shou-Ching have been investigating the influence of diet upon health. They adopted a low-carb diet in 2005, and improved his health then adopted more of a Paleo approach. His diet is based on basic Paleo principals of healthy whole food with little or no processing, large amounts of vegetables and meat and seafood that are raised well.
Keep in mind that Paul is focussed on making people healthy, not working with MMA athletes to hack the most out of the system of the athlete but what I am trying to do with these types of interviews is to bring you information on how to create the most healthy lifestyle in order to keep you healthy and prolong your fighting career.
Anyways, as always, this guest is way smarter than me so I edited out most of my uhms and ahs to make myself sound a little smarter but he lays down some great info. I would recommend for anyone to pick up his book, it’s the best twenty bucks you will spend on your diet knowledge.
So sit back, grab a snack and enjoy!
Josh Jauncey is a champion Kickboxer fighting out of Surrey, B.C., Canada.
Some of his titles include:
Super Welterweight North American Champion
WKL Super Welterweight Pacific Northwest Champion
TBA-SK Super Welterweight Pacific Northwest Champion
CMTA Jr British Columbia Champion
CMTA Jr Canadian Champion
Junior World Champion
Born in London, England, Josh moved to Vancouver, Canada at three years old with his family, where his father began running the gym World Kickboxing Academy. Josh started his amateur career at age nine.
During his high school years Josh would use his summer vacation training at Mejiro Gym in Holland which was home to such kickboxing legends as Rob Kaman, Remy Bonjasky and Andy Souwer.
He landed a spot on Team Souwer, where he has had the opportunity to train with world renowned fighters on the Dutch Kickboxing circuit as well as UFC Champion, Jose Aldo.
he has recently been fighting in Glory 22.
Listen up people, my pal Dan Severn http://dansevern.com is coming to Vancouver and he will be making some appearances doing some seminars and such, nothing is concrete yet but I am letting the cat out of the bag and if you want to do some training with him and hear some of his legendary stories hit me up on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/CoachToby
I don’t know if I mentioned the follow-up on my interview with Oliver Vajda when we talked about his upcoming fight for the WBC belt for British Columbia well, he won it in the most beautiful, classic boxing fashion showing he is multi talented.
i have a lot of interviews in the can right now but I will be releasing another Roadwork show soon. I would also like to get questions for a new segment called QNA4MMA. Send in your questions to coachtobywan@gmail.com or find me on Facebook.
Today I am interviewing Mike Stella from Athletic Movement Protocol in New York. Mike has a Bachelors Degree in Sports Medicine and Athletic Training from Marist College and a Masters in Sports Management from George Washington University.
He is a Certified Athletic Trainer , and Performance Enhancement and Corrective Exercise Specialist through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. He is also Certified in Graston Technique and Fascial Movement Taping (Kinesiotape)
He has lots of view on Youtube for these things as well.
He spent years in the collegiate sports industry, working with the Florida Gators as an Athletic Trainer, as well as the Rehabilitation coordinator at George Washington University, and Assistant Athletic Trainer at Long Island University. He has trained and rehabilitated athletes from the NFL, NBA, NHL, as well as the US Olympic Team. he treated and trained fighters including Wayne Barrett of Glory Kickboxing, as well as compeitive CrossFit athletes and general population.
He specializes in sports injury rehabilitation and reconditioning, soft tissue manipulation and massage, and corrective exercise. He currently serves as the Director and Head Athletic Trainer in the AMP Recovery Lab, a membership based sports medicine service.
Holy shit, Can you imagine training at a place like this!? with the best of corrective exercise and physical therapy married with strength training and conditioning?! I would be like friggin wolverine! anyhow its gonna be a gooder so I hope you enjoy!
Today I am interviewing Stephan Kesting founder and operator of Grapplearts.com Through his DVDs, articles and newsletters, he has helped tens of thousands of grapplers all over the world improve their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and submission grappling skills. He is one of the most prolific producers of Bjj learning material in the world and I believe every student of mma and Bjj should have and study all his stuff.
