How Movement Makes You Smart

By Ingo Weigel

For many years, we knew that our ability to exercise and move develops with our brain's activity but did you know that our brain's activity also depends on how we move and what kind of exercises we do? Discover how you can improve your brain's activity with simple exercises. Learn to differentiate between exercises that hold you back and exercises that increase your brain's activity.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ingo Weigel
• Release date: Mar 11, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458119667

Ingo Weigel

Celebrity trainer and coach Ingo Weigel is an entrepreneur, author, martial arts master and self-defense expert with over 20 years of professional experience. Born in Russia and growing up in former East Germany, Weigel always had an interest in the philosophies and principles of martial arts. As a teenager, Weigel was a gifted athlete and enjoyed a variety of different sports that catapulted him to local stardom. In his later teenage years, he started to focus on his martial arts training. Here is where he met a colleague who became a close friend and mentor. Their studies and research of the practicality of today’s martial arts training has taken them to topics such as anatomy and muscular movement in martial arts, how to generate power, the influence of the human brain and how martial art training influences the development of the brain.WTC, Inc has been the premier wing chun school for high quality training for two decades. Dai-Sifu Ingo Weigel, the founder and chief instructor, has received his full time training and education from the best and most respected Wing Chun Masters. He has spent almost two decades on training, study, research and practical applicability of Wing Chun techniques. Weigel, a former law enforcement agent has spent over a decade to study and learn from some of the best and most influential martial arts masters of our time. His primary focus has always been the practicality of the training for mind and body as well as real life applications on the physical, intellectual and the spiritual level. It was his commitment to practical applicability of martial arts training that has taken him from Wing Chun to Revat. In 2000, Weigel left Europe and moved to the US where he opened a martial arts school in Chicago, IL. The training and philosophies taught quickly turned the school into the leading Wing Chun School in the Midwest. Most of the advanced Wing Chun instructors in the Midwest have gone through the classes and adapted the curriculum. Weigel also has been teaching seminars and workshops throughout the US, Europe, Canada and Brazil. He has been featured in various Media outlets and helped many of his students to develop a love and eagerness to discover martial arts and apply its philosophies to improve their lives. Many of his students have moved on in their careers and some started their own businesses by applying the principles they have learned. Some of his students travel across the country to continue their training with him. After a successful decade in Chicago, Weigel left the Midwest behind to tackle new challenges and goals here in sunny California. He already attracts a following from the creative arts industry as the training helps them to strengthen the pillars of their careers in new ways. For almost two decades, Dai-Sifu Ingo Weigel has been teaching experts and leaders from the military, various law enforcement agencies, VP’s and SVP’s from corporate entities, fighters and other martial arts practitioners. With over 20 years of study and active training, Dai-Sifu Ingo Weigel is one of the most senior Wing Tsun / Wing Chun and Revat Masters in America. Weigel is fluent in English and German. He is also a certified Reiki Master.

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How Movement Makes You Smart

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Table of Content

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Physical Exercise for a Better Brain

Chapter 3: What Activities Are Good For Your Brain?

Chapter 4: Does NRP Make You Faster?

Chapter 5: What Exactly Are The Reflexes In Revat?

Chapter 6: Are We Teaching Our Children To Be Stupid?

Chapter 7: Journey of a Developing Brain

Chapter 8: How Physical Exercise Impacts Your Brain’s Activity

Chapter 9: Ancient Principles for the Modern Day Warrior

Chapter 10: Use Your Brain, Dummy

Chapter 11: The Justice of Self-Defense

Chapter 12: The Practical Side of Using the Brain

Chapter 13: Attack Or Flee?

Chapter 14: The Magic Curtain around Ground Fighting

Chapter 15: How the Psoas May Change

Chapter 1: Introduction

We used to think that mental performance can be enhanced or maintained by thinking. Crossword puzzles, a good book, or memory games were prescribed. Today, brain research is much further, and we know how closely mental performance and motor skills are related. Although the attributes smart and dumb still play a small role, the flexibility of our thinking is much more important. How well can you think abstractly or outside the box? How is thinking connected to our physical movement skills? How can you increase both?

Here are some indisputable facts:

1. We become what we think about! Napoleon Hill. Your way of moving corresponds to your way of thinking.

2. Your movement capabilities depend on your posture.

3. If you change your posture, point 2 will change, and therefore point 1 as well.

What happens if you prevent babies from moving and suppress any movement stimulus on them? They remain mentally deficient. For years, people thought as the brain develops and establishes its network during childhood, we also will recognize more possibilities in movements. By now we know better:

Movement not only develops from the brain;

The brain also develops through movement.

Chapter 2: Physical Exercise for a Better Brain

The following information is part of a research project conducted by the Franklin Institute (http://www.fi.edu). Most of us know that physical exercise is good for our general health, but did you know that physical exercise is also good for your brain? If you think you’re going to get smarter sitting in front of your computer or watching television, think again. Here scientists present the evidence that a healthy human being is a human doing.

Not too long ago, futurists envisioned humans evolving giant thumbs in response to a push-button world. They did not foresee humanity's real response to all its labor-saving conveniences – a sedentary, inactive society with a deteriorated vascular system and consequent decline in physical and mental health.

Nearly half of young adults ages 12 to 21 do not participate in vigorous physical activity on a regular basis. Fewer than one-in-four children report getting at least half an hour of any type of daily physical activity and do not attend any physical education classes in their schools. In fact, many schools don’t even offer physical education due to budget cuts. The 2006 Shape of the Nation -- jointly conducted by the American Heart Association and the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting high quality physical education -- concluded that most states are failing to provide students with adequate physical education requirements. The percentage of students who attend a daily physical education class has dropped from 42 percent in 1991 to 28 percent in 2003, the report says. The report's findings are compelling in the context of the rise in obesity rates.

The number of kids considered overweight has more than tripled since 1980, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Among those between ages 6 to 19, over 9 million kids -- 16 percent -- are considered overweight. In June 2001, ABC News reported that school children spend 4.8 hours per day on the computer, watching TV or playing video games.

The impact of computers, video games, school funding cuts and public apathy has combined to leave few states that still require daily