Hello everyone! It’s almost been 1 year since I starting training with Alliance MMA in Chula Vista and I will say it’s been an awesome ride. Recently, “The Crippler” Chris Leben set up shop in San Diego and decided to start training with the guys at Alliance. Alliance is renown for it training intensity and [...]

Hi everybody!!! I have been working with Joey Beltran over the last few months and I must say he’s definitely one of the best students I have had to date. His style is one that was quite prone towards injury, and it seems his extreme mental toughness is what has carried him through his amazing [...]

Hi everybody! Here is video of me helping Juan Ramos’s structural alignment utilizing a correct exercise with my Kaiser functional trainer. This piece of equipment was my favorite from the day I got it and I am continuing to discover new systems corrective exercise that I can use with it.  In this video the corrective [...]

Good morning! Here is my part two instructional video showing you how to use an ARAZI cable machine attachment in your core workout routines. This is a great tool for developing pushing strength and transverse core strength simultaneously. Last week I put up a post issuing a GIVEAWAY of a pair of these gloves, and [...]

Good Morning!!! Here is a video of me covering some basic functional training techniques with UFC fighter Justin Lawrence at Alliance MMA training center. I’ve been having a blast working with their camp and they’ve taken on a very open perspective to the functional training concepts I apply into their sport of MMA. As of [...]

Happy Tuesday! It’s been a hectic last couple weeks in the trenches working with clients and fighters. It has been quite difficult to find time to make a video for everyone, but I managed to make time for another! In this video, I use my all time favorite combo for core training: The Keiser and [...]

If there’s a constant I have found since getting into the Mixed Martial Arts community here in San Diego, it’s the correlation of injuries and its association to poor postural habits. Addressing the structural integrity of the human body is at the foundation of my craft as a Holistic Movement Practitioner. It is something that [...]

Happy Monday everyone!!! Here is an Advanced TRX workout routine to start your week off right. This will only be for the die hard people who have been progressing themselves in their functional training regimens intelligently. The 3 exercises in this TRX circuit: Dive Bomber- Great for developing ballistic explosiveness out of the upper body [...]

Happy Thursday Everyone! Been extremely busy in the trenches lately, trying to further develop new knowledge and hone in more skills to help bring about more efficiency in a human body. I’ve spent a great deal of time at an amazing facility by the name of Alliance MMA. It’s been a great experience getting to [...]

Good morning everyone! I see so many training regimens in stagnation due to their one dimensional orientations. It’s crucial to understand that movement in reality is 3 dimensional and that it encompasses multiple planes of motion at the same time. If we want to apply functionality into our training regimens, adaptations to the nuances of [...]

Hello Everyone! I have been in Minneapolis, Minnesota over the last few days helping UFC fighter Jeremy Stephens with his weight for an upcoming bout against Yves Edwards for the UFC on FX. This has easily been the best Jeremy Stephens I have seen in his entire career. He’s moving like something I have never [...]

Good Morning! Here’s a video of me working with MMA and grappling legend Dean Lister. In this video I help him refine the engagement of the inner unit structures needed to help improve boxing mechanics as well as many other elements needed to improve in the dynamics of MMA. Enjoy!!!

Happy Monday everyone!!! Here is a little functional core routine to help you get your week started! To work the core in a functional manner we must integrate the upper and lower body together and utilize the core as the harmonizer between both systems. In this video, I use a Kettlebell and a Cable Machine [...]

Here’s a video of me putting UFC fighter Jeremy Stephens through an MMA Training workout 2 weeks out before his upcoming bout against Yves Edwards on October 5th. Jeremy Stephens is on a mission and it’s been nothing but a pleasure working with him through this entire camp. Looking forward to going to Minnesota to [...]

Good morning!!! Here is a workout video of me showing you how to use a barbell for functional abdominal activation. Rather than looking at the abdominals as an isolated muscle system, it’s best to put them into an environment where the upper and lower body are included with the abdominals for better functional application to [...]

Here’s a video of me putting MMA fighter Reuben Duran through a regimen for strength and condition/athletic efficiency. I have been focusing much of my attention to the details that orient efficient biomechanics when an athlete is fatigued. I have found it all to common to see the fighters I have worked with begin to [...]

Here is a video of me running Jeremy Stephens through a Strength and Conditioning workout in preparation for his UFC on FX 5 bout with Yves Edward on October 5th. He’s been a workhorse over the entire course of this training camp and it’s definitely going to show come fight time. Great work Mr. Stephens!

Here’s the latest functional MMA training workout. It’s been a major process getting the man to unwire the dysfunctions that have brought about an almost exclusive use of the frontal and sagittal plane in his movements. It’s been a process of repetition to initiate the transverse plane in his striking and in his footwork. We [...]

Here is a video of me covering some important techniques to help improve Delvon Garrett’s functionality for Mixed Martial Arts. Rotational movements are by far the most important of all types of movements you can do in MMA. I have been working with Delvon’s functional core strength by developing his inner unit systems, so that [...]

Happy hump day to all!!! Here’a blogpost I made in response to my last “Dogma of the Week” providing an alternative to the damaging traditional “ab exercises” that many people do on a regular basis. I’m a firm believer that humans are meant to train on their feet due to their biology being highly dependent [...]

Here’s an MMA training video of me covering the functional training application of proper punching biomechanics with UFC fighter Jeremy Stephens. It’s been a learning process trying to apply it all, but the picture seems to be getting clearer with time and experience. In this video we cover the integration of all the core systems [...]