Hes a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, and a certified instructor in Erik Paulson's Combat Submission Wrestling, a black belt in Kajukenbo Karate, an instructor in Dan Inosanto's Jun Fan JKD, Maphalindo Silat and Filipino Martial Arts program. He also studied Japanese Judo, Russian Sambo, various Chinese Kung Fu systems, Brazilian Capoeira, Muay Thai Kickboxing, and many others!
Here are the x-guard videos he mentions
Kultar "Black Mamba" Gill(born March 24, 1979, in Mission, British Columbia) is a professional Indian-Canadian welterweight Muay Thai kickboxer and Lightweight mixed martial artist currently signed withSuper Fight League, fighting for Team Mamba in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Aside from the combat sports, he works as a correctional officer in Canada.
Gill's notable opponents also include Yves Edwards and Hideo Tokoro (twice), the second match being one in which he showed markedly improved submission defense. This is notable given that his background is Muay Thai, a discipline in which he was ranked #6 in the world at one point.
Check out Team Mamba MMA
Dan Golkar, owner of Scorpion MMA in Pitt Meadows B.C.
Dan is the founder and Head Muay Thai Kickboxing instructor at Scorpion MMA. He has a nutrition background at SFU and a Certified Fitness Trainer With nearly a decade of training as well as fighting at the professional level, Dan has now transitioned from fighter to instructor and plans on making his professional Boxing debut in early part of 2015. Additionally Dan is a certified personal trainer, assistant Taekwondo instructor, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Practitioner.
@DanyalGolkar
Personal Training page
Scorpion MMA page
Mr. Dan and the beast Severn.
He has had one of the longest careers in MMA history.
According to Wikipedia he has had over 127 mixed martial arts fights, 101 wins, 17 by knockout, 60 submissions, but these are very conservative estimates of his true fight numbers
he has had a long history in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling. As a high school wrestler Severn was a two-time national champion and set eight national records in his career. he was inducted into Arizona State University's wrestling hall of fame at the end of his college career. He was two-time All-American at Arizona State University,[3] [4] and a wrestling coach at both Arizona State and Michigan State in 1984 and 1988,
He was a Olympic trials finalist. he lost the final qualifying match in controversial fashion to eventual gold medal winner Lou Banach but his career was just beginning at that point.
He did quite a lot of no holds barred fighting before the ufc even became popular.
he was featured in USA Today, People, Karate and Kung Fu Illustrated, Black Belt Magazine, MAD, Full Contact Fighter, and many of the pro wrestling publications. he holds annual wrestling clinics for kids of all ages.
he opened a 10,000-square-foot training facility on his property called "Michigan Sports Camps" in Coldwater, Michigan. and they train individuals for mixed martial arts, boxing, kickboxing, amateur wrestling and professional wrestling.
Severn entered the UFC in 1994 at UFC 4: when I believe he was 37 where he impressed many UFC fans by executing two impressive back suplexes on Anthony Macias. THEN HE was defeated by Royce Gracie in an historic match that brought bjj huge attention.
He had a long career in ufc and many other promotions mfc, kotc, etc
has also trained and became a mentor to notable mixed martial artists including don fry and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans, The Ultimate Fighter’s Luke Zachrich, Sean Sherk, and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton "Rampage" Jackson.
Severn was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame at UFC 52.[6]
he started wrestling or “rasling” as he calls it in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) in 1995, and defeated Chris Candido for his first NWA World Heavyweight Championship and went to hold the NWA Championship for four years, the longest reign in over two decades and currently the third-longest reign in the belt's history.
he was in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1998 but that story is along and interesting one for another day!
as you can see he credentials go on and on. I just want all the listeners to understand how much he has contributed to the world of wrestling and full contact fighting in general. We all owe guys like him a huge debt for their contribution to the sport we all love.
