Charlie "the Spaniard" Brenneman

Happy Birthday to me!!! I’m UFC bound! I want to thank everyone who has helped me get to this point. It’s the culmination of a lot of hard work from a lot of different people. My family, especially my brother Ben, Dave and Darcy Regala for the great training and friendship, Eddie Alvarez and Steve Haigh at Fight Factory in Philly and Chris Liguori and Frankie Edgar for helping to introduce me to the sport, Matt Anderson for my awesome website, my friends and loyal fans who have traveled and repped the Spaniard shirts quite well, all the gyms that I’ve visited (HIT Squad, Team Quest, etc), Lock Haven and East Stroudsburg wrestling, Allen Coble and PA Grappling for giving me my start, Don Messing and No Limits Personal Training, and of course Mike Constantino/ AMA Fight Club/ and all my training partners!

That’s just to name a few. Trust me, I realize I got here because of a lot of people, so THANK YOU!!!

It’s been a relatively light week in comparison to the last few months. I’m letting my body rest up a bit before hitting it hard again this week. It’s not about training harder, it’s about training smarter.

“ Although God has given me the power to do what I do, I have to get out there and do it. It doesn’t just fall out of the sky. You have to make your destiny happen.

— Andre Ward, Boxer. (Taken from Sam Sheridan’s “The Fighter’s Mind”)

Clips from Jan. 30, 2010

Victorious! Won by 2nd rd. TKO. Decent performance, but I’ve got a long way to go. Back to the gym on Monday.

I’ll have some clips and pics up Mon. or Tues from the fight.

Thanks for all the support, esp. from Nolimitspersonaltraining.com and AMAFightClub.com. The further into a career you get, the more you need to depend on others to help out, so thanks to those helping me out! Family, friends, GF, trainers, training partners, sponsors (of which I could use more!), etc.

Here’s a pretty cool video from Buddahsport.com on AMA Fight Club and some of our fighters.

Every day I become the best fighter I’ve ever been

Some recent training footage. It includes Strength and Conditioning at No Limits here in E. Stroudsburg, and fight training at AMA.

The four videos below chronicle a day of training leading up to my fight next Sat. I wasn’t able to make a training montage yet, so I wanted to post these instead. Enjoy!

Video 4