Friday, August 5, 2011

Gustavo says, "Go with Gaspari Nutrition, My Friend!!"

What's up Codella Family! I just wanted to share some info that may be of interest to you all. Of course you know that are academy is now sponsored by Gaspari Nutrition, and they were kind enough to provide our fighters for the upcoming Evolution Summer Bash with supplements and apparel with Gapari and Codella Academy on them to wear for their fights. For those of us who aren't fighting but want some awesome supplements to help us with our protein intake and recovery from our tough training sessions, pay attention.
My supplement routine consisted of Vitamin Shoppe brand whey protein and multi-vitamins, Barleans fish oil and H-Blocker, a beta-alanine product I use before workouts and Food Fight, a greens super food product; I haven't recovered from my childhood hatred of  veggies!! Yup, that's all I used to help maintain this Dominican Sumo Stud figure!! 
If you go to Bodybuilding.com, correction, WHEN, you go to that site and vote for your favorite products you will receive a discount code for 10% off your total order. That code is: SUPPAWARDS
What that means is, after the discount, you can try the Gaspari Myofusion protein, 5lbs, for about $40 or the 2lbs for about $20. For comparison, VS has it for $50 and $27 respectively.  Also, when you order the 5 lbs of Myofusion you'll get a free 160 gram size container of Super Max. The Banana Perfection flavor is fantastic and can only be purchased online! I have also tasted the strawberry flavor and I'm already thinking of creating some tropical daiquiri concoction with these two!!
You may also want to check out the free samples section, in the store site under "On Sale". I did order the Labrada EFA fish oil on my recent shipment but I haven't tried them out yet. The Anavite multi-vitamins are on back order at this site as well as  the Gaspari site but they are available at the VS on Richmond Ave. for $30.
Lastly, if your order is over $75, you can get a choice of a free gift, like a shake bottle, or use it as a donation toward some charitable organizations. I opted to make a donation to fellow Marine, UFC fighter and Gaspari sponsored athlete, Brian Stann's Hire Heroes USA.
I'm not sure when this discount code will expire so act fast. 
By the way, I was prompted to share this info by my newest training partner and the Most Interesting Canine in the World, Gustavo!
  Bodybuilding.com
 Gaspari Nutrition
 Food Fight

*Disclaimer: All of the above products were purchased by me. The only discount I benefited from was the code mentioned above.

Monday, August 1, 2011

Codella Competition Team Is Coming To Conquer A City Near You!


Last Saturday a team of seven fearless and focused competitors, led by purple belts Joe Peteroy and Ramy Awad, contended with the weekend getaway traffic on  I-95 North with one sole purpose in mind. 
Destination- Hartford, Ct.Convention Center 
Mission: Test individual mettle at NAGA Grappling Championships
Goal: Excellence above all else..utilizing conditioning, heart, cojones and of course, 100% BJJ!

Codella's version of the 'Magnificent Seven' rolled into Hartford intent on doing their absolute best and leaving it all on the mats. All their hard training and sacrifices paid off handsomely because not one of them came back to Staten Island empty handed! The crew won a total of eleven medals: (2) Gold/Sword, (7) Silver and (2) Bronze. What an awesome accomplishment and a true testament to the caliber of talent at our Academy as well as the quality of instuction by our leaders, Prof. Codella, Prof. Fajardo and Prof. Conroy.
I've recently started posting info on local tournaments, basically NY and NJ, but it appears I have to broaden the geographical range since our teammates are now willing to venture out to Ct and even Massachusetts!
This also reminds me that in our presence are two seasoned veterans that I know of, who have journeyed to Ohio and garnered the gold at the Arnolds..(rhymes with (1) A-Capella (2) Presley)..so it's exciting to witness the resurgence in out of state tournament participation by our members.
I sincerely look forward to that day when I'm writing about Codella Academy doing damage on the big stages of the Pans and Worlds!!  Here We Go! 

Joe, thanks for the updates on Twitter and Facebook! The results were as follows:
Ramy Awad           1st  No Gi Adult Advanced Middleweight
                            2nd No Gi Masters Advanced Middleweight
Joe Peteroy           3rd No Gi Adult Advanced Lt. Heavyweight
Albert Medina        2nd No Gi Masters Intermediate Cruiserweight
Bobby Brown         2nd No Gi Directors Intermediate Middleweight
                             2nd Gi Directors Blue belt Heavyweight
Katlyn Chookagian  2nd No Gi Adult Advanced Lt. Heavyweight
                             2nd Gi Adult Blue Lt. Heavyweight
Jarret Steiner         3rd No Gi Beginners Cruiserweight
Kieran Brown          1st No Gi Intermediate 70-79.9 lbs
                              2nd Gi Advanced 70-79.9 lbs

*Edited- Results provided by www.nagafighter.com





Congratulations to each and everyone of you, certainly, you made us all proud!!