Today I am interviewing Mike Kesthely from Dynamic Nutrition. and the “Feed The Machine” podcast
They develop a clear customized nutritional program which is tailored towards your personal goals, a multifaceted approach of implementing proven athletic nutrition, the latest research into health + performance, and a strong emphasis on whole foods and individual concerns.
customized programs click here
a Firefighter/Paramedic for the Lethbridge Fire Dept since 2000, and was the Health & Fitness Coordinator for the department. now deals with nutrition & functional lab analysis, working with clients improving their performance, health and longevity through diet.
Check out his great supplements like MAX ADRENAL
- At one time he was the lead instructor for the OPT CCP Nutrition Level 1 in Scottsdale, AZ, at the International Center for Fitness, 2011-2014
- Used to be a trainer at Crossfit Lethrbidge
- Certified in Optimum Performance Training Coaching Program Nutrition, Level-1, under James Fitzgerald and Mat Lalonde, PhD the brains in that team would choke an entire zombie horde!
- He is also a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner something I recommend to many of my students is to work with an fdn some time to max their overall health and performance
- Precision Nutrition certified (Sport & Exercise Nutrition) under Dr. John Berardi
- Crossfit Nutrition certified under Robb Wolf holy shit!
- Functional Movement Screen under Tim Takahashi, M.Kin., CAT(C), CEP, CK, CSS
- (If I had a dream certification list this would be it!!)
Jessica Philippus is a female mixed martial artist who made her pro debut July 2012 on Invicta FC just 6 months after the birth of her child. She was previously ranked #1 for one straight year in the amateur 105 rankings. She balances fighting with helping people reach their health goals as a health coach.
She Graduated from Missouri Valley College with a BS in Exercise Science.
She was awarded the “Promoting Women's 2010 amateur Fighter of the year”, “2011 Best representative of the sport” (WMMA) and
All-American (wrestling) 2000!!
She started the Wrestler Chick organization and also the Glenwood Iowa girls Wrestling team.
We have a great discussion about diet and training and lots about promoting females in the sports of wrestling and MMA.
Here are some links where you can find her.
Wrestler Chick Facebook
Jessica Philippus fanpage
Wrestler Chick website
Wrestler Chick Twitter
Jessica Philippus is a female mixed martial artist who made her pro debut July 2012 on Invicta FC just 6 months after the birth of her child. She was previously ranked #1 for one straight year in the amateur 105 rankings. She balances fighting with helping people reach their health goals as a health coach.
She Graduated from Missouri Valley College with a BS in Exercise Science.
She was awarded the “Promoting Women's 2010 amateur Fighter of the year”, “2011 Best representative of the sport” (WMMA) and
All-American (wrestling) 2000!!
She started the Wrestler Chick organization and also the Glenwood Iowa girls Wrestling team.
We have a great discussion about diet and training and lots about promoting females in the sports of wrestling and MMA.
Here are some links where you can find her.
Wrestler Chick Facebook
Jessica Philippus fanpage
Wrestler Chick website
Wrestler Chick Twitter
Today we have a great interview with Professor Marcus Soares for you.
I have only been releasing one podcast per week for the last couple weeks because I have been extremely busy but I have so many amazing interviews lined up and they get better all the time.
Today we have a great interview with Professor Marcus Soares for you.
I have only been releasing one podcast per week for the last couple weeks because I have been extremely busy but I have so many amazing interviews lined up and they get better all the time.
Marcus Vinicius de Macedo Soares, was born and raised in Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has been a member of the Carlson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Team since 1970 (the first generation). Marcus Soares is currently a 8th degree black belt. He was promoted to BJJ Master (7th degree) by Grand Master Carlson Gracie in 2005, during a series of seminars that they did together in Canada, and promoted to 8th degree black belt in January 2012 in Brazil. Today, Marcus Soares, is the most experienced Carlson Gracie Team Professor in activity. During all this time in his career, Marcus has had the opportunity to instruct and to spar with some of the best and finest Brazilian fighters of our time. From 1970 to 1981, Professor Marcus Soares was a very active and successful member of the Carlson Gracie Team, the #1 Team in the world for over 3 decades.
