(1991-06-14) June 14, 1991 (age 33) Tamuning, Guam, U.S.
Education
Bachelor of Science Exercise Science and Health Promotions with a Minor in Nutrition from the University of Guam ASCA Level 1 IWF Advanced Coaching Certificate Holder
After retiring from competitive weightlifting, Naranjo turned to coaching. During his athletic career, Naranjo was also managing a functional fitness facility and physical therapy clinic, where he had coached classes and did strength & conditioning for various clients including students and Guam national athletes.
Naranjo as of 2020, is currently a weightlifting coach, strength & conditioning coach, and team manager for Team HD,[5] the Olympic Core team for Hidilyn Diaz[6] who competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, which was later postponed to July 2021.[7]
Naranjo and Hidilyn Diaz, along with their Head Coach Kaiwen Gao have been training in Malaysia[8] as lockdowns and the current situation of COVID-19 around the world have created a difficult situations for all Olympic Bound athletes.
Naranjo also does remote coaching for weightlifting athletes and has built a good following from his coaching and weightlifting videos with more than 20,000 followers on his Instagram.[9]
Aside from being a coach, Naranjo is also a filmmaker who co-founded the Collective Culture[10] and also promotes the sport of weightlifting on Instagram and Facebook.
Naranjo had worked for just over a year as a production artist and had been a Director of Photography for a number of productions[11] with Docomo Pacific, a telecommunications company based in Guam.
Naranjo and Hidilyn Diaz have collaborated through Collective Culture to help spread her awareness advocacy of weightlifting by creating documentaries such as Move to Inspire[12][13] and Lifters for Lifters.[14]
Naranjo collaborated with Malaysian/Filipino singer Yazmin Aziz as a filmmaker for her news segment on TFC News Asia and aiding with a number of projects for her music.[15][16]
Then engaged,[21] both had been featured together in various Philippine television programs. This includes an episode of Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho in GMA where their romantic relationship was featured.[22] They were also featured on Sports U[23] and Magandang Buhay[24] of ABS-CBN.
Naranjo is also Diaz's assistant weightlifting strength and conditioning coach helping the latter secure the Philippines' first-ever Olympic gold medal in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[25]
