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Announcements: Super Body, Super Brain Test and my Conference at the Jewish Community Center

Hi to all of you!! I am finally back and so ready to get started with this phenomenal Year!! On my way back I have been back on track seeing all my clients and structuring the whole year. I was not able to post this week because I have been so hectic trying to finalize the last details for my Upcoming Super Body, Super Brain Test: It was a great journey to be working for at least 6 months and be able to put on paper really important testing areas of the human body. Remember that you need to sign up at my website: www.superbodysuperbrain.com and click on your right “Take the Super Body, Super Brain Test”. I will be protecting the blog post with a specific password that is why it is really important that you sign up for my site if you want to take the test. I will be publishing it this coming Monday here you can see a little brief advance:

Super Body, Super Brain Test by Michael Gonzalez-Wallace

In addition I will be launching my radio Channel: Super Body, Super Brain Radio Channel in two weeks! The platform will be at Blogtalkradio and all of you can sign in and listen to it for free! So i am excited to be producing and writing this channel. I will be letting you next week at what exact time I am thinking but I hope you can all tune in and listen!

And finally and not Lastly i am getting ready to my upcoming lectures/seminars/classes at The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan! The series will start next Friday and run for six weeks. I hope you can come and try my Super Body, Super Brain classes

BRAIN-BODY FITNESS CONFERENCE AT THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER

2013 Highlights: Year Ahead for Super Body, Super Brain

Happy New Year 2013 to all of you! I really hope that this year is full of Joy, excitement, tons of Health and Plenty of Exercise! I wanted to share the main highlights of my year ahead and I hope we can bump into each other in several projects that I have for 2013!

As a personal trainer specializing in brain body fitness programs i am fully booked for the whole year, averaging around 5 sessions a day 6 days a week. I am truly enjoying this journey! I am training clients that range a wide variety of backgrounds:

My audience reaches celebrities, clients for weight loss, aging related conditions, athletic training, children, special needs children, Autism, Severe Autism and Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson and Alzheimer. At the time being i am in the advance stages of developing a program for breast cancer patients, dementia and Autism specially Severe Autism. My job is to find the appropriate individualized progressive strength training program that incorporates not only physical movements but reaching circuits in the brain responsible for movements

For the last ten years I have developed workout plans for a variety of health and fitness magazines including O, The Oprah magazine [2] MSNBC.com [3], Redbook [4], Prevention magazine [5] or Prevention.com [6] among others. He also hosts a Brain Body Fitness forum at one of the best medical websites Medhelp [7]

2013 SUPER BODY, SUPER BRAIN HIGHLIGHTS

My most important highlight is my book Super Body, Super Brain. You can get it for your self  or give it as a great Health present to your relatives and friends. I will be sending a thank you email to them is the closest of me signing the book personally

Here is a little trailer of my book Super Body, Super Brain

I will starting this phenomenal year 2013 Launching a Super Body, Super Brain Testing index on January 7th. You would have to register in my site and click “Take the Super Body, Super Brain test”

I will start kicking off running a series of lectures and Super Body, Super Brain classes at the JCC, The Jewish Community Center of Manhattan, the Program runs from January 22nd -February 18th

In February-March I will continue my conversation to implement a specific Super Body, Super Brain Programs Sch for Autism: First in Minnesota, Minnesota Autism Center and in New Jersey Center: Autism Think Tank. At the time being i am developing a Program for  High Functioning and Low Functioning

In May i will be traveling to Spain, to launch my Super Body, Super Brain Program in Europe, specifically in Spain! I will be traveling to Santiago the Compostela to give a speech about my program and to establish a permanent office in Spain. I will be partnering with one of the best trainers in Spain: Fernando Gomez Perez “Wellness Center”

In Spain i am working with an expert in Kidney disease and Exercise to implement a specific Super Body, Super Brain exercise for kidney disease. Is expected to run in some Spanish Health centers in 2013

I will start offering weekly radio shows on Blog Talk Radio (starting in mid January once a month every Thursday) and Skype Training Sessions for members and non members

In January I will be starting training online throughout my website “Super Body, Super Brain” www.superbodysuperbrain.com

My classes for Parkinson Patients using Super Body, Super Brain Parkinson are running the whole year at one of the best Health and medical Centers in Minnesota, The Capistrant Center for Movement Disorders at Healtheast in St Paul, Minnesota

For Super Body, Super Brain Parkinson classes check this:

Movement & recreation classes
Super Body, Super Brain

Are you looking for a high intensity exercise class that will help improve your balance, coordination, and strength?