Today we have a great interview with Professor Marcus Soares for you.
I have only been releasing one podcast per week for the last couple weeks because I have been extremely busy but I have so many amazing interviews lined up and they get better all the time.
Today we have a great interview with Professor Marcus Soares for you.
I have only been releasing one podcast per week for the last couple weeks because I have been extremely busy but I have so many amazing interviews lined up and they get better all the time.
Marcus Vinicius de Macedo Soares, was born and raised in Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has been a member of the Carlson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Team since 1970 (the first generation). Marcus Soares is currently a 8th degree black belt. He was promoted to BJJ Master (7th degree) by Grand Master Carlson Gracie in 2005, during a series of seminars that they did together in Canada, and promoted to 8th degree black belt in January 2012 in Brazil. Today, Marcus Soares, is the most experienced Carlson Gracie Team Professor in activity. During all this time in his career, Marcus has had the opportunity to instruct and to spar with some of the best and finest Brazilian fighters of our time. From 1970 to 1981, Professor Marcus Soares was a very active and successful member of the Carlson Gracie Team, the #1 Team in the world for over 3 decades.
Louis has over 25 years of boxing experience, 9 years of that fighting professionally, and he currently holds the Washington State Championship Belt in the super-middleweight division. At his peak, Louis achieved world ranking of 76 out of 5000 boxers in the super-middleweight class. Louis also earned his 3rd degree black belt in Taekwondo having trained for 14 years and taught for 6. Louis ran Thunder Boxing, a boxing, kickboxing and self-defense gym in Richmond for 3 years. He was even commissioned by the Plaza Hotel to produce self-defense training videos for their security staff. Look him up on his website.
Interview with Tomek Pajak form Active Life Chiropractic , in Maple Ridge. We talk about common back and neck injuries that fighters deal with and how to treat and prevent them.
Great interview with Chris Clements from Adrenaline MMA in London Ontario Canada. He drops some knowledge and experience and tells some fun fight stories. Some great training tips and wisdom from a UFC fighter who has won 12 professional MMA fights, 11 of which were KOs!! Apparently he had a long career as an amateur bar brawler too!Enjoy!Coach Tobywan
In this episode I want to talk about a subject that I will bring up often and that is ; the mental aspects of fighting.
I give you three basic things that you can start with to improve your over all mental relaxation and turn your fears into focus.
In the future I will be going over many techniques to improve your mental game and i will interview folks that can help us all out with these things. I am currently working on my certification though Peak PERFORMANCE PLUS sports psychology program so I can give you some tips along the way.
Hope you enjoy and I hope this helps to make your next fight better than ever!!
This is an interview I did with Larry Rousey one of the instructors at Carlson Gracie MMA who is in charge of the beginner programs for new MMA students. Larry breaks the program into two classes - standup and ground to keep it simple. He follows my first level boxing and kickboxing formula and also teaches basic wrestling and BJJ under the guidance of Marcus Soares so the students are given a very good base before starting in the main classes. Larry has been invaluable in this by giving the newbies a few weeks of basic training so when they show up at my class they are well prepared. This show will be great for the gym owners out there who have thought about starting a similar program and it will also help the new students out there as we discuss some of the things that we feel as essential for you to learn as a beginner.
Manuel "Manny" Sobral (born September 12, 1968 in Galicia, Spain) now A resident of Vancouver, British Columbia, he represented Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, competed in the welterweight division where he was eliminated by Olympic Bronze medallist Finland's Joni Nyman on points.
professional boxing record of won 24 (KO 13) + lost 2 (KO 2) + drawn 0 = 27
rounds boxed 148 KO% and now teaches at the North burnaby Boxing Club he is also a teacher in a local high school and a mentor to many young boxers in the lower mainland. He has been instrumental in building the boxing community here in british columbia.
