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Article By Coach Dog Balzarini Even though I recapped every one of my 12-week experience (Start here), I wanted to share some final thoughts. I’ve been home for a week now and, while I’ve been going non-stop with client training, meetings, and moving to a new apartment; I thought it would be interesting to look back on the experience after a little time had passed to see what continued to stick out in my mind. Here is a free-flow of some of the highlights as I reminisce: Initial meeting with the UFC staff Great, hard-working people. If you needed anything…
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Brandon Vera trains alongside Coach Doug Balzarini, Master Lloyd Irvin, Alexander Gustafsson, Matt Van Buren, Ross Pearson, Kristian Lexell, Papy Abedi, Alejandro Garcia, Edwin Aguilar, Wilson Reis, Franklin Camacho, Scott Heckman, Joe Taimanglo and Jimmy Harbison. At TAPOUT Gym in Las Vegas.
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ProMMAnow.com reporter Joe Gugelman caught up with UFC bantamweight champion and coach on this season’s The Ultimate Fighter Live, Dominick Cruz (19-1), during a special TUF luncheon last week. Cruz talked about his overall experience as a coach on the show and some of the challenges he faced in that role. Cruz shared his thoughts on the Renan Barao vs. Urijah Faber match-up and how he sees the fight going. Cruz seems to be in favor of Faber winning the fight with Barao so they can meet once again and settle their unfinished business. Without a dog in the fight,…
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Article by Steven Marrocco Members of Team Cruz on “The Ultimate Fighter: Live” heard the bad news about their coach around the same time the rest of the world found out earlier this week. After nine weeks on set, the UFC bantamweight champ sustained a torn ACL in training that ruled out his further participation on the reality show, as well as a season-ending fight with opposing coach Urijah Faber at UFC 148. Speculation about Cruz’s replacement and the show’s coaching setup has since run wild, but Team Cruz members Justin Lawrence and James Vick say they don’t want anything…
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Watch as UFC Fighter Vitor Belfort trains alongside Dominick Cruz, Ross Pearson, Wilson Reis, Mike Chandler, AJ Matthews, and the rest of Alliance MMA.
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Week 8 started a little rough…we woke up with no running water on Sunday morning. Pipes burst in the complex so we were shower-less for the day. With no practices scheduled in the morning, I worked on my computer and finished up an article for EliteFTS on “playground training”…hoping it will be published in the coming weeks. Dom and I ran to the TUF set to use their shower and then we met up with our Team Cruz athletes at a neighborhood park for a cookout. I mentioned last week that we were giving the guys a few extra days…
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Monday was a full day of training clients in San Diego. I finished up with my last client around 5:30pm. It was great to catch up with my home clients and see how they were doing with their health and fitness. I truly do hate being away from them for so long….fortunately, we have passed the 1/2 point of the show so we are getting closer to the end. Tuesday started with a morning kettlebell session (TGU’s, snatches, swings, and windmills) and then on the plane back to Sin City. I met a bunch of the athletes at Chipotle for…
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Watch Coach Doug Balzarini take on the UFC Champion Dominick Cruz, Bellator Veteran Wilson Reis, and UFC Fighter Phil Davis
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Another long week in the books! I woke up early Sunday and hit up a neighborhood park for a kettlebell workout with some hills sprints mixed in. I recently signed up for the RKC workshop so I really need to start grooving the kettlebell movements. After the workout, I relaxed by the pool for a couple hours and started reading “Easy Strength” by Dan John and Pavel. I’m about 1/2 through and it’s an awesome book. I highly recommend it. After a couple hours of relaxing it was off for a TUF conditioning session. Since the guys are locked up…
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It was definitely nice to stay out in Vegas and not have to deal with the long drive this week. I miss not getting back to work with my San Diego clients but I know they are working hard and getting their “homework” done. We are pretty much in a solid routine at this point…good breakfast in the morning, TUF show training, team training at Throwdown, lunch, second TUF show training, second team training at Throwdown, dinner, pass out. Repeat the next day. It’s a long grind but the guys are all working hard and getting better every week. Monday…