Super Body Super Brain is a circuit training exercise program composed of of multi tasking movements that challenge and improve both your muscles and your brain, created by personal trainer Michael Gonzalez-Wallace. This high energy class aims to improve motor skills, hand eye coordination, posture, stamina and flexibility. This class is for participants who are physically active, able to multi-task and want a fun and challenging exercise routine.

Bethesda Hospital, PT gym, second floor. Class meets from 6 to 7 pm.

Cost: $25 per six-class session

Check for upcoming classes

My program for Schools continues to reach children’s lives to affect motor skill development, physical strength, cardiovascular and social interaction. You can check my program running in NYC Schools

Lastly and not least I will be working in a second movie in this coming July. My first movie, “The Crimson Mask” by Elias Plagianos won almost 35 film festival awards. I was a co-producer and actor playing Esteban Leon

As you can see an phenomenal year lies ahead and I hope you can accompany me in this exciting journey

I will like to finish this New Year post by adding this interesting slide what do you think? Don’t you agree?

3 MOTIVATIONAL RULES IN LIFE

And much more stay tuned and follow me at all my social platforms

WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 FULL OF HEALTH, LOVE AND LOTS OF EXERCISE!!

Michael Gonzalez-Wallace with his family in Spain wishes you a Happy New Year

WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR FULL OF HEALTH, LOVE AND LOTS OF EXERCISE!!

My Blog 2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 56,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 13 Film Festivals

Click here to see the complete report.

The New York Times publishes “Exercise and the ever smarter Brain”. This is the closest I have ever been from The New York Times

New York Times explains how Exercise affects the brain, my main theory of Super Body, Super Brain

Happy New Year!  I wanted to conclude this wonderful year with one of the latest articles form The New York Times one of the best publications in the country. To Be deadly honest with you, this is the closest I have ever been of been featured by The New York Times  and you may be wondering why. The reason is that New York Times published this insightful article “Exercise and the Ever Smarter Brain”  by Gretchen Reynolds. In this article they refer on how our brains are affected by exercise mentioning how endurance training and movement have shaped our brain throughout generations. However now studies are showing how exercise is linked to intelligence! In other words is exactly everything i have mentioned in my book Super Body, Super Brain.

I am so excited that my original theories and my core premise on how movement and physical activity does not only affects your muscles but  also your brain. This field of research is currently are one of the hottest topics in the health field. These physiological effects are not only in brain size but also in intelligence and a better muscle-brain connectivity.

Lately we have seen a proliferation of articles connecting exercise and intelligence and the reason is that several scientists are able to track down what happens when we exercise in a chemical manner specifying what sort of proteins are activated when we exercise or eat healthy. These proteins are Nerve Growth factors that make our nerves, our synapses thicker, faster more efficient. One of our most celebrated proteins is called BDNF (Brain Derived neurotrophic factor)

Here I wanted to share one of the best interviews with Professor Charles Hillman Ph.D about how exercise affects our brains in a brilliant manner,.

Be Smart: Exercise your heart. Interview with Charles Hillman Ph.D

MGW: In your article : “Be smart : Exercise your heart – exercise effects on brain cognition” – your premise is that exercise can make us smarter. Were you surprised by the results of your research that led to these conclusions?

CH: Not at all! There were several researchers before me who had dabbled in this area, providing me with a small literature to formulate my hypotheses. Further, my work fits within the theoretical views of Dr. Frank Booth and Dr. Fernando Gomez-Panilla, both of whom suggest an evolutionary link between physical activity and brain health. They work independent to one another, but have similar ideas in that they both suggest that our ancestry included genetic programming for physical activity. After all, our hunter-gatherer ancestors needed to be mobile and use both brain and body to capture food. Stated another way, they had to spend energy to make energy. Despite the fact that our genetic programming has not changed, our behaviors have and we (as a society) no long spend energy to get energy, which has led to a number of health-related disorders, especially among our youth. From my perspective, drawing the link between brain and body has been fairly easy. The hard part is getting people to move again.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/exercise-and-the-ever-smarter-human-brain/

 

Forbes: The Top 10 Brain Science and Psychology Stories of 2012

TOP BRAIN SCIENCE STUDIES BY FORBES

Merry Christmas!

I hope that all of you had had a wonderful Christmas. I am still away for Holidays and wanted to share an important article by one of the most prestigious publications in the country that i was honored to be featured on Forbes. You can check my clip on Forbes.com “From Finance to Fitness”

Although in this compilation there are not specific studies related to movement that is my area of passion and research i wanted to share some of the “regular studies” about the brain or what i call more popular. I will try by the New Year write a compilation of the best stories related to the brain and movement a really exciting and emerging field.