Mark "Funk" Roberts is a former professional beach volleyball player, an MMA Conditioning Coach, Certified Personal Trainer CPT, Certified Metabolic Trainer, Kettlebell Training Specialist and Fat Loss Guru.He works with combat athletes, coaches and trainers from around the world through teaching, coaching, writing and videos regarding strength and conditioning. Funk fought a professional Muay Thai fight in Thailand and currently trains MMA, Martial Arts and Combat fighters that fight in Bellator, Score Fighting Series and other major MMA and Combat organizations. He has some fantastic material at his FunkMMA Strength and Conditioning Workout Videos to help MMA and Combat Athletes with conditioning, training and nutrition. Through his website and Funk's Youtube site you can design en entire strength and conditioning program for your MMA athletes! Also look him up on Facebook - Funk's Facebook
Funk's Youtube site
Funk's website
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Today we are going to interview Mr. Fred Hawn. Is one of those strength and conditioning mad scientists who uses proven principles to get the most out of his clients. His website is Serious Strength
In 1998, he founded and established Serious Strength on the Upper West Side of NYC. His clients include kids, seniors (and everyone in between), top CEOs, celebrities, bestselling authors, journalists and TV personalities.
He wrote a book called "The Slow Burn Fitness Revolution" for which there is an iPhone app called "The Slow Burn Home Workout".
He also has a book called "Strong Kids Healthy Kids"
This interview is with a great Muay Thai fighter and great coach from the Warrior Muay Thai school in Toronto Ontario Canada. He is a very nice guy and has so much great information for us in this interview. here are some of his credentials: * 1997 IAMTF Ontario Middleweight Champion (Ontario) * 2003 WMF Pro-Am World Championships Silver Medalist (Bangkok, Thailand) * 2007 WMF North American Light-Heavyweight Champion (Ontario) * 2008 CAMTAO Canadian Super-Middleweight Champion (Ontario) * 2008 IKF World Classic Championship Winner (Orlando, Florida) * “Contender Asia Season 2” Canadian Qualifier Tournament (Calgary, Alberta) * World Muay Thai Federation Certified Muay Thai Referee & Judge (Thailand) * Certified “Kru” instructor – (CAMTAO) * Certified “Kru” instructor – (WAMTAC)
Before establishing Warrior Muay Thai, Zubair has coached students at several different schools including:
- Phady’s Muay Thai (Cambridge, Ontario)
- Backstreet Boxing Studio (Guelph, Ontario)
- Ultimate Martial Arts (Scarborough, Ontario)
As a Muay Thai coach, Zubair has trained several successful athletes including:
- Bilal Chawich who won the 2008 IKF World Classic Championships Heavyweight division
- Christopher Williams who won the TBS-SA World Classic Tournament Middleweight B and A-Class tournament
- Derrick Henriques who won the 2011 TBA-SA World Classic Light Weight A -Class division
- Amin Almelik who won the 2011 IKF World Classic Junior Light Weight division.
This is part one of the interview with Mr. Keith Norris of Paleo FX. http://www.paleofx.com Keith is a strength and conditioning expert who works at Efficient Exercise ( http://www.efficientexercise.com/index.php ) and Paleo guru as well as a leader in the health and fitness industry while he and his wife are the founders of the Paleo FX mega-conference in Austin Texas. In this interview I grill Keith on the principals of exercising in the most efficient ways to mould the MMA athlete without over-training. He tells us the most important areas of the body to improve on for maximum strength, performance and career longevity while keeping our body composition within our weight class. Hope you enjoy!Coach Tobywan
Interview with Keith Norris of Paleo FX - http://www.paleofx.com and the Theory To Practice/ Ancestral Momentum blog - http://ancestralmomentum.com