About Manny
Five years of coaching.
One job: end the loop.
Coaching for working professionals, parents, and pro fighters who are done with another 30-day reset. The job is to build a system you walk away owning — not a 6-month dependence on me.
The short version.
I'm Manny — full name Mandlalele Majola. I run a one-on-one nutrition coaching practice with around 20 clients at any given time, scattered across three continents.
Roughly three quarters of my book are working professionals and parents — people who've tried more than one thing, who know their way around a calorie deficit, and who are done with another 30-day reset. The other quarter are professional fighters competing in One Championship, Bare Knuckle Boxing, and Road to UFC. Different lives. Same principles. Same coach.
Before nutrition I was a full-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach and competitor. The athletic side of this work isn't theoretical — I've cut weight, made weight, and watched what bad nutrition does to a fight, a training session, and a Tuesday afternoon.
I'm based in Phuket, Thailand — a global Muay Thai mecca that draws fighters from everywhere. It's also where a lot of busy professionals land when they come for a reset and start building real momentum on their health and fitness. So both audiences find me.
How I got here.
The route into nutrition wasn't direct. For most of my twenties I was a full-time BJJ coach and competitor. I knew what hard training looked like, I knew what cutting weight felt like, and I knew — viscerally — what bad nutrition advice did to fight performance. Locker-room cuts. Drastic last-week dehydration. Coaches who treated food as an afterthought. I watched good fighters get worse because of what was on the table the week before they competed.
I shifted into nutrition because the gap I kept seeing in the fight world is the same gap most people live in: too much information, too little applied protocol, and almost no one in your corner when life gets hard mid-week. The product I run now — daily access, weekly calls, a real curriculum, a system you walk away owning — is built specifically against everything I saw fail before.
How I work.
1. No PDF meal plans. Ever.
A meal plan tells you what to eat for a week. Then you're stuck. Education tells you why, how, and what to swap when life changes. The whole point is that you walk away knowing how to run this for yourself.
2. Eat what you love.
Hit your protein. Hit your fat. Carbs work around your training. Ice cream fits if it fits the numbers. That's not cheating. That's the plan.
3. Real research, not TikTok.
I'm certified through the Layne Norton "Elite Nutritionist" program. The voices I take seriously are Andy Galpin, Layne Norton, Dan Garner. Calm. Cited. Honest.
No detoxes. No alkaline diets. No glucose hacks. No 10kg-in-30-days promises.
Who I work with.
My athlete book competes in One Championship, Bare Knuckle Boxing, and Road to UFC. Two are currently on the cusp of UFC contracts. Tang Kai defended his One Championship featherweight title in 2026 on my nutrition protocol.
My general-population book is broader: working professionals, parents, IT and marketing executives, teachers, business travelers. Roughly 70% women, 30% men. Roughly 30–40 in the dominant age range. Currently spread across three continents — clients in LA, Hong Kong, Finland, England, plus the local cohort in Phuket.
Outside the practice.
When I'm not coaching I train six days a week — sprint work, lifting, plyometrics, Muay Thai. The same protocol I'd hand a client. I host a podcast — The MajoLab — where I talk with people I find interesting about nutrition, training, combat sports, and adjacent things. I live in Phuket because it's where the people I want to be around live. The job and the life aren't separate.
The MajoLab.
A long-form podcast on nutrition, fitness, combat sports, and the occasional adjacent topic. Conversations with practitioners and athletes I want to learn from. New episodes regularly.
Watch on YouTube →Where to start.
One call to test the water. Or a 6-month program if you're ready.