Antonio Valladares is a certified nutrition & wellness coach, correctve exercise kinesiologist and has been a certified personal trainer and licensed massage therapist for 15 years in New York City.  

Growing up in the sun & sand of Miami Beach, Antonio was an avid outdoor sports enthusiast and athlete. Starting with martial arts training at the age of 5, Antonio pursued every water sports, scuba, snow sports, BMX and motocross, played high school football and delved into yoga as a teenager in the 1980's.

Before his fitness & nutrition career, he spent 10 years playing guitar in well known punk rock bands.  He maintained his health and promoted a drug free lifestyle while touring the world many times over.  He has practiced yoga and martial arts while touring and lived in India between tours.

Antonio spent 30 years with serious health problems and made multiple trips to the hospital, visits with specialists and 'the best' doctors who all provided no answers. It wasn't untill 2001 that Antonio found a more practical and results-based approach to medicine (called functional medicine) that looks for the underlying causes of health problems.  

Working with world class experts who are actually healthy, Antonio discovered the root causes of his health problems: food allergies, hormonal imbalances and digestive disorders that had plagued him for 30+ years.

Antonio is the founder of Burn Sports, a high performance fitness, nutrition and lifestyle company based in New York City.  

His nutrition & lifestyle coaching programs address the food allergies, digestive disorders and hormonal imbalances that cause mood imbalance, cravings & addictions that are common in today's world.  He is a graduate of the Holistic Nutrition & Lifestyle Coaching Program at the CHEK Institute in San Diego, CA and has advanced training in Metabolic Typing, hormonal imabalnce nad food sensitivities. He has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Sports Illustrated, Quest New York, Mountain Bike, Paper, Time Out, Woman's Day, NY1 and many others.  Antonio is certified by every important organization in the fitness industry including ACE, ACSM, NASM, The CHEK Institute and others.
 
His latest book Healthy Urban Kitchen Cookbook is an organic, gluten free whole foods cookbook which provides healthy eating solutions for busy professionals.

To request media kit, interviews or inquire about workshops, contact Antonio

at healthyurbankitchen @ gmail.com