The Top 10 Brain Science and Psychology Stories
of 2012

1. Humans Aren’t the Only Apes that Have a Midlife Crisis

2. Receiving a Compliment has Same Effect as Receiving Cash 

3. Could We One Day Switch Off Bad Habits in Our Brains?

4. How One Flawed Study Spawned a Decade of Lies

5. What Makes Presidents and Psychopaths Similar?

6. Why Jerks Get Ahead

7. How Stress Damages Your Mental Health

Researchers at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans (Oct 13-17, 2012) presented studies showing how stress, no matter its cause, alters brain circuitry in ways that can have long-term effects on mental health.

The American Psychological Association’s “Stress in America” report provides a useful table, shown below, indicating the effects of stress on your body, your mood, and your behavior.

Common effects of stress …


… On your body
… On your mood
… On your behavior




Headache
Muscle tension or pain
Chest pain
Fatigue
Change in sex drive
Stomach upset
Sleep problems




Anxiety
Restlessness
Lack of motivation or focus
Irritability or anger
Sadness or depression




Overeating or undereating
Angry outbursts
Drug or alcohol abuse
Tobacco use
Social withdrawal

Source: American Psychological Association’s “Stress in America” Report

8. Are Two Heads Really Better Than One?

9. Sleeplessness Causes Our Mental Circuits to Overheat

10. How Your Brain Could be Keeping You Fat

You can find a couple terrific lists highlighting the best of the best in psych and brain science here and here.

You can find the writer of this article on Twitter @neuronarrative and at my website, The Daily Brain.

Related on Forbes…

 

Merry Christmas to all of you: it’s been a pleasure working with you last year

Merry Christmas to all of you! Thanks so much for a spectacular year. Happiness is a journey not a destination and I am happy to be part of you. Thanks for opening the door of your valuable time and allow me sharing my message with all of you. Life is about choices and your choice of reading my blog, buying my book, purchasing my membership and participating in my daily message  and helping you achieve a greater body and a greater brain.

brain quotes

Best Neuroscience Quotes

‘Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain’,

As long as our brain is a mystery, the universe, the reflection of the structure of the brain will also be a mystery.

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.

To know the brain … is equivalent to ascertaining the material course of thought and will, to discovering the intimate history of life in its perpetual duel with external forces.

— Recollections of My Life, 1937

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

— Eye and Brain: The Psychology of Seeing, 1966

“Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision”

Merry Christmas by Rod Stewart

Stay in Shape this Winter! My Winter Workout at Central park and Benefits of Strength Training

Central Park Winter Workout: Michael Gonzalez-Wallace Author of Super Body, Super Brain shows how you can stay in shape in the winter

Are you getting ready for the Holidays? I am! I am flying next Sunday to my beloved Spain and spend some quality time with my family. New York City is a phenomenal city but sometimes gets really cold in the winter so that is why it is important to stay active in the winter. I normally combine my Super Body, Super Brain Workout with some cardiovascular training and circuit training including resistance, plyometrics. One of the most discussed questions i get asked in my speeches is this one: If i don’t use weights is it strength training? Yes. Is Yoga strength training? Its everything involving muscular resistance either with additional weight or your own body weight Is running strength training? Yes! I wanted to share a definition of Strength training with all of you:

a method of improving muscular strength by gradually increasing the ability to resist force through the use of free weights, machines, or the person’s own body weight. Strength training sessions are designed to impose increasingly greater resistance, which in turn stimulates development of muscle strength to meet the added demand.

My Winter Central Park Workout: ( you can try this one at home but make sure you are approved to exercise first!)

-5 Miles running

-8 Reverse Pull-ups

-8 Traditional pull-ups

- 15 Picnic table lifting

-15 Upper back Picnic table (Overhead)

-10 Triceps lifting

-10 jumps

- Reverse Pull-ups

 

STRENGTH TRAINING DEFINITION

 

BENEFITS OF STRENGTH TRAINING

Exercise Benefits

Strength training definition

Mental Illness and Stress: 20 innocent children did not have to die today

Mental Health Protective act

I am devastated with the tragedy of our innocent children’s lives lost but also cause we are not paying attention as a society not only to gun control but to mental illness in this country. We will always have people with mental illness that triggered by stress could become the most evil terrorist that any country can fear. An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.1 When applied to the 2004 U.S. Census residential population estimate for ages 18 and older, this figure translates to 57.7 million people.2 Even though mental disorders are widespread in the population, the main burden of illness is concentrated in a much smaller proportion — about 6 percent, or 1 in 17 — who suffer from a serious mental illness.1 In addition, mental disorders are the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and Canada.3 Many people suffer from more than one mental disorder at a given time. Nearly half (45 percent) of those with any mental disorder meet criteria for 2 or more disorders, with severity strongly related to comorbidity.

Check the statistics are incredible!!

Source: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/the-numbers-count-mental-disorders-in-america/index.shtml 

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