Thiago Alves Discusses The Dolce Diet & UFC on FX 2
Posted by Larry Csonka on 02.10.2012
See what he has to say!
- Thiago Alves recently spoke about the Dolce diet and fighting in Australia for UFC on FX 2, here are the highlights….
On Trusting Dolce: "Dolce is like my older brother right now," Alves said. "I trust Dolce fully with my training camp and with my career. He's the one taking care of my strength and conditioning and my diet also, so he's the one who put the whole training camp together. And the way he formats everything, he decides whenever I have to go hard or take it easy. He put the whole thing together. Besides that, Dolce is a great human being. He is a great person to be around, great energy. Since we started working together everything has just been great."
On Changing His Diet (moving away from just rice, beans, pasta, steak, eggs, and sausage): "That's how I was raised," he said. "That's how most of the people eat in Brazil. I never really ate vegetables or anything like that."
On Heading to Australia Early: "When I fought in Birmingham (England) last time (at UFC 138) I remember on Wednesday, like Tuesday before the fight waking up at 4 a.m. like, 'What's going on?'" Alves said. "I'm fully awake at 4 a.m. trying to get back to sleep. You don't really do much before the fight. You just try to lose your weight and save energy as much as possible, as much as you can, but you definitely have got to try to get on a schedule. And then if you get there first thing in the morning don't sleep in even if you are dead tired. Try to do whatever you can in your power not to sleep in. It's going to take you definitely two or three days to get adjusted, but if you do that it's going to be way easier."
On Facing Kampmann: "I truly believe after this fight, if I beat Kampmann, it's going to be like I never lost to Rick Story," Alves said. "I think one fight more, and another one, maybe two. I don't know. But definitely after this fight I'm on my way to fight for the title again. (Jake) Ellenberger got one big victory, but that's about it. All the other guys there in title contention now, they never really fought the top guys."
