Oakland's Boxing for Health is a place for fighters and fitness buffs
Posted: July 1, 2012 at 9:16 am
Miguel Lopez spends much of every day on a second-story boxing gym on Santa Clara Avenue near Lake Merritt catering to an American obsession: the human body. From 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. the talk revolves around weight, fat-to-muscle ratios, diets, heart rates and calories.
"People come stressed out and just want to get through the day feeling good," he said. "It's addictive when you look in the mirror and like what you see."
Lopez is 28, stands 5 feet, 8 inches tall and his fighting weight is 155 pounds. The pattern of a lightning bolt is shaved into his hair, which he keeps closely cropped.
On a Thursday afternoon he leads a group of about a dozen men and women through a series of crunches, push ups and reverse situps during a beginner cardio boxing class.
"Grab your hand wraps and gloves and we're going to jump on the bags," Lopez calls out after the last set. Everyone is sweating. A few are panting.
They rise from the mats padding the floor and wrap their hands in long strands of thick cotton that will protect their knuckles, thumbs and wrists. Pulling on boxing gloves -- pink Everlast gloves are popular among the women -- they begin to line up in front of heavy punching bags hanging in front of a wall covered by mirrors.
Some of Lopez's clients come to Boxing for Health to excise love handles. A few people have many pounds to shed. Two women are pregnant.
"I love getting people in shape. That's why you always
There is a cancer survivor, a Russian kick boxer improving his boxing skills, a former pro fighter from Brooklyn looking to slim down, a man with knee replacements, a local fitness trainer who brought in her class, a teenager aspiring to go pro and a 40-year-old woman who wants to fight in the amateur masters age division.
Stephen Anderson is 19 and a receiver for the UC Berkeley football team. The graduate of the Piedmont Hills High School in San Jose has been coming to the gym whenever he has a break since March. His mother and sister are members. "If you want to lose weight you will lose weight. If you want to get in shape you will get in shape," he said after a warm-up.
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Health and Fitness: Breakthrough Research On New Focus & Brain Health Nutrient
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Attention anyone seeking greater cognitive health and function: Researchers from The Brain Institute and Harvard University reported, for the first time, positive effects on focus and attention in healthy adult women with nutrient Cognizin Citicoline. Companies like GungHo are reaping the benefits.
Researchers from the Brain Institute of the University of Utah and Harvard University have reported for the first time positive effects from the consumption of a proprietary branded citicoline nutrient named Cognizin on attentional performance in healthy adult women. Published in the June issue of the journal Food and Nutrition Sciences, the results of their investigation showed that healthy subjects consuming a 250mg capsule of Cognizin citicoline per day performed significantly better than those consuming a placebo capsule on a measure of attentional performance, committing significantly fewer errors of commission and omission on this task.
This groundbreaking research is of vital interest since several previous papers reporting positive cognitive effects of citicoline focused on its ability to improve performance and cellular metabolism in animals and humans with cognitive defects (e.g., stroke victims). Now, that work has been extended to healthy humans.
Adults of all ages could benefit markedly from the consumption of the vital nutrient. Apparently, Cognizin citicoline exerts its positive effects on focus, attention and memory by being rapidly absorbed, converted to choline and uridine (both psychoactive substances), entering systemic circulation and being finally utilized in many biosynthetic pathways, especially in the brain where it is further converted into CDP-choline, a major building block for dopamine, a molecule of major importance in the maintenance of cognitive health and performance.
Does Cognizin work? GoGungHo Inc (makers of a focus/energy gel shot), believe it does. They made an agreement for the exclusive rights to distribute Cognizin, at the proven effective dose of 250mg, within the energy/focus shots and drink category. And GungHo is going GungHo. They recently broke launch records with the social media release of their product; University students, gamers and women, love the "smooth focus" said Mason, co-founder. "We asked students what they wanted in an energy drink and they told us they actually wanted focus. Focus to game, study or work without the typical distracting buzz, jitters and crash. They also wanted the convenience of a gel shot with no sugar and all-natural ingredients." GungHo has a patent-pending on their focus gel shot. "We combined the long-term impact on focus and memory provided by the Cognizin with the immediate alertness of caffeine - far less than used in typical energy shots - and the smoothness of ashwaganda. Hence folks can get the energy and focus they want without the harsh jitters or crash." Said Dr Dan Mowry.
