Michael George

Marina Del Rey, CA

About Me

MICHAEL GEORGE Fitness Expert, Celebrity Trainer, Lifestyle Coach, Martial Artist, Author, Television Personality, Speaker Michael George is transforming the health and fitness field with his innovative training philosophies and inspirational voice. He is a passionate, internationally recog... more MICHAEL GEORGE Fitness Expert, Celebrity Trainer, Lifestyle Coach, Martial Artist, Author, Television Personality, Speaker Michael George is transforming the health and fitness field with his innovative training philosophies and inspirational voice. He is a passionate, internationally recognized motivational speaker and author who shares from the heart and personal experience. This self-made entrepreneur grew up as an overweight underachiever until overwhelming pain and despair motivated him to transform his body through strategic exercise and proper nutrition. He went on to excel in sports and academics, supporting himself through college and earning degrees in marketing management and communications. He rose to the top ranks of the health and wellness field and now is considered an elite leader in the world of fitness. Over the past 30 years, he has dedicated his life and his career to helping others find the motivation to transform their own lives. Michael has helped sculpt the physiques of Hollywood celebrities Reese Witherspoon, Toby Maguire, Julianne Moore, James Spader, Meg Ryan, Christian Slater, Sela Ward, Matt Dillon, Slash, Dennis Quaid, and professional athletes such as boxer Fernando Vargas. Celebrities, athletes, and high-powered executives gravitate towards Michael’s effective and efficient training routines and principles. His intention is to strengthen both the body and the soul for optimal energy and health. Michael uses inspiration and a lifestyle modification approach as the integral components to achieving health and fitness goals and lifestyle transformation. His balanced fitness regimes integrate the body-mind-spirit connection through Eastern and Western training modalities that include four types of martial arts, yoga postures, interval aerobic and strength conditioning, core training, ply metrics, self-defense training / MMA, boxing, and breathing/stress reduction. Michael manages his multi-faceted fitness company Michael George Enterprises, Inc., in Los Angeles. His entrepreneurial acumen helps promote his fitness philosophy across all media platforms. He is the author of Body Express Makeover: Trim and Sculpt Your Body in Less Than Six Weeks (Simon & Schuster, 2005). He developed fitness technologies, Integrated Motivational Fitness™ and the “2-in-1 Training System,” which is the original version of the now widely endorsed multi-muscle strength training system. His team provides fitness coaching at the worldwide Diamond Resorts in Maui, Sedona, and other locations. He stays connected to his followers through his on-line exercise and nutrition programs and wellness community, exercise video series, DVD library of 500 custom-designed workouts, iPhone fitness app “Inteli Trainer,” and his revolutionary Xbox360 video game called “Your Shape” Evolved (launched Fall 2010). Michael has been as a guest and host on numerous national television shows, including Good Morning America, ABC’s The View, Fox and Friends, Entertainment Tonight, VH1, E! Entertainment, Extra, FitTV, HSN, Home & Garden Television, and CNN. Michael has been interviewed or featured in over 100 magazines and newspapers internationally. As a highly regarded health and fitness spokesperson for Kraft, Subway, Natures Plus, Balance Bar, Unilever, Nike, Ready Pac, and Body Media, he is creating and branding his own line of fitness products. Michael earned a bachelor of science in marketing management and communications from California Polytechnic in San Luis Obispo, California and studied nutrition at UCLA. He is certified with The National Association of Sports Medicine (NASM), the American Council on Exercise (ACE), and The Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA). Michael intends to pursue his doctorate inn Psychology in the fall of 2011. Please contact him at (310) 575-3500, Michael@MichaelGeorge.com, and www.MichaelGeorge.com. less

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