Michael Gonzalez Wallace has been involved with athletic sports for over 20 years, which is almost half his age. Michael’s athletic career spans many years practicing semi-pro basketball in Spain, where his team, Estudiantes won the Spanish National Competition (similar to NCAA in USA and he was named the MVP of the Final, May 1993). In 1995 the Spanish basketball federation certified Michael as a strength trainer and basketball coach providing him the opportunity to develop his teaching skills.

Being involved with basketball for more than 15 years, Michael learned the important concepts of teamwork, leadership, muscle coordination and physical strength training. According to him “ In basketball you learn how your body in preseason is completely different from your body in playoffs”. That’s one of the reasons why you need to be gradually changing the strength training program”

A graduate of the University of Autonoma (a top economics school in Madrid, Spain) he added the art of doing research to his skill set. Upon graduation, he joined one of the top European Investment banks as strategist in their institutional sales division. According to Michael, “My job there was to connect different departments to work more efficiently”

Although moving to NYC in 2002 to pursue a banking career Gonzalez-Wallace, become a personal trainer for New York sports Club and received a certification from the National Academy of sports Medicine. He was drawn to sports medicine as if fate had a different calling for him. Then his life went to a profound transformation moving from banking to the health sector. He says, “The reward of helping people to achieve their goals was the best thing it has ever happened to me”

At the National Academy of Sports medicine he learned the significance of core strength, proper postural alignment and the neuromuscular system, the latter being essential to develop his program called neuromuscular progressive strength training.

The exercise program takes into account the connections between the nervous and Muscular systems and the way is connected with fitness and our health. The nervous system is connected to the muscular system through a set of filaments, called neuromuscular junctions. These junctions are responsible for the efficient communication between the Nervous and Muscular systems.

Michael Gonzalez-Wallace has designed a set of exercises with different levels of complexity where his aim is the "physical body changes, neuromuscular coordination, muscle fiber activation, core strength and proper posture alignment!”

Everyone from any fitness level can participate and the way the program is structured makes you never get bored at the time you are burning calorie after calorie and having total brain-body awareness.

In addition, his program uses actively the brain. There is a part of the brain called the cerebellum, which is responsible for coordinated movement, balance and proper posture alignment. All of his exercises are designed under those principles.

Another important concept in Gonzalez-Wallace’s program relates to the adaptation and how one’s body tends to minimize the energy consumed when performing a routine of exercises. He therefore recommends varying the exercise program and constantly monitoring progress of the training program.

The exercises, with differing levels of complexity, are designed according to the circuit training principles wherein research has indicated is one of the most efficient ways to reduce body fat. In addition of being challenging, this unique program of body and mind awareness is also fun.

At the same time, its impossible to get bored doing these exercises since they are challenging and require mental engagement, key factor for his program. According to him “ You are the best Gym, you are always in control and the way your body moves will leave you speechless”