Alex Ariza’s Corner Of the Ring- Nutrition and Training for Boxers and Athletes- It’s For Everyone Wanting A Happier and Healthier Life- Part 1

Hey alex is pete again, the mma fighter im 2 weeks into a 7 week training camp sorry i got my words mixed up, But ive read youre blogs on building mass and ive cut the white rice out well not as much on my rest days, Another thing ive noticed is since doing swimming my circuit training which i struggled on last week has got much easier,

And do you advice mma fighters to lift weights explosive lifting because of the wrestling aspect of mma and bjj, And dont feel so sluggish anymore either now that i lowered amount of carbs on rest days,

Hey Alex, These are some great info! can you please join my training camp as I prepare for Victor Ortiz. Also bring some of that “good stuff” you give to your fighters!

~Love and Kisses
Floyd Mayweather

Hi Alex, I want you to know that I follow you, especially during your times now with Pacquiao. I find your nutritional and physical excercise wisdom very factual, rational and helpful, and evidence of them can be seen with the success of Pacquiao’s exquisite physique build-up that resulted in his current wonderful performance, and sucess.
I think that long after Pacquiao is gone (retired from boxing) you will still be there; your unparelled services sought from every athlete that aspires to excel. All the best.

Greetings Mr. Ariza!

I’m happy that you’ll be sharing great facts and other things about health and nutrition. You have a great proven track record and you actually understand how the human body works. I just have a little request.

I hope that maybe one day, you’ll also write about something for people with Hypothyroidism, just like me. I’ve been diagnosed with it during my early teen years and in a lot of ways, it’s really horrible especially since it makes it so hard to lose fat.

I still remember a long time ago when I was a kid. I just played as much as other kids, I stayed active, played basketball and all of that. Out of everyone else, I was the only one who got fatter and fatter each year. As I got fatter, my family got more worried because of the fear of heart attacks and all. Instead of the pediatrician whom I used to see all the time, I was finally referred to see heart specialists and even endocrinologists.

I found out that I actually had highblood pressure and I needed to lose weight quickly or risk dying. I remember taking some medicine for this. I also started seriously exercising/training, and I spent around 1 to 2 hours every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday doing that. My exercise consisted of treadmill walks and other physical exercises like push-ups, stretching, martial arts. I lost some fat, but very very slowly.

A few visits back to the endocrinologist/doctors revealed that I had Hypothyroidism, which seems to be the cause of why how my efforts to lose fat were almost nulled. It was during my teen years that I noticed that my hair actually became thin and became the butt of jokes at school. Fat with thinning hair isn’t actually a common sight during highschool. I think the doctors also gave me something for the Hypothyroidism, but I just forgot.

After 3 or 4 years, I was able to lose 100 or so pounds. My doctor said that my ideal weight is supposed to be 160 pounds or something (I’m 5’9″). Then came the college years. This became harder for me because usually, evenings would be spent studying or doing projects, and I had to sacrifice a lot of my exercise time just for the sake of education. I started getting fatter again, but not so much since I was able to sneak in some exercise between projects. I really just didn’t want to be a near death 300 pounder, plus I wanted to look macho like my WWE heroes and Pacquiao.

After graduating from college and getting my degree in computer science, financial hardship struck. We couldn’t afford the medicine I was taking for my highblood pressure and Hypothyroidism. I still continued training but the effects were less and less obvious. I couldn’t maintain it and I slowly got fatter and fatter.

This situation affected me mentally. I exercise and train, sometimes even harder than the other guy, but I’m the one who’s actually gaining more fat. This predicament made me just lose hope and give up on losing fat. I just stop caring anymore and even stopped exercising. My job took most of my time, and since I only took the bus to get home (a 2 hour ride), I just felt tired all the time. Sometimes I’d just feel tired right after waking up or after a day of not doing.

One time during Christmas, while going back home from work, I really felt strange in the bus. It’s like there’s something stabbing at my chest and moving was hard to do since each movement I made, the piercing feeling on my chest became more painful. Strangely, one of my right thumb couldn’t feel a thing too. I endured this for a couple of days until the weird painful feeling went back to normal and my thumb recovered its senses. At the time I thought it was just stress, but after hearing stories of other patients, it might have been a mini-stroke or something. I’m not sure, I really couldn’t afford a doctor anymore.

That’s what made me try to get back to exercising again (I don’t want to die a painful death, I want a peaceful one probably due to old age later on in life). Still, there’s barely any effect at all. Can one with Hypothyroidism actually lose fat normally without any medicine?
I really don’t care much about my thinning hair anyway. I mean, I’m a guy, I’ve fully accepted that some people do go bald, and maybe being bald isn’t as bad as it seems. My main concern is losing the fat.

Anyway thanks for the time reading this. I hope that one day you’ll write something to help people with Hypothyroidism lose the fat in order to have a healthy and awesome looking body.

Dear Floyd Mayweather,

Do you mean you want to take some A side meth, Your father has it. Go ask daddy.

Sorry I cannot join you in your camp, But my advise to you is to grow
some balls to face pacquiao.

You are a COWARD floyd.

LOVE,
Alex

Hi Alex! I love your blog! I always read it and I find it very motivating! I wish your were my personal trainer…! Motivation and discipline is always difficult handling by yourself…

lol! @ KFC

I’ll be following this blog daily because I need to gain weight without the fats. Been troubling gaining weight when all I do is eat carbs most of the day and have enough sleep. I can’t digest high proteins. Think I have parasite infection.

Hi Alex, in your years of providing the best nutrition and proper exercise for boxers, have you come across of boxers suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? How do you avoid or alleviate such condition? Thanks for your time.

alex,
there are lots of people who are interested in your works. i find your blog educational, practical and informative.god bless.