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Article by MMAjunkie.com The seventh episode of “The Ultimate Fighter: Live” opens up with a brief recap of this past week’s episode, which saw Urijah Faber’s team earn its third-straight win over Dominick Cruz’s squad, taking the lead in the season series after dropping the first two fights. Both Cruz and UFC president Dana White recount how well Chris Tickle was doing in the past week’s fight before Joe Proctor scored a takedown and moved quickly to the back for an impressive tap. Faber admits he’s excited at the latest result and knows Cruz is probably getting annoyed at the…
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Article by Coach Doug Balzarini Monday Like the previous weeks, this week began on Monday in San Diego with my “general population” clients. This week I decided to fly back Tuesday morning so I was able to relax on Monday night and not have to sit in the car for 5 hours. The flight is relatively inexpensive so I think I’ll be taking the 1 hour flight back instead of the long drive from here on out. Tuesday I flew back Tuesday morning with Jeremy Stephens who is out in Vegas with us for his training camp. Great fighter and…
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Be sure to visit http://www.MMAHEAT.com for more interviews and MMA content. MMA H.E.A.T.’s Karyn Bryant talks via Skype with Wilson Reis, the BJJ black belt who coaches alongside Dominick Cruz on TUF Live. Wilson takes us behind the scenes and lets us know how Team Cruz comes up with their fight-picking strategy, whom he thinks has the potential to win the show and whether or not Chris Tickle is really a dedicated mixed martial artist. Wilson also talks about the dynamic between champ Dominick Cruz and his rival coach, Urijah Faber, as well as the training regimen Cruz has in…
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Coach Doug Balzarini preparing Alliance MMA. See how Mixed Martial Arts Fighters Ross Pearson, Mike Easton, Scott Heckman, Alex Garcia, Alantez Fox and Matt are preparing for their fights!
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Article By Frank Curreri Dominick Cruz: Fights at 135 Pounds; Eats 5,000 Calories a Day Tony Mandarich. One of the greatest offensive linemen in college history. And… arguably the biggest bust in the NFL draft history. A bear of a man — 310-pounds – who once estimated he consumed roughly 10,000 calories a day. Back in the late 1980s, the No.1 pick’s marathon eating blew a lot of minds. Turns out, 135-pound world champ Dominick Cruz is quite the GI-normous grubber himself. Pound-for-pound, in fact, Cruz’s daily wolf-downs can go toe-to-toe with Mandarich’s famed caloric consumption. With little effort, it…
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The Ultimate Fighter LIVE reenactment of awkward moment by UFC Fighters Dominick Cruz (as Himself & Urijah Faber), Ross Pearson (as Dana White), Bellator Fighter Scott Heckman (as Justin Lawrence) and Eric Del Fierro, Phil Davis, Lloyd Irvin, Wilson Reis, Jeremy Stephens, Mike Easton, Tyson Griffin, Shannon Slack all as Team Faber.
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Article By Strength & Conditioning Coach Doug Balzarini Week 3 was another great week. They are long grinds, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Like last week, I was in San Diego on Monday training clients. I truly enjoy working with so many different populations; it challenges me and keeps me on task and always wanting to learn more. During a normal week, I will work with a UFC champion, many amateur and professional fighters, middle-aged business executives, athlete clients in their 20′s, and a client who is in her mid-70′s. After a full day of training at…
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Article By Craig Amos The latest installment of the The Ultimate Fighter has not been long in establishing itself as a microcosm of reality. It is a reality show after all, but the reality I refer to is not the exhibition of real people enacting an unscripted performance. The reality of which I speak is a reflection of the real. The reality of which I speak is this: Dominick Cruz has Urijah Faber’s number. The current contest between rivals began in earnest when Team Faber’s Daron Cruickshank and Team Cruz’s James Vick squared off. The bout was selected by Faber,…
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Article by Shawn M. Smith of Inside Fights As the number one pick for Dominick Cruz, Justin Lawrence was already facing a ton of pressure before his first fight in the house was even announced. Yet after dominating his way onto the show, the Missouri native drew the unenviable task of facing Cristiano Marcello, a man who in a very successful career has had more professional losses than Lawrence has had professional bouts. Marcello has been touted thus far this season as the former Brazilian Jiu Jitsu coach for Chute Boxe Academy. As the most experienced fighter in the house,…
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Dominick Cruz TUF Live VLOG Haircut Square Salon Las Vegas
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