Geoffrey Gluckman
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Biomechanics and Functional Fitness Expert

Geoffrey Gluckman Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Biomechanics, writing, having fun
- Best Sellers
- Deadly Exchange, Muscle Balance and Function Development®
- Career Focus
- Author, International Lecturer
- Affiliation
- Earth Action Right Now
As the creator of the Muscle Balance and Function Development® System, Geoff has provided seminars, workshops, and individual consultations for health care providers internationally.
He authored the internationally acclaimed Muscle Balance and Function Development® CDROM (1997) and related manuals, as well as several articles for jou
als.
He is credited with starting the postural and functional exercise revolution now in force in North America. This stemmed from a ground-breaking postural fitness article in Shape Magazine (November 1994) that featured him, including a specially designed MBF® functional exercise program for women.
In 2000, he appeared on the Body by Jake Healthy Lifestyles television show as the featured functional fitness and biomechanics expert. Over the years, he has presented at international conferences for organizations, such as 3rd Interdiscplinary World Congress, NSCA, and IDEA. He also served as a guest staff member of The Nicklaus/Flick Golf School and the Assistant Director of T.H.E. Clinic in Del Mar, Califo
ia, home of The Egoscue Method. He holds a Master's Degree in Exercise Science and a Health/Fitness Instructor Certification by the American College of Sports Medicine.
Since 1993, as the creator and promoter of the Muscle Balance and Function Development® (MBF®) education system, he has been a primary presenter at several international conferences in North America and Europe (1994-2002), from which a following developed across several continents, and still continues today.
His award-winning debut spy thriller, Deadly Exchange (2009 Los Angeles Book Festival), was runner-up to Grand Prize in Fiction. In promoting the work, he has presented to Foothill College (Califo
ia) as part of their Author Lecture Series, was an author panelist at the Pulpwood Queens Bookclub Girlfriend Weekend in Jefferson, Texas, and spoke at the Maryland Writers Association Baltimore Chapter meeting, among many other events.
Recently, he was a Level Two judge for the MWA Novel contest: Great Beginnings, overseen by best-selling author Sandra Dallas.
Currently, he writes features for print publications in the United States, Canada, and Australia, such as Iron Horse Magazine, Law Enforcement Technology, Credit Union Business, and Mini Rider. For the novel, he drew from his training as a federal agent and recruitment by the CIA, as well as experience as an exercise physiologist and international lecturer.
His poetry and fiction, Unico
Pain II, Broken Horns, have been featured in several anthologies, Teen Angst (St. Martin’s Press, April 2005), A Far Off Place (1995). Three years prior, an essay entitled, Ultimately, appeared in Expectations.
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Your Health
Many people appear to be overly conce ed with their health these days. And why not? Maybe because the Health Bill just passed? Or, because all of the toxins, diseases, lack of exercise, and whatever else lurking out there to potentially threaten a long and prosperous life. Many of us know the formula for health: proper diet, regular exercise, and reduction of stress.
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Dieting: Nightmare vs Solution
Everyday thousands of people go on or off a diet. There are hundreds of these regulated courses of eating and drinking plans circulating the planet at any one time. Atkins, Miami Beach, Raw Food (with many variations), High Carb, High Protein, Low Carb, Blood Type. Take your pick.
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Health and Body Movement in the 21st Century
Almost forty years ago, Dr. Ken Cooper, an Air Force researcher, announced his findings about exercise, health, and well-being. The report focused on cardiovascular conditioning and fitness. These findings were based on studies conducted on thousands of people in and around an Air Force base in Texas. At the time, the information took North America by storm, both among laypersons and medical practitioners, because the results definitively suggested guidelines for cardiovascular health maintenance. In sum, Dr.
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The Cornerstone of Health and Well-being
There is much advice floating around on the web, in magazines, and from friends and colleagues about how to be the more healthy. Much of it may be useful, however a subtle, key ingredient is missing. Self-responsibility. It may seem like common sense and it is, if one truly understands the ...
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Breath
Yogis have said that almost all illnesses can be resolved with breathing. From my personal experience, I have found this to be true over the years, though I have no proof. Nevertheless, regardless of lack of proof, I do know that without breath, there is no life. Breathing ranks up there in the hierarchy of needs. Most people can go without food for eight weeks, without water for four weeks, but lack of oxygen is much shorter--seven minutes. It is a premium.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Geoffrey Gluckman
"Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind."
-geoffrey m. gluckman, 1994 (from MBF® Level Two Manual)
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not, himself, find peace."
-Albert Schweitzer
"One race, many cultures, one place."
-geoffrey m. gluckman, 1999 (from Earth Action Right Now pamphlet)
"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."
-Chief Seattle
"One love, one heart, one destiny."
-Robert Nesta Marley
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