Dr Renshaw, Director at The Brain Institute and former professor of Psychiatry at Harvard - one of the primary researchers on Cognizin Citicoline - peer reviewed GungHo' formula and stated:
"GungHo is the ONLY energy shot or drink that contains natural ingredients at proven effective doses to improve focus and concentration. Unlike other energy products that deal with short-term energy and no lasting impact on brain energy, GungHo will actually increase levels of critical neurotransmitters in the brain over time."
Will GungHo be the first of many products to benefit from focusing on Cognizin Citicoline? We shall see.
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Coronado consolidation helps free up cash for Rockford's growth
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ROCKFORD The city will save millions of dollars as it transfers operation of its Coronado Performing Arts Center to a private management firm. Equally significant, perhaps even more so, is the projected dramatic turnaround of the citys primary revenue source for economic development initiatives.
The citys Redevelopment Fund, awash in red ink, has for years struggled to ignite meaningful economic development. In turn, the city has leaned on its few other tools to spur development, most notably tax increment finance districts. The city has 29 such districts, many of which are underperforming and running deficits of their own.
But with management of the Coronado falling under the Rockford Area Venues and Entertainment Authority, combined with other city budget decisions, the Redevelopment Fund can reclaim its purpose and potential.
Rockford has no shortage of economic development needs. The citys economy relies heavily on manufacturing and leaders are trying to grow a firm foothold in the aerospace industry. Mayor Larry Morrissey is fond of describing plans for a downtown riverwalk and a whitewater kayak course on the Rock River. The Amerock building downtown, and the city-owned Barber-Colman industrial property a few blocks south, are considered by many as prime, though costly, sites for redevelopment. Suddenly, Rockford may have the money to tackle some of this stuff.
Aldermen are asking themselves how the city should spend it.
We dont want to repeat our mistakes with the Redevelopment Fund, said Ald. Venita Hervey, D-5. We need to build a strong guidance policy. Thats what we need to decide and thats what Im going to be proposing to the City Council.
Purpose drifted after creation The Redevelopment Fund, fed by hotel, restaurant and liquor taxes, was established in 1978 to first cover any operating shortfalls at the former MetroCentre, then to aid redevelopment downtown. But in the intervening years, aldermen didnt uphold that guideline. Pressure to tap the fund for all sorts of city needs intensified in the 1980s, following Rockford voters decision to rescind the citys home rule powers.
The loss of home rule left the city with fewer options to pay for economic development and cultural initiatives. The Redevelopment Fund became an easy target. Only 40 percent of Redevelopment Fund cash generated since 1978 actually made it to the MetroCentre by 2009.
Then, three years ago, the arena faced a financial crisis, and aldermen stopped the bleeding by expanding its public subsidy while taking steps to correct decades of Redevelopment Fund mismanagement.
Today, a new entity governs the arena, Davis Park and the Coronado. The RAVE authority, governed by a public board of directors, pays private venues management firm SMG $200,000 a year to operate the three facilities. The combined city subsidy to those venues has shrunk and is projected to shrink further. The city last year reworked its contract with the Rockford Area Convention & Visitors Bureau and as part of that deal and is sending less hotel tax revenues to the bureau than it previously did.
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Jake Holmes, owner of Pilates United, could be your next boss.
First, tell me about your company.
I established Pilates United with Moji Austell in 1993. Its a fitness studio. Our objective was to give our clients exactly what they wanted and needed in the way of personal training. Today we have two studios, in La Jolla and Middletown, and were planning a third for 2013.
How did you get started in this business?
