Paulo Fernandes experience

Paulo has a Diploma in Sport Management and Fitness. He is also a 2nd Dan black belt in Karate as well as a ETA (exercise teacher's academy) fitness facilitator and assessor for specific projects in Mozambique and Angola, particularly created for gym instructors.

Paulo has been participating in workshops with top trainers throughout the world.

On the Boxing side, he trained with German lightweight European champion and with Continental IBF heavy weight champion.

On the Personal training side he travelled to Lisbon (Portugal) & Zurich- (Switzerland) for a workshop at Holmes place on functional and weight lifting training.

He also travelled to London, UK, for a special workshop with Paul Connolly, one of the Top Celebrity’s trainers in the world.

In Cape Town & Johannesburg- SA (South Africa) where he lived for 8years (until 2010), he toke part in different workshops and exchanges knowledge with Top Local Trainers and he also did the XLR8 workshop (Athlete ply-metrics) speed, power and stability training system from New Zealand.

Paulo has been a Karate/Kickboxing instructor since 2005 and a Personal Trainer since 2006. In 2007, he started his own Cardio-Fitness "Boxfit" company.

Paulo’s specializes his Personal Training on: boxing conditioning training, functional training, Athletes performance, plyometrics/balance, speed/agility, core stability/strength.

In 2008, Paulo published his own fitness manual (beginners, intermediate & advance) tubing workout.

Paulo has been working with most of the top fitness studios in Luanda- Angola since 2008, providing consulting in the fitness industry, workshops & ETA (exercise teacher's academy) Fitness qualifications, mentoring as well as supervising instructors.

2010, Paulo's main focus in Fitness is to start working with Sport clubs training all types of athletes in Athlete's performance and carry on running Fitness courses and ETA (exercise teacher's academy) qualifications in Luanda- Angola.

In 2011 Atlético petróleos de Luanda won Angola national baskteball championship. Paulo also started working with Handball female senior national team of Angola. He was approached by Chocolate magazine (local magazine from Luanda) to have is own column about Fitness & Health. Paulo opened up his 1st Fitness studio in Luanda where he and his staff train every day all type of athletes and clients.

Paulo's Biography


Age 32, Paulo Fernandes was born in Cape Verd Island.
He moved to Maputo in Mozambique at the age of 12 and began martial arts when he was 15.

In 2001, he finished high school and he decided to go to Cape Town, South Africa, in order to pursue his studies in Sport Management & Personal Training.

While studying, Paulo founded Cardio- fitness ‘Boxfit’ training.
A part-time modeling career lead him to model for Sports magazines, catalogues and TV Commercials.

Paulo is a Buddhist and his way of living applies to his Clients & Students as a life coach at the same time. Nature and healthy life style are part of his being.

In 2006 Paulo came 2nd with a Silver medal in the Shukokai World Karate championship in Helsinki-Finland

Since 2006, he has been working as a Professional athlete, training Karate and amateur Boxing 2-3 hours per day, 5 days a week.

In 2008, Paulo was nominated one of the most Sexy man's in SA (South Africa) by the Cosmopolitan Magazine and he also came 3rd with a bronze medal in the Shukokai World Karate championship in Zurich-Switzerland.

Since 2007, Paulo became the assistant of the Coach/Captain of the Karate All-style National teams of Cape Verde Island and Mozambique. He is also part of the Shukokai Karate National team of South Africa.

In 2010, he moved to Luanda- Angola full time, to carry on running Fitness courses and start working with Atlético Petroleos de Luanda Sport Club.

Paulo lives by his motto: “Embrace everything that comes on your way or that you touch”


Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Total Body Activity by Paulo Fernandes (portuguese definition)

“Total body activity” consiste em treinar o corpo inteiro em todas as suas linhas funcionais (frente e trás, vertical e horizontal, esquerda e direita, puxar e empurrar), em flexibilidade, mobilidade, estabilidade, pliometria, coordenação, força e cardio anaeróbio, isto e, treino intervalado.

O treino Intervalado são exercicios que exigem uma intensidade elevada a 85% ou mais da nossa frequençia cardiaca, e logo de seguida uma recuperação a baixo nivel. Esse tipo de treino ajuda-nos a trabalhar mais intensamente a resistência cardíaca, e também a perder mais calorias do que outros tipos de exercicios/treino. Ou seja, quanto mais intensamente trabalhamos a nossa frequência cardíaca, mais calorias perdemos (gordura corporal) e mais saudáveis ficamos.

Por exemplo, alguma vez viu um atleta que faz corrida de fundo (sprinter) com gordura a mais? A resposta é não. De todos os atletas os Sprinters são os com o corpo mais bem constituído e com menos percentagem de gordura corporal.



Nos vivemos num mundo funcional. Isto é corremos com uma perna, e não duas, damos soco com uma mão e não duas. Devemos fazer exercicios que envolvem dois (2) ou mais articulações e musculos ao mesmo tempo, porque os nossos músculos e articulações trabalham em sintonia com os outros. Treinar somente um musculo ou articulação, como fazem os culturistas, traz instabilidade nos restantes musculos, e isso resulta em lesões. 


Por isso Não copia os programas de treino dos culturistas, powerlifters ou outros, eles estão a treinar para o desporto deles e não o seu.

Total body activity foi feito para todas pessoas e atletas que querem melhorar o desempenho físico, prevenir lesões e ganhar controlo do seu corpo.

Conclusão: A única diferença entre uma pessoa que quer ganhar massa muscular e outra que quer perder gordura esta na alimentação, não no treino, portanto Total body activity é a melhor forma de chegar lá - qualquer que seja o seu objectivo!