SDP Episode 33: Diet and Nutrition Expert Mike Dolce
Mind Of The Warrior
Dr Mike Simpson
4.8 • 900 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Mike Dolce is an American trainer, strength and conditioning coach, weight-cut coach, author, nutrition and fitness expert, and motivational speaker. He is a former mixed martial artist.
Dolce is best known for managing the weight cuts of UFC athletes such as Johny Hendricks, Ronda Rousey and Thiago Alves. He was voted as the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 World MMA Trainer of the Year.
Tim Kennedy’s legend began at his local Army recruiter’s office on September 12th, 2001. His training to earn his Green Beret was featured in the book “Chosen Soldier.” Kennedy is now a Ranger qualified Special Forces Sniper with deployments in Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and multiple other deployments around the world. He is the only soldier to win the grueling 3 day All Army Combatives Tournament three times. Kennedy has a black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Modern Army Combatives. He is also one of the top ranked mixed martial arts fighters in the world, a position he achieved while simultaneously serving his country at the highest levels of special operations. He is currently ranked among the top Middleweights in the UFC. Tim has been featured on many television shows, most recently “Hunting Hitler” on the History Channel
Mike Simpson has served over three decades in the military as an Airborne Ranger, a Special Forces Operator, and finally as a Doctor of Emergency Medicine assigned to the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Throughout his career, Mike has deployed to 17 different countries, from counter-narcotics operations in the jungles of South America, to the Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Southwest Asia and North Africa.
Along the way, Mike has been trained as a demolitions expert, SWAT Sniper, High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachutist, civilian paramedic, Special Forces Medic, Operations and intelligence Sergeant, and finally, a board certified Emergency Medicine Physician.
Mike is also a martial arts enthusiast, who trains in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. His passion for martial arts motivated him to become a practicing fight doctor. As one of the foremost experts in both tactical trauma medicine and combat sports medicine, Mike is highly sought after as a lecturer and instructor, working extensively with Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters, law enforcement, and military organizations providing medical care and training. He co-stars with Tim Kennedy on Hunting Hitler on the History Channel.
Mike Dolce
Twitter: @thedolcediet
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Website: https://thedolcediet.com
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Twitter and instagram: @TimKennedyMMA @DrMikeSimpson
Email: hoplonmedical@gmail.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome back to the sheepdog project. As always brought to you by |
| 0:18.0 | sheepdog response go to sheepdog response.com and check us out we have upcoming courses September 21st through 23rd. We're going |
| 0:25.1 | to be in Hoffman, North Carolina. We are going to be in Palm Bay, Florida, |
| 0:29.2 | October 8th through the 11th, and we're going to be in Las Vegas Nevada the week before |
| 0:33.4 | shot show January 14th through January 20th. Well this is the show a lot of you have |
| 0:41.0 | been asking me for especially after we did a show with my |
| 0:44.4 | good friend Dr Drew Wiggi and we talked about supplements everybody's like |
| 0:47.1 | hey the supplement show is great but you need to talk about nutrition and I |
| 0:52.0 | deliberately put this off because I wanted to get the renowned expert in here to really talk about this. |
| 0:58.0 | Author, coach, trainer, four-time best trainer in MMA, is that right, Mike? Yes, four-time, |
| 1:08.4 | four-time World Train of the Year. Yeah, sorry I got the tie wrong, four-time |
| 1:12.1 | World Trainer of the year yeah sorry I got the title on four-time world trainer of the year |
| 1:13.2 | also coached me to the championship on the UFC 2 game so I got to give him credit for |
| 1:19.8 | that so I actually failed and that matters too that matters and I feel I feel like I know you for that I feel like you've been in my corner all along so |
| 1:26.8 | My don't my Dulchay is with me today's thank you so much for coming on the sheepdog project |
| 1:32.3 | Absolutely, doc. Thank you so much for having me on, you know, just enjoy being here. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm looking forward to chat. |
| 1:38.0 | Yeah, it's, and I'm going to be taking notes too because a lot of these very selfishly I didn't ask for a viewer questions |
| 1:43.0 | a lot of these are going to be things specifically that I want to know. |
| 1:45.4 | I love it. The power right the power of the mic. |
| 1:48.9 | Yeah the power I'm in charge here I get to ask the questions that I want. |
| 1:52.2 | If they want to ask their |
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