Yaro Hladik as chef and fighter, back to back

Fighter's Food

Fuel for Performance, Power & Recovery

Fighter's Food — The Performance Nutrition System

Chef. Fighter. Performance food.

Jaro Hladik cooks like an Executive Chef and eats like a fighter. Fighter's Food turns professional kitchen craft and real training pressure into simple nutrition systems for energy, recovery and discipline.

Chef

30+ years as an Executive Chef

Fighter

Trained, tested and cut weight for real

Performance nutrition

Systems for energy, recovery and consistency

The author

Built by a Chef. Tested by a Fighter.

30+ years
Executive Chef in top hotels and professional kitchens
Combat sports
Years of training, camps and weight management
Applied nutrition
Systems built for performance, recovery, consistency

With over 30 years of experience as an Executive Chef, including work in top hotels, professional kitchens and international culinary projects, Jaro Hladik knows food from the inside out. His experience in combat sports and years of training brought the other side of the equation: understanding what the body needs for performance, recovery and consistency.

Fighter's Food brings these two worlds together — professional cooking and real training — to create practical nutrition systems built for fighters and people who demand more from their performance.

Personal experience

Recipes tested through different ways of eating.

These books are not built from trends. They reflect what I tested on myself as a fighter and chef: one year on carnivore, two years vegetarian, and five years vegan, alongside a standard performance nutrition approach.

Each edition takes that experience and turns it into a simple system for training, recovery, meal timing, and repeatable recipes.

The book series

Three nutrition paths. One combat mindset.

Nutrition Combat is a series of practical nutrition systems based on real training, cooking experience, and years of testing different diets in daily life.

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Available first · 99 pages · 38 recipes

Fighter's Food: The Performance Nutrition System

The core performance system: protein in every main meal, carbs around training, hydration, recovery, meal prep, and simple recipes.

Built from my mixed-diet performance system as a fighter and former 5-star hotel chef.

Launch book →
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Coming soon

Fighter's Food: The Carnivore Performance

Carnivore and animal-based principles for fighters who want simple meals, stable energy, quality animal foods, electrolytes, and optional targeted carbs.

Based on one year of my own carnivore and animal-based training routine.

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Coming soon

Fighter's Food: The Plant-Based Performance

Vegan and vegetarian performance nutrition built around protein coverage, digestion, training fuel, recovery, and practical high-output meals.

Shaped by five years vegan and two years vegetarian experience.

The system

Eat for the session in front of you.

The first book explains when each meal belongs: pre-workout, post-workout, rest day, after weigh-in, no-time food, and daily prep.

Protein

Build and recover after hard rounds.

Carbs

Fuel speed, explosiveness, and training output.

Hydration

Support minerals, focus, and muscle function.

Consistency

Replace random decisions with repeatable habits.

Whole foods laid out on a table: steak, chicken, eggs, potatoes, rice and legumesTwo Muay Thai fighters sparring at sunrise

Inside the first book

A book that sells clarity, not complexity.

Fighter resting against a pillar in a gym after training

Training timing

What to eat before and after sessions so the body has energy and recovers properly.

Athlete refuelling with rice and an electrolyte drink after weigh-in

Fight week strategy

Rehydration, electrolytes, digestible food, and gradual refueling after weigh-in.

99 pages38 recipes

Recipes, rules, basics, and alternative approaches.

  • Breakfast & main meals
  • Dinner & rest day food
  • No-time food
  • Cooking basics

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Volume II — Animal Based Fighter · Volume III — Plant Based Fighter. Waitlist members get launch pricing first.

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