Giovanni P.

I have been coaching boxing since 2015 working at different gyms in Northern Virginia, including TITLE Boxing Club, UFC Gym, Pentagon Mixed Martial Arts, as well as working with clients privately around the area. My experience comes from both teaching group classes in addition to private instruction. I have worked with all age groups from high school students wanting to cross-train with their particular sport to senior citizens battling Parkinson's disease. Most of my background comes from training everyday people wanting to do boxing for fitness & recreational purposes but I have also trained amateur and professional fighters in boxing, Muay Thai, and MMA. With over 15 years of combined training & coaching experience in boxing, I bring a wealth of knowledge, expertise, friendliness, and professionalism to every training session that is hard to find in the NOVA region, particularly for in-home training. Fun fact, I traveled to Santa Monica, California in December 2016 to attend Box 'N Burn's boxing training certification class [now Boxing Fitness Academy] for continuing education and this is where I met and got certified under former Olympic boxer Tony Jeffries long before he became YouTube and Instagram famous for his cutting-edge online boxing tutorials.

I started my martial arts journey in 2011 when I was a senior in high school. February 2011, I take my first Muay Thai class at the former Warrior Gym in Alexandria, VA and the rest is history. I then picked up boxing a few months later (July 2011) training under professional boxer Derek Sierra. Fun fact, during my time at Warrior Gym I had the privilege of learning striking for MMA under former UFC fighter Aaron Riley as he was the head MMA coach back then. June 2012, I relocated to Pentagon MMA in Arlington, VA where I rigorously continued training in both boxing and Muay Thai/Dutch Kickboxing under Vivek Nakarmi. While my main gym was Pentagon MMA, I have also cross-trained at many other gyms in Northern Virginia, DC, and Maryland which I felt has helped me to become a better coach by learning from a wide variety of coaches with different styles of fighting. Although I have been training for a long time, I was doing this full-time from 2011-2015 before I started to get into coaching.

My goal is to provide you with a unique boxing training experience, so that you feel as if you're training like a fighter in a legitimate boxing gym. For all clients new to boxing, you will spend a good amount of time learning proper technique [punches, defense, combinations etc.] first and foremost as building a strong foundation is non-negotiable. Passing that point, each training session mainly starts with a warmup which may include a combination of calisthenics, skipping rope [jump rope], or shadowboxing, followed by multiple rounds on the focus mitts or other pad work [rounds vary depending if it's a 30-minute or 1 hour session] and finishing off with ab work plus stretching. Every client is different as far as skill level and physical ability and I strongly take that into account when personalizing your sessions. So therefore, the structure may vary but regardless you will always finish every session wanting more. With private training, you will be able to learn the sweet science much faster than in a group environment and it is my commitment to deliver on that statement.