After college I struggled in the corporate world for a while but found myself poorly equipped for that life. So Moji and I (we were married at the time) decided to start our own business. We didnt have much money so we restricted our choices to businesses we could start with less than 10K. We interviewed several couples who owned businesses together. We discovered that the couples who seemed happiest were in businesses that they were passionate about. We chose the fitness industry.
I have always been an athlete. I wrestled in school and did body building, triathlons and marathons in the Navy and throughout my twenties. Moji was also accomplished in running and weight training. We found out about Pilates when she injured her knee on a training run. My sister, a professional dancer and choreographer in LA, told us to check out this new thing a lot of the dancers were doing Pilates. We tried it once and we were hooked.
We spent the next year traveling to different studios around the country and spent about every dollar we had learning from different instructors. At the time there was no real training or certifications available. Eventually we opened a tiny studio with one piece of equipment in a 10x14 room in a La Jolla health club.
Today were still partners but married to other people and are even more passionate about what we do than when we started. As a side note, although thousands of people have come through our doors both Moji and I still have each of our first clients.
What are the backgrounds of your employees? Are they new to the field? Long-timers?
Weve had several trainers through the years, all from different backgrounds. Rarely do they have professional fitness backgrounds, but theyve all had a passion for it. Some have come to us already trained but the most successful ones weve trained ourselves. We have four long time trainers. We also have a few newer trainers who are also amazing.
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Baldwin weds yoga gal Hilaria Thomas
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BIG DAY Alec Baldwin walks into St. Patrick's Old Cathedral as fans try and get a glimpse in the background. The 54-year-old '30 Rock' star married his 28-year-old yoga instructor sweetheart Hilaria Thomas.
Alec Baldwin finally got a lesson in anger marriagement.
After years of public meltdowns, punching photographers and verbally abusing family members, the 54-year-old 30 Rock star tied the knot Saturday evening with beautiful yoga teacher Hilaria Thomas, 28, in a traditional Catholic ceremony at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral in Nolita. Hilaria will be taking her hubby's last name.
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Baldwin's fiance, Hilaria Thomas leaves Alec's apartment on the way to St. Patrick's Old Cathedral for the wedding.
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Woody Allen, seen here with wife Soon Yi m was one of several stars of stage and screen at today's wedding.
Guests, including Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Woody Allen, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and brothers Billy and Stephen, were texted details of the reception just hours before the nuptials.
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Alec Baldwin Weds Yoga Instructor Hilaria Thomas
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Alec Baldwin wed yogainstructor Hilaria Thomas today at downtown Manhattans St. Patricks Old Cathedral.
Hilaria Thomas and Alec Baldwin were married this evening at St. Patricks Old Cathedral in New York City, sharing the occasion with family and friends inside the Cathedral, and Alec warmly receiving congratulations from well-wishing fans on his way into the service, Matthew Hiltzik, (@hiltzikstrat) a friend of the couple, said in a statement released this evening.
Thomas wore a silk magnolia trumpet Amsale gown with cap sleeves and a keyhole back neckline accented with crystal buttons, and her mother and Baldwins daughter from his marriage to Kim Basinger, Ireland Baldwin, also wore Amsale.
Hilarias mother wore a navy jersey sheath gown with a cowl neckline and Ireland Baldwin wore a slate silk chiffon gown with a strapless neckline and a lightly pleated bodice.
The New York Post reported earlier this week that because the happy couple is wary of paparazzi Baldwin scuffled with a New York Daily News photographer last week they had yet to tell guests where the reception would take place.
But a source close to Baldwin told ABCNews.com thats nonsense.
Everyone knows where to go, the source said, adding that while Baldwin and Thomas didnt send out traditional wedding invites, the idea that they are not telling people details is just not true.
If the couple is planning a honeymoon, it may have to wait. Thomas is scheduled to be back at her yoga studio on July 2, and Baldwin is set to host documentary film festival on July 6 in East Hampton.
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