The coach
About Dom Cardone
IFBB Pro. 16 years coaching. Based in Las Vegas and coaching men across the United States, one on one, entirely online.
Dom Cardone is an IFBB Pro bodybuilder who turned pro in 2014 by winning the heavyweight class at the NPC Nationals at age 21, one of the youngest in the sport's history. He has coached for 16 years and works exclusively with men, one on one, entirely online.
Career
How he got here
He started as somebody's client
He found AJ Sims through a bodybuilding forum as a teenager, which is the same way most of that generation found a coach. That relationship is also the reason Cardone Nutrition exists: he learned the job from the inside, as the person on the receiving end of it, before he ever wrote a plan for anyone else.
He turned pro at 21
In 2014 he won the heavyweight class at the NPC Nationals and earned his IFBB pro card at twenty-one, one of the youngest men in the sport's history to do it. That is the claim on this page that is easiest to check, which is exactly why it is the one worth leading with.
Then his health took the decision out of his hands
Health problems ended the competing. The one that got written up was mercury poisoning, and the recovery from it was covered by Muscle & Fitness. He does not present any of that as a protocol and nothing about it is advice. It is the reason he reads blood work himself now instead of taking somebody's word for what a panel says.
16 years on the other side of it
Everyday men through to national champions, professional athletes and competitors earning their pro cards. He is not teaching theories out of a certification or repeating what is working on social media. He has spent those years learning how different bodies actually respond, which is a slower and less marketable education than the alternative.
In the room
Sixteen years of it, with the men who did the work
Not a roster and not an assistant. Every client on this page is one Dom coached himself.
Who he learned from
Trained under four of the best in the sport
Third-party authority, and none of it is a claim he is making about himself.
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AJ Sims
- 02
Chad Nichols
- 03
Oscar Ardon
- 04
Fakhri Mubarak
Philosophy
How he coaches
Every client is coached individually. He does not force people into a branded system, recycle cookie-cutter programs, or hand clients off to an inexperienced assistant after they sign up. Training, nutrition, cardio, supplementation, recovery, health markers and lifestyle are evaluated together, and plans get adjusted based on the person's actual response rather than because the calendar says it is time to change something.
He is also brutally honest. He will not tell someone what they want to hear to keep them comfortable or to keep collecting a payment. If their effort is the problem, he will say it. If their expectations are unrealistic, he will say that too. If something they are doing is compromising their health or taking them further from the goal, he addresses it directly.
The accountability runs both ways. He holds himself to making the right decisions and to changing course when the evidence says the current approach is not working, which is a harder standard than it sounds when a client is paying for confidence.
Cardone Nutrition is not built to be the cheapest coaching option or the easiest one. It is for men who want experienced eyes on every part of the process, honest feedback, individual decision-making, and a coach who takes the outcome as seriously as they do.
Press and appearances
Where he has said all this before
Long-form interviews and a feature written by someone other than him. Third-party corroboration is worth more than any claim made on this page.
Muscle & Fitness
A feature on Dom's recovery from mercury poisoning.
That is the whole pitch
If the way he works sounds like what you have been missing, get in touch and tell